Don't Come to Australia
Mar 24th 2010 | 7:34 pm
#272
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
I've been in Melbourne two months, my experiences:
1. Customs & Excise charge the earth for inspection and do not do their job. They are trying to charge me $850 for destroying a plastic bucket that they say contains "traces of chemicals" - it's detergent you morons!!
2. Job agents are the worst I have ever encountered, bad manners is just one of their traits.
3. Tram inspectors behave like The Gestapo and are racist, they bully old people and are afraid of youths who DO evade paying.
4. The train operators cannot even gets their clocks in synch let alone run a service!
5. An internet connection is the most expensive of any of the 6 countries I have lived in.
6. The Govt allow a duopoly for the supermarkets, therefore any item is twice the price it should be.
7. Every public official I have had to deal with wants money to do their job.
And I haven't even started on the cost to live here....
Australia - great place to holiday a nightmare to live, I'm off and so is my taxable income
1. Customs & Excise charge the earth for inspection and do not do their job. They are trying to charge me $850 for destroying a plastic bucket that they say contains "traces of chemicals" - it's detergent you morons!!
2. Job agents are the worst I have ever encountered, bad manners is just one of their traits.
3. Tram inspectors behave like The Gestapo and are racist, they bully old people and are afraid of youths who DO evade paying.
4. The train operators cannot even gets their clocks in synch let alone run a service!
5. An internet connection is the most expensive of any of the 6 countries I have lived in.
6. The Govt allow a duopoly for the supermarkets, therefore any item is twice the price it should be.
7. Every public official I have had to deal with wants money to do their job.
And I haven't even started on the cost to live here....
Australia - great place to holiday a nightmare to live, I'm off and so is my taxable income
Last edited by cresta57; Mar 24th 2010 at 7:39 pm. Reason: fix quote
Mar 24th 2010 | 7:36 pm
#273
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
aaaaaaah, you are one of those Westerners who want to live in a poor nation like a king where the locals are your servants, and crap on about how expensive everything is in Western nations and how much tax you have to pay. But the moment you get sick, you are back in a flash. Yep, been unlucky to meet several of your types on my journey
Mar 24th 2010 | 7:49 pm
#275
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
You have obviously missed the point, but then again what is the point of debating with an idiot!!!!
Convenience, Value and Choice.
No retailer in Australia can match them, at least they don't price fix with their only competitor!!!
Convenience, Value and Choice.
No retailer in Australia can match them, at least they don't price fix with their only competitor!!!
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:03 pm
#276
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
You know all the supermarkets work together on price fixing by way of a gentleman's agreement? They do the same in beating suppliers down to the minimum too. They work together when it suits them.
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:13 pm
#277
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
Now I don't dislike the Irish....am I allowed to say that or is it racist?
I'll drink with you, the Irish are generally great to drink with
I always fancied being someone's pet 
So hang on a minute. I'm not allowed to mention that my husband doesn't particularly like the Welsh (not abusing them, not being negative about them, simply making a harmless statement) but you're allowed to call me ignorant, arrogant and bigoted? I think not. That is abuse.
http://britishexpats.com/site-rules/ esp Rule 1 -glass houses and stones and all that.
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:19 pm
#278
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
NEWBIE, HERE'S TO HAPPIER DAYS IN THE NEXT PLACE. IF YOU ARE YOUNG, MOBILE AND HARD WORKING YOU SHOULDNT SETTLE IF IT FEELS WRONG. I THINK YOU ARE BRAVE TO ADMIT YOU MADE A MISTAKE AND GIVE IT THE HEAVE ESP AS MOST PEOPLE WILL JUMP ALL OVER YOU. WE'VE SPENT 4 YEARS TRYING TO MAKE A BAD DECISION INTO A GOOD ONE AND WITH EVERY PASSING DAY I FEEL DUMB AND DUMBERER. WHY PEOPLE THINK THERE IS SOME VALOUR TO SMACKING ONES HEAD AGAINST THE WALL BEATS ME. IF WE DONT GET OUT OF HERE SOON YOU'LL SEE ME ON THE NEWS - I'LL BE ACQUIRING ONE OF THOSE WHIPS AND PACING MY STREET BLOODLETTING AND WAILING WHILE MY NEIGHBOURS LOOK ON FROWNING AND WAITING FOR MY HOUSE TO COME ON THE MARKET. YOU'LL BE ABLE TO THINK ' THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I'. AS THE AD SAYS ' THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL'...
