sonlymewalter

so you mean expats need to work hard, not expect to knock off at lunchtime and go to the beach all day, drinking VB, can't buy their house for a fraction of what they paid in UK

that's a bag of shite. I'm off back

Weebie

Yeah exactly. Like I said in another thread If I moved into these areas My friends would disown me. I actually thought moving into Joondalup centro to be close to Uni but my friends discouraged me from doing that. this is how Australians operate.

Bermudashorts

I am wondering if Australians might be more money conscious, not sure if that is the same as class conscious.

I was at a management offsite meeting a couple of months ago and someone famous (well famous in Australia, I had no idea who they were) was brought in to do the after dinner speech. Well within the speech they included loads of stuff about how much money they were making and how they bought a house for their mother by the time they were 30 etc etc. I thought it was vulgar, I was cringing with embarrassment for the chap, but afterwards all my colleagues said how good he was.

neil248

Have to agree and since becoming citizens and joining in on all this have ditched our house and land package in legoland full of Poms, kiwis, Belgians, Scots, and Bogans in their rentals and moved to one of the cheaper houses in a decent ie expensive acreage suburb surrounded by Aussies, the few poms in the area don't go out of their way to advertise the fact.

Took a while to find the Australia we wanted and justify the move from the UK.

Beedubya

They will also judge you as whether you have bought your place where you are living or are "just" a renter..........

Vash the Stampede

Yes. Our Aussie house is nearly three times larger than our UK house (which we still own), and our neighbours are actually recognisable as human beings. It's quite refreshing.

Beedubya

You better get used to it........

pomtastic

Again, I have to agree with you.

Neighbours/Home and Away/Relocation Down Under, etc have been successful selling tools for the British while the GBP was strong against the AUD - the situation has backflipped now. I do wonder if the Aussie Tourist Industry did in fact subsidise these TV programmes to sell Aus?

neil248

Not too far from the truth, we bought into it and wasted $30,000 getting out into something properly Australian

pomtastic

Ha ha, was is the tennis player Mark Philipoussis? He who shagged Paris Hilton and is now a property bankrupt?

Sounds like a property investment seminar to me, these ****ers worm their way in at every corporate level - for a price.

Bermudashorts

No it was not Mark whatsit. Who?

And it was not a property investment seminar, it was an internal management offsite for my organisation, which is nothing to do with property and the speech was not about property either.

I don't want to say what business the speaker was in just in case anybody guesses who he was.

aston

you know were a strange ol bunch us travellers.i remember reading on here once about rose tinted glasses..yes i agree i was one of those none listening inexperienced optimistic poms that would not listen to seasoned poms...but..

i still believe that these shores are for me and one day i will stumble upon my pot of gold....

Beedubya

Thinking, thinking............

pomtastic

Ha ha. I know people who have bought in Clarkson, Perth. Unluckily, they locked in their mortgage a couple of years ago and are paying $800 a week to service their mortgage. $800 a week to live in Clarkson!!!!, just so they can say they *own* a property. The kids go to the local school - say no more. These people could rent a $500 *nice* house in an alright suburb AND send their kids to a private school AND have money left over.

I'd know what my priorities would be. **** me, $800 a week in Clarkson!!! Trouble is, interest rates could soon be heading back that way to the pre GFC crash levels because of our boom.

ABCDiamond

Does seem a very good idea doesn't it... But that wouldn't seem to put Australia in a bad light...... therefore pointless for some