Evelin

true. Australia is paradise when it comes to integration thanks to selective migration policies, a smallish population and the space.

As I said, I feel for any council, government in the UK, Germany or France (examples) who have to deal with "multiculturalism" and there is no end to end.

Amercia is in the same boat. Watching Border Security on Channel 7 makes my hair stand up. It's unreal. I don't know how they cope with all their problems over there + guns.

shiels

Ditto, lived near there too, Kings Norton. X

mr mover

Whyalla ,s/aust They came in the 60,s to work in the steel mills..........mm

Wilgar

Crap no doubt.

tj49

FAGGOTS & PEAS

BadgeIsBack

What I have done is maintain my standards and perhaps paid a little more. I am quite sure that others don't care.

I don't care about day-to-day wear but I am a window-licker went it comes to shirts (see below):

BE tip of the year, folks.

I had some Next shirts that failed very, very quickly - guess what - after an Australian summer.

Ahh...Hawes & Curtis..rings a bell.

Hildritch & Key (might have linked in the wrong mob there) make a good shirt.
Thomas Pink succumbed to the mass market years ago. There's a mob in Cirencester, Glos which does good shirts.

ozzieeagle

My other Cousin that arrived here....(the first to arrives, brother) Was always banging on about standards and maintaining them. He was an unhappy chappy for years and years. One way it did affect him, was almost comical to his Pioneering younger Brother and I. He bought a big 4 bedroom house, in Gladstone Park (Eddie McGuires stomping ground) Only to realise after a few months that it was in the Municipality of Hume... in other words Broadmeadows was nearby. He really did like the house, He liked his neighbours, the school at the time was fine, but he couldnt bear telling people that he lived near Broady. So he upped and moved to Wantirna, to an almost exact clone of a house, only a lot further from work.

He would have had a field day with Arkon, whom I now suspect could well be his soul brother C&A and M&S were constant topics of conversation at his house. He still has to go to Fortnum and Mason, Harrods and Liberty's every time he goes back.

I admit to stirring him cruelly everytime he got on his high horse, by chatting about our relative jobs in Shipping. Him at Felixstowe as a customs agent and me in a Shipbrokers in the City

sr71

No, you go to Europe, in particular the UK, to see a bizarre failed social experiment and to see multiculturalism done wrong. they are totally incomparable IMO. Melbourne and Sydney are largely built from immigrants - much like New York, another famous melting pot.

I work in an office with a representative from the Indian, Italian, Greek, UK, NZ, Turkish, French, American, Pakistani, Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Serbian communities and this is pretty common in Australia. In the UK it was mostly English with a token black and/or British Asian member of staff.

I can go out at lunch and eat pretty much any cuisine I want, usually cooked by immigrants from that country - incredibly multicultural.

BadgeIsBack

I know a family here that are into all that. Often it is not that great anyhow. I would not be seen 'dead' in M&S - ok not a disaster - but it does have that connotation of someone who is not as rough as guts but is a bit of a wannabe.

When I talk about maintaining standards, I don't mean 'standards'. I mean I am happy with what I can buy, and where I want a good shirt, I just dig deeper. There are high-end Australian manufacturers I would buy from. I buy 1 good shirt rather than 3 cheap ones. That's my philosophy. Infact we had relatives over who thought we were quite scruffy - just the way we want it..

BadgeIsBack

In the city of London, various banks were very public school. You'd go to an interview and told you were the right sort of person. Read - thick as sh*t, like me, but a good bloke.

Here in Melbourne, you might find yourself the only Skip/Pom on the team.
In my working experience Melbourne is far more multi-cultural.

missmileyselina

I am from Bromsgrove, nice to see a fellow Brummie on here :0)

shiels

Theres quite a few of us!!! X

TraceyW

oooh...oooh...me too!!!

missmileyselina

Yay go the Brummies lol

How is sunny Devon Tracey? R u planning on migrating to Oz? My parents moved from Worcestershire to Cornwall and then to Oz

And do you know many Brummies in Qld shiels? I know of two others in the NT!

busterboy

TraceyW is just back and loving it.