MY observations.
May 9th 2012, 11:04 pm
#16
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
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Re: MY observations.
really? not sure I follow you there? sorry Eddie...
May 9th 2012, 11:10 pm
#17
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Joined: Sep 2005
Location: Somewhere South... Not Telling YOU
Posts: 10,959
Re: MY observations.
The beautiful picturesque RURAL villages in the uk are inaccessible to most first time home buyers.... Look at average wage/house prices.... I lived for a lot of my teens/adult life in rural suffolk...
Unless things have changed hugely since we left... ?
Unless things have changed hugely since we left... ?
May 10th 2012, 12:12 am
#19
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jul 2006
Location: north east england to south east queensland(cleveland in fact )WE WON THE CUP
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May 10th 2012, 12:43 am
#21
Daffyd Duck
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: Paradise
Posts: 5,636
Re: MY observations.
well of course after bringing in loads of AUDs he is now rich by UK standards.
May 10th 2012, 12:50 am
#22
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Joined: Nov 2002
Location: Redneck Wonderland
Posts: 9,932
Re: MY observations.
Yep very true mate, no way could I have afforded a house in the village I was born & raised in. The flash city commuters that wanted to live in the "countryside" drove up the price of workers cottages to the point that the farms couldn't get any locals to work for them. Six of one & half a dozen of the other though as it was the same farmers that sold off the tithe cottages in the first place.
May 10th 2012, 1:32 am
#23
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Joined: May 2010
Location: Isle of Man
Posts: 130
Re: MY observations.
We certainly appreciate what the UK has to offer & Europe for that matter second time around ...
We miss Australia often, but only the friends we made - not so much the place. Then again, I think Perth was a bad choice ...
If we had our time again, we'd be all over Melbourne like a rash.
We miss Australia often, but only the friends we made - not so much the place. Then again, I think Perth was a bad choice ...
If we had our time again, we'd be all over Melbourne like a rash.
May 10th 2012, 1:39 am
#24
Not actually a squirrel
Joined: Apr 2010
Location: England
Posts: 3,446
Re: MY observations.
Yes. When I tell people I want to live in the country they think I mean the bush. There is a big difference...
May 10th 2012, 8:56 am
#26
(It's not my real name)
Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Ilukapool. WA
Posts: 12,467
Re: MY observations.
We certainly appreciate what the UK has to offer & Europe for that matter second time around ...
We miss Australia often, but only the friends we made - not so much the place. Then again, I think Perth was a bad choice ...
If we had our time again, we'd be all over Melbourne like a rash.
We miss Australia often, but only the friends we made - not so much the place. Then again, I think Perth was a bad choice ...
If we had our time again, we'd be all over Melbourne like a rash.
May 10th 2012, 9:23 am
#27
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 18,840
Re: MY observations.
Cool, I lived there for a year.
I used to drink in the Wellington in St Peter Port. Don't know if it is still there but it was/is an Irish pub, rough as hell. I was told the IRA used to send blokes to the Channel Islands to lay low when the authorities were on to them in NI. Don't know how true that was but there was quite a turnover of hard Irish blokes that I made sure I didn't get into a fight with.
Also the Jamaica Inn in St Sampson, used to hang out with Oliver Reed there - true story.
I used to drink in the Wellington in St Peter Port. Don't know if it is still there but it was/is an Irish pub, rough as hell. I was told the IRA used to send blokes to the Channel Islands to lay low when the authorities were on to them in NI. Don't know how true that was but there was quite a turnover of hard Irish blokes that I made sure I didn't get into a fight with.
Also the Jamaica Inn in St Sampson, used to hang out with Oliver Reed there - true story.
May 10th 2012, 9:40 am
#28
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,838
Re: MY observations.
Cool, I lived there for a year.
I used to drink in the Wellington in St Peter Port. Don't know if it is still there but it was/is an Irish pub, rough as hell. I was told the IRA used to send blokes to the Channel Islands to lay low when the authorities were on to them in NI. Don't know how true that was but there was quite a turnover of hard Irish blokes that I made sure I didn't get into a fight with.
Also the Jamaica Inn in St Sampson, used to hang out with Oliver Reed there - true story.
I used to drink in the Wellington in St Peter Port. Don't know if it is still there but it was/is an Irish pub, rough as hell. I was told the IRA used to send blokes to the Channel Islands to lay low when the authorities were on to them in NI. Don't know how true that was but there was quite a turnover of hard Irish blokes that I made sure I didn't get into a fight with.
Also the Jamaica Inn in St Sampson, used to hang out with Oliver Reed there - true story.
May 10th 2012, 11:10 pm
#30
Home Sweet Home
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Surrey, England
Posts: 5,128
Re: MY observations.
The rural bits of Oz aka "the bush" look like a nightmare scene out of Deliverance, I would sooner stick pins in my eyes than live there.
