You guys need to remeber that not every part of this country can get high speed, my dad for instance lives so far out in the boonies that even dial up is only 33.6 he cant even get a 56k line.
"Don't open that! It's an alien planet! Is there air? You don't know!"
There are some beautiful spots here in Oz, and the population still hasn't built to the point where you can't have a lot of it to yourself for a lot of the time also.
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
I'm actually heading for the desert because I like it.
I've got a friend, Fish, in Silver City, N.M. who thinks the same.
He's been thinking of leaving the States for a while, now.
Riding reliably on a secondhand 1GHz Athlon for five years.