Originally Posted by Lewis Lapthorn

What part of Bradford are you Wendy. My brother's in Thornton.

Originally Posted by millymog

Hoping i would like it that much that i would try to emigrate. But now i have been, i was really glad to be back in good old England.

Maybe it was the wrong time or place to go but i didnt really enjoy it. I went to Adelaide and as soon as the sun came out, we had mouthfuls and eyefuls of flies. All i was doing was the "Australian wave" as they call it. The beaches looked like you would get in Tenby in Wales. I just found there was no character to it. So its safe to say that i wont be going again. My advise is to people, take a good look at where you are thinking of going BEFORE you embark on this long mission of getting accepted. The grass isnt always greener on the other side.

Originally Posted by Grayling

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by arkon

Tried to give you some karma but I need to whore it around a bit first, anyway very well said just replace SA with any other state IMO and the same description fits nicely.

Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede

Don't know how long you spend in Australia, but I must point out that my country is three times the size of Western Europe and you've just written off the entire place on the basis of your limited experience in Adelaide.

I wonder how people would react if I did the same to the UK after a holiday in Sheffield.

Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede

And you have lived in how many states...?

Originally Posted by arkon

Lived in one and visited 4 so yes I've seen enough.

Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede

And you have lived in how many states...?

Originally Posted by <")))><

Now now, Vash.

"An opinion shared is a burden halved." from the BE handbook

Originally Posted by WendyC

Ah but you don't know what somewhere is like unless you've LIVED there........

Originally Posted by arkon

You say that but every single one of her points was true for all the states I've been to.

Originally Posted by arkon

You say that but every single one of her points was true for all the states I've been to.

Originally Posted by arkon

Yes bring up the size issue again why don't you, you need to realise that size isn't everything. Whats the point of being 3 times the size of europe and having only a handfull of population centers with HUGE gaps in between. How you can compare the richness of Europe to this barren empty isolated place is beyond me.

Originally Posted by arkon

Lived in one and visited 4 so yes I've seen enough.