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Everything you need to know about Dullsville sorry l mean Perth.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Perth

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Still more entertaining than Melbourne though. Unless you like AFL that city is the most boring 4 million plus city in the world.

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the only thing more boring than Perth are the people who constantly feel the need to berate it. FFS grow up.

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Agreed :thumbup:

Oh its boring, there is no culture, no rolling green fields, poor choice in supermarkets, I hate people walking around in bare feet, there is nowhere to drive, I hate the ocean etc etc... I have never ever been so bored as I have since I have mored here, aren't you bored Northernbird?

I mean I get to go camping, go down South for a weekend of country walking - the fields are not really green and nor do they roll, it must be my imagination. I get bored shitless by being 4.5km from the ocean and taking my dog there for his run, and as for those shitty beach cafes where we have our brekkie, my god give me the local cafe in Holborn any day.

As for bike riding, there is nothing worse than cycling round the lakes or on the coastal path and taking in scenery - the scenery is shit. It doesnt make up for the lack of English pubs and Next, Tescos, Marks & Spencers and the choice of ready meals you can pop in a microwave.

Boring or what!:rolleyes:

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I can't wait to be bored there!

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:thumbup::lol:

To be honest different places suit different people but that doesnt make them boring.

When do you get to Perth?:)

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We leave Singapore on 13th December, go back to the UK for Xmas, arrive Perth 30th December, move into our house 5th Jan (which is also my son's 4th birthday).

We first visited Perth about 11 years ago, said "We'd like to live here one day." Many years later it's about to happen.

Now I just need to get through the next few months of chaos and upheaval..........

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Excellent, you are going to have a very busy end to this year and a nice new beginning to 2011:thumbsup:

We have a year and a half till we go for our citizenship :fingerscrossed:

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I used to get lovely smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels in a cafe just off Red Lion Sq in Holborn. Worked there for 8 years! God I miss them ;)

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Just because your life is boring dont assume everyone else's is. I have been in perth 2 years and never been bored :thumbup:

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I used to go out to Sainsburys in Holborn to buy my lunch or sometimes to the pub but I dont miss it at all.

I prefer the yummy pancakes in Gino's cafe in Freo:wub:

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I love boring.

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Unfortunately I'm fed up with it. Perth really is a backwater. I've sold my restaurant and will sell my house and shut down my Oil Consulting business and head back to Scotland early 2011.
I came here in 1998 and thought the place was great, but over the years I really think it has become stale. The lack of public transport and taxi's mean nightlife and going into the city is restricted. Police over authority in driving and normal day to day activities is astounding. Acceptable driving standards frightens me. I won't go on to a rant so will stop here. Good luck to anyone who moves here.

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Personally if I had the money I would move somewhere way out in the sticks in WA.:o

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Loved this quote....sooo true!

If a Perth driver is leaving Fremantle via Leach Highway and is going to turn right somewhere in, say, Riverton, 25km away, they will (a) move _immediately_ into the right hand lane; (b) drive at 40km/hr so that they don't miss the turn; and (c) indicate at least 5km before they reach their intersection. Also, a typical Perth driver will _always_ stop before turning a corner, regardless of whether they are turning left or right, and whether there is any reason to do so.

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I agree that Oz driving standars are overall.... not that good, however compared to driving in the UK, it is still a lot easier in Oz. Simply because there is less traffic and less small carparks. The Australian idea of "heavy traffic" really isn't heavy. Especially if you are comparing to the north of Scotland - have dual carriageways actually been invented north of Glasgow-Edinburgh?

The price of cars in Oz is quite annoying though.

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If you read the link you will see its a joke. No need to take it seriously. The web site makes fun of all the OZ cities.

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" The Australian idea of "heavy traffic" really isn't heavy"

that's what i used to think while sitting on the mitchell freeway every morning :eek:

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Yes and no. The VW Jetta I have just bought cost virtually the same as it does in the UK - and the Aussie model has a better spec.

2nd hand cars cost more but then you can sell them for more - swings and roundabouts.

Older cars are much more expensive here.

