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Forum: The Barbie
Jun 21st 2016, 5:11 am
Replies: 1,537
Views: 99,608
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Bye bye Liberal Government..... will you ever learn.

Labour are toast in Victoria.
Fresh from wasting $1bn+ by cancelling the east west link, bullying premier Dan Andrews has picked an entirely unnecessary fight with the CFA, whose godliness in...
Forum: The Barbie
Jun 25th 2014, 5:24 am
Replies: 115
Views: 8,094
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Melbournes best kept secrets

Tibas Restaurant on Sydney Road in Brunswick. Huge portions of excellent Lebanese food at very cheap prices.
Go and feed the birds at Grants picnic grounds in Kallista - make sure you take you our...
Forum: Australia
Aug 20th 2013, 1:06 am
Replies: 43
Views: 5,896
Posted By hawk2005

Re: How expensive are the houses in Melbourne?

Is Mornington really Melbourne or country Victoria - its a lovely place but at around 75km from the cbd isnt it a bit like people in Reading saying they live in London. The lifestyle is great but the...
Forum: Australia
Oct 23rd 2012, 2:20 am
Replies: 202
Views: 25,509
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Impressions of a visit to England – from someone who emigrated over 5 years ago

I went back in May., to the North West, Scotland and the West Country

I found that

it was a lot cleaner than last time I was back
The supermarkets were scruffier than I remembered
The pubs...
Forum: Australia
Oct 12th 2012, 4:19 am
Replies: 43
Views: 5,139
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Best Airline to fly with back to the UK

I flew to Manc in May with Qatar Airways. They were great and flew straight to Doha, change planes in a stop over of about an hour, and then straight to Manchester.
Food was as good as Ive had on a...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 3rd 2012, 3:24 am
Replies: 363
Views: 52,626
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Was Jimmy Saville a paedophile?

You say say what you like about Jimmy Savile but he always slowed down when he drove past a primary school
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 30th 2012, 11:36 am
Replies: 83
Views: 9,157
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Irish Woman abducted Sydney Rd Brunswick.

Most of Melbourne is about as dangerous as a bowl of mouldy custard.

However around Sydney Road is pretty grim. Its a bit like the east end in London. Not too far from the CBD and the "action" but...
Forum: Australia
Nov 24th 2010, 2:19 am
Replies: 27
Views: 4,647
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Melbourne aggressive beggars

Collingwood was always a rough area - just because the house prices are high in the area, as a result of people with more money than sense choosing to buy tiny little ex workers slums and "renovate"...
Forum: Australia
Sep 7th 2010, 4:12 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,717
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Melbourne Train crime

Haha youve obviously never been on public transport around an English football match - that is when you'll see proper violence.

Ive never felt threatened on a Melbourne train, and never have on an...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 10th 2010, 1:39 am
Replies: 501
Views: 27,042
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Irrational Hatreds

Most of channel 10 give me the irrits - the clowns on the morning news, especially that *****wit from Commsec Craig James.

I also hate the pair on Channel 10, especially the woman, who do the...
Forum: Australia
Mar 19th 2009, 5:59 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,791
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Article in todays Times on employment opportunities

If you want to view the inaccurate depths to which the Times has now plummeted, read some of the articles by Anatole Kaletsky in the business section.
This guy has been about as accurate in his...
Forum: Australia
Feb 25th 2009, 12:09 am
Replies: 379
Views: 41,631
Posted By hawk2005

Re: whats the worse thing about living in australia

The way they bang on about “mateship” as if Australians are the only people in the world who have friends.

There seems to be a cult here where all lot of very moronic things are celebrated - noisy...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jan 21st 2009, 12:04 pm
Replies: 647
Views: 96,067
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?

It always strikes me as sort of funny how so many people who live in the UK find the ease of getting out of the place and going to other more interesting countries as one of the best things about...
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 23rd 2008, 2:46 am
Replies: 63
Views: 5,784
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Do you have a better quality of life in oz?

Absolutely - I knew someone whose husband moved from Uppsala in Sweden to west London, and his asthma rather surprisingly cleared up as a result.
Forum: Australia
Dec 11th 2008, 2:41 am
Replies: 106
Views: 84,131
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Melbourne - what suburbs to AVOID living in?

Think about moving closer to a tram line - the 75 tram line takes a while to get into Melbourne, but as it passes though fairly good areas - Vermont/Blackburn/Burwood/Camberwell/Hawthorn etc - the...
Forum: Australia
Dec 4th 2008, 9:38 pm
Replies: 90
Views: 7,597
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Bottom of the property cycle reached ?

Australia relies on overseas borrowings to fund the mortgages which sustain its property market, as its inhabitants don’t save enough.

With governments of nations around the world looking to...
Forum: Australia
Dec 3rd 2008, 8:43 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 552
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Anyone Recommend Best Places to head for IT Infrastructure Roles?

Melbourne - Telstra is based there.
They have project Titan ongoing - which is changing the basis of their voice network from TDM to a softswitch driven VOIP base (its being installed by...
Forum: Australia
Dec 1st 2008, 9:03 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 5,778
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Should you really be moving to Australia at this time?

Both have grossly overvalued housing sectors with the UK crash happening maybe a year in advance of Australia's.
Both countries have horrendous personal debt levels, and both currencies are basket...
Forum: Australia
Oct 28th 2008, 10:23 pm
Replies: 280
Views: 24,427
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Aussie house prices...a poll

When I saw that shack this song came to mind

"Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
Poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed
An' then one day, he was shootin' at some food,
An'...
Forum: Australia
Oct 27th 2008, 11:14 pm
Replies: 280
Views: 24,427
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Aussie house prices...a poll

They will fall - particularly at risk in Melbourne are the new build estates (Melton/Craigieburn/Cranbourne etc) and some of the grimmer inner city suburbs (Footscray/Coburg/Kensington/Preston etc)...
Forum: Australia
Sep 23rd 2008, 2:27 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,969
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Mooroolbark, Melbourne. What's it like?

Not bad with some big blocks but the schools for there and croydon arent so good. The usual dickheads hanging around the station but where dont you get them.
Its about 50minutes into town on the...
Forum: The Update Forum
Sep 16th 2008, 1:03 am
Replies: 27
Views: 3,774
Posted By hawk2005

Re: A year in Melbourne

PG tips available in (former Bi-Lo) Coles at Knox City - I bought some on saturday
Forum: Australia
Jun 16th 2008, 11:03 pm
Replies: 33
Views: 3,013
Posted By hawk2005

Re: Oz house prices "tipped to soar"

This article is nonsense - the present house price bubble all around the world has been funded by the availability of large amounts of cheap credit. This has dried up and will maybe never return, or...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 21st 2008, 3:42 am
Replies: 32
Views: 12,569
Posted By hawk2005

Re: carp fishing (common and mirror)

http://www.fishvictoria.com/pyoursay/reports.php

Check out some of the reports here to see what you can catch - these are for Victoria - Perth will probably be the same.

There are some massive...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 22nd 2008, 1:38 am
Replies: 86
Views: 7,963
Posted By hawk2005

Re: UK's great property crash

Another bonus of this argument (that house prices stall during the mexican standoff between sellers and buyers) is there will be a major cull of estate agents as there wont be enough activity in the...
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