First 2 months in Melbourne
Jul 1st 2004, 11:52 am
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Re: First 2 months in Melbourne
Originally posted by Marakai
Harder to do at the US stations, as most of the rooms are dorms
Harder to do at the US stations, as most of the rooms are dorms
Jul 1st 2004, 12:41 pm
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There is a Monsoon! On Collins Street and I suspect there is one at Chadstone as well.
I work about 10 mins from Chadstone, in fact I am on my way there in a bit for some Friday lunch! It is so huge I still haven't seen it all and get lost every time I go there! Theres some great stores there, what I miss is the middle of the road stores like Next and Dorothy Perks - Melbourne is great for expensive shops (Chapel Street) and cheap (Target!) but nothing in the middle.
Its great to be able to let people know things about Melbourne now we are here as well - I spent a lot of time learning a lot of things from this website before I came here!
I work about 10 mins from Chadstone, in fact I am on my way there in a bit for some Friday lunch! It is so huge I still haven't seen it all and get lost every time I go there! Theres some great stores there, what I miss is the middle of the road stores like Next and Dorothy Perks - Melbourne is great for expensive shops (Chapel Street) and cheap (Target!) but nothing in the middle.
Its great to be able to let people know things about Melbourne now we are here as well - I spent a lot of time learning a lot of things from this website before I came here!
Jul 1st 2004, 3:56 pm
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Originally posted by trehere
There is a Monsoon! On Collins Street and I suspect there is one at Chadstone as well.
I work about 10 mins from Chadstone, in fact I am on my way there in a bit for some Friday lunch! It is so huge I still haven't seen it all and get lost every time I go there! Theres some great stores there, what I miss is the middle of the road stores like Next and Dorothy Perks - Melbourne is great for expensive shops (Chapel Street) and cheap (Target!) but nothing in the middle.
Its great to be able to let people know things about Melbourne now we are here as well - I spent a lot of time learning a lot of things from this website before I came here!
There is a Monsoon! On Collins Street and I suspect there is one at Chadstone as well.
I work about 10 mins from Chadstone, in fact I am on my way there in a bit for some Friday lunch! It is so huge I still haven't seen it all and get lost every time I go there! Theres some great stores there, what I miss is the middle of the road stores like Next and Dorothy Perks - Melbourne is great for expensive shops (Chapel Street) and cheap (Target!) but nothing in the middle.
Its great to be able to let people know things about Melbourne now we are here as well - I spent a lot of time learning a lot of things from this website before I came here!
Jul 1st 2004, 6:47 pm
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Originally posted by Bordy
I don't think theres a monsoon at Chadstone, Mrs has been there often. Yes it is huge, I'm sure they say its the biggest shopping centre in Southern Hemisphere. You should see it on the lead up to Xmas, what a nightmare. I prefer little Knox City myself.
I don't think theres a monsoon at Chadstone, Mrs has been there often. Yes it is huge, I'm sure they say its the biggest shopping centre in Southern Hemisphere. You should see it on the lead up to Xmas, what a nightmare. I prefer little Knox City myself.
Jul 1st 2004, 7:05 pm
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Re: First 2 months in Melbourne
Originally posted by badgesagent
lol.
what a splendid idea!! would solve many social problems in places where many colleagues live together and have little privacy. eg Big Brother.
PS Houses are cold in Melbourne. Soon sorted with:
a) More jumpers
b) A Coonara
c) A fire.
d) A good attitude.
Seriously!
One of my stories:
I was brought up in the UK without central heating so don't suffer like many. When I was a kid in the UK, the only time we used the heat from a small fan heater was the 5 mins as u were getting dressed and that was for a paper round at 5.30am. I also found I never got the flus and colds like other kids as the heating makes you namby pamby. If a kid can do it so can an adult. Me and my brother used to laugh at all our guests suffering big time. We were all sitting around OK and they were jibbering.
I went camping in Snowdonia aged 13 in April I was the only kid in my class (along with my mate) who stripped down to my kacks and washed in the river at the camp site. All the other kids pretended to. My teachers were seriously impressed.
When I was 16 I recall doing the same in the SNOW!! I even shaved as well.
