millymog

Im just saying, dont get carried away with the idea that it will be fantastic living over there or anywhere that you have never visited before. It may not be right for you.

Like i said, i was all set to move to be near my friend but when i got there it changed my mind.

kiwichild

It would have helped to see more than just one city, esp if you could see some of the rural communities etc. Its a big country with a lot of diversity but summer and flies go together here like peas in a pod unless you head down to Tassie maybe

kiwichild

Oh I agree with you. I have lived in OZ for over a decade (most of it in perth unfortuantely) adn soon as I finish uni I am out of here: maybe to melb, tassie, NZ, or UK.

millymog

what dont you like about Perth?

Mrs JFW

Sorry to hear you didn't like Adelaide. I hope it didn't spoil your holiday. I think like others have said maybe if you had seen some other places you may not have felt the same.

I think its fair to say the the majority of people on the forum do a hell of alot of research before they decide where to go and most people are aware that the grass is not always greener..... as you have pointed out.

Best wishes

Jackie x

Wendy

I'd asy the grass is NEVER greener, just different shades

Grayling

Anyone who dismisses the flies as a trivial reason for not liking somewhere has never really experienced them :scared:

G

Mrs JFW

Yes but you've got double vision!

Wendy

That'll be it then

You've just shattered my illusion. I think I may not go now

kiwichild

many things: too hot in summer, they tore down 99% of the old buildings and built crappy new ones, the people are standoffish (its the most unfriendly place I have ever travelled to/lived in), they are arrogant, superficial and materialistic.

It's parochial; they think it's the best possible place on earth to live (or they are just trying so very hard to convince themselves cos they live here). Personally I think they have an insecurity complex and infact it is the most isolated city in the world. The fact is it's a sandpit on the edge of a desert!

They go on an on and on and on about farkin AFL(aussie rules football: more like synchronised field dancing) like no other state (not even victoria where the game originated). We get this shit all year in the news and on radio with only a brief respite during summer (if we are lucky)

To give you an example: When the cyclone (category 5, the worst u can get) hit QSLD, the LEAD story on the commercial news stations here was about some idiot footballer(days after the event: a follow up story) who abandoned his vehicle and ranaway from a police boozebus (mobile alcohol testing unit) going with his lawyer to the police station for questioning.

Public transport is non existant at night or sundays unless u live near a train line and train stations have been places gangs of ferral kids attack people in number with rocks and crap (one guy had to have part of his skull removed recently). Other little bastards hurl rocks off freeway overpasses, someone was killed a while back due to that. Infact they hurl rocks at buses too at times.

It gets so hot in summer u need air con in the house and car (mind u this also applies to the likes of brisbane and other cities) so u can't really exercise easily which is why u need to get up very early or go out at night to exercise unless u can afford a gym membership.

Anywhere worth going that is outside of the immediate metro area you need a car to get to cause public transport doesn't exist to get you there.

The place lacks any feel of soul or character. HUGE social dislocation problem that everyone just ignores. It's like "life's here Jim . but not as we know it" ! :scared:

Could probably think of more reasons if I thought about it.

Wendy

Do you know Kiwichild, I could have written that about where I currently live. Only differences being the public transport here is OK, just expensive £1.40 to go just 5 bus stops ) and it's OK when it turns up

Instead of AFL it's soccer here. But same thing about the news (where I am) they seem more interested in the social life of a footballer than in the local yobs setting fire to cars just down the road.


Then the weather is the opposite extreme. It's so cold most days you don't want to leave the house for fear of freezing to death.

Grayling

Just a little exaggeration maybe

G

kiwichild

What part of the UK are you in Wendy?

Hutch

Sounds like you saved yourself a hell of a lot of money. Far better you find out now that miss the UK, than a year down the line when you've sold up, emigrated and consequently taken up residence in 'Moving back ...'

Wendy

No, I have a dicky thyroid so I'm always bloody freezing. Even when I'm sat next to the radiators