@kaurmigration,
												You're probably right about Australian lifestyle.   Since I last posted on this thread, our economy has been picking up, and Apple Computer is building a saucer-shaped building at a cost of $5 billion that will house some 13,000 workers not one mile from our home.  I think I read recently that Apple is the richest company in the world today.    The US economy is showing some strength growing at about 2%/year.   Job growth seems to be good too!