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Forum: Australia
Sep 16th 2005, 9:59 am
Replies: 14
Views: 990
Posted By delia

Re: Bamboo flooring supplier (Perth area)

Hi there,

I'm Dean, Delia,s husband and would you know it a carpenter/cabinet maker who is laying floors in Perth at the moment. I used to build the shops for a national bamboo flooring supplier...
Forum: Canada
May 19th 2005, 1:44 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 594
Posted By delia

Am I eligible

Can anyone direct me to a decent site where I can do a points test to become a permanent resident in Canada. I currently live in Australia with my wife and 9 yr old son, I'm a carpenter/cabinet maker...
Forum: Australia
Apr 29th 2005, 2:44 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,923
Posted By delia

Re: For all tradesmen

Hi Kris

As regards to working for yourself as a plasterer i'm pretty sure a license isn't required, (painters, plumbers and electricians need them) so you would be free to start work. There is an...
Forum: Australia
Apr 27th 2005, 2:25 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 1,144
Posted By delia

Re: Bunbury to Perth

Don't know how frequent the trains run but Transperth quotes about 1h30m, you wouldn't commute though it's longer than you think(about 190Ks cbd to cbd). As for its size and ammenities, it's about he...
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2005, 1:46 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,923
Posted By delia

Re: For all tradesmen

If you can't see the irony you will fit in over here.
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2005, 1:31 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,923
Posted By delia

For all tradesmen

Hi there, Dean here, Delia's other half.

I have noticed that a lot of tradesmen are on there way over here, (I'm a chippie myself), which gives me a little cause for concern. Because there is such...
Forum: Australia
Apr 16th 2005, 4:46 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

Hi there Theresa,

We've lived here for 18 months and had a lot of luck in settling, I work as a book-keeper part time, and my partner is a self employed carpenter /cabinet maker. We have a few...
Forum: Australia
Apr 16th 2005, 4:28 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

I'll give a tip for any families moving to Perth, get at least a car each. The transport system is ok to a point but it won't work in with your life. If public transport takes you to work it's a...
Forum: Australia
Apr 14th 2005, 1:48 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 387
Posted By delia

Leisure Time

Thought I'd start a thread about the amount of leisure time people actually make use of here in Perth and no doubt in every other corner of Australia. Whilst we were in the UK we would get out for...
Forum: Australia
Apr 14th 2005, 11:56 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,041
Posted By delia

Re: ending the Phone and Electricity

Slight digression from the subject but relevent considering the nightmare people have trying to be honest. Freinds of ours left in Aug' 2003 and whilst tidying up their affairs tried to inform the...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 4:08 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

oh, and lots and lots of rain and then some more with pint sized raindrops beating the living daylights out of your colourbond roof, and cyclonic easterly winds that seem like there're going to pull...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 3:59 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

I've sung its praises so a few bad points to keep some equilibrium.

1. when there's a lot of flys there're everywhere (10 bad days a year, not that bad really).
2. millipedes at the moment coming...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 2:51 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

For the people who have replied to this thread and like the idea of a semi rural lifestyle I'll try and give you a few insights.

1. peace and quiet when you sit in garden after work.
2. watching...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 1:22 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

I'm singing the praises of living in the hills at the moment, especially when on an evening like tonight I look up and see thousands of stars. There's no light pollution from the city, I never stop...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 6:16 am
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

Simone,

I don't know if it suits your hours but you both can get a train from Armadale, you get off at Maddington and Pascal can change in Perth fo Subi'. It would take Pascal about an hour, the...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2005, 4:06 am
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Re: Perth. the north south divide

Something else new migrants might want to consider are the hills to the south east of Perth, from Kalamunda through to Jarrahdale, and especially Rolystone in the middle of these. I went looking at...
Forum: Australia
Apr 12th 2005, 3:18 pm
Replies: 81
Views: 6,768
Posted By delia

Perth. the north south divide

I have been looking at this forum for a few years to get info about coming to Aus' and have now started to browse it once again to read up on the saga's of others wanting to move over here. The one...
Forum: Australia
Apr 8th 2005, 12:36 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,757
Posted By delia

Re: CUSTOMS - wicker baskets

hi there,

just to let you know about our situation when we came with some wicker items. if they were sealed with a laquer of some sort they were deemed ok, but unsealed needed fumigating or...
Forum: Australia
Apr 6th 2005, 1:44 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 348
Posted By delia

Back to reality

I've not posted for ages but felt the urge due to the way i felt when i woke up this morning. As i've said in a previous post the move down under is proving to have been worthwhile in every way, but...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2004, 1:28 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 503
Posted By delia

are we lucky?

We've been living in Perth for one year now and evrything seems to be working out for us, touch wood! We have decent jobs, managed to buy a nice house with kids everywhere for our son to play with...
Forum: Australia
Oct 19th 2004, 2:41 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 456
Posted By delia

Re: Tellies, do they work in Oz?

Hi there, just letting you know about telly's. Some work some don't, and the quality doesn't matter either, we brought an all singing and dancing Panasonic flat screen and it didn't work, but don't...
Forum: Australia
Jan 20th 2004, 1:26 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 468
Posted By delia

Re: Motorbike Question

Check with DOTAR and customs in WA first Andy. I caught a cold when i brought a builders trailer with costs for import duty, cost of transport and then add to that GST, the cost of altering the...
Forum: Australia
Jan 20th 2004, 12:34 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 352
Posted By delia

anyone for golf

Been in Perth for a few weeks now and the cold turkey of not golfing with my old pals has started to kick in. Is there anyone out there who fancies trying to get a couple of 4 balls going where we...
Forum: Australia
Jan 19th 2004, 1:50 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 809
Posted By delia

my initial thoughts about living in perth

i have recently arrived in perth and would like to offer my opinions on the city so far. There are many conflicting opinions posted on this website especially from people who have yet to visit the...
Forum: Australia
Jan 19th 2004, 12:34 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 535
Posted By delia

I've been here in Perth for 7 weeks now and I had...

I've been here in Perth for 7 weeks now and I had to sign a health undertaking. It meant that I had to register with the health authority within 4 weeks of arriving in the country. Your health...
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