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Sorry to hear that LL. Best of luck when you get back to UK.

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might be a typo here, or maybe I just don't get what you're saying... Would appreciate it if you could rephrase. Do you mean policing is poor? or over the top?

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I'm with you on this. This time next week we'll be on our first full day of being bored :thumbsup:

Everyone is welcome to their own opinion but just because one person doesn't like something doesn't mean it's wrong for someone else. We've spent the last few weeks staying with relatives around the UK & I certainly couldn't live where mother-in-law does but she's happy & it suits her so who am I to judge.

Alison x

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Bit of both. Tasers shouldn't be compliance tools. They can man up mob handed at any event that will be seen on the media, but you try and get them interested in a house burglary or minor assault.
My wife's friend is an officer in a NOR police station, they won't respond to a call unless it has reached the lights and sirens on stage regardless of whether they have other calls, they did attend one incident where she was instructed by a senior officer to taser a young male and to claim she felt threatened. The police outnumbered the suspects 2 to 1 with the other 3 officers being male.
My opinion...the police here don't deserve any respect or have any credibility.

Apologies for hijacking this thread.

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This may or may not be true, however OTT policing can be a worldwide phenomenon and police failing to adequately follow "minor" crimes like break-and-enter can also be a worldwide phenomenon.

Recently a college student heckler has been tasered in a US college, a man walking his dog during a street protest has been hit over the head by police and died in the UK and a mentally unstable guy armed only with a knife has been shot dead while surrounded by police in Sydney, with the police well out of striking range of the knife. Meanwhile you can still find plenty of car theft, house theft and general petty crime even in the UK.

If you leave Perth because of what you feel is inadequate or OTT policing, you may find yourself complaining just as much at your next destination.

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I'm not. I'm leaving for a variety of reasons, this just happens to be one of them.

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My Jetta will be going on the open market next week - for considerably more than it would be worth second hand in the UK. I've lost far less equity - thats not annoying!

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Wow, the guy was armed ONLY with a knife, maybe they should have just asked him nicely to put it down??????? What would you have done? no doubt you have found yourself in that situation many times previously and could give valuable advice :rolleyes:

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Best of luck , I hope your move is all you imagine it will be .
Perth - Scotland after all that time will be one big culture shock/adjustment .:)

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I used to think that too, until I arrived that it is. The M3 in Brisbane is heavy all the time, not M25 ringroad standstill but not much different to the M6 only the UK motorsways are better maintained(quote from Aussie trucker mag as well as personal observation)

Sorry of topic, Ah yes Perth, well the new trains look nice.

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Good stuff. I sold my Golf earlier on this year for about 25% more than the UK market price - and they cost roughly the same new.

LIke I said, swings and roundabouts.

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So you are saying they shouldn't ask him put the knife down just shoot him? They could try putting hose down his neck and turning it on, that might do the trick.

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I imagine it occured to the highly trained police officers to ask him to put it down...

Back on the topic, I think I have seen an identical thread to this pop up again and again every few months, give it a rest already ! :rofl:

Its a bit like all the same sending boxes, arriving soon, electrical goods, tv question, pensions, which state, blah blah blah posts that seem to constantly appear when people dont use the search tool first

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I wouldn't say Perth is boring but you're not expected to have too much of an exciting life if you live here. It's nice and comfortable. Exciting and opportunistic it is not.

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Exciting is subjective.

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No that's absolute crap. Of course in the Uk you will have more excitement there is more people in a smaller mass with a lot more do. It's not subjective it's reality.

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what exciting is not subjective :confused: of course it is, what you find exciting I may not and so on.

Also, depends on where in the UK you live, a lot of places are fairly quiet, maybe dull to some. In other areas, having your car burnt out at 3 in the morning is the kind of excitement you will encounter.

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Nice Trolling .

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:rofl: whoever wrote this is hilarious.

I have never been to Perth.

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Absolutely, my thoughts exactly.

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I thought this would happen, it's gone from Perth being boring to parts of the UK being like Iraq. Brisbane is boring too but it has everything I need to live high standard life, it is Aus being so boring that keeps this site going:-)