is it worth it
Sep 24th 2009 | 9:10 pm
#212
Home and Happy
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From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Sep 24th 2009 | 10:23 pm
#213
poole ,dorset . love it
Joined: Mar 2007
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Re: is it worth it
You never know mate.... two years ago we would have been stood shoulder to shoulder arguing against all these nutters who can't get the fact that Australia is a bland, boring, dull as ditchwater existence.... but now, while I'm not quite on the other side of the fence I am at least sat on it. I have obviously changed in some way, because Australia surely hasn't, so you can never really be sure.
I said this to you some time ago and it's still true... get the Hell off this board. Arguing about the relative merits of the UK vs Australia won't help you resolve how you feel and will probably only make it worse. Try and walk away from BE. I did for 12 months and came back a different poster (well in some respects anyway)
I said this to you some time ago and it's still true... get the Hell off this board. Arguing about the relative merits of the UK vs Australia won't help you resolve how you feel and will probably only make it worse. Try and walk away from BE. I did for 12 months and came back a different poster (well in some respects anyway)
ps i am with u on the BE bit , i spent a while away and to be honest it de-clouds your judgement .you have settled and i have decided to go and live alife totally differnt to one i have lived before due to the fact im gloriously single and can go where i want and live a life truly saying ''never say never ''.
Sep 24th 2009 | 10:43 pm
#214
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 61
Re: is it worth it
If you don't move you'll be stuck in Blighty for ever. Moving on is such a sweet thing.
Sep 25th 2009 | 1:01 am
#216
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Re: is it worth it
Very few people stay exactly the same all the time, unless they try really hard. That reminds me of the other thread and my 13 year old !
Sep 25th 2009 | 1:04 am
#217
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Re: is it worth it
Not determined not to like it. But am determined not to spend years wasting time waiting to suddenly wake up and think ''oh! now I get Australia! I love it now''.
Funny how some people just can't accept that some don't like it. I wonder if it raises a few insecurities for them.
Funny how some people just can't accept that some don't like it. I wonder if it raises a few insecurities for them.
Funny how some people just can't accept that a person might change. I wonder if it raises a few insecurities for them
Sep 27th 2009 | 1:29 pm
#218
kopites are gobshites
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 628
From: sitting on the right hand of good
Re: is it worth it
sometimes the question is more important than the answer.
Sep 27th 2009 | 1:45 pm
#219
Home and Happy
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Re: is it worth it
Exactly. I know I'm a different person from who I was when I arrived here. I haven't consciously changed, I've just found myself adapting to living here. I still don't love living here, but I've changed from someone who hated the place into someone who will now try to make the best of it.The alternative was to stay here being miserable - which does no-one any good.
Sep 27th 2009 | 2:08 pm
#221
kopites are gobshites
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Posts: 628
From: sitting on the right hand of good
Re: is it worth it
you can tune a piano but you cant tune a fish.
Sep 27th 2009 | 2:17 pm
#222
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: is it worth it
You can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.
Sep 28th 2009 | 3:10 am
#224
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 49
From: Thailand
Re: is it worth it
It's worth a try
I spent the best 4 years of my life (so far) around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. I loved it.
Problem is my wife and two step sons are Asian and Australia is not so much fun for people that do not have milky white skin
At the end of our 4 year visa, I was out voted and we had to leave.
I spent the best 4 years of my life (so far) around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. I loved it.
Problem is my wife and two step sons are Asian and Australia is not so much fun for people that do not have milky white skin
At the end of our 4 year visa, I was out voted and we had to leave.
Sep 29th 2009 | 11:58 am
#225
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 6,600
Re: is it worth it
No its rubbish here . . . anyone who says otherwise must have enormously low expectations . . .
Last edited by spartacus; Sep 29th 2009 at 12:03 pm.
