Nice one Arkon

Eating out is good here arkon - so much choice and so little calorie intake allowed on my diet

Tell me about it. In the last 7 days I've had 3 chinese, 2 italian, 2 indian meals. I'm now very stuffed! I'd almost forgotten what it was like to eat out somwhere that was a bit better than a greasy cafe. It wasn't all roses though, I paid 17.99 a kilo for bananas at Belconen and 1.70 a litre for fuel at a place called pointer or somthing like pointer, about 30k north of Canberra. There was a cucumber shortage causing SubWay some problems and it rained on the last day. But all in all a positive experience.

ACT govt will now be forced to upgrade the domestic Canberra Airport to an International one as a result of this post.

I can see the Courier Mail headlines in the future: "Over supply of bayside homes as British immigrants abandon Brisbane and move to Canberra...."


Canberra Times: "Housing shortage now dire"



WW

We had a fantastic Indian takeaway while we were there but the goat recipes were a little too authentic for me . I must say that although I am not a suburb person I was really taken with the place and having things like shopping centres nearby was wonderful . Just got to get a job there now
Nicky

I wouldn't want to live there but I thought it was a great place to visit for the day. It is like nothing else I have ever seen: the whole place was designed rather than happening by accident; the war memorial was impressive; the parliament building unusual and open to the public and best of all seeing all the embassy buildings built in the national styles.

Me and the other half are moving to Canberra in early Sept due to his job. Although we have visited Australia before we have never been to Canberra, so I was a little bit worried about how we would fare there.

After reading this thread it does make me feel a lot better about moving to a place we had never visited, and I am sure he will be pleased to learn about the Indian takeaways!

Louise

Hmmm very interesting. Especially when you consider how close Canberra is to the other cities, and the possible low cost of housing. Very few people that I've met praise Canberra though. There again I only use heresay as a guide and not a rule. We are having major issues with changing from Junior to High school at present, I can imagine most schools in Canberra would perform at a higher average standard.


It's the easiest place to transfer to in my and my wifes line of work (she is a Pysch nurse), So not a popular choice for most working people.

I like BB and I agree that he is funny. However he can make mistakes. His opinion on the British involvement in the Whitlam dismissal being an obvious one.

Canberra like other cities has nice parts and crappy parts. Last time I was there I drove around some areas near Belconnen which was obviously designed by a multi-story car-park and bus station architect. Also the business district does close down after hours and becomes a ghost town. This happens in other cities that have separate business and entertainment districts - the City of London becomes a ghost town on the weekend.

True about Belconen but it having a big shopping center for me within 10 minutes of the rest of the city was a bonus so I forgave it its poor architecture. The city does wind down out of hours but I wouldn't say shutdown. We found most of the book shops, food shops, gift and other non suit and tie type businesses stayed open late. Where I am now you get turned away at the door to most places at about five to five so it was very refeshing to go for a walk and find plenty of places still open. One of the negatives we had quoted at us before we went was that the city becomes a ghost town at the weekend, true it did but it felt great as we seemed to have the city to ourselves. A bit like 28 days later I must admit but you could still get a decent beer or pizza. For me the most underrated place I've been to so far.

Did I mention we drove to cooma near the skiing resorts and it less than an hour and the snow was about an extra hour and a half away. Now who wants to buy a farm?

Good on you for thinking of relocating, i hope you manage to sell your farm.
Have you still got your alpaca's?
Mandy

Arkon: "Australia is crap!"

Everyone else: "You only think this way because you moved to a small town in the middle of nowhere,with all the limitations and annoyances of small rural town life."

Arkon: "No really, it's crap! The whole country is, like, just so TOTALLY crap! Seriously!"

Everyone else: "Try somewhere bigger. You'll see."

Arkon: "Hey, Canberra is great!"

Everyone else:

What else is there left to say, but... WE TOLD YOU SO!

Too right. I wonder if the residents of Canberra are less 'thick' than the rest of the population of Australia as well.

FYI - Canberra airport is International.

For anybody who hasn't landed at Canberra airport, on the terminal it says

"Canberra International Airport"

I think the only international flights are the ones with the US of A Prez on it. But I think about 3 years ago you could get a flight to Fiji from Canberra.

By the way. I spent 3 years in Canberra for work and would move there in a blink of an eye lid.

KS

Well all credit to the guy for admitting he was wrong. That takes gumption. There are more nice places like Canberra to live too, as most of us know.