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Forum: Australia
May 24th 2008, 7:21 am
Replies: 35
Views: 2,864
Posted By theshinenz

Smile Re: Kiwi's in Oz - Is it any better than NZ

Speaking from a Kiwis point of view, we moved to Brisbane about 5 months ago, were very excited about it, 5 months in still happy to be here but theres a few things I miss about NZ, theres obviously...
Forum: Australia
Apr 23rd 2008, 6:08 am
Replies: 33
Views: 2,686
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Caboolture district

Hi there, I live in caboolture, I've been here 4 months, I came from New Zealand, initially I tryed to turn people off caboolture, but only coz I was buying land there, and its one of the boom spots...
Forum: Australia
Feb 28th 2008, 6:53 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 4,042
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Caboolture and Morayfield?????? Brisbane

Areas I would suggest around there are Narangba, Burpengary and North Lakes.
Forum: Australia
Feb 28th 2008, 7:37 am
Replies: 14
Views: 862
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Car Loans

I would tend to bring cash, I had a bad experience when I arrived here ins Brisbane ( I am a from NZ ) I thought I really needed a car, I did have a job contract also, the bank wouldn't lend me money...
Forum: Australia
Dec 21st 2007, 5:56 am
Replies: 38
Views: 6,438
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Can anyone recommend a house builder for Queensland?

[QUOTE=Timber Floor Au;5690182]Thats the million dollar question, Trig.


I work on many many many builders houses, all week every week.. and Coral have THE worst rep.
Perry arent too far behind....
Forum: Australia
Dec 20th 2007, 6:17 am
Replies: 38
Views: 6,438
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Can anyone recommend a house builder for Queensland?

That actually sounds BLOODY cheap for a 200m 3ph cable!!:blink:
Forum: Australia
Dec 12th 2007, 6:02 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,743
Posted By theshinenz

Re: School fees Exemption ?

You must be looking at private schooling for that price??
Forum: Australia
Dec 12th 2007, 5:36 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,743
Posted By theshinenz

Smile Re: School fees Exemption ?

Are school fees higher in NSW? We are from New Zealand and recently visited North Brisbane, we were astounded that the state high school we looked at for our kids only charged $125 a YEAR per child,...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 13th 2007, 2:54 am
Replies: 38
Views: 2,008
Posted By theshinenz

Re: location input needed ASAP....

Definately New Plymouth, although I'm leaving here soon, I've lived here all my life, and to be honest its only in that past 5 to 10 years its become a great city, especially for walks, the foreshore...
Forum: Australia
Nov 11th 2007, 5:45 am
Replies: 38
Views: 2,105
Posted By theshinenz

Re: who's been swimming in the pool today?

Has the rain eased the water situation at all?? Seriously??
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 9th 2007, 3:24 am
Replies: 23
Views: 5,583
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Electrician wanting to move to NZ

I'd tend to avoid NZ altogether, the positive is its a great green clean country but the negatives outweigh the positives IMO. The living expenses are very high for what you get in housing now, the...
Forum: Australia
Nov 6th 2007, 5:28 pm
Replies: 41
Views: 1,937
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Electrician wanting to move to Oz

Hahaha, I've worked with dozens of British sparks, most of them were pretty good actually, there were a couple though that let the side down, wingy bloody buggers, you'd think they were carrying a 10...
Forum: Australia
Nov 6th 2007, 5:15 pm
Replies: 41
Views: 1,937
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Electrician wanting to move to Oz

Just a not to those sparkies with experience in the UK, I know sparkies from NZ who have worked in the UK and say its quite a bit different especially domestic anyway, industrial would be more close...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2007, 6:39 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 593
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Other Computer Console Games and Australia...

I'm pretty sure they are popular in Oz also, the only problem may be compatibility, I know that the new PS3 is region free so will play games from anywhere in the world, I know the xbox 360 is not...
Forum: Australia
Oct 31st 2007, 6:28 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 1,282
Posted By theshinenz

Re: North Lakes

Hi there, I find this site very useful for calculating the distances between suburbs:

http://www.racq.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/racq_cms_production/hs.xsl/travel_trip_planner_ENA_HTML.htm
Forum: Australia
Oct 28th 2007, 6:27 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,465
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Caboolture???

Didn't mean to start a slagging match, but thanks for the info, I still think Caboolture may be right for us, we would be living in a new estate area anyway or perhaps Morayfield, we are planning to...
Forum: Australia
Oct 28th 2007, 7:00 am
Replies: 23
Views: 1,465
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Caboolture???

To be honest the "type" of people living there doesn't bother me unless its unsafe, in new zealand I have lived in an area that some people might say is undesirable and have never had a problem, in...
Forum: Australia
Oct 28th 2007, 6:24 am
Replies: 23
Views: 1,465
Posted By theshinenz

Talking Caboolture???

Hi all, is anyone here living in or near Caboolture?? It looks pretty nice from looking at websites. Very good prices on houses there too, and plenty of work for tradesman. Be interested to hear from...
Forum: Australia
Oct 26th 2007, 6:23 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,376
Posted By theshinenz

Re: rent forever!!!!!

I thought most people would opt for selling up everything including the car and household furniture and buy again over here, it must be quite a bit cheaper considering you guys are a lot further away...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2007, 8:42 am
Replies: 29
Views: 2,376
Posted By theshinenz

Re: rent forever!!!!!

Yeah, I guess so, I am in a bit of a grumpy negative mood tonight, fair enough. Still think if you want something bad enough though theres no reason why you can't have it if you focus and set your...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2007, 8:03 am
Replies: 29
Views: 2,376
Posted By theshinenz

Re: rent forever!!!!!

Not to put downer on things, I would have thought most people would have thought about the scenario by the age or 30 or so of what their long term goals are and work towards them, if you leave it...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2007, 5:55 am
Replies: 4
Views: 453
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Wynnum High School

We've been looking at schools also and came across the OP scores of all the schools, Wynnum SHS didn't score too high on the list though.

Heres the link:
...
Forum: Australia
Oct 24th 2007, 8:55 am
Replies: 6
Views: 635
Posted By theshinenz

Re: HP's in Queensland??

Thanks, yeah we shouldn't have a problem, we have had finance in NZ with GE MOney as well so they may be able to cross check or something, however, hink it might be best to bring the credit card as a...
Forum: Australia
Oct 24th 2007, 4:07 am
Replies: 6
Views: 635
Posted By theshinenz

HP's in Queensland??

Hi there, we are moving from NZ to Brisbane in January. We are from NZ, and I am a self employed sparky here, I am in the process of trying to sell the business but are on a tight schedule so if we...
Forum: Australia
Oct 18th 2007, 6:22 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 2,038
Posted By theshinenz

Re: Did anyone use Westpac for a mortgage?

I thought you had to be in Australia for 6 months to qualify for a first home buyers grant??? Is that true or not??
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