moneypenny20

No I don't.

Geelong Gent

I know you have was thinking that as I quoted you

Cheetah7

No I doot find it boring. When I lived in the UK I didnt find Covent Garden, Oxford Street etc boring as such but I was tired of it and it did not float my boat.

Perth suits me, I do not need to fill each weekend with an activity. I am not motivated nor excited by designer clothes shops. Although I like an old English pub, I have never had a local pub and dont care much for pub culture.

I grew up in historical city that has a Roman town built under it - Verulamium and was positively smothered in history so do not crave the history fix, I can get that from research. Where i am now I have personal effects older than the suburb I live in but I have no hang ups about that.


I have 'done' the museums and the only thing 'rolling' green hills do is make me crave for the opposite.

Robins and starlings are wonderful, but wagtails and parrots excite me more. Where I lived in the UK, I couldnt cycle because in my area there wasnt anywhere decent to go.

Here I can cycle to the beach, to the lakes and regional parks and I can do so without fear. Where I lived before we had trouble with the travellers - I couldnt have left my dog in the garden as they would have stolen her like they did with others down my street.

I never at any point fancied going camping in the UK, but here I have started to go and I enjoy it and I am spoiled with the choices of bush camping, by the ocean or driving a few hours either way and finding myself in what seems a million miles away from anywhere. I love being woken up in my tent by the sound of the kookaburras or the red tailed black cockatoos we saw in Dwellingup the other week which I might add is such a short drive away from where I live, but is remote enough to really get away from it all.

Bored? no, I enjoy my life here but it depends on what some people like. Some people like shopping, pub culture, museums and those green fields.

That is up to them, I am happy and that is up to me, if I wasnt then I have the capacity to do something about it and change it.

What one person likes, I have no desire for - we are all different and we all have choices and we all have the ability to open our eyes to what is around us and appreciate it - or not.

HelenTD

That's really important, to have the means to escape if you wanted to. You might never need the escape hatch, but I think you need to have one.

mr mover

Well you have had 20 replys with ,not one in your favour..that says some thing about the crap you post, do your self a favour ....you know the rest..mm

UncleKev

100 Things To Do In Australia Before You Die

The 100 Things To Do In Australia Before You Die. It’s a big country out there. But with so many ways to experience it all – and only one lifetime – where on Earth do you start? That’s where we come in . . .

http://www.australiantraveller.com/h...nces/2804-1405

So I guess the original poster has done all these things then and still feeling jaded ???

Anyone who finds Australia boring and dull is probably just a boring dull person leading a boring dull life.

If you want bright lights, clubs, throbbing cosmopolitan night life, world class restaurants, do what I do and visit Paris, New York, London on a regular basis.

If you want to have adventure, activity and excitement come to Australia.

Neil52

Hey I voted yes maybe this thread should be put in the "back to the UK forum" then you would get the opposite.

Neil52

Hey I have only listed Perth because I have never really worked or lived anywhere else in Oz...Melbourne next though
And I am not boring I am buzzin and want to enjoy my self while I still can...for me Perth was boring but as someone has said "what suits one will not suit the next person"

Centurion

ah yes, but then it probably wouldn't have the desired effect it was intended for with that audience, would it

Vash the Stampede

Yes I do and so does everyone I know. Is that what you wanted to hear?

How about "Don't dream it, do it!"?

The Crow

Where we live and what we've done over the past four years, has been fan-bloody-tastic - couldn't be further from boring

West Vic

I find most Australians I meet are boring. And i'm far from a boring person myself, I must say. Getting a bit of "craic" out of them is like pulling teeth.

Even today at K Mart when I returned something I had a great chat with the lady behind the counter. We were having great banter, talking about how quickly life goes by as you get older, and how it's all down hill after 21. Just silly, pass the time stuff. But the thing is that's not the norm here, whereas at home that's completely normal. I do find them very reserved and not really up for, or capable of, a debate. Find it so hard to get them passionate about something.

But sure we can't all be blessed with the gift of the gab I suppose!

UncleKev

What part of the UK are you comparing Australia to? I lived in Norwich, Reading, Leeds, Bradford, Edinburgh, St Ives, Barking, Lewisham. They are all different. I found that people in Edinburgh were much more friendly than people in Norwich. In Barking a lot of the people were very unfriendly. My wife and myself feared for our lives at times after coming home to Barking station after attending the theatre in the West End. In St Ives, some of the local Cornish people seemed to hate outsiders. Maybe you are missing people like this .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLaJar6lFA

UncleKev

Australia boring ??????????????

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...-1225827352758

Flood joy riders leave emergency workers fuming

EMERGENCY service workers are fuming after a jet ski and a speedboat careered through flooded streets in the southwest Queensland town of Roma.

Emergency Management Queensland's area director Scott Walsh says the jet ski and speedboat created havoc for flood prevention and management plans and police had to be called in to stop the joy riding.

The town of 7000, 475km northwest of Brisbane, is on flood alert with Bungil Creek, which runs through the town, peaking at seven metres yesterday, although it is now receding.

"I thought I had seen it all, but as always you're pleasantly surprised by the lack of intelligence of some people," Mr Walsh told AAP.

"In a public area that backs onto houses, a couple of individuals took it upon themselves to get their recreational vehicles out and give them a test run in the middle of town.

"We had to get police assistance to stop the person in the speedboat putting bow waves into properties.

aussietobe

Sorry, only boring people would get bored in Australia.


maybe you should move to Afghanistan or the projects of LA?