Most interesting. ...

That idea was nothing but bar-talk here a couple decades ago. Recently it has become a mumbled thought. They way things happen here it will be a couple more decades before it happens ........... right after it is too late to gain any benefit from it.

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It forgot to mention that the beer in Adelaide is undrinkable.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I've drank Adelaidean beer and survived. (but not sure about the Vegemite variety)

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I have too, but beer deserves more than just survival.

VB or Guinness for me.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I like it there.

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"Old age and Treachery will overcome Youth and Enthusiasm...Everytime!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Point,_NC

I don't actually live in the city. I'm about a block outside the city line.

There is no more furniture manufacturing here. It all moved to China.

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"Old age and Treachery will overcome Youth and Enthusiasm...Everytime!"

I'm jealous of some of your notable people .... Take a look at mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario


Here I am with the slowest passport office in Canada!

I'm really glad I started this now. Adelaide is quite a city. Now if you only had some water...............

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Couldn't help noticing that part of your (almost ) fair city is located in Davidson Co., NC , named after the same dead war hero as Davidson Co., TN ...not surprising since TN was once part of NC...

And the loss of manufacturing jobs to China, & other points, is also afflicting Tennessee as well issed:

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

And here's my home, Music City USA ... & yeah, I cheated a little, I clicked on the link in LS's post to shortcut to mine.

Much of my link is already well-known to those who showed up for PAGAN 08, but there's a couple of things I didn't even know in there, as well...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

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Eudaimonia

Geography
Tuscola is located at 39°47′52″N 88°16′54″W / 39.797682°N 88.281564°W / 39.797682; -88.281564 (39.797682, -88.281564).[2]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2), of which, 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2) of it is land and 0.47% is water.


History
The founding Supervisor of Tuscola township was O. C. Hackett, elected in 1868. Hackett was elected Supervisor with a majority of only one vote over W. B. Ervin.[3] O. C. Hackett was the grandson of noted Kentucky frontiersman and Boonsborough resident Peter Hackett. O. C. planted Hackett's Grove, a sassafras grove situated on Section 31, Township 16, Range 9, on the east side of the township. This 20-acre (81,000 m2) grove is traversed by a branch of Scattering Fork of the Embarrass River, long known as Hackett's Run, and according to the History of Douglas County (1884), the grove had been owned by the Hackett's since long before Douglas County had an existence.[4] O.C. Hackett's father, John Hackett, settled in nearby Coles County in 1835.[5] Family legend holds that Abraham Lincoln stayed at the Hackett farm during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.


Demographics

Douglas County, Illinois Courthouse.As of the census[6] of 2000, there were 4,448 people, 1,885 households, and 1,261 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,084.9 people per square mile (806.3/km2). There were 2,000 housing units at an average density of 937.5/sq mi (362.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 98.11% White, 0.31% African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.52% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.20% from other races, and 0.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.06% of the population.

There were 1,885 households out of which 30.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.1% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 29.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 14% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.93.

In the city the population was spread out with 25% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 29% from 25 to 44, 21.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 91.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $39,608, and the median income for a family was $44,816. Males had a median income of $35,063 versus $22,090 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,465. About 2.3% of families and 4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3% of those under age 18 and 5% of those age 65 or over.

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Who needs water? The wine's cheap these days.

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