gee13

Could be the future Perth Glory coach?

Theyll be needing one soon

Fifo mining? Pays well and youre in the area.. just whether your family can balance with the roster

Otherwise open a curry shop?:wink:

Apparently some Instagram has Wollongong as the smiliest place in oz, with the announcement its one of the happiest places. :eek:

I'm from the Bradford distict originally and went to school in the city. As soon as me and all my mates reached 18 we could not wait to leave and after uni unlike my dad's generation due to lack of local job opportunities we all migrated south to London and overseas.

 

Most of our contemporaries who had any kind of ambition about them also left during the 90s. There was, and is simply no real opportunities for professional people in the city a great shame unlike 30 or more years ago. It has been on the slide for a long time with local out-migration, and has just backfilled with third world immigrants from the poorer parts of poor countries, doing minimum wage jobs and who as a community have steadily become more conservative, small minded, inward looking and attