Life in a mining town in the West Australian outback.

Hi,
     I am Joyce, I am currently living here with my family  in the mining town of Newman in the West Australian outback. My interests are family, travel, saving, investments, blogging and youtubing.

Newman has a population of around 5000 and is a comfortable place to live. The town has all the necessary facilities including excellent schools, churchs,  hospital, supermarket, library, hotels and sporting/recreational centres. Newman is a very multicultural community with residents from all over the world.

Here is a panoramic view of the town

We have found that the cost of living here for us is actually a lot less than in the city. Salaries are higher, there are some tax benefits and accomodation is often heavily subsidised by the employers.

Newman is a mining town and just outside of town is the Mt Whaleback mine which is one of the largest iron ore mines in the world, it is owned by BHP.

We recently toured the Mt Whaleback mine

 Some miners are employed on a fly in fly out basis and Newman has daily direct flights to Perth.
We have decided to invest some of the money we earn here in shares in BHP.

Although we are far from the distractions, excitement and bright lights of the city we are very happy to stay here for a while living the simple life.