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Ha ha yes Evonne it's me. I think you should have us all round for a pool party instead! :-D

Go for it. Worst case you get kicked out! We didn't risk it. Nealy here the 2 years now. There was a recent story on the news here about a scottish couple getting deported because they lived 4km from where they were meant to live on a regional work visa

Citizenship not 4 yrs?

All the gyms will make you join i think. Check out Evolutionised on facebook "https://www.facebook.com/pages/evolutionised/521530771210609" My wife is about to start doing some of these boot camp classes

people are very biased towards whatever suburb they live in. We decided before we moved that we wanted to live around this area and when our lease ended we moved just across the road to forrest (right beside manuka) & no regrets so far. We love the amount of pubs/restaurants & cafe's that kingston & manuka have. Other suburbs have their own areas which all seem nice aswell so it depends on who you ask. I would consider kingston & manuka to be a younger area as there are less houses and more apartments so more couples and less families I suppose

Hey Everyone, I posted a message like this almost 1 year ago when we just arrived in Canberra and it resulted in meeting some fantastic people/couples whom we now consider very good friends so I thought I'd post again as we're always looking to increase the size of our group of friends to go for a few drinks with etc. So if there's any youngish couples (I'm 31 wife is 29) who are not quite at the havin kids stage in life fancy meeting up for a few beers give us a shout. We all live around the kingston/manuka/griffith area and usually head out around those spots. Cheers Steve

Fair play to ya moving here and not using this site. Dunno how we'd have settled without it as we've met most of our friends through it.

My wife (28) & I (30) chose to live in Kingston when we came over in October last year & love it so far. We live on Giles Street close to Canberra Avenue which is right in the middle between the Kingston & Manuka shops, cafe's & Bars. The Kingston Hotel is a 2 minute walk for a pint/food & the new East hotel will be opening soon. My wife gets the bus into the city every day and just walks 5 mins to wentworth avenue to get either the 4, 5 or 200 (Red Rapid) service into civic. She is never waiting long for a bus. We have met a few young couples who all live in the area and regularly go out for dinners/drinks with them as everything is so close. Rent is a bit pricey for what you get but your probably used to that based on your post. I couldn't recommend it enough Best of luck Stephen

Not sure what channel it's on but won't it be on at 5:05am here?

Around the Woden area would probably suit you then. Not far from weston creek & there's buses into the city (blue rapid i think) but not sure how long of a commute that is. We live in kingston which is about a 10-15 minute drive to weston creek & about 15 minute bus into the city. It's a more expensive area but very good for socialising as there's heaps of Cafe's & bars there & in Manuka across the road.

There's also Mr. Rental (http://www.mrrental.com.au/stores/region/canberra) & Radio-rental (http://www.radio-rentals.com.au/Canberra) aswell depending on what you need

The other option is to apply for PR under the skilled migration program but my job is not the list Your job is not on the list for melobourne but what about any of the other states?

Definitely up for this

Canberra wasn't our 1st choice......or 2nd, 3rd or 4th! We had lived in Sydney before so we had planned to go back there out of familiarity. I'm glad we're in Canberra now as it's not a place we'd have chosen ourselves. It was good that the deciscion was taken out of our hands. I sometimes wish we were in sydney instead (usually when I'm sitting on a beach up there at the weekend) but when we come back to Canberra I'm always glad that the "rush" of a big city like Sydney is over :-)

We've been here 7 months and love it. We've met some great people & have never found ourselves bored at any time. The only thing that really annoys me about Canberra is the price of flights to and from it's airport. They seem to be more expensive for some reason (prob cause it's a small country airport?) I have a sister in perth & I keep looking for flights to go visit & they are much cheaper from sydney which is frustrating. Even when I do find flights that might be ok.....they fly to sydney anyway and theres a 2 hour lay over. Thats my only complaint thought & it's not really a knock on the place itself

We didn't have enought for a container so we used Seven Seas Worldwide. They were brilliant. we Sent 13 Tea Chest Boxes (40Kg each), a computer , a kenwood mixer, a guitar & golf clubs. Everything arrived early & there wasn't a mark on anything. Their staff and customer service was very good through out. I would recommend them if you don't have enough for a container. it cost us around 1300 euro i think

Nice one man good work. So it'll be Chelsea in the final then......hope we thrash the disrespectful shower of $^&^!!!! :biggrin:

Stupid question maybe but does anyone know a good barbershop in Canberra? I know there are a lot of salons/hairdressers around that cut mens hair aswell but I've been quoted some ridiculous prices for a haircut ($70 at one place today!)

Your best bet is to check out seek.com.au and filter for ACT. Also check out the canberratimes.com.au site and go to jobs as a lot of local companies advertise in there

The Game will be on at 15:00 in london so Midnight here on the Saturday night. I'm not sure if Foxtel show the FA Cup games or not but depending on where your staying I'm sure any decent Bar/Pub would have it on. If you don't feel like watching it on a busy Sat night they usually replay the games on sunday during the day. You can check TV guides for times & stations. Hope you find somewhere

All i know is that when we were sorting out our state sponsorship to Canberra (We originally wanted to return to Sydney), We had to sign the commitment statement saying we would stay in Canberra for 2 years. On this form it says that they can revoke your visa. As soon as I read that, having gone through the long process of actually getting here I thought the risk (however unlikely) of our visa being revoked wasn't worth moving somewhere else. It also helps that we love Canberra now. May i ask why you even contacted recruiters in VIC if you were sponsored by ACT?

Cool cheers man

We use the Club Lime in Kingston. We find it good but busy. No pool just gym but when you join club lime for the year you get access to all of their gyms so we sometimes go to the Belconnen one to use the pool etc.

When we were applying for our 176 we were required to show funds of $15000 for the main applicant and a further $10000 for every additional applicant on the visa (ie spouse & kids). We had to get a copy of our bank statement verified by a solicitor (Stamped & signed by them after showing them the original) and scanned that to our migration agent. Hope this helps

Thanks man, I've looked at all that before but it doesn't help much unfortunately. I'll have to ring the legal helpline. I've a feeling it will be more trouble than it's worth which is why I was wondering about other peoples experience