Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
Sep 1st 2009, 10:15 am
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
Well that explains it then! Sydney would be cold in winter for you.
For me.......nothing more than a cool breeze and the odd shower. All a bit of a non event really....and I'm in Orange - where they told me it was freezing. When I get to the coast - I'm back in thongs and t-shirt! And the occasional wooly jumper.
Give me a year or so - then I'll be saying its freezing too!
For me.......nothing more than a cool breeze and the odd shower. All a bit of a non event really....and I'm in Orange - where they told me it was freezing. When I get to the coast - I'm back in thongs and t-shirt! And the occasional wooly jumper.
Give me a year or so - then I'll be saying its freezing too!
I'm in SE QLD at the moment - end of the school year we'll be moving down to join Himself in NSW.
All he does at the moment is moan about how cold it is, but he is a gertsoftsuvverner (from Kent, lived for 4 years in York and moaned about the cold all the time there too, the soft jessie) - he's working in the CBD and commutes in from Penrith on the train - 50 minutes from Penrith to Centralon the express, so all good. We'll be looking at living just over the river from Penrith, in the very low foothills of the Blue Mountains - anyone know just how cold it will actually get in the winter? How hot will it actually get in the summer? I'm presuming the humidity will be a lot less than here, but am I just kidding myself?
Sep 1st 2009, 12:12 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
We'll be looking at living just over the river from Penrith, in the very low foothills of the Blue Mountains - anyone know just how cold it will actually get in the winter? How hot will it actually get in the summer? I'm presuming the humidity will be a lot less than here, but am I just kidding myself?
If you're living a bit higher up in the lower Blue Mountains, then it will be cooler - both in the winter and the summer.
Sep 1st 2009, 12:55 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
Penrith gets steaming, esp in the middle of the city/town during the day in the summer. I don't know why it's so hot but it's surrounded essentially by flood plain... It is HOT.
Penrith does get humid but not too bad I would say. Air con is your friend.
In winter, it can drop to -1 or so.
I like to pop into Penrith for some biking by the lakes if it's too cold up in the mts. :-)
Living in the Blue Mountains is like living in the UK for the most part. It's bloody cold and frosty in the winter. We can get -5 if it's very cold. Summer is gorgeous. Hotter than a British summer but nice and temperate.
Penrith does get humid but not too bad I would say. Air con is your friend.
In winter, it can drop to -1 or so.
I like to pop into Penrith for some biking by the lakes if it's too cold up in the mts. :-)
Living in the Blue Mountains is like living in the UK for the most part. It's bloody cold and frosty in the winter. We can get -5 if it's very cold. Summer is gorgeous. Hotter than a British summer but nice and temperate.
Sep 1st 2009, 5:22 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
In my first winter in Sydney, I was standing on the railway platform in a short sleeve shirt, while everyone else had jumpers and jackets.
I did the same the next day, not because I felt cold, but because everyone made me feel odd !!
Some years later, I began to know what they thought, after I too began to feel cold in winter. So I moved to QLD
Sep 1st 2009, 5:50 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
And you still get cold in Winter, don't you! 
Sep 1st 2009, 5:51 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
You can get frost in the Penrith area in the winter - so you should expect below-zero temperatures occasionally at night. Summers will be quite - er - warm. Penrith is one of the hottest parts of Sydney in the summer. Because it's so far from the sea so you feel the extremes of the weather.
Penrith gets steaming, esp in the middle of the city/town during the day in the summer. I don't know why it's so hot but it's surrounded essentially by flood plain... It is HOT.
Penrith does get humid but not too bad I would say. Air con is your friend.
In winter, it can drop to -1 or so.
Penrith does get humid but not too bad I would say. Air con is your friend.
In winter, it can drop to -1 or so.
Unlike Himself, I'm a Northern Hillchild (and spent the last winter before we emigrated with no central heating) so I'm used to cold, in the summer I'll just have to park my derriere under the air con unit like I do now!
Sep 1st 2009, 5:53 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
Sep 1st 2009, 6:00 pm
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Sep 1st 2009, 6:51 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
We'll be looking at living just over the river from Penrith, in the very low foothills of the Blue Mountains - anyone know just how cold it will actually get in the winter? How hot will it actually get in the summer? I'm presuming the humidity will be a lot less than here, but am I just kidding myself?
It does get HOT, 40+ is not uncommon. Railway lines sometime buckle under the heat, not very often though.
In winter, the car windscreen froze "once" in about 6 years. I think my wife used to own a pair of gloves down there, and I actually ended up wearing jackets.
I can only compare between just East of Penrith and where I am in the Bayside, and I don't need the Air con anywhere near as much up here.
Sep 1st 2009, 7:17 pm
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
Hello all;
My partner and I have the opportunity to both move to Sydney to take up academic posts there. We have an 18 month old child and both in our mid - thirties.
Question is, should we up-sticks from London and move south?
We do not own a property, only things holding us back might be our family (our parents are getting on), finances (we have some debt, and new positions might not pay the riches we need).
London is a grind and has worn us both down over the last 5 years, and so prospect of warm weather all year round, beaches and out doors life very appealing.
How does sydney compare to London, I have lived in San Francisco before and familiar with the friendly / out going nature of people in that part of the US, would Sydney-ians be similar?
Any way, just pontificating right now in a meandering way, opinions and thoughts welcome/needed in order to help us decide.
cheers
T
My partner and I have the opportunity to both move to Sydney to take up academic posts there. We have an 18 month old child and both in our mid - thirties.
Question is, should we up-sticks from London and move south?
We do not own a property, only things holding us back might be our family (our parents are getting on), finances (we have some debt, and new positions might not pay the riches we need).
London is a grind and has worn us both down over the last 5 years, and so prospect of warm weather all year round, beaches and out doors life very appealing.
How does sydney compare to London, I have lived in San Francisco before and familiar with the friendly / out going nature of people in that part of the US, would Sydney-ians be similar?
Any way, just pontificating right now in a meandering way, opinions and thoughts welcome/needed in order to help us decide.
cheers
T
Sep 2nd 2009, 11:40 am
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Re: Opportunity to move to Sydney, should we?
You will be living not far from where I used to live.
It does get HOT, 40+ is not uncommon. Railway lines sometime buckle under the heat, not very often though.
In winter, the car windscreen froze "once" in about 6 years. I think my wife used to own a pair of gloves down there, and I actually ended up wearing jackets.
I can only compare between just East of Penrith and where I am in the Bayside, and I don't need the Air con anywhere near as much up here.
It does get HOT, 40+ is not uncommon. Railway lines sometime buckle under the heat, not very often though.
In winter, the car windscreen froze "once" in about 6 years. I think my wife used to own a pair of gloves down there, and I actually ended up wearing jackets.
I can only compare between just East of Penrith and where I am in the Bayside, and I don't need the Air con anywhere near as much up here.
(he's a planner)40+ on a regular basis is scary, but I'm sure we'll adjust.
I've got rellies asking what the best time of year will be to visit - how the hell they think I'll know that I have no idea. I think I'll have to tell them all to wait a year so I can give them an honest appraisal
