Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Jan 7th 2015, 3:12 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Personally I like Brisbane, that's the place we were going to move initially.
But having been here in Melbourne and lived through one of it's hottest days,
( which is nothing compared to Brisbane) I have to say I probably, realistically couldn't cope with the heat there. But a I think it's a beautiful city.
But having been here in Melbourne and lived through one of it's hottest days,
( which is nothing compared to Brisbane) I have to say I probably, realistically couldn't cope with the heat there. But a I think it's a beautiful city.
Jan 7th 2015, 4:15 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Personally I like Brisbane, that's the place we were going to move initially.
But having been here in Melbourne and lived through one of it's hottest days,
( which is nothing compared to Brisbane) I have to say I probably, realistically couldn't cope with the heat there. But a I think it's a beautiful city.
But having been here in Melbourne and lived through one of it's hottest days,
( which is nothing compared to Brisbane) I have to say I probably, realistically couldn't cope with the heat there. But a I think it's a beautiful city.
Brisbane is a more persistant, longer summer with a lot of 28 going on. Only seen 40 something once in 9 years in bris.
Extreme Dry heat or humidity is like pick the devil or deep blue sea, both evil
IME.Unfortunately the australian climate is a harsh one, bloody extreme, the UV a killer, but nobody in the UK would ever believe it. There used to be loads of posts on here from brickies, roofers saying it would be a great climate to work in, living here you were thinking WTF
Jan 7th 2015, 4:36 am
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Yes the valley has plenty going on. Son in used to live overlooking the bridge. Big music scene, clubs, getting home around 4am was pretty normal for him. Plenty of eating places too.
Jan 7th 2015, 5:30 am
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Yeah, it's a shame that it's not more widely known when people come here to visit that they need to head away from the inner city, even the Story Bridge Hotel is always packed and has a couple of great restaurants.
Jan 7th 2015, 5:46 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Like others have mentioned, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the place.
On paper, everything is fantastic. Spiritually, things are not (in general).
Both myself and my OH currently have great jobs, nice house, holidays etc etc. I'm not 100% convinced the UK would offer me the same, hence my dilemma: do I stay or do I go.
UK friends have moved on and close family have emigrated to the Med so not really that much to entice me back to the UK other than that "feeling of belonging". It would be a huge backwards step (I feel) but I would, at least, feel at ease with myself again.
Of course, tomorrow might be a completely different story :-)
Jan 7th 2015, 5:53 am
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Jan 7th 2015, 6:45 am
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The apartments have all been pulled down now
My son got married in a church on KP and my grandchildren christened there
Jan 7th 2015, 6:48 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Actually molly Melbourne can get WAY hotter than Brisbane. Melb has only had one or two really hot days so far, it will get way up into the the mid 40's there. Often that is for 4/5 days of in a row. Summers hardly started yet
Brisbane is a more persistant, longer summer with a lot of 28 going on. Only seen 40 something once in 9 years in bris.
Extreme Dry heat or humidity is like pick the devil or deep blue sea, both evil IME.
Unfortunately the australian climate is a harsh one, bloody extreme, the UV a killer, but nobody in the UK would ever believe it. There used to be loads of posts on here from brickies, roofers saying it would be a great climate to work in, living here you were thinking WTF
Brisbane is a more persistant, longer summer with a lot of 28 going on. Only seen 40 something once in 9 years in bris.
Extreme Dry heat or humidity is like pick the devil or deep blue sea, both evil
IME.Unfortunately the australian climate is a harsh one, bloody extreme, the UV a killer, but nobody in the UK would ever believe it. There used to be loads of posts on here from brickies, roofers saying it would be a great climate to work in, living here you were thinking WTF
Bad luck, Brisbane: muggy cities will feel future heat even more
Jan 7th 2015, 7:33 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Actually molly Melbourne can get WAY hotter than Brisbane. Melb has only had one or two really hot days so far, it will get way up into the the mid 40's there. Often that is for 4/5 days of in a row. Summers hardly started yet
Brisbane is a more persistant, longer summer with a lot of 28 going on. Only seen 40 something once in 9 years in bris.
Extreme Dry heat or humidity is like pick the devil or deep blue sea, both evil IME.
Unfortunately the australian climate is a harsh one, bloody extreme, the UV a killer, but nobody in the UK would ever believe it. There used to be loads of posts on here from brickies, roofers saying it would be a great climate to work in, living here you were thinking WTF
Brisbane is a more persistant, longer summer with a lot of 28 going on. Only seen 40 something once in 9 years in bris.
Extreme Dry heat or humidity is like pick the devil or deep blue sea, both evil
IME.Unfortunately the australian climate is a harsh one, bloody extreme, the UV a killer, but nobody in the UK would ever believe it. There used to be loads of posts on here from brickies, roofers saying it would be a great climate to work in, living here you were thinking WTF
Incidently, the hottest City is Adelaide, I always thought it was Perth, but there you go. So Melbourne is 3rd on the list behind those two in hottest days.
Jan 7th 2015, 8:00 am
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Re: Australia is too bloody far away....from everything
Looks like Brisbane is likely to get hotter too:
Bad luck, Brisbane: muggy cities will feel future heat even more
Bad luck, Brisbane: muggy cities will feel future heat even more
It could be... Must say nothing beat Florida when we went there in 2008. That was seriously hot & humid.
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Jan 7th 2015, 8:55 am
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I wonder why so many threads become de facto weather reports? Besides being a safe topic it has little to do with the actual thread. Perhaps it is true the weather features large in Aussies and Poms day to day exchanges.
Jan 7th 2015, 9:41 am
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