I can see why the Aussies call us "wingeing poms"!!!!!

Just think about weather you left behind in the UK. We have hardly had any nice hot sunny days this year - now midway through June. Its 7.40am and the sky is dull, cloudy and grey!!!

My memories of Perth is bright blue skies, even in the winter!!!

Quite a few threads lately are rather depressing, seems that "the grass always looks greener on the other side" One thing that I have learn't, if and when, we get our PR visa, is not to moan too much, there are good and bad points in the UK and OZ.

Sharon (perhaps I have got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!!)
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We're hoping were getting all our winter rain out of the way in the first ten days of June, it has absolutely pissed down for days, we must of had over 6 inches fall already, I had to go out in the rain and pump my pool out, what a bind

I totally agree, there's almost an expectation by some that there this Utopia called Australia, it really frustrates me when I hear people moaning about things and it not being what they thought. Life is what you make of it, in the western world your going to get the same day to day issues to deal with, you can't expect any different. But I sure as hell cant think of a nicer place than Perth to have to suffer life's little woe's. It sure beats the hell out of being in the UK.

Steve

I think Melbourne does better sometimes because of the cloud cover - this buffers the night temperature to the nth degree. On average it is colder at nights in Sydney - you win some you lose some. Where we are we seem to get less cold than down inthe hill in Berwick.

badge

Maybe they dont have insulation down there and your getting all their warm A/C'd air floating up to you
Steve

Not much different to the south of England I think.

An extreme would be -20 (like happens only very occasionally).
They usually would get snow once a year, but it's very random, and usually dissapears after a few days.
It's been about 8 years since it's frozen long enough to have a 'elf steden tocht'(a iceskating race around 11 villages in the north of The Netherlands, via kanals and rivers). It doesn't freeze for long enough to let the ice be thick enough for hundreds of people to go on it.


Jad n Rich: you're quoting min and max temps. It doesn't get below 10 during the day(and usually not even 15).
But yeah, I guess a bit extreme, but I'm sure there's extremer places!!!

I think the best way to go heating wise here is ducted gas heating, much cheaper to run than reverse cycle aircon (so i'm told) a system with 8 outlets will cost around $3500 to install. It's also a bit of a false economy to buy loads of small electric heaters, or radiators, it will get a lot colder than this and you'll find that a gas heater although expensive to buy will heat your open plan areas loads better and much more economically than electric radiators. We have a 25mj gas heater which heats most of the house fine, and a small oil filled radiator in the bubs room, but you really do have to think twice about getting up through the night to go to the loo. I'd have ducted if we could afford it.


Lynn