British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Dec 27th 2007, 5:03 am
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British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
2007 figures reveal incoming Brits still out number other countries (about a third of all migrants to WA), the total figure dropped considerably from 2006.
Could this be a result of the housing boom in Perth?
Could this be a result of the housing boom in Perth?
Dec 27th 2007, 5:29 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
1) People can't sell their house in the UK or get enough equity to make it worthwhile
2) DIAC have closed down one or two of the migration routes
3) As you say, cost of living here has rocketed so not as attractive financially
Dec 27th 2007, 5:47 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Dec 27th 2007, 9:12 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
I must admit, if we were looking again, we'd probably consider Adelaide and some places over east - purely for what extra house you can get for your money.
Dec 27th 2007, 8:01 pm
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Basically, it is hard to find decent accomodation in Perth at a reasonable price to rent. It is also a nightmare ,due to rising house prices, to buy. Also, it is a bloody boring place really, especially the Northern suberbs where there is virtually nothing to do unless you go to the beach (which gets boring after a while), or have a barbie (which also gets boring after a while). It's just acre after acre of suburbia, pleasant but no signs of culture. How many times can you walk the dog around the nearest man made lake ? How neat and tidy do you want your garden to be ? How many times do you have to convince yourself that driving up and down the Mitchell freeway is better than the M25 ?
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
Dec 27th 2007, 8:15 pm
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Basically, it is hard to find decent accomodation in Perth at a reasonable price to rent. It is also a nightmare ,due to rising house prices, to buy. Also, it is a bloody boring place really, especially the Northern suberbs where there is virtually nothing to do unless you go to the beach (which gets boring after a while), or have a barbie (which also gets boring after a while). It's just acre after acre of suburbia, pleasant but no signs of culture. How many times can you walk the dog around the nearest man made lake ? How neat and tidy do you want your garden to be ? How many times do you have to convince yourself that driving up and down the Mitchell freeway is better than the M25 ?
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
Oh by the way Ktyler1961 brace yourself for a bombardment from the 'earth is flat' brigade.
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Dec 27th 2007, 9:24 pm
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
well done ....i think that just about sums the place up.....but i'm afraid the sheep will still follow....
all the best plumb.....
ps i'm in big trouble now.....i know its my own fault.....bending over as we speak.....
all the best plumb.....
ps i'm in big trouble now.....i know its my own fault.....bending over as we speak.....
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Dec 27th 2007, 11:42 pm
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Basically, it is hard to find decent accomodation in Perth at a reasonable price to rent. It is also a nightmare ,due to rising house prices, to buy. Also, it is a bloody boring place really, especially the Northern suberbs where there is virtually nothing to do unless you go to the beach (which gets boring after a while), or have a barbie (which also gets boring after a while). It's just acre after acre of suburbia, pleasant but no signs of culture. How many times can you walk the dog around the nearest man made lake ? How neat and tidy do you want your garden to be ? How many times do you have to convince yourself that driving up and down the Mitchell freeway is better than the M25 ?
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
Dec 27th 2007, 11:44 pm
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
If we were to come again, we would choose East side.
You live and learn.
Dec 28th 2007, 12:04 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Basically, it is hard to find decent accomodation in Perth at a reasonable price to rent. It is also a nightmare ,due to rising house prices, to buy. Also, it is a bloody boring place really, especially the Northern suberbs where there is virtually nothing to do unless you go to the beach (which gets boring after a while), or have a barbie (which also gets boring after a while). It's just acre after acre of suburbia, pleasant but no signs of culture. How many times can you walk the dog around the nearest man made lake ? How neat and tidy do you want your garden to be ? How many times do you have to convince yourself that driving up and down the Mitchell freeway is better than the M25 ?
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
Dec 28th 2007, 12:19 am
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Dec 28th 2007, 1:07 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
Basically, it is hard to find decent accomodation in Perth at a reasonable price to rent. It is also a nightmare ,due to rising house prices, to buy. Also, it is a bloody boring place really, especially the Northern suberbs where there is virtually nothing to do unless you go to the beach (which gets boring after a while), or have a barbie (which also gets boring after a while). It's just acre after acre of suburbia, pleasant but no signs of culture. How many times can you walk the dog around the nearest man made lake ? How neat and tidy do you want your garden to be ? How many times do you have to convince yourself that driving up and down the Mitchell freeway is better than the M25 ?
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
You could go to Northbridge in the city for a drink or a meal, but it is full of people who have nowhere else to go, wierdos, young punks, fat doormen, beligerent aussie women, mineworkers on their week off drinking as much as they can before they go back, drunken brits who believe they are in paradise, naive backpacking kids, nutters carrying knives, tossers asking for cigs, and shoeless beggars to name just a small variety of human beings there.
When you finally decide that you need to get away from Perth you realise there are not many places you can go unless you travel very long distances. Once you've done that (and it is nice), where else do you go ?
The place is highly overated. The train system is good, yes. Having a beer down at the swan river is good, yes. Shopping for awful clothes at Target is amusing for the first couple of visits, walking around in your flip flops (thongs) is great at the weekend or after work, but involuntarily alienating your brain from any intelligent stimulus, be it architecture, world news, etc, eventually turns you into a veg. You can forget that you are no longer connected to the whole world. You just dumb down and blend in to the fashionless, uncreative environment you have deluded yourself to believe is heaven on earth.
Go to Darwin.
Dec 28th 2007, 2:28 am
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Re: British Migrants to Perth - Down 34%
oh no.....its not going to turn into where i left then...
thats it im moving to the gold coast
thats it im moving to the gold coast
