Adelaide - trip report
Apr 29th 2003, 2:06 pm
#16
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Hey there friend
Seems fairly critical to me that we sort somewhere out to settle as soon as poss particularly when you look at the waiting list for schools. We have a pretty good idea but it still needs fine tuning. I could also do with touching base with the business we are buying in Gawler and getting things sorted there.
How do you fancy a short trip in the next few months?
Mr Blegster
Seems fairly critical to me that we sort somewhere out to settle as soon as poss particularly when you look at the waiting list for schools. We have a pretty good idea but it still needs fine tuning. I could also do with touching base with the business we are buying in Gawler and getting things sorted there.
How do you fancy a short trip in the next few months?
Mr Blegster
Apr 29th 2003, 6:32 pm
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Hi Bleggy, what's the business you are looking at?
Looks like we'll be there before all of you - early July we hope now.
I don't think Gawler is remote at all, all the shopping you need, 45 mins to Adelaide, 30 to sea, 10 minutes to wineries an lovely old barossa towns.
Yes you will probably need to have a car. My biggest concern was the Adelaide sprawl would finally swallow Gawler up ,but they seem to have taken steps to protect it.
We want about an acre, semi rural too...but still able to see lights of other houses around me for comfort in the dark nights!
Mash
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Looks like we'll be there before all of you - early July we hope now.
I don't think Gawler is remote at all, all the shopping you need, 45 mins to Adelaide, 30 to sea, 10 minutes to wineries an lovely old barossa towns.
Yes you will probably need to have a car. My biggest concern was the Adelaide sprawl would finally swallow Gawler up ,but they seem to have taken steps to protect it.
We want about an acre, semi rural too...but still able to see lights of other houses around me for comfort in the dark nights!
Mash
L
Originally posted by bleggy
Hey there friend
Seems fairly critical to me that we sort somewhere out to settle as soon as poss particularly when you look at the waiting list for schools. We have a pretty good idea but it still needs fine tuning. I could also do with touching base with the business we are buying in Gawler and getting things sorted there.
How do you fancy a short trip in the next few months?
Mr Blegster
Hey there friend
Seems fairly critical to me that we sort somewhere out to settle as soon as poss particularly when you look at the waiting list for schools. We have a pretty good idea but it still needs fine tuning. I could also do with touching base with the business we are buying in Gawler and getting things sorted there.
How do you fancy a short trip in the next few months?
Mr Blegster
Apr 29th 2003, 6:48 pm
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Hi Mash
Hows the wine going down?
We have seen some fabulous places in the Barossa. Looking at one at the minute with 30 acres and an Olive plantation. Yum.
We are getting regular emails from Gawler based estate agents that covers all the Barossa and Gawler. I could let you have some contact details if it is of any use.
Our long term plan is to set up a holiday accommodation business in the valley.
How are your plans going?
Blegster
Hows the wine going down?
We have seen some fabulous places in the Barossa. Looking at one at the minute with 30 acres and an Olive plantation. Yum.
We are getting regular emails from Gawler based estate agents that covers all the Barossa and Gawler. I could let you have some contact details if it is of any use.
Our long term plan is to set up a holiday accommodation business in the valley.
How are your plans going?
Blegster
Apr 29th 2003, 7:31 pm
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i looked at houses on realestate.au and thought gawler seemed quite fra from ade central..as a lot of people seem to think ade is a bit of a ghost town at the best of times the closer in to town (within reason) the better it is for the mrs..
also i would love to be close to the sea..
mrs 'b' will indeed carry on as a stay at home mum..i don't -and indeed nor does she- want her to go to work...
i'm in air conditioning ....
cheers
richard
also i would love to be close to the sea..
mrs 'b' will indeed carry on as a stay at home mum..i don't -and indeed nor does she- want her to go to work...
i'm in air conditioning ....
cheers
richard
Apr 29th 2003, 7:42 pm
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Re: Adelaide - trip report
Originally posted by Joe Fish
I'm sitting in an IT company now, just after they have given me my
letter of appointment. Earning 49500 per year. Tax is about 30%. I get
just over $3000 per month out cash.
Rent for a 2 bedroom townhouse/semi-detached is from $170 to $240 per
week. $170 is fine for most people. All are clean and neat and looked
after. Comming from South africa, there just are no bad areas here. So
save the money. This is all close to the city. 15km out you get a 3
room house for $195 per week. It's very distance form city centric.
