Cotton Lifestyle
When you choose a career in cotton, you’re not just choosing a job, you’re choosing a lifestyle.
While some cotton jobs are city-based, the majority are in regional areas across Queensland and New South Wales. Living in a rural environment offers a great range of benefits to people who are happy to make a life for themselves in some of the most vibrant regional communities in Australia.
These benefits can include:
- Wide open spaces and fresh country air
- Friendly, community spirit
- Less congestion than cities
- More affordable real estate and general cost of living
Before you decide to take a job in cotton, make sure you do your research. A good start would be to access local websites that will give you all the information you need about the community you’ll call home.
Queensland
- Central Highlands (www.centralhighlands.qld.gov.au)
- Theodore (http://www.mytheodore.com/index.htm)
- Toowoomba (http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au)
- Dalby (http://www.wdrc.qld.gov.au)
- St George/Dirranbandi (http://www.balonne.qld.gov.au)
- Goondiwindi (www.goondiwindirc.qld.gov.au)
- Mungindi (www.mungindi.org.au)
NSW
- Moree (www.mpsc.nsw.gov.au)
- Walgett (http://walgett.localinfo.org.au)
- Narrabri (www.narrabri.nsw.gov.au)
- Wee Waa (www.weewaa.com)
- Boggabri (http://www.boggabri.com.au)
- Gunnedah (http://www.infogunnedah.com.au)
- Tamworth (http://www.tamworth.nsw.gov.au)
- Condobolin (http://condobolin.nsw.au/)
- Dubbo (http://www.dubbo.nsw.gov.au)
- Trangie (www.trangie.net)
- Narromine (www.narromine.nsw.gov.au)
- Warren (www.cityofwarren.org)
- Griffith (www.griffith.nsw.gov.au)
- Hay (www.hay.nsw.gov.au)