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Forum: New Zealand
Nov 24th 2025, 9:55 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 40,501
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Is everyone leaving? Very quiet here.

Great to read your impressions of living in France. Quite different from Germany to be sure. Good health care is a prime consideration for us as well. My impression is as yours. Slavic languages are...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 24th 2025, 9:43 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 40,501
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Is everyone leaving? Very quiet here.

The language would rule out Bulgaria. Do not think I/we could learn it to the degree I would consider necessarily for a good life in Bulgaria. I have looked at it before and the countryside is indeed...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 23rd 2025, 8:17 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 40,501
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Is everyone leaving? Very quiet here.

I recall when you lived in NZ. You are German. So where three hours from Paris do you live? I lived in Chartres before returning to Australia. Fair to say, if I knew how bad Australia would become...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 2nd 2025, 9:52 pm
Replies: 110
Views: 34,467
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

Otherwise known as Methdurah and for good reason. Sometimes venture down there and find it bit sad to say the least what the area has become.
Forum: Australia
Mar 18th 2025, 12:25 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

You mean akin to when the orchestra kept playing on the Titanic as that mighty liner slipped under the waves? Yes indeed.
Forum: Australia
Mar 18th 2025, 12:18 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

I know about the sun and do the same. But not in winter, No this is not wanting to be observed and give the impression to be out perhaps. That and the growing off vegetation to further obscure the...
Forum: Australia
Mar 17th 2025, 6:20 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

Supermarkets here in Australia, don't excite the imagination as a rule to be daring. Some improvement in the foreign foods on offer, but as with much here, most the power rests with the very few. ...
Forum: Australia
Mar 16th 2025, 12:23 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

Certain things need to be accepted as it is just the way things are, I feel. I can deal more with the boredom of the place, by developing strategies that circumvent such things. One must make the...
Forum: Australia
Mar 16th 2025, 12:10 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

. Not a lot to do with Australians (unless it is the lack of doing something to rectify?) Just as well say Bloody Poms , or anybody else for that matter. Nationality and race, class or age play no...
Forum: Australia
Mar 15th 2025, 1:10 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

I'm Inner City. At least someone shares my version of suburban living . Speaking about living in darkness, some house in a cul de sac just minutes from me, must 'share' (sic) similar concerns as...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2025, 3:51 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 10,830
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Moving back to England

Probably the least relaxing place I've lived i n. Environmental reasons in the main. People in the main keep to themselves though , but secrecy is preferred style. Closed blinds/curtains, little...
Forum: Australia
Mar 2nd 2025, 6:50 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,316
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

I feel it is not only a matter of what has gone up. But what has gone down as well.
Forum: Australia
Mar 2nd 2025, 12:06 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,316
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

A small but Relevant example (I fear) of ageing in Australia.
Forum: Australia
Feb 26th 2025, 4:07 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,316
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

Above may have been on the money C1964 and there abouts. Not in 2025.
Forum: Australia
Feb 21st 2025, 6:44 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,316
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

I was wondering as another poster , just what European country did you originate in prior to moving to London? I moved from London to France and years later to Australia. Just caught the end of the...
Forum: Australia
Feb 20th 2025, 9:50 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 9,316
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Husband wants to go to Australia

. You need to be totally committed to such a venture, hence I would not undertake this if you.

Australia has changed so much. Mostly for the worse. We have similar, if not as developed issues...
Forum: The Barbie
Jan 7th 2025, 11:00 am
Replies: 23
Views: 5,243
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Want to go to Australia, and various other countrie

I wonder how many would know what the term cobber means these days? Australia has been swept up by enforced change since the turn of the century , that has changed it beyond recognition in any...
Forum: The Barbie
Dec 24th 2024, 12:59 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,603
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Return to paradise …..TV !!

Fairly typical Aussie TV series with lovely scenery but ordinary acting. I can see the beach scenes being enticing during a UK winter though. Far prefer the original French/UK version although a bit...
Forum: Australia
Oct 17th 2024, 9:24 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 5,044
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Aussie attitiude to Brits?

The days of Pom baiting, I'd suggest has largely passed. The UK population is in decline and ageing. Immigration is at record levels but from developing world countries. This nation has changed...
Forum: Malaysia
Oct 5th 2024, 2:32 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,833
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Another MM2H Kerfuffle by the Federal Gov't

Most interesting. Please keep the thread informed on any further updates on policy on this matter, RedApe.
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 5th 2024, 2:23 pm
Replies: 110
Views: 34,467
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

I suppose many an immigrant could in the past be labeled an 'economic migrant' surely? Unless escaping political persecution or a spouse visa, most reasons to emigrate was economic reasons. I suspect...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 11th 2024, 5:16 pm
Replies: 110
Views: 34,467
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

A lot of racial 'preference as you point out among ethnics themselves. I do recall the days in Australia when ignorance ruled and Aussies were as basic as imaginable. i recall graffiti like' If You...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 5th 2024, 6:05 pm
Replies: 110
Views: 34,467
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

Yes. I rather meaningless exercise. Stands to reason greater populated countries will have more economic activity, making them score higher. Hence migrant countries, as is all the Anglo speaking...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 5th 2024, 6:01 pm
Replies: 110
Views: 34,467
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Hello, 20 years in Aus!

In GDP per capita it is Luxemburg. I seem to have seen China has overtaken USA in gross terms, but in nominal GDP terms, UK comes around sixth.(perhaps fifth) In the grouping of Advanced economic...
Forum: The Barbie
Aug 4th 2024, 11:53 am
Replies: 8
Views: 2,394
Posted By the troubadour

Re: Returning to Oz from UK as family with citizenship ...

True. Cheaper countries are not so cheap anymore. I suspect the change being the growing inequality in many Western countries, and the increasing inability to live what was once considered a 'normal'...
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