I also find that if its not TOO cold then just RELAX forget about it - then you find its not so cold after all. I'm deathly serious. Many the morning I tell myself it is cold and then I realise I just think it is. eg. Quite often jump out of bed, shivering, freezing - it IS relative to the nice warm pit you were in. But if you force yourself to NOT shiver, relax, put it all in perspective, you think "its not so bad after all". Just a bit of SELF DISCIPLINE. Seriously, a lot of it is in the mind. If that fails, make a cup of tea. Do 60 pressups. Jump in shower, towel off, put on clothes - sorted. It was only when MrsB arrived that I even turned on the fire.
BA
lol.
what a splendid idea!!
would solve many social problems in places where many colleagues live together and have little privacy. eg Big Brother.PS Houses are cold in Melbourne. Soon sorted with:
a) More jumpers
b) A Coonara
c) A fire.
d) A good attitude.
Seriously!
One of my stories:
I was brought up in the UK without central heating so don't suffer like many. When I was a kid in the UK, the only time we used the heat from a small fan heater was the 5 mins as u were getting dressed and that was for a paper round at 5.30am. I also found I never got the flus and colds like other kids as the heating makes you namby pamby. If a kid can do it so can an adult. Me and my brother used to laugh at all our guests suffering big time. We were all sitting around OK and they were jibbering.
I went camping in Snowdonia aged 13 in April I was the only kid in my class (along with my mate) who stripped down to my kacks and washed in the river at the camp site. All the other kids pretended to. My teachers were seriously impressed.
When I was 16 I recall doing the same in the SNOW!! I even shaved as well.
I also find that if its not TOO cold then just RELAX forget about it - then you find its not so cold after all. I'm deathly serious. Many the morning I tell myself it is cold and then I realise I just think it is. eg. Quite often jump out of bed, shivering, freezing - it IS relative to the nice warm pit you were in. But if you force yourself to NOT shiver, relax, put it all in perspective, you think "its not so bad after all". Just a bit of SELF DISCIPLINE. Seriously, a lot of it is in the mind. If that fails, make a cup of tea. Do 60 pressups. Jump in shower, towel off, put on clothes - sorted. It was only when MrsB arrived that I even turned on the fire.
BA
Jul 1st 2004, 7:32 pm
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Re: First 2 months in Melbourne
Originally posted by Innyjim
...........eeh you were lucky, when we got home from school, father used to carve us up with bread knife........
...........eeh you were lucky, when we got home from school, father used to carve us up with bread knife........
Your lucky you had a bread knife, Was a blunt pen knife for us.
Jul 13th 2004, 3:22 pm
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Just thought I'd answer a few questions that popped up in the responses:
In terms of IT salary - yes, I got lucky. I have less responsibility in terms of people management than my job in the UK but there is a higher expectation that I have real analysis skills - and so am being paid for them.
It is cold. Don't go by the temperature though - 15 degrees in Melbourne feels colder than 15 degrees in the UK. I have no idea why - I'm from Yorkshire and I'm used to it being cold. Maybe it's because it's so dry, I really have no idea. I'm not arguing about it - I'm just saying it feels really cold.
As far as serviced apartments goes - the only ones I've seen that are really nice are Punt Hill on Punt Road because they are 3 bedroom and have a pool and spa downstairs - but they are really expensive though.
Craig
In terms of IT salary - yes, I got lucky. I have less responsibility in terms of people management than my job in the UK but there is a higher expectation that I have real analysis skills - and so am being paid for them.
It is cold. Don't go by the temperature though - 15 degrees in Melbourne feels colder than 15 degrees in the UK. I have no idea why - I'm from Yorkshire and I'm used to it being cold. Maybe it's because it's so dry, I really have no idea. I'm not arguing about it - I'm just saying it feels really cold.
As far as serviced apartments goes - the only ones I've seen that are really nice are Punt Hill on Punt Road because they are 3 bedroom and have a pool and spa downstairs - but they are really expensive though.
Craig
Jul 13th 2004, 3:35 pm
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Originally posted by cutgrass
It is cold. Don't go by the temperature though - 15 degrees in Melbourne feels colder than 15 degrees in the UK. I have no idea why - I'm from Yorkshire and I'm used to it being cold. Maybe it's because it's so dry, I really have no idea. I'm not arguing about it - I'm just saying it feels really cold.
Craig
It is cold. Don't go by the temperature though - 15 degrees in Melbourne feels colder than 15 degrees in the UK. I have no idea why - I'm from Yorkshire and I'm used to it being cold. Maybe it's because it's so dry, I really have no idea. I'm not arguing about it - I'm just saying it feels really cold.
Craig
Jul 13th 2004, 4:49 pm
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I agree with the cold comments. I have to keep telling myself that its NOT cold. 15 degress is not cold for winter and all these people with scarfs on are wrong! However it really feels a lot colder than a UK 15 degrees. Maybe after spending a nice hot summer here it feels colder? I don't know! Have just bought a little heater anyway as the air conditioning unit just wasn't working!
Jul 13th 2004, 5:51 pm
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Humidity is most likely factor for whether or not you feel cold. If melbourne has lower humidity at 15C than London at 15C (whcih it might) then you will probably feel colder, or is it the other way around?
Good old fashioned central heating is called "hydronic" heating here...it's that rare it has a funny name.
Comfortable temperatures are around 20-22C, and that's where most offices will be heated )or cooled) to. If it drops to 5C overnight and only gets to 14C in the day your house will be cold and you will feel it. Aaah I remember the days coming in from cold dark UK winters into a lovely comfortable warm house, just turn the thermostat by the front door to 21C and leave at that between October and March, a lot cheaper than running a 1.5kW electric fan thing too...
Anyway, you can keep Melbourne, 22.8C was the max here in Brisvegas today. Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
Good old fashioned central heating is called "hydronic" heating here...it's that rare it has a funny name.
Comfortable temperatures are around 20-22C, and that's where most offices will be heated )or cooled) to. If it drops to 5C overnight and only gets to 14C in the day your house will be cold and you will feel it. Aaah I remember the days coming in from cold dark UK winters into a lovely comfortable warm house, just turn the thermostat by the front door to 21C and leave at that between October and March, a lot cheaper than running a 1.5kW electric fan thing too...
Anyway, you can keep Melbourne, 22.8C was the max here in Brisvegas today. Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
Jul 13th 2004, 6:12 pm
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Re: First 2 months in Melbourne
Originally posted by badgesagent
lol.
what a splendid idea!! would solve many social problems in places where many colleagues live together and have little privacy. eg Big Brother.
PS Houses are cold in Melbourne. Soon sorted with:
a) More jumpers
b) A Coonara
c) A fire.
d) A good attitude.
Seriously!
One of my stories:
I was brought up in the UK without central heating so don't suffer like many. When I was a kid in the UK, the only time we used the heat from a small fan heater was the 5 mins as u were getting dressed and that was for a paper round at 5.30am. I also found I never got the flus and colds like other kids as the heating makes you namby pamby. If a kid can do it so can an adult. Me and my brother used to laugh at all our guests suffering big time. We were all sitting around OK and they were jibbering.
I went camping in Snowdonia aged 13 in April I was the only kid in my class (along with my mate) who stripped down to my kacks and washed in the river at the camp site. All the other kids pretended to. My teachers were seriously impressed.
When I was 16 I recall doing the same in the SNOW!! I even shaved as well.
I also find that if its not TOO cold then just RELAX forget about it - then you find its not so cold after all. I'm deathly serious. Many the morning I tell myself it is cold and then I realise I just think it is. eg. Quite often jump out of bed, shivering, freezing - it IS relative to the nice warm pit you were in. But if you force yourself to NOT shiver, relax, put it all in perspective, you think "its not so bad after all". Just a bit of SELF DISCIPLINE. Seriously, a lot of it is in the mind. If that fails, make a cup of tea. Do 60 pressups. Jump in shower, towel off, put on clothes - sorted. It was only when MrsB arrived that I even turned on the fire.
BA
lol.
what a splendid idea!!
would solve many social problems in places where many colleagues live together and have little privacy. eg Big Brother.PS Houses are cold in Melbourne. Soon sorted with:
a) More jumpers
b) A Coonara
c) A fire.
d) A good attitude.
Seriously!
One of my stories:
I was brought up in the UK without central heating so don't suffer like many. When I was a kid in the UK, the only time we used the heat from a small fan heater was the 5 mins as u were getting dressed and that was for a paper round at 5.30am. I also found I never got the flus and colds like other kids as the heating makes you namby pamby. If a kid can do it so can an adult. Me and my brother used to laugh at all our guests suffering big time. We were all sitting around OK and they were jibbering.
I went camping in Snowdonia aged 13 in April I was the only kid in my class (along with my mate) who stripped down to my kacks and washed in the river at the camp site. All the other kids pretended to. My teachers were seriously impressed.
When I was 16 I recall doing the same in the SNOW!! I even shaved as well.
I also find that if its not TOO cold then just RELAX forget about it - then you find its not so cold after all. I'm deathly serious. Many the morning I tell myself it is cold and then I realise I just think it is. eg. Quite often jump out of bed, shivering, freezing - it IS relative to the nice warm pit you were in. But if you force yourself to NOT shiver, relax, put it all in perspective, you think "its not so bad after all". Just a bit of SELF DISCIPLINE. Seriously, a lot of it is in the mind. If that fails, make a cup of tea. Do 60 pressups. Jump in shower, towel off, put on clothes - sorted. It was only when MrsB arrived that I even turned on the fire.
BA
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Jul 13th 2004, 6:19 pm
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Anyway, you can keep Melbourne, 22.8C was the max here in Brisvegas today. Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe. [/QUOTE]
Been in Melbourne 8 months now and wouldn't exchange it for anywhere else. Mind, a bit of sunshine would be nice. Visited Brisbane in June and loved it, nice and warm. Not jealous at all. What more could you want.... great shops, beautiful architecture, 'flexible' weather, trams and friendly people!
Been in Melbourne 8 months now and wouldn't exchange it for anywhere else. Mind, a bit of sunshine would be nice. Visited Brisbane in June and loved it, nice and warm. Not jealous at all. What more could you want.... great shops, beautiful architecture, 'flexible' weather, trams and friendly people!
Jul 13th 2004, 6:37 pm
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Originally posted by jayr
Humidity is most likely factor for whether or not you feel cold. If melbourne has lower humidity at 15C than London at 15C (whcih it might) then you will probably feel colder, or is it the other way around?
Good old fashioned central heating is called "hydronic" heating here...it's that rare it has a funny name.
Comfortable temperatures are around 20-22C, and that's where most offices will be heated )or cooled) to. If it drops to 5C overnight and only gets to 14C in the day your house will be cold and you will feel it. Aaah I remember the days coming in from cold dark UK winters into a lovely comfortable warm house, just turn the thermostat by the front door to 21C and leave at that between October and March, a lot cheaper than running a 1.5kW electric fan thing too...
Anyway, you can keep Melbourne, 22.8C was the max here in Brisvegas today. Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
Humidity is most likely factor for whether or not you feel cold. If melbourne has lower humidity at 15C than London at 15C (whcih it might) then you will probably feel colder, or is it the other way around?
Good old fashioned central heating is called "hydronic" heating here...it's that rare it has a funny name.
Comfortable temperatures are around 20-22C, and that's where most offices will be heated )or cooled) to. If it drops to 5C overnight and only gets to 14C in the day your house will be cold and you will feel it. Aaah I remember the days coming in from cold dark UK winters into a lovely comfortable warm house, just turn the thermostat by the front door to 21C and leave at that between October and March, a lot cheaper than running a 1.5kW electric fan thing too...
Anyway, you can keep Melbourne, 22.8C was the max here in Brisvegas today. Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
Can't wait.
Jul 15th 2004, 4:09 am
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Originally posted by jayr
Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
Never did understand the attraction of Melbourne - move half way round the world to a city with European shops, European architecture, European weather, European transport system....may as well have stayed in Europe.
But if your description of Melbourne is in any sense true, then that is its attraction. It's an encapulsation of Europe where people speak something like English: the perfect compromise! Emigrating to Europe would be a great idea but in practice they won't let you do it without the language skills.
Jul 15th 2004, 11:20 am
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I dont find it cold at all.
The house at night is cold . The draughts are awful and this is a modern built rental home.
Apart from Hobart , Melbourne does have the coldest winters but I am find them pleasant. Give me a couple of years and I,ll be freezing just like everyone else.
booboo
The house at night is cold . The draughts are awful and this is a modern built rental home.
Apart from Hobart , Melbourne does have the coldest winters but I am find them pleasant. Give me a couple of years and I,ll be freezing just like everyone else.
booboo
