Of all the conversations parents never want to have with their child — drug or alcohol problems, unwanted pregnancies, relationship dramas — one particular chat has instilled fear and despair in the hearts of South Australian mums and dads for more than a generation.
It’s this: “Mum, Dad, I’ve got a job … in Sydney.”
Or Melbourne. Or Brisbane. Or overseas, or anywhere but Adelaide, where the brain drain is the dinner party-stopping topic of conversation for the South Australian middle class.
