Pollyana

Lucky git. Wish I lived somewhere that didn't believe daylight saving fades the MiL so she won't lay any eggs.......

Hutch

A: ****.

Dorothy

I was going to say that. Good reason for me not to live in Queensland.

chris and farideh

I live there but I dont do it, not at that time, kids are still running around, they really should pick up some local customs & go to bed by 7.30pm.

Wendy&Mike

But, it's the middle of winter. When I was in the UK it went dark at 3.30 in the middle of winter. 5.30 is fantastic.

Mike.

Buzzy--Bee

Mike, what I think you need to realise is that in Queensland it gets dark very early in summer too, and spring, and autumn, not just winter. It is a point of contention for many QLD residents.

Buzzy

Pollyana

Exactly. When you come home form work in the dark every day of the year, it soon starts to get depressing.

Bernieboy

Yeah but the blurb promised us jobs, constant sunshine,lots of tim tams,cold beer etc, the diac have lied to us:curse: and besides how do you know when the sun shines ???,isnt it always dark in the mods coven

angelaos

Do you feel conned by the lack of info about the dark evenings or did you suss that out before you got there?

A few people have mentioned Melbourne as a better place to live for light. What that like then?

Whilst I'm on the subject of where to live, I recently felt conned myself to find out that Brisbane dwellers don't go to the sea after work because its covered in mangroves! Funny how all the books I've read never mentioned that.

Also, I've learned from some ausies I met recently, that the Gold coast is not a nice place to live as it's trashy & full of high spirited school leavers who get into a lot of trouble. Sorry if that is not true & offends, but please correct me, I'm all ears.

Where is it lightish, near beautiful beaches with good jobs for project managers on large building construction sites within comuting distance?

Did I mention the light?

Buzzy--Bee

It's like the South East of the UK, although in winter the earliest it is ever dark is 5.30pm. In summer its 9.30pm

One of the reasons that we chose Melbourne over Brisbane was because it is very easy in Melbourne to live within walking distance of a stunning sandy beach. It is very hard to do this in Brisbane unless you are prepared to commute a long way from say Bribie island.

I think you should look at Melbourne, also Adelaide, and Sydney although we decided we couldn't afford to live near the beaches in Sydney.

Buzzy

spartacus

Try here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Bay

angelaos

So, from what I can gather from this (please correct me if I am wrong) is that Brisbane get dark around 5pm in winter which is better than the UK but is also dark at 7pm?? in the summer. Am I on the right track so far? No one actually does anything apart from kids h/wk & sort dinner in the kitchen.

Are the nights warm or chilly when the sun drops? Do the bugs come out to eat you alive?

What are the seasonal differences in light in Melbourne? Anything go on there? Decent, beautiful beaches?

spartacus

Its to do with the curvature of the earth, and the fact its not really flat like in an atlas, but tilts a little to the side.

Buzzy--Bee

Melbourne - dark at 5.30pm in winter, 9.30pm in summer.

Among the most stunning beautiful beaches in Australia, right there in the residential suburbs and even the edges of the city centre, with clear blue sea.

Some photos of Melbourne's beaches here -

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=527425

Buzzy

Lorna at Vicenza

never knew any of this - for Oz that is

I remember complaining to my Mum that is wasn't even dark when she sent me to bed at 9 pm in English summer time.

Now I'm in Italy and my kids have just started to say the same thing ....... "bed-time" I call ----- Mummy - but it's not even dark yet. Trick in Italy though is that all windows have shutters or big roll down blinds which can either keep the hot sun out or keep the light out at bed time !