Originally Posted by WendyC

Sorry, just asking.

Obviously with me still in the UK I'm looking for info on Oz. I intend to go to Adelaide and was just wondering if you came from there that's all.

No need to get nasty

Originally Posted by MikeStanton

Another load of Google irrelevance from Vash. In Oz, in major stores like Target, bags are routinely checked when you exit and often when you enter; the presumption must be the shopper is guilty until proven innocent.

Perhaps it's something to do with Oz's criminal past, but it really used to piss us off. Perhaps they could recover some of the lost profits by reducing the 400 plastic bags they use each time you go to the checkout.


As for searches, prior to boarding a plance - they're not exactly looking for a stolen packet of sweets now are they?!

As for CCTV, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

And in-store cameras have been used in both countries for many years.

Originally Posted by Toppa

Not intending to be nasty, just curious why 2 people make references to Perth?

I've been to adelaide so if you want any info, just PM me and if I can help out I will.

Jamie

Originally Posted by Toppa

This guy "vash" is the aussie who defends his country come hell or high water but has flashed on every thread almost the fact he now has a UK passport, and may even live there till he dies now?

Interesting don't u think mate?

Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede

BTW, I can trump "I never got short changed until I came to Australia" with the fact that I never got happy-slapped until I came to the UK...

Hmmm. I guess it's all about perspective.

Originally Posted by MikeStanton

No, it's about comparing 'like with like.'

Or should we start to list some of Oz's less savoury aspects? We never had our car vandalised or house broken into until we got to Oz.

Or, more importantly: the fact that the rape % is far higher in Oz than UK, or how about the two 14 year-old girls that recently stabbed a taxi-driver to death, or...

Originally Posted by northerner

Good God, who'd have thought one of Arcon's posts would end up like this eh?

Originally Posted by Hutch

The racist's back! Hurrah! I've had my bags checked on several occasions, none of them in the 14 months during which I was in Oz. I...Must be something to do with all those criminals England produced and shipped to the other of the planet, or some other trollish ignorant excuse for an argument ..

Originally Posted by MikeStanton

No, it's about comparing 'like with like.'

Or should we start to list some of Oz's less savoury aspects? We never had our car vandalised or house broken into until we got to Oz.

Or, more importantly: the fact that the rape % is far higher in Oz than UK, or how about the two 14 year-old girls that recently stabbed a taxi-driver to death, or...

Originally Posted by MikeStanton

And this from the man that refers to UK as a sewer.

You do come across as an angry little man that's going to set the world alight in...where was it again? Oh, yes. South Australia. If I were you, I'd pack a box of matches...

Originally Posted by WendyC

I never mentioned Perth

Originally Posted by Hutch

You seem to have a real problem getting your facts straight, Stanton - it's okay, I'm used to your half-arsed half-truths. I actually referred to England as a 'godforsaken hole', not a sewer - and it was with particular reference to the ice rink in Bristol - I'd *really* like to see anyone argue to the contrary. And no, not South Australia, nice try - but never let the facts get in the way of another xenophobic rant, eh?

Originally Posted by moneypen20

Sorry Arkon but how is this thread supposed to go You have come back to sell up (and well done for the decision by the way). You post the price of fruit, how great the crisps are, and the baby food and everything else in your OP. What did you want to happen; no one reply at all as there is not much to say; reply agreeing with you but not much else; people replying with their own perspective which in all probability differs from yours?

They are the only ways the thread can go. The first would probably piss you off, the second would be incredibly boring, the third is how this forum works.

I really don't know what you want, other than get the hell out of the country of course

Originally Posted by arkon

Most of the posters responded like adults to it but the usual bunch decided that whatever I post whether true or not needed to be derided. This to me says more about them than me. Fruit is dearer here than home fact, disproportionately so IMO. My point I was trying to make was how can a country that grows all this stuff by the shed load get away with ripping everyone off?

Originally Posted by Hutch

So what? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy them?