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So ... even those who are 'happy' in Perth find more bad than good and those that haven't even moved there are prepared to put up with ludicriously expensive shoddily constructed homes, piss-poor education, bugger-all nightlife and single-celled wankers doing 'donuts' outside their house every night.

Could someone explain this picture to me? :blink:

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Couldn't agree more. Your two cents is worth a million dollars.

Karl

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I've told you a million times stop exaggerating. :p

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You must be joking. This is the same WA where there has been an outcry about the fact that with the introduction of daylight saving it is no longer broad daylight at 5am so the locals can't do whatever it was they used to do at that ungodly hour. :p

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Time for him to find a new job then. If my boss rang me on holiday I would tell him where to go. Companies will only get away with this shit if their employees put up with it.

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Have to agree, most professionals/office workers are off at the weekend. Simple as. If you're 'important' enough to have a mobile your're 'important' enough to tell them to get stuffed is my view.

Unless you're getting profits or trying to grow a business thats different.

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Just what I was thinking. Most of my hubby's work mates hate daylight saving as they can't do their morning cycle/jog/swim before their 12 hour day shift :blink: as it is still dark. There is a gym there so they could always do what hubby does which is work out at work and go surfing/swimming/jogging etc after work when it is still light.

ACE

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Our house was not expensive or shoddy (other than the plumbing issues we've had!) ; havent heard anyone round our way complaining about the education; couldnt care less about nightlife so cant comment on that; get the odd moron down our road, although they seem to prefer knocking the portaloos over than making donuts lately.

I dont live in Perth but do live in WA and if I could be arsed I could write a whole list of things I love about living here with only a few bad things. Each to their own....

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You know Hutch, I reckon you'd be pleasantly surprised if you saw the best sides of Perth. And as you know I'm pretty ambivalent about the place as a whole, so you have to take me seriously. :D

The areas around the river, the beaches, Kings Park, Bold Park (native bushland), the sunset over the Indian Ocean, the hills and wineries, and Subiaco, Fremantle, Cottesloe etc for pretentious cafe culture if that's your thing. This is the Perth you tend to see when you visit, and it certainly has its appeal.

The reality of living here can be different. It is expensive, and many end up in the massive expanses of dull suburbs. Insular living, dangerous driving, appalling customer service, lack of decent conversation -- these can be some of the downsides. Most of the houses are double-brick construction, so quite solid, if still pretty shoddy. Cold and draughty in winter, but you get what you pay for and you can improve them.

I've seen quite a lot of Australia, and I think Perth isn't that different from other cities. It's just become very expensive, and therefore harder to buy yourself into the nicer bits, so for many people the Perth they visit isn't the same Perth in which they end up living.

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I think its a problem everywhere now in all capital cities, and in the UK. We sort of timed it right and got that nicer bit somehow which has shaped our settlement here.

There are plenty of people I know in the Uk in nicer bits and rejoicing and plenty of people missed the boat.

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I guess that's the thing, it's all in perspective.

We had a semi-detached two bed chalet bungalow in the UK (Kent) which was just big enough for two of us but if we'd started a family there we'd have had to move to a bigger house - and there wasnt anything in our price range so we'd have been mortgaged up to the hilt (or had to move to another part of England)! Even if we'd moved to WA at the peak of the housing boom and bought in a nice area of Perth the mortgage we would have needed would have been nowhere near the mortgage we'd have had to have in the UK (and for a much smaller house, would never have afforded a 4 bed place!).

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My last house in the uk was on a new development of period style homes , and sell like hot cakes.
Tell people where you live and they would say oh its loverly up there !
The whole house was drylined and the walls were easy to damage the plaster board was that thin.
Front door leaker at the bottom ( that happens when the builder fits the stay with the drain hole to the inside !) the door frame split after 3 months , i could go on !
Crap builders are all over the world , My home here is not draughty , is insulated , is double brick etc , and can't fault the guy who built it .:thumbup:

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sorry to go off topic a little,is it not possible to have insulation pumped into the cavity...

sorry

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If you mean walls we investigate this but havent found anyone that can do it after the house is built

you can of course have insulation added as you build

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theres an opportunity then...why cant they pump it in?
i was quite shocked when i watched a brickie at work,there was no care taken when forming the cavities,,a brickies dream but an owners nightmare....