The city is small. Like East London. No buildings tower up. No
traffic. Can't drive longer than 30mins at any time! Very cycle
friendly too. Lots of cycle lanes.
Very safe. Single women walking all over at night. Cars left all over
the street and nothing gets it's wheels taken off!
Very quiet. Shops close at lunch on Saturday and open on Monday.
Forget Sunday. Resturants close at 8pm!
Very empty. Just no crowds. Only 1mil people in the city. Nothing like
JHB.
Sports mad. South Africa is a joke in terms of football crazy,
although here it's all Aussie Rules stuff. Sort of rugby without
rules!
Weather is like Cape Town.
Most houses have aircon built in. Most are old - the whole style of
the city is old, like stone houses from the turn of the century.
Wooden floors etc. They build with wood and boarding too now. It's
like the centre of Pretoria city, just very very clean and quiet and
empty.
Lots of resturants. Heaps. Very big cafe and window shopping culture.
No malls. Rows of shops down streets. Little shops next to each other.
No big centres.
Bluegum trees all over. The plants and weather are exactly the same as
Gauteng SA.
Will post more when I get back.
Remember, the government has a scheme to give you a meet/pickup at the
airport when you move, and 3 months cheap accomodation to get settled.
Look it up. This place really spemds its tax well. You get benefits
form day 1 if you have kids! Everything is to help people.
Went with a guy to renew his drivers license. Took under 5 mins,
including parking in the middle of the city.
Cheers
I'm sitting in an IT company now, just after they have given me my
letter of appointment. Earning 49500 per year. Tax is about 30%. I get
just over $3000 per month out cash.
Rent for a 2 bedroom townhouse/semi-detached is from $170 to $240 per
week. $170 is fine for most people. All are clean and neat and looked
after. Comming from South africa, there just are no bad areas here. So
save the money. This is all close to the city. 15km out you get a 3
room house for $195 per week. It's very distance form city centric.
The city is small. Like East London. No buildings tower up. No
traffic. Can't drive longer than 30mins at any time! Very cycle
friendly too. Lots of cycle lanes.
Very safe. Single women walking all over at night. Cars left all over
the street and nothing gets it's wheels taken off!
Very quiet. Shops close at lunch on Saturday and open on Monday.
Forget Sunday. Resturants close at 8pm!
Very empty. Just no crowds. Only 1mil people in the city. Nothing like
JHB.
Sports mad. South Africa is a joke in terms of football crazy,
although here it's all Aussie Rules stuff. Sort of rugby without
rules!
Weather is like Cape Town.
Most houses have aircon built in. Most are old - the whole style of
the city is old, like stone houses from the turn of the century.
Wooden floors etc. They build with wood and boarding too now. It's
like the centre of Pretoria city, just very very clean and quiet and
empty.
Lots of resturants. Heaps. Very big cafe and window shopping culture.
No malls. Rows of shops down streets. Little shops next to each other.
No big centres.
Bluegum trees all over. The plants and weather are exactly the same as
Gauteng SA.
Will post more when I get back.
Remember, the government has a scheme to give you a meet/pickup at the
airport when you move, and 3 months cheap accomodation to get settled.
Look it up. This place really spemds its tax well. You get benefits
form day 1 if you have kids! Everything is to help people.
Went with a guy to renew his drivers license. Took under 5 mins,
including parking in the middle of the city.
Cheers
I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
Adelaide is just like any other city at night - you probably will be safe but there are numerous incidents of stabbings and beatings especially outside the nightclubs. Rundle Mall is not somewhere I would feel comfortable walking about in at night. I recently walked up KW Street from a rock concert in Memorial Drive at 10.30 at night, and was accosted all the way by homeless and Aboriginals for money and ciggies. North Terrace is the same.
Anywhere up to 25 km from the city centre is in reality only a 30 minute drive away, so look at rentals in the outer suburbs. Much nicer than some of the inner ones. Some suburbs such as Unley, Burnside, Norwood, North Adelaide, Magill etc are VERY upmarket.
Adelaide has an extremely high rate of car theft.
Restaurants do not close at 8pm - where are you eating??? If in the south try the Yum Sing at Reynella - garlic prawns to die for!
