This might change your mind about moving back
Jun 20th 2007, 1:58 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
I just found this 
http://www.vexen.co.uk/UK/trashculture.html
http://www.vexen.co.uk/UK/trashculture.htmlThe uk has it problems yes but so does every other country in the world lets not forget!!
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Jun 20th 2007, 2:03 am
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Jun 20th 2007, 2:13 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
A completely unreliable, uncreditable source from t'internet tells me that the UK is going down the pan? It must be true! We all know that everything you read on the wibbly wobbly web is true, after all, and our own experiences count for nothing. I barely even remember how to form my own opinion any more - I'm so used to being told what to think. I'm cancelling the flights now. Do you think I'll get my shipping deposit back? 
This has happened to me and my family in the last two weekends
Weekend number 1) we went to the beach for the day( the one i use to go to as a kid) but only this time it was full of house bricks and clay and the sea was brown. The kids were all trying to get drink on to the beach hence the police buggy patroling the beach all day confiscating the booze ( bet the staff had a right good party later on ) The lads were all spitting all over the beach and the litter was .....just disgusting. No one seemed to take thier rubbish away.
Weekend numder 2 ) Me hubb and the kids were settleing down to watch a movie , so before it started hubby and daughter ( 9 ) went to the shop for some chocolate. Just about to get served when an armed robber comes in a demands the money from the till. He had a kitchen knife in his hand, no coverage to his face and the store was full and the security gaurd stood there and did nothing and in a way i am glad because this lad meant buisness and he would have stabbed him.
Not internet rubbish ...but true facts.
So when are your flights booked for
Jun 20th 2007, 2:20 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
Hi N
This has happened to me and my family in the last two weekends
Weekend number 1) we went to the beach for the day( the one i use to go to as a kid) but only this time it was full of house bricks and clay and the sea was brown. The kids were all trying to get drink on to the beach hence the police buggy patroling the beach all day confiscating the booze ( bet the staff had a right good party later on ) The lads were all spitting all over the beach and the litter was .....just disgusting. No one seemed to take thier rubbish away.
Weekend numder 2 ) Me hubb and the kids were settleing down to watch a movie , so before it started hubby and daughter ( 9 ) went to the shop for some chocolate. Just about to get served when an armed robber comes in a demands the money from the till. He had a kitchen knife in his hand, no coverage to his face and the store was full and the security gaurd stood there and did nothing and in a way i am glad because this lad meant buisness and he would have stabbed him.
Not internet rubbish ...but true facts.
So when are your flights booked for
This has happened to me and my family in the last two weekends
Weekend number 1) we went to the beach for the day( the one i use to go to as a kid) but only this time it was full of house bricks and clay and the sea was brown. The kids were all trying to get drink on to the beach hence the police buggy patroling the beach all day confiscating the booze ( bet the staff had a right good party later on ) The lads were all spitting all over the beach and the litter was .....just disgusting. No one seemed to take thier rubbish away.
Weekend numder 2 ) Me hubb and the kids were settleing down to watch a movie , so before it started hubby and daughter ( 9 ) went to the shop for some chocolate. Just about to get served when an armed robber comes in a demands the money from the till. He had a kitchen knife in his hand, no coverage to his face and the store was full and the security gaurd stood there and did nothing and in a way i am glad because this lad meant buisness and he would have stabbed him.
Not internet rubbish ...but true facts.
So when are your flights booked for
Hi Issie
Thats truly awful what happened to your family. I can see why you'd be happy at leaving.
However, Oz does have its fair share of problems too, like anywhere.
Anyone moving home knows what the UK is like and they have lived in Oz, they're making the choice to move back to UK for many and varied a reason.
Anyway, good luck with the move here
I do think lifes actually easier here in al
Jun 20th 2007, 2:23 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
Hi Issie
Thats truly awful what happened to your family. I can see why you'd be happy at leaving.
However, Oz does have its fair share of problems too, like anywhere.
Anyone moving home knows what the UK is like and they have lived in Oz, they're making the choice to move back to UK for many and varied a reason.
Anyway, good luck with the move here
I do think lifes actually easier here in al
Thats truly awful what happened to your family. I can see why you'd be happy at leaving.
However, Oz does have its fair share of problems too, like anywhere.
Anyone moving home knows what the UK is like and they have lived in Oz, they're making the choice to move back to UK for many and varied a reason.
Anyway, good luck with the move here
I do think lifes actually easier here in al
Good luck with your move home
Jun 20th 2007, 2:45 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
Thats good you've a job to come to, one less thing to worry about
I'm hoping to be back in next 6 weeks, trying to renew my Uk passport so can enter on a o/w ticket.
When are you off then?
Jun 20th 2007, 3:19 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
Hi N
This has happened to me and my family in the last two weekends
Weekend number 1) we went to the beach for the day( the one i use to go to as a kid) but only this time it was full of house bricks and clay and the sea was brown. The kids were all trying to get drink on to the beach hence the police buggy patroling the beach all day confiscating the booze ( bet the staff had a right good party later on ) The lads were all spitting all over the beach and the litter was .....just disgusting. No one seemed to take thier rubbish away.
Weekend numder 2 ) Me hubb and the kids were settleing down to watch a movie , so before it started hubby and daughter ( 9 ) went to the shop for some chocolate. Just about to get served when an armed robber comes in a demands the money from the till. He had a kitchen knife in his hand, no coverage to his face and the store was full and the security gaurd stood there and did nothing and in a way i am glad because this lad meant buisness and he would have stabbed him.
