For those looking at comming out
May 14th 2007, 5:32 am
#31
Victorian Evangelist
Joined: Sep 2005
Location: Melbourne, by the beach, living the dream.
Posts: 7,704
Re: For those looking at comming out
Buzzy
May 14th 2007, 7:46 am
#32
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Asia Pacific
Posts: 4,922
Re: For those looking at comming out
I know I will get slated for this but for those who are thinking of coming out here I thought I would let you have some info:-
I think the biggest mis information is that people have rose coloured glasses.
I am in a very good job high paid. The things I would say to people are:-
Work is ok if you are high paid the cost of living comparatively to the UK is:-
Food - far more expensive
Travel - air travel - far more expensive
Travel - Car second hand far more expensive
Travel - new car cheeper
Travel - petrol - far cheeper, but have to travel further
Clothing - cheeper not as much choice lot of imported crap
Houses- cheeper, standard of build poor
Eating out - cheeper, but no good pubs
Cinema - same
People - friendly if they have to be (if they work for you or with you)
The things I miss - open space that you are allowed to go on. Most of the land in Oz is privately owned.
If you go outside of a city you will not have any lights on the road at night, there is no public transport outside of cities so if you have children you will have to run them everywere we spend about 15-20 hrs per week doing this.
Culture there is non, history museums are full of aboriginal crap once you have looked at one boomerang you have seen them all. The Oz culture revolves around drinking at home (cant walk to a pub outside the city) watching the football (Oz footbal), fishing in a muddy river if there is any water, working 50 hr / week for low pay staying inside in summer as it is to hot to go outside.
I think the biggest mis information is that people have rose coloured glasses.
I am in a very good job high paid. The things I would say to people are:-
Work is ok if you are high paid the cost of living comparatively to the UK is:-
Food - far more expensive
Travel - air travel - far more expensive
Travel - Car second hand far more expensive
Travel - new car cheeper
Travel - petrol - far cheeper, but have to travel further
Clothing - cheeper not as much choice lot of imported crap
Houses- cheeper, standard of build poor
Eating out - cheeper, but no good pubs
Cinema - same
People - friendly if they have to be (if they work for you or with you)
The things I miss - open space that you are allowed to go on. Most of the land in Oz is privately owned.
If you go outside of a city you will not have any lights on the road at night, there is no public transport outside of cities so if you have children you will have to run them everywere we spend about 15-20 hrs per week doing this.
Culture there is non, history museums are full of aboriginal crap once you have looked at one boomerang you have seen them all. The Oz culture revolves around drinking at home (cant walk to a pub outside the city) watching the football (Oz footbal), fishing in a muddy river if there is any water, working 50 hr / week for low pay staying inside in summer as it is to hot to go outside.
I dont doubt some of the points made are valid, and if anyone thinks that Australia is cheaper to live in than the UK is suffering delusions, but it is swings and roundabouts. I could post a list of things which are cheaper if you like, or maybe parts of the UK culture which I detested so much that I have left the country permanently.
From your perspective you may think that Australia is crap, crap enough for you to move elsewhere as you've posted on other threads, but for some us we have a different perception of Australia. And frankly, I love it.
People considering migration are of course excited and sometimes do seem optomistic, overly so sometimes. But then others seem overly negative....
May 14th 2007, 7:54 am
#33
I'd rather be fishin' !!!
Joined: Feb 2007
Location: Concord, NSW
Posts: 96
Re: For those looking at comming out
Negativity is a state of mind...
You could be living anywhere in the world but if you have a mind that homes in on the negative, you are basically stuffed!
You could be living anywhere in the world but if you have a mind that homes in on the negative, you are basically stuffed!
May 14th 2007, 1:31 pm
#34
Forum Regular
Joined: Apr 2005
Location: Back in Glasgow
Posts: 117
Re: For those looking at comming out
I applaud your post.
Get ready to be slated for your thoughts and observations though !! .
Get ready to be slated for your thoughts and observations though !! .
I know I will get slated for this but for those who are thinking of coming out here I thought I would let you have some info:-
I think the biggest mis information is that people have rose coloured glasses.
I am in a very good job high paid. The things I would say to people are:-
Work is ok if you are high paid the cost of living comparatively to the UK is:-
Food - far more expensive
Travel - air travel - far more expensive
Travel - Car second hand far more expensive
Travel - new car cheeper
Travel - petrol - far cheeper, but have to travel further
Clothing - cheeper not as much choice lot of imported crap
Houses- cheeper, standard of build poor
Eating out - cheeper, but no good pubs
Cinema - same
People - friendly if they have to be (if they work for you or with you)
The things I miss - open space that you are allowed to go on. Most of the land in Oz is privately owned.
If you go outside of a city you will not have any lights on the road at night, there is no public transport outside of cities so if you have children you will have to run them everywere we spend about 15-20 hrs per week doing this.
Culture there is non, history museums are full of aboriginal crap once you have looked at one boomerang you have seen them all. The Oz culture revolves around drinking at home (cant walk to a pub outside the city) watching the football (Oz footbal), fishing in a muddy river if there is any water, working 50 hr / week for low pay staying inside in summer as it is to hot to go outside.
Derek
I think the biggest mis information is that people have rose coloured glasses.
I am in a very good job high paid. The things I would say to people are:-
Work is ok if you are high paid the cost of living comparatively to the UK is:-
Food - far more expensive
Travel - air travel - far more expensive
Travel - Car second hand far more expensive
Travel - new car cheeper
Travel - petrol - far cheeper, but have to travel further
Clothing - cheeper not as much choice lot of imported crap
Houses- cheeper, standard of build poor
Eating out - cheeper, but no good pubs
Cinema - same
People - friendly if they have to be (if they work for you or with you)
The things I miss - open space that you are allowed to go on. Most of the land in Oz is privately owned.
If you go outside of a city you will not have any lights on the road at night, there is no public transport outside of cities so if you have children you will have to run them everywere we spend about 15-20 hrs per week doing this.
Culture there is non, history museums are full of aboriginal crap once you have looked at one boomerang you have seen them all. The Oz culture revolves around drinking at home (cant walk to a pub outside the city) watching the football (Oz footbal), fishing in a muddy river if there is any water, working 50 hr / week for low pay staying inside in summer as it is to hot to go outside.
Derek
May 14th 2007, 2:05 pm
#35
Australia's Doorman
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Posts: 11,056
Re: For those looking at comming out
God this is getting tedious ...
