Summing up Adelaide's Pros and Cons
If you can find a job and you don’t want to live in a trendy city, Adelaide is a very pleasant place to live – offering an easy, relaxed lifestyle.
Commonly held pros and cons for Adelaide are as follows:
Adelaide Pros
- Cheap houses
- A sunny, warm, Mediterranean climate with low humidity
- Lovely beaches
- Pleasant suburbs with easy traffic
- An exciting variety of excellent, inexpensive places to eat out
- Good public transport
- Attractive hills and national parks around the city
- The world famous Barossa valley lies just 60 km away
- Adelaide is Australia’s most affordable big city.
Adelaide Cons
- Sea water temperatures are cooler than around Australia’s other cities, except for Melbourne.
- Some summer days are just too hot.
- Adelaide has higher unemployment and, on average, lower wages than other major cities in Australia.
- There are too many boy-racers on the roads.
