[James2001]

I find it quite refreshingly boring really rather than the usual soap cliche of today where a characters loses their job one episode and finds on on the same street the next. 

I think one thing there is there's literally no workplaces that are a part of the show's setting, and there won't be for another 8 1/2 years until the parade's built, so there's nowhere that's techically part of the setting for characters to just walk in. Later on they could probably run to Bev to get a job in the bar, Mick at the pizza place, or Bing for the petrol station!

I wonder if that's part of why the show seems so slow moving at times as well, the lack of other regular settings outside the houses. Keeps the characters more separated than in other soaps too, as you don't get them interacting in the pub or at the shop.