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:27 pm
#279
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
NEWBIE, HERE'S TO HAPPIER DAYS IN THE NEXT PLACE. IF YOU ARE YOUNG, MOBILE AND HARD WORKING YOU SHOULDNT SETTLE IF IT FEELS WRONG. I THINK YOU ARE BRAVE TO ADMIT YOU MADE A MISTAKE AND GIVE IT THE HEAVE ESP AS MOST PEOPLE WILL JUMP ALL OVER YOU. WE'VE SPENT 4 YEARS TRYING TO MAKE A BAD DECISION INTO A GOOD ONE AND WITH EVERY PASSING DAY I FEEL DUMB AND DUMBERER. WHY PEOPLE THINK THERE IS SOME VALOUR TO SMACKING ONES HEAD AGAINST THE WALL BEATS ME. IF WE DONT GET OUT OF HERE SOON YOU'LL SEE ME ON THE NEWS - I'LL BE ACQUIRING ONE OF THOSE WHIPS AND PACING MY STREET BLOODLETTING AND WAILING WHILE MY NEIGHBOURS LOOK ON FROWNING AND WAITING FOR MY HOUSE TO COME ON THE MARKET. YOU'LL BE ABLE TO THINK ' THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I'. AS THE AD SAYS ' THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL'...
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:45 pm
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
NEWBIE, HERE'S TO HAPPIER DAYS IN THE NEXT PLACE. IF YOU ARE YOUNG, MOBILE AND HARD WORKING YOU SHOULDNT SETTLE IF IT FEELS WRONG. I THINK YOU ARE BRAVE TO ADMIT YOU MADE A MISTAKE AND GIVE IT THE HEAVE ESP AS MOST PEOPLE WILL JUMP ALL OVER YOU. WE'VE SPENT 4 YEARS TRYING TO MAKE A BAD DECISION INTO A GOOD ONE AND WITH EVERY PASSING DAY I FEEL DUMB AND DUMBERER. WHY PEOPLE THINK THERE IS SOME VALOUR TO SMACKING ONES HEAD AGAINST THE WALL BEATS ME. IF WE DONT GET OUT OF HERE SOON YOU'LL SEE ME ON THE NEWS - I'LL BE ACQUIRING ONE OF THOSE WHIPS AND PACING MY STREET BLOODLETTING AND WAILING WHILE MY NEIGHBOURS LOOK ON FROWNING AND WAITING FOR MY HOUSE TO COME ON THE MARKET. YOU'LL BE ABLE TO THINK ' THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I'. AS THE AD SAYS ' THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL'...
So we put up with all the things that annoy you and come on sites like this and have a moan, only to be shot down and told to shut up!!
Have they forgotten all about "England's Green and Pleasant land" and there is no place in the world that can beat it.
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:55 pm
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
I know how you feel, you know when its not right, and for all those idiots who just say go home if you don't like it, or didn't you do your research? It ain't that easy to just pack up and go and yes I did the holiday and the research and 3 month suck it and see visa, but when you are finally here and there is no going back, it dawns on you that life was not that bad really in the uk and Australia for some is not the Utopia you'd hoped for!
So we put up with all the things that annoy you and come on sites like this and have a moan, only to be shot down and told to shut up!!
Have they forgotten all about "England's Green and Pleasant land" and there is no place in the world that can beat it.
So we put up with all the things that annoy you and come on sites like this and have a moan, only to be shot down and told to shut up!!
Have they forgotten all about "England's Green and Pleasant land" and there is no place in the world that can beat it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/mar/15/jamiewilson
Mar 24th 2010 | 8:55 pm
#284
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Re: Don't Come to Australia
I know how you feel, you know when its not right, and for all those idiots who just say go home if you don't like it, or didn't you do your research? It ain't that easy to just pack up and go and yes I did the holiday and the research and 3 month suck it and see visa, but when you are finally here and there is no going back, it dawns on you that life was not that bad really in the uk and Australia for some is not the Utopia you'd hoped for!
So we put up with all the things that annoy you and come on sites like this and have a moan, only to be shot down and told to shut up!!
Have they forgotten all about "England's Green and Pleasant land" and there is no place in the world that can beat it.
So we put up with all the things that annoy you and come on sites like this and have a moan, only to be shot down and told to shut up!!
Have they forgotten all about "England's Green and Pleasant land" and there is no place in the world that can beat it.