At peak times the city, and especially Rundle Mall can be very crowded. Christmas is a nightmare, but as there are numerous huge shopping malls all over the metro area with the same shops it is really unecessary to go right into the city itself for shopping. They all have the same franchised shops. There are also a lot of shops open on Sundays, just as in the UK the DIY places and furniture stores are all open, as well as just about everything in Jetty Road, Glenelg.
In the outer suburbs just about all houses have been built within the last 10 - 15 years, and are therefore up to current building standards, especially relating to the Biscay soil here and cracking foundations, and termite protection.
The general metropolitan area of Adelaide has a population of around 1 million, but the actual city itself is very small. Bear in mind that to drive from an outer southern suburbs like Seaford to an outer northern one like Elizabeth would take probably an hour and a quarter - Adelaideans like their traffic lights.
Oh and Adelaide is the graffiti capital of the world - it's everywhere. I was astonished when I first came here at just how lazy Aussies are about throwing rubbish away too. The sides of the main highways out into the countryside are littered with broken bottles thrown from cars.
Having said all that I wouldn't move away from here for anything. It's just interesting how people's perspectives on a place differ depending where they originally came from.
Apr 29th 2003, 8:19 pm
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Re: Adelaide - trip report
Hi Sharon,
Thanks for this info, much what we thought really about distances etc. We did notice grafitti too in some areas, but the sunshine somehow doesn't make it seem so dirty
We are not going in blinkered...
Mash...
[QUOTE]Originally posted by wizzywozza
I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
Thanks for this info, much what we thought really about distances etc. We did notice grafitti too in some areas, but the sunshine somehow doesn't make it seem so dirty
We are not going in blinkered...
Mash...
[QUOTE]Originally posted by wizzywozza
I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
Apr 29th 2003, 8:21 pm
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Hi Bleggy, got most of the real estate agents covered so get loads of regular updates, however still would be useful to see if our lists match...
Talk soon
Mash..
Talk soon
Mash..
Originally posted by bleggy
Hi Mash
Hows the wine going down?
We have seen some fabulous places in the Barossa. Looking at one at the minute with 30 acres and an Olive plantation. Yum.
We are getting regular emails from Gawler based estate agents that covers all the Barossa and Gawler. I could let you have some contact details if it is of any use.
Our long term plan is to set up a holiday accommodation business in the valley.
How are your plans going?
Blegster
Hi Mash
Hows the wine going down?
We have seen some fabulous places in the Barossa. Looking at one at the minute with 30 acres and an Olive plantation. Yum.
We are getting regular emails from Gawler based estate agents that covers all the Barossa and Gawler. I could let you have some contact details if it is of any use.
Our long term plan is to set up a holiday accommodation business in the valley.
How are your plans going?
Blegster
Apr 29th 2003, 11:28 pm
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Location: Woodcroft, 25 kms south of Adelaide South Australia
Posts: 281
Re: Adelaide - trip report
[QUOTE]Originally posted by mashiraz
Hi Sharon,
Thanks for this info, much what we thought really about distances etc. We did notice grafitti too in some areas, but the sunshine somehow doesn't make it seem so dirty
We are not going in blinkered...
Mash...
Funny cos this morning it is raining for the first time in about a month!!!! Still beautiful outside though, the wattle is in bloom and the parrots and magpies are singing.
Hi Sharon,
Thanks for this info, much what we thought really about distances etc. We did notice grafitti too in some areas, but the sunshine somehow doesn't make it seem so dirty
We are not going in blinkered...
Mash...
Originally posted by wizzywozza
I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
Funny cos this morning it is raining for the first time in about a month!!!! Still beautiful outside though, the wattle is in bloom and the parrots and magpies are singing.
Apr 30th 2003, 10:02 am
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Location: Adelaide
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Re the above site. I contacted the guy some time last year for some advice I needed for my business plan. He was most helpful and obliging. Worth a look.
Cheers
Blegs
Cheers
Blegs
Apr 30th 2003, 11:40 am
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Re: Adelaide - trip report
wizzywozza wrote:
> I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
> Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
> Adelaide is just like any other city at night - you probably will be
> safe but there are numerous incidents of stabbings and beatings
> especially outside the nightclubs. Rundle Mall is not somewhere I
> would feel comfortable walking about in at night. I recently walked
> up KW Street from a rock concert in Memorial Drive at 10.30 at night,
> and was accosted all the way by homeless and Aboriginals for money
> and ciggies. North Terrace is the same.
> Anywhere up to 25 km from the city centre is in reality only a 30
> minute drive away, so look at rentals in the outer suburbs. Much
> nicer than some of the inner ones. Some suburbs such as Unley,
> Burnside, Norwood, North Adelaide, Magill etc are VERY upmarket.
I drive through Unley/Norwood regularly and it is very posh :-)
> Adelaide has an extremely high rate of car theft.
> Restaurants do not close at 8pm - where are you eating??? If in the
> south try the Yum Sing at Reynella - garlic prawns to die for!
Just near me I live in Onkaparinga Hills :-)
Came over 3 years ago - cannot find a good curry house locally though!
> At peak times the city, and especially Rundle Mall can be very
> crowded. Christmas is a nightmare, but as there are numerous huge
> shopping malls all over the metro area with the same shops it is
> really unecessary to go right into the city itself for shopping.
Marion Centre seems to have it all
> The general metropolitan area of Adelaide has a population of around 1
> million, but the actual city itself is very small. Bear in mind that
> to drive from an outer southern suburbs like Seaford to an outer
> northern one like Elizabeth would take probably an hour and a quarter
> - Adelaideans like their traffic lights.
I am doing a lot of driving around Adleiade metro at the moment - the amount
of traffic lights is amazing!!!
> Oh and Adelaide is the graffiti capital of the world - it's
> everywhere.
This is very annoying to see - especially on the lovely old gums.
I was astonished when I first came here at just how lazy
> Aussies are about throwing rubbish away too. The sides of the main
> highways out into the countryside are littered with broken bottles
> thrown from cars.
McDonald's,Burger King bags ect - it has worsend a hell of a lot in the last
few years.
> Having said all that I wouldn't move away from here for anything.
> It's just interesting how people's perspectives on a place differ
> depending where they originally came from.
Young kids here ask me why I moved here - as though they think little of
their homeland - I shake my head and say "you've not travelled" :-)
Cheers
Russell
--
Luck is when the paths of opportunity and preparation cross.
> I have been in Adelaide 12 years.
> Just have to say a few things from my opinion.
> Adelaide is just like any other city at night - you probably will be
> safe but there are numerous incidents of stabbings and beatings
> especially outside the nightclubs. Rundle Mall is not somewhere I
> would feel comfortable walking about in at night. I recently walked
> up KW Street from a rock concert in Memorial Drive at 10.30 at night,
> and was accosted all the way by homeless and Aboriginals for money
> and ciggies. North Terrace is the same.
> Anywhere up to 25 km from the city centre is in reality only a 30
> minute drive away, so look at rentals in the outer suburbs. Much
> nicer than some of the inner ones. Some suburbs such as Unley,
> Burnside, Norwood, North Adelaide, Magill etc are VERY upmarket.
I drive through Unley/Norwood regularly and it is very posh :-)
> Adelaide has an extremely high rate of car theft.
> Restaurants do not close at 8pm - where are you eating??? If in the
> south try the Yum Sing at Reynella - garlic prawns to die for!
Just near me I live in Onkaparinga Hills :-)
Came over 3 years ago - cannot find a good curry house locally though!
> At peak times the city, and especially Rundle Mall can be very
> crowded. Christmas is a nightmare, but as there are numerous huge
> shopping malls all over the metro area with the same shops it is
> really unecessary to go right into the city itself for shopping.
Marion Centre seems to have it all
> The general metropolitan area of Adelaide has a population of around 1
> million, but the actual city itself is very small. Bear in mind that
> to drive from an outer southern suburbs like Seaford to an outer
> northern one like Elizabeth would take probably an hour and a quarter
> - Adelaideans like their traffic lights.
I am doing a lot of driving around Adleiade metro at the moment - the amount
of traffic lights is amazing!!!
> Oh and Adelaide is the graffiti capital of the world - it's
> everywhere.
This is very annoying to see - especially on the lovely old gums.
I was astonished when I first came here at just how lazy
> Aussies are about throwing rubbish away too. The sides of the main
> highways out into the countryside are littered with broken bottles
> thrown from cars.
McDonald's,Burger King bags ect - it has worsend a hell of a lot in the last
few years.
> Having said all that I wouldn't move away from here for anything.
> It's just interesting how people's perspectives on a place differ
> depending where they originally came from.
Young kids here ask me why I moved here - as though they think little of
their homeland - I shake my head and say "you've not travelled" :-)
Cheers
Russell
--
Luck is when the paths of opportunity and preparation cross.
