Where to live in OZ??
May 21st 2009, 12:24 am
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
It may be raining but it well past wet season. I may have some idea due to living here.
May 21st 2009, 12:57 pm
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
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May 21st 2009, 2:54 pm
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
Not that it really matters but the wet season rain finished a few month back and then we actually had a dry spell - my lawn started to look a little dry and lunchtime football has been warm and dry for a while. This rain that has appeared is dry season rain, if that makes any sense, because it is cold winter type rain starting early in the day, unlike the warm stormy rain we get in late afternoons in summer. Has greened everything up nicely and hope it now goes away and our normal beautiful warm (21c) and dry (27 dry days/month) winter appears.
Ee's got a lawn - a LAWN I tells ye!
What's a lawn?
May 22nd 2009, 1:15 pm
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
No, not many lawns left here. A guy down the road has even Astro-turfed his nature strip!
May 30th 2009, 11:31 pm
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
"Where to live in Aus" is like asking where one should live in Europe. You have to remember that Aus is a continent as well as a country so there is every imaginable climate, and more!
The people are essentailly the same the country over though so there isnt really much you need to know from that side of things
The people are essentailly the same the country over though so there isnt really much you need to know from that side of things
May 31st 2009, 1:42 am
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
Take it you have lived in all these places then!!!!
Jun 1st 2009, 6:08 am
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
I am a bit biased but I would suggest that Canberra is the best place to live in Australia.
Ideal size, lowest unemployment in Australia, easy acceess to Sydney without the hassle of living in that over-crowded rat race, access to the coast and to the alps.
Its one of Australia's best kept secrets. Most Aussies dont want to live here because it goes down to below freezing point in Winter and is not on the coast.
Ideal size, lowest unemployment in Australia, easy acceess to Sydney without the hassle of living in that over-crowded rat race, access to the coast and to the alps.
Its one of Australia's best kept secrets. Most Aussies dont want to live here because it goes down to below freezing point in Winter and is not on the coast.
Jun 1st 2009, 6:17 am
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
They are of course generalisations and I have only limited experience of most of them but agtree with Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne somewhat. If the OP has never been to Oz it is a really really difficult decision and even taking a trip over here and trying to visit as much as possible to see what is available can only do so much. I would do extensive job search online. Then see what salaries/housing is available, then schools, then preffered lifestyle. The just bloody go for it, get over here and rent for a while, no need to buy until you have had a really good look and are truly happy with your choice of location. If not, then get hubby to work away for a few weeks in the other optional destinations and fly to them at weekends, can be fairly cheap at the moment, so all family can look at the areas.
Jun 1st 2009, 8:23 am
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Re: Where to live in OZ??
Thats obviously your opinion of those places ,l wonder if you have even been to most of them, theres plenty of people who actually live in those cities that find it nothing like you described, theres also hundreds of smaller cites in OZ, Newcastle, wollongong, Cairns, TOwnsville, Surfers paradise, Ipswich, Tamworth , Dubbo ,Broken Hill, Darwin, Wagga Wagga, Bendigo, Ballarat, Warrnambool, LAunceston, Orange, Bathurst, Albany, Bunbury, Horsham ,Hamilton, Moe, Mt Gambier ,Naracoorte and hundreds of others.
Some of those places are in the middle of no mans land!! Broken Hill = dust and errr dust!! Nice place to live if you like errr dust!! actually hot and more dust!!
