RobMc

Hi all. I'm looking at going to Melbourne on a working holiday visa. Would be booking up at last minute with some friends who have already sorted theirs out. They have their visa's, flights and accomodation with friends sorted. Would be leaving in 17 days from now, so not much time to plan anything, but thats the fun part i suppose. What i'm asking is, what is the best solution for short term accomodation? Been told about hostels and that they are cheap. Not exactly sold on that idea. What is the time scale on being able to rent a place? Do landlords even rent places to people on a whv? I work in Engineering. Ideally would like to get a job doing what i'm doing here to make some good connections. (Possibly for sponsorship later on). Are the majority of working holiday jobs bar or farm based? Would normally dive head first into this sort of thing but because it's only 17 days away, i'd be giving up my job, car and all that other stuff and won't have an ideal amount of cash. Hence the boring questions. ANY help would be a massive help. Cheers Rob.

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