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Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 2:11 pm
Replies: 18
Views: 21,288
Posted By camponotus

Re: Thinking of moving to Seaford, Victoria... Is it safe etc. The usual questions.

I know the Seaford area fairly well. Generally, I don't think it's too bad but I also don't think it's considered one of the nicest suburbs along the peninsula between Melbourne and Frankston. It...
Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 12:27 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

Because postage from the UK is not free and is not particularly fast. Plus no mp3 downloads.
Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 12:24 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

Mmm, not bad recommendations, thanks. The latter I knew already, but the former is new to me.

Some brief searching on each has indicated decent range available, but not quite matching Amazon. ...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 15th 2009, 12:16 pm
Replies: 53
Views: 3,379
Posted By camponotus

Re: Unbelievable.. again!!! Closing Time thread

I find a lot of defending of Australia does indeed take place on these forums. Why do I say that? Because the instant someone dares to voice a criticism of something (anything) here, even if they...
Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 11:58 am
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

No equivalent of Amazon here at all, or Play.com or indeed anything like that at all.

If, like me, you have the obscure hobby of ant keeping (though I suspect you don't!), you won't find...
Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 11:56 am
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

I have to agree 100% with this. You can buy virtually ANYTHING you could ever imagine online in the UK, or at the very least from mainland Europe and have it shipped to you in England or Scotland. ...
Forum: Australia
Feb 15th 2009, 11:50 am
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

I think the idea is that you have a choice. If things are open, then you have the choice to use them, or not. If things are shut, well, it's obvious, isn't it.
Forum: Australia
Feb 14th 2009, 12:21 pm
Replies: 82
Views: 9,815
Posted By camponotus

Re: Australian Attitudes II

Total embarrassment??! Oh dear.

''The locals'', FYI, are the most patriotic bunch of people on the face of the earth. Aussies (and, upsettingly, a number of British expats here) love the...
Forum: Australia
Feb 14th 2009, 12:09 pm
Replies: 45
Views: 3,907
Posted By camponotus

Re: Do Australian use A/C? - like do the shops have airconditioning

Not strictly correct. Lots of places do have A/C, yes, but there's plenty, and I mean plenty, of places here in Melbourne that do not have anything other than a ceiling fan running in even the...
Forum: Australia
Feb 14th 2009, 12:02 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 23,603
Posted By camponotus

Re: restaurants close so early here

Australia simply does NOT HAVE the same standard of shops and services as in the UK. I know a hundred defensive 'I love my new Aussie life' expats will jump on that and accuse me of a gross...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 12th 2009, 11:52 am
Replies: 159
Views: 8,295
Posted By camponotus

Re: Why Do people Jump ship?

People jump ship from the UK because, for some sad reason, people are conditioned over time to believe certain things.

Australians are conditioned from the day they're born to think Australia is...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 12th 2009, 10:38 am
Replies: 53
Views: 3,379
Posted By camponotus

Re: Unbelievable.. again!!! Closing Time thread

My wife's maternal grandmother's sister (so her great aunt I suppose) still lives in London but occasionally comes to Australia to visit her sister.

The aunt is reasonably well-off (retired) and...
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 6th 2009, 3:57 pm
Replies: 342
Views: 16,672
Posted By camponotus

Re: BE's not what it used to be...

Are we talking about a specific post here?
Forum: The Barbie
Feb 6th 2009, 3:45 pm
Replies: 342
Views: 16,672
Posted By camponotus

Re: BE's not what it used to be...

Could it be because there are so many people who get upset when they think someone's dared to say something slightly critical about Australia? People who immediately and bumptiously have to reassert...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 6th 2009, 1:16 pm
Replies: 83
Views: 6,756
Posted By camponotus

Re: People that say they absolutely love their new life question?

I think this is COMPLETELY TRUE. England is more crowded/rainier and these factors seem to make it a lot easier to pick-on. Things look, superficially, better in Australia and so when you come here...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 8:38 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,606
Posted By camponotus

Re: Let's see if the mood is any different here?!?!?

I don't think Australia is an ''awful place to live''. What I cannot get my head around at all though is the way people crap on about how much better it supposedly is here than in the UK. How their...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 2:15 pm
Replies: 83
Views: 6,756
Posted By camponotus

Re: People that say they absolutely love their new life question?

Mmmm, I actually don't recall ever hearing that used in the UK in 25 years of living there. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard 'pommie' here in Australia, I'd be a very wealthy guy. So not...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 2:11 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,606
Posted By camponotus

Re: Let's see if the mood is any different here?!?!?

There are lots of things I like here in Aus, believe it or not. Five main things that make me unhappy are:

1) It's not what I'd hoped it would be (affordability wise mainly).
2) There's a lot...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 2:07 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 1,606
Posted By camponotus

Re: Let's see if the mood is any different here?!?!?

I have an Aussie wife (who of course has Aussie parents and friends), an Aussie based small business and soon-to-be 2 kids. Getting back to UK for any longer than 4 weeks at a time will be...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 1:33 pm
Replies: 83
Views: 6,756
Posted By camponotus

Re: People that say they absolutely love their new life question?

There are, in fact, a lot of Aussies (and some expats) who are at least mildly dismissive of the UK. The use of the term 'pommie' is a part of that. You can try to pretend that isn't the case, but...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Feb 5th 2009, 11:23 am
Replies: 83
Views: 6,756
Posted By camponotus

Re: People that say they absolutely love their new life question?

Thank you very much indeed. I understand you're departing these waters soon. Good luck and lucky you.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Feb 5th 2009, 11:21 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,029
Posted By camponotus

Re: What's the 'eccentricity factor' for you?

The Aussies aren't eccentric as a rule. The only eccentric people I've met here are European or American. I mean that literally. I have not met a Aussie national who is even remotely eccentric. ...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Feb 5th 2009, 11:17 am
Replies: 7
Views: 657
Posted By camponotus

Re: Pigeon Smuggling

Aussie's are obsessed with border control. Like the Americans. In fact, they're worse I think. A lot of the things one normally levels at the Americans can be applied very effectively to...
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