You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
#106
Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
Another wouldn't be in Sydney, unless value returned to the market, and probably not even then. As you'll have slowly realised, I don't see the big deal about living in Sydney. Don't hate it or even dislike it, just doesn't rate highly enough as a place I would want to live, regardless of preferring big cities.
But back on track, 'You know you are in Australia when the locals too often, become over fiercely defensive, about most every aspect of their often mundane and often repetitive lives.
But back on track, 'You know you are in Australia when the locals too often, become over fiercely defensive, about most every aspect of their often mundane and often repetitive lives.
#107
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
I really wonder how mundane and repetitive your life is in Perth. That suits many and Perth is ideal for that but it certainly doesn't suit you by all accounts.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
I'm passing an opinion, so do need to ok? Other people are free to express at will, equally If that's ok by you, of course. As for your personal affront, how about attempting to play objective regardless of personal opinions , not really hard to do.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
My time on this forum is rapidly coming to an end anyway.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
You've been found out.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
remove yourself from repetition and you won't need to meet those people.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
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#113
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
remove yourself from repetition and you won't need to meet those people.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
Actually there is no shortage of 'cats' with plumed feathers even in the Perth arena. It's not all Bogans you know, although on first sighting perhaps a bit hard to assume otherwise. Oh dearie, dear no. Interesting depends. largely not, too fill of themselves often than not, and the they tend to be rather self absorbed with the importance of their roles, not at all getting where I come from or indeed bother. Sinister, some of them, with abuse of the positions of power they wield. that's before I get on to the husbands, Seldom ends well when unable to hold tongue, but anyway, it's not only street people and tea in a flask working class bod's that colour in my picture book. A slight exaggeration in parts, but truer than one may expect. Probably why so down on elements of the 'business world' and the ostentatious display of bad taste, where I prefer simplicity, street preachers and poets, outsiders and revolutionaries, fallen women requiring a guiding hand, the most hopeless of the hopeless more my sort of people if the battle against repetition is to be won.
#114
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
Well firstly writing about accounts, perhaps its high time to get yours in order, take whatever you can get out from that falling Sydney market, high tail it over to Perth and find something more appropriate, that doesn't stress your waking hours with obscene population growth in order to maintain value. You know it time.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
remove yourself from repetition and you won't need to meet those people.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
On the one hand Mr T, you strike me as a thoughtful and interesting character - gets my vote - but you also seem trapped in Perth. You have provided us with no other explanation, nor should you.
I have often observed that a mix of migrants do seem to get trapped and it is worse for the people who can't, or won't extricate themselves. I don't know what it is as there are stacks of non repetitive people in Melbourne. The longer I have lived here the more interesting it gets.
Sure, I observe a bunch of problems but you can plan around them. My theory is that a bunch of people are clever and imaginative enough to hate Au suburbia but are not fully equiped to extricate themselves which is a shame.
I was in a car heading up to the snow and I had an astrophysicist in front and an engineer to the side from the very best schools and corresponding sports programmes in Melbourne. Not repetitive at all. I've met actors, singers, classically trained musicians, protesters who make their mark, CEOs you name it.
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Re: You know you are (still) in Australia when.....
Well firstly writing about accounts, perhaps its high time to get yours in order, take whatever you can get out from that falling Sydney market, high tail it over to Perth and find something more appropriate, that doesn't stress your waking hours with obscene population growth in order to maintain value. You know it time.
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Today I went to Fiona Stanley Hospital to visit my daughter in their spinal cord injury rehab unit. It really is a magnificent facility, we're so lucky to have such excellent health facilities in Oz Daughter also enjoyed the roast beef dinner I'd made for her - the hospital food's not bad at all but a home-cooked meal from mum is always best