Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531445)

Maybe find a way to watch a few hours of Australian commercial TV online from there, then see if you still want to come. because it will give you a very good idea of what is considered culture and entertainment here and I'm pretty sure you will be astounded. It's like being stuck in a badly written and poorly acted high school play, and that's just the news.

Oh and if you do come for a holiday, don't stay in a 4 star hotel in sydney and do all the tourist things, go book a motel in dubbo or cowra or grafton or gympie or winton or geraldton or somewhere like that. That will give you an idea of what life will be like here once you've seen the opera house and the beach at surfers paradise, (well maybe a week at surfers would be an idea too, it's a shit hole).

And the person above hit the nail on the head with the "It's the best (fill in blank) in the world" comments all the time, Australians who have never been to another country will continualy boast that everything here is the best in the world, constantly, after the first 30 mins it starts to grate on you, after 25 years one almost becomes suicidal every time one hears it.

And if you don't like sport and halfwit commentators who scream at an excited fever pitch at everything including lawn bowls (I'm not kidding)..... OK I'll stop, but if you are an educated couple with any kind of appreciation for intelligence at all you probably won't like it here.

Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 10531543)

This comment is not representative of Australia as a whole. It is of a type often posted by people who have chosen to live in "holiday" locations.

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Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531507)

wow, what will one do with the other 360 days and nights of the year.

The burned a witch in new Guinea yesterday - I guess that's a form of their culture.

Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 10531543)

This comment is not representative of Australia as a whole. It is of a type often posted by people who have chosen to live in "holiday" locations.

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Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531636)

LOL - I live in rural NSW after living in canberra - the south coast, sydney, melbourne, northen nsw, from some of the best locations to some of the worse, I've travelled all over the eastern coast and inland for almost 30 years, what I said applies to the whole place mate, nowhere escapes.

Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 10531637)

Your experience is not mine.

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Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee (Post 10531543)

This comment is not representative of Australia as a whole. It is of a type often posted by people who have chosen to live in "holiday" locations.

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Originally Posted by Margaret3 (Post 10531559)

:lol::lol::lol::lol: OMG this comment has made me laugh so hard. Since coming to Australia my husband has taken up lawn bowls and is OBSESSED with it. Its driving me round the fleckin twist:frown: The only positive is there is quite a bit of money in lawn bowls here. However i wonder when they will be drug tested and investigated for game fixing.........

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531636)

LOL - I live in rural NSW after living in canberra - the south coast, sydney, melbourne, northen nsw, from some of the best locations to some of the worse, I've travelled all over the eastern coast and inland for almost 30 years, what I said applies to the whole place mate, nowhere escapes.

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531485)

Where and what ?

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 10531742)

Has it occured to you that you were the common factor in all these experiences? :p (Just kidding!)

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531445)

Maybe find a way to watch a few hours of Australian commercial TV online from there, then see if you still want to come. because it will give you a very good idea of what is considered culture and entertainment here and I'm pretty sure you will be astounded. It's like being stuck in a badly written and poorly acted high school play, and that's just the news.

Oh and if you do come for a holiday, don't stay in a 4 star hotel in sydney and do all the tourist things, go book a motel in dubbo or cowra or grafton or gympie or winton or geraldton or somewhere like that. That will give you an idea of what life will be like here once you've seen the opera house and the beach at surfers paradise, (well maybe a week at surfers would be an idea too, it's a shit hole).

And the person above hit the nail on the head with the "It's the best (fill in blank) in the world" comments all the time, Australians who have never been to another country will continualy boast that everything here is the best in the world, constantly, after the first 30 mins it starts to grate on you, after 25 years one almost becomes suicidal every time one hears it.

And if you don't like sport and halfwit commentators who scream at an excited fever pitch at everything including lawn bowls (I'm not kidding)..... OK I'll stop, but if you are an educated couple with any kind of appreciation for intelligence at all you probably won't like it here.

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531775)

LOL - yeh I have thought about that too, but it never happened in any other country and from what i've read in the pages of this forum many many ex pats agree with me. :)

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10531775)

LOL - yeh I have thought about that too, but it never happened in any other country and from what i've read in the pages of this forum many many ex pats agree with me. :)

Originally Posted by Still Game (Post 10532222)

May I ask pomikev if you hate everything about oz why you're still there? (Sorry if you're not and back in UK and just dipping into the forum, it doesn't state on your profile where you are). If you're so unhappy in Oz wouldn't it be the best thing to leave and go to where you're happy to be?