Alfresco

Not too bad thanks. Have a sore leg but it is getting better. Just working and doing heaps of photoshoots.

old.sparkles

Cool - the photo's not the leg

sa2uk2oz

We are 7 1/2 years in- and still loving our life here on the Gold coast!

BadgeIsBack

Hi Jad

Been quite cool this summer in Melbourne. Maybe 2 scorchers and I was also overseas for them. Anything less than 34 is not hot for me
when you take into account the low humidity.

Melbourne Uni- there are some rat runs which see me get from Port Melbourne to the uni in rush hour with barely an issue.

Don't consider Melbourne to be anything like as busy, or as crowded as an European capital. I have very strict rules of when I drive - I simply refuse to take a car in. That said, yes Australian has large capital cities.

That said I broke my rule only last week and I know it is the first time because I've never used my car in a traffic jam - had my eye glued to the temp gauge as a result!

Japonica

Yeah but there was one day a couple of weeks ago around 35C with 80% humidity and thought I was going to die.

Hi Jad. Totally agree about the rental process here. Shocking! We saw some advertised as "available now" and when we went for inspection the workmen were patching up the holes in the walls (and still had about 2 weeks' work ahead of them) and no one had bothered to fix the wires hanging out of the ceiling where the light fixture used to be.

Kapri

Hi all
Just popping in to say hello!

It was 38 degrees here yesterday but has cooled right down to 26 today

Our renting days are nearly over as we are building a house!

old.sparkles

That's exciting

BadgeIsBack

There are a few humid days in Melbourne every year. You can count the humid nights on the fingers of one hand (or 2 if that!). I don't mind them as we have a pool. On the worst nights, and it has been a few years you can jump in the pool then dry off and go back to bed!

In 2010 we had a long stretch of them - some sort of Pacific weather system ending up down here....

Dorothy

I've been busy lately so haven't posted as much as I used to. New job (same place just different responsibilities), living on my own now and looking for a place of my own to buy.

jothefw

I'd thought the same ...

jad n rich

Went through Coburg many times, busy place. Rented in new complex in Keilor in the end, central to what we need for now. Aside from attempted break in next door all is fine.

ozzieeagle

If the freeway is blocked and you have to get across rather than into town.... "Mascoma St" .... Then over to Gaffney St... Thats a real quirky rat run... Capable of taking 40 mins of a journey.


You end up going past/near this place which has a special place in Australian Movie History.

See who can work it out....

jad n rich

Thanks for any road tips. We have basically parked the car and left it in garage Bikes, legs, buses, train, anything but car. Went into city today, train, crowded but interesting.

Keilor is just somewhere to rent, main reason, reasonable distance to where kids need to be and it was a brand new unit, after the horror rental viewings new became very important.

Gordon Barlow

I don't post very often, because my experience as an expat has been different from the experiences of just about everybody on this site. I was born and bred in Oz, left for an around-the-world trip at age 23, and never went back to settle. On my way home via Canada my national loyalty went missing, and I became a "permanent expat" sometime in my late 20s - 50 years ago.

11 or 12 years ago, we became citizens of a notional entity called "the British Overseas Territories" and on the strength of that we became naturalised UK citizens. When I let my Aussie passport lapse I became (to all intents and purposes) a British expat instead of an Australian expat. I've never actually renounced my Australian nationality (what would be the point?), and my wife still renews her Oz passport. So does our son renew his, though a Permanent Resident in Norway, with Norwegian children.

We have lived in the Cayman Islands (British colony) since 1978. That makes us "immigrants", but the local politicians here, encouraged by the British Foreign Office, don't accept us as full citizens - so we remain expats in their eyes.

I keep in close contact with a cousin in Melbourne whom I've never met, and an old friend in North Queensland whom I used to work with, and some former schoolfriends and relatives in various places. But most of my current friends are British - expats or former expats. I feel much more English than Australian. That's why I'm here, I guess.

moneypenny20

Change the heading to 'Forums are a bit quiet' and you're on the money. Every forum I go on has become way quieter than previously, regardless of subject.