Not internet rubbish ...but true facts.
So when are your flights booked for
This has happened to me and my family in the last two weekends
Weekend number 1) we went to the beach for the day( the one i use to go to as a kid) but only this time it was full of house bricks and clay and the sea was brown. The kids were all trying to get drink on to the beach hence the police buggy patroling the beach all day confiscating the booze ( bet the staff had a right good party later on ) The lads were all spitting all over the beach and the litter was .....just disgusting. No one seemed to take thier rubbish away.
Weekend numder 2 ) Me hubb and the kids were settleing down to watch a movie , so before it started hubby and daughter ( 9 ) went to the shop for some chocolate. Just about to get served when an armed robber comes in a demands the money from the till. He had a kitchen knife in his hand, no coverage to his face and the store was full and the security gaurd stood there and did nothing and in a way i am glad because this lad meant buisness and he would have stabbed him.
Not internet rubbish ...but true facts.
So when are your flights booked for
OK, he's my true facts from Aus:
1) On my way to work two days ago, a gang of teens from the local high school were shouting (I mean really hurling some obscene abuse) at a man. Said man is the local dog-walker. He's not got the highest IQ. He is lovely - always smiling and says hello, asks how you are. And as if shouting wasn't bad enough, the gang then started throwing things at him - empty bottles and general rubbish. Nobody did anything. (It had stopped by the time I got anywhere near, but I can't say I would have intervened either.
)2) A camping trip oop north, to a beautiful national park. Absolutely gorgeous area. Completely ruined by the hoons racing their cars around the place. Said hoons also had a BBQ - and left their rubbish everywhere; they even took great pleasure in throwing it around the place, at each other etc. It was left for me, a friend and a pregnant woman to clean up. Nice.
Two small examples of many bad experiences I've had in Aus. But they're not the overriding experience. And they're certainly not enough to even think about suggesting to someone that they shouldn't come here - that's just bloody stupid. The thing is, the longer you stay in a place, the easier you see the problems and faults. After two years here (still barely any time at all!), I'm starting to see through the flash paint job and pick out the cracks underneath. And some of the problems are huge and not pretty.
And that's not Internet rubbish - that is a true fact. 
Jun 20th 2007, 3:27 am
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Hi, D! Hope you and yours are well.
OK, he's my true facts from Aus:
1) On my way to work two days ago, a gang of teens from the local high school were shouting (I mean really hurling some obscene abuse) at a man. Said man is the local dog-walker. He's not got the highest IQ. He is lovely - always smiling and says hello, asks how you are. And as if shouting wasn't bad enough, the gang then started throwing things at him - empty bottles and general rubbish. Nobody did anything. (It had stopped by the time I got anywhere near, but I can't say I would have intervened either.)
2) A camping trip oop north, to a beautiful national park. Absolutely gorgeous area. Completely ruined by the hoons racing their cars around the place. Said hoons also had a BBQ - and left their rubbish everywhere; they even took great pleasure in throwing it around the place, at each other etc. It was left for me, a friend and a pregnant woman to clean up. Nice.
Two small examples of many bad experiences I've had in Aus. But they're not the overriding experience. And they're certainly not enough to even think about suggesting to someone that they shouldn't come here - that's just bloody stupid. The thing is, the longer you stay in a place, the easier you see the problems and faults. After two years here (still barely any time at all!), I'm starting to see through the flash paint job and pick out the cracks underneath. And some of the problems are huge and not pretty. And that's not Internet rubbish - that is a true fact.
OK, he's my true facts from Aus:
1) On my way to work two days ago, a gang of teens from the local high school were shouting (I mean really hurling some obscene abuse) at a man. Said man is the local dog-walker. He's not got the highest IQ. He is lovely - always smiling and says hello, asks how you are. And as if shouting wasn't bad enough, the gang then started throwing things at him - empty bottles and general rubbish. Nobody did anything. (It had stopped by the time I got anywhere near, but I can't say I would have intervened either.
)2) A camping trip oop north, to a beautiful national park. Absolutely gorgeous area. Completely ruined by the hoons racing their cars around the place. Said hoons also had a BBQ - and left their rubbish everywhere; they even took great pleasure in throwing it around the place, at each other etc. It was left for me, a friend and a pregnant woman to clean up. Nice.
Two small examples of many bad experiences I've had in Aus. But they're not the overriding experience. And they're certainly not enough to even think about suggesting to someone that they shouldn't come here - that's just bloody stupid. The thing is, the longer you stay in a place, the easier you see the problems and faults. After two years here (still barely any time at all!), I'm starting to see through the flash paint job and pick out the cracks underneath. And some of the problems are huge and not pretty.
And that's not Internet rubbish - that is a true fact. By the way, you're not in Glebe are you, sounds exactly like the dog walking man there
Jun 20th 2007, 3:29 am
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Jun 20th 2007, 3:37 am
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Re: This might change your mind about moving back
Whereabouts are you based now?We fly on the 21st July, so just under 5 weeks left.
Jun 20th 2007, 3:49 am
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I used to have all the Darling harbour fireworks from my place for awhile, every weekend in summer
I moved up north, a place called Bangalow, about 10 mins inland from Byron. Really nice spot too but quite small after a while