paul1977

WA has been in recession for 5 months .. Read the data

True about employing people, but the truth is barrow island has about 5000 people on it at the moment, when the construction phase is over it will only have at a guess 1000 people on it as its in production not construction , so your looking at 80% of people out of work.. That works the same for all sites that go from construction to production.. A lot of trades out of work

Thing is you need a job to pay for it, fine if your already here, established and got "Australian experience " in your field... Not the case getting off the boat

Them thousands of people who work on them major projects all know they are starting to get near the finish line, the jobs your talking about are barrow island, Wheatstone , Roy hill and Darwin .. There are NO other big jobs starting or in the pipe line, the boom is over, I know this as I work on barrow and am expecting to be made redundant by the end of the year.

Boredom, isolation , behind the times just for starters

You can buy my overinflated house but you can't take my job...!! Australians have double standards regarding Chinese people

Let's not go down that road

No just milking the last bit out of FIFO work.. Feb time

I'll put a 1 year update on, not worth doing one before in my opinion, looking forward to going back home but a tad nervous if I'm to be honest. I do laugh at the post's who say ' I've been here 2 weeks and it already feels like home '( when people land in oz )

Well I'm entering my last 6 months in australia, when I get home I'll dissappear from POM... will I be missed....?

I reckon you'll be fine in that

Jesus your something else, your so happy in brisbane you spend your life on an expat forum all day, back to the topic please

Looking at your list I see vetassess.. Is your husband a tradie..? If so your need thousand's for licences and TAFE courses as well as lower wages whilst you get to " Australian standards "

Give me Sussex/Surry over Brisbane .. Easy to pick a **** place, life can be a struggle anywhere, the lads wife will in time go to work so the money troubles will get better , good luck to him

A least he'll know not to move there then... S/E England way better than Brisbane.. Go for it mate

Australia's no cheaper, especially Sydney / Melbourne which are comparable to the S/E

Pull your head put of the sand, i gave an answer which should help a lot

40 km housing estate you mean

not to spend my life on on an expat site... when im home im gone

the 80 dollar cab fare each way

im pleased you have everything you need, some people aspire to more... if i could i would like to live closer to the cbd but paying 700 a week in rent isn't worth it...

some truth in that but not as bad as here

i live 25kms out of the cbd and think im hillbilly , not a lot in the burbs in perth unlike uk

nice house in nice suburb 600000-750000 fact......

he was probably 6575848476483939 kms out of a cbd