And places like Belmont in the 60's, Forrestfield in the 70's and 80's.

A lot of poms used to come out on the 10 pound passage and stay at hostels until they're accommodation was sorted. These hostels were villages of small nissan huts - sometimes people would stay in them for months on end. The families would all become close and would all move into a cheap state housing type area together. These days they all get on the BE and ask each other the best suburb to move to and all end up together.

I really don't think that many people worry about the ethnic makeup of the
people in whatever suburb.
Location to work, good schools etc. are far more important.
At the end of the day, as long as my neighbours aren't burning my fence down or pissing on my front door, I really don't care what nationality they are

Absolutely, totally agree.

Actually, if they were doing either of those I'm not sure that their nationality would be the first thing on my mind...

If anyone's really interested in this, you can look up any suburb at http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx - the demographic information (including the percentage of Brits) is lower down the page.

Cheers
b

he didn't say that 50% are Brits, he said only 50% are Australian. Check out the ABS statistics of the Census 2006 http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABS...rumb=L&topic=&, you will find that on average the percentage of Australians is around the 50% mark in those suburbs, Brits make up another 20-30% and the rest is from the rest of the world.

Geordie some people r racist im from northern ireland and my son was at tafe he decided to wear his celtic top the next day this other guy also from n,Ireland came in with his rangers top on and started giving my son nasty looks . people like this r so uneducated and should leave the conflict in northern ireland so yes we still do have bitter/racist people

Yep, bad enough when it comes from the locals (whoever they may be)
even worse when it's exported from the other side of the world!!

Funnily, the only footie top I own these days is a Rangers away one, not
because I have any affiliation with Rangers, but because that's what my
5-a-side team played in back in the UK.
Only wear it when I'm at the gym or out jogging, will have to see if attracts any abuse

No i think u have to be from northern ireland to draw attention lol .The thing about it is my son never grew up in the troubles so he does`nt know any difference Thats the way we brought him up but obviously the parents of the other guy still wanna live in the past .If i see u wearing ur rangers top ill give u a nasty stare lmao (every bloke i c with a rangers top lmao)

It seems to be an obsession particular to some British people to only regard people as "natives" if they were born in the country.

In the UK, that means only those who are born there (and are of course white) are British. And I see that you apply the same principle here in Australia.

By your reckoning an aquaintance of mine who came to Perth in her early 20s and has now lived here for over 40 years would still be British and you wouldn't want to live next to her.

Thankfully, few Australians subscribe to your philosophy. Since we arrived here last November, no-one has asked me where I'm from. Perthites - at least the ones I know - are just not bothered about that. They are more interested in whether you fit in.

Gina

Ive been asked loads of times were im from am i a pom? (which i did`nt knw what it meanu until a few months ago) What i had a frien who was asked were she was from when she said northern ireland the asked her was she from the good side of the bad side she replied what part do u wnat me to be from lol.So there are people out there who do ask were u r from .

Do any of you bother reading what I've said before spouting out a load of sh*te.

To clarify for you here's my position....

1) Moved from UK for some adventure, to experience a different way of life.
2) Did not leave because I thought UK was rubbish - I love it there.
3) Always was going to be short term - no longer than 18 months (its going to be 14 months).
4) Also came here just because I could. I don't like saying that because some people are really desperate to come here but don't have the chance. And here's me just doing it for a laugh!
5) I am treating this more like travelling, just in a posher way. Do some work, get paid, spend it going somewhere in WA. Been here a year and now only have a couple of places to go before I've literally gone everywhere in WA.

Now in the little time I am living in Australia I want to maximize the exposure I have to people who know the country the best so will have opinions that are truly Australian. To achieve this I think living somewhere where the most Australian born people are is the best way to do this.

To some people who have posted comments indicating this this is racist you are just idiots. Australian born doesn't just mean white people!

And yes I'm well aware Brits could have been here 40 odd years or whatever - but my experience of talking to them is that they still have very British thoughts etc.

Is it a problem that I just want to learn about Australia from an Australian point of view?

bristol r u having a stressful lmao.As for racist yes there is some im not saying all r but some r and they are`nt british either . By the way im not an idiot . I would advise u to go back and read my post ok

Its not my philosophy either. If I was settling here on a permanent basis I couldn't give a sh*t where people are from or who I lived next door to.

Nor do i bristol

Sorry some comments have stressed me out yes. Its just that some people skim read posts and get the complete wrong idea and form bad opinions of people.

I just don't want people getting a bad opinion of me