Does Australia has a place where all the electronics and research businesses, workshops, and laboratory settled in like San Jose, California, U.S.A.? We have Silicon Valleys everywhere from Hong Kong to Haifa , Israel, silicon wabi. Does Australia has Silicon Bush? Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. has Silicon Forest, where Hewlett-Packard used to have their portable computer division there making all the famous HP-10C, HP-11C, HP-12C, HP-15C, and HP-16C and Portable One computers and Reverse Polish Notation calculators. Tektronix has Howard Vollum Park in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A. Silicon Bush is not in Dave Jone's garage. Hewlett-Packard, Packard's daughter, Julie Packard, lives in Soquel, California, never taken an interest in electronics or electrical engineering. She spent the family's wealth in financing the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I think Silicon Valley in San Jose is history, because so much design is outsourced to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and China. The future of Silicon Valley and the California Patio Lifestyle and the American Dream are uncertain. We have 18.5% unemployment in Stockton and 9 to 10% in California. Stockton California is in serious financial woes. It is a residential city to the Bay with the ACE train that takes some workers every morning 94 miles to San Jose to work those labor engineering and technician jobs. It is not geology. It is a commuter train. It is not that prosperous for the universities around the Bay as their research money are reduced and America's financial situation is debt. A foreclosed house in Stockton is around (lower this morning, a house was for sale for $68,900.00 USD along EL Dorado Street), $80,000.00 USD for a house in need of repairs and landscape to $250,000.00 USD for a large, well cared one. A house in my neighborhood is around $108,000.00 USD. Maybe one an Australian could move up here and commute 100 miles to work in the Bay regions. We mismanaged our money in real estate, insurance, and loans and we will never be able to regain those, though the DOW went back as Japan woes lessen. San Jose needs something new to invent. Fremont lost most of their economy when GM went bankrupt and Toyota closed the Tacoma and Corolla factory, abandoned. There are no more cars being made in California anymore. Wait, we have the Tesla sports lithium ion battery powered sports car for $100,000.00 USD made in San Carlos, California. I only seen one driving down Interstate 280 between Cupertino to Palo Alto the last time I visited there for work and friend. I never been inside a Tesla Lithium ion electric car. Much of manufacturing has been outsourced to China, just the labor rate is so low. Stockton, Elk Grove, and Sacramento region used to part of Silicon Valley East during the dot com era. My G4-1.25 GHz Mac Pro was final assembly at Apple Computers Elk Grove, California factory. That closed as it is cheaper to make Macs in China and Taiwan. Stockton is near many farms, famous for asparagus, cherries, walnuts, and tomatoes. Lodi is famous for wine and grapes. Modesto has the highest house foreclosures. Much of Silicon Valley East disappeared. San Jose is still the main office to many famous electronics brands like Nano Solar, Atmel, Agilent and Coherent in Santa Clara, and Apple in Cupertino with their I products. Yes, I am focused on hardware. I love to repair my Sony stereo and de solder my amplifier chip off and re solder a new one. I found working in the research place as an under graduate, before geology school in the basement microwave spectrometer Bruker Electron Spin with copper selenium compounds as exotic super conducts under the Acrivos (retired) research group overwhelming. The math is hard and wiring is challenging. I want to work in the Nano Solar printed solar cell sorting assembly line. I do not want more school, that costs too much.
Is there a Silicon Bush, Australia?
Lawsen