Anybody here from Mt Isa??????

[MasterOfReality]

Ok, this is my situation at the moment.

I have been offered two jobs in the last week. One in Brisbane (at a research facility) and one in Mt Isa (at a mine site).

The Mt Isa job pays more but the difference in salary is not that huge.

Obviously I would prefer Brisbane for the lifestyle choice but the mine site career development available from the job in Mt Isa is pretty much unpassable.

Now, if there is anybody from Mt Isa, what is your opinion of the place???

Anything interesting to do? Or is it boring as hell on weekends?

I have lived in my fair share of mining towns over the past five years, the smallest 1500 people, the largest 5500 people. I know Mt Isa has heaps more people, but is it any better???

Cheers!

 

[holden#1]

highest concentration of HSV drivers in the country. Now thats a plus.

 

[gopher]

i think there was someone on here from around that area


but he was banned so probably won't be much help now

 

[TheForgotten]

EcotecManiac is out that way

 

[IS250FSSV]

I spent my weekends at Irish club!

 

[OFF T4P]

i have worked there on and off for years and spent alot of time there. The locals are not real friendly down under the bridge and they stink. lol. Its a cop training town so there is plenty of rookys booking you for next to nothing. There is a big lake thats good for skiing and there is plenty of pubs. The guy-girl ratio is pretty bad if your single. In saying that there is plenty of money there. Which mine is it gorge fisher or m.i.n.

 

[MasterOfReality]

Wow this thread is nearly 5 years old haha.

It was for george fisher.

Ended up passing it up as Xstrata pay their mining and geotech engineers **** money.

 

[Rufys]

I spent my weekends at Irish club!

MASSIVE DIG!!! LOL!!!

But I don't mind the sound of the Isa...

Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black
Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack
Red dust and hawks in the wind out back
And here I am at the Isa

What do you do in a town like the Isa
Retrenched at 50 become an old miser
Drink yourself blind so you're none the wiser
Sit at home with the race form and whinge

Just over the hill in his own backyard
The landscape becomes a picture postcard
Where the colours are soft but the life is hard
On the stations here at the Isa

Tonight's the night of the rodeo ball
Before riders and bull and horses stand tall
While out in the park some black people sprawl
And share their money on flagons

There's so much more to be understood
Before coming out here like Robin Hood
The do-gooders do more harm than good
Without really knowing the Isa

Through the Leichhardt East
Where fools gold flashes
Fossick around for Maltese Crosses
Flog them off to the tourist buses
See ghost gums under the moon

Some really battle some make do
The luckier ones make a quid and pull through
Some perch at the bar like a caged cockatoo
But that's nothing new at the Isa

And it takes a special kind of girl
To stay out here in this rugged world
Keep your dignity when the oathes are hurled
I pay my respects to you

And I'll raise my glass to an outback town
To that weathered spirit that won't back down
It takes the courage of a rodeo clown
To stick it out at the Isa

Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black
Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack
Red dust and hawks in the wind out back
And here I am at the Isa

Never thought I'd return to this lonely track
And here I am back at the Isa

 

[Shorty33]

john williamson back at the isa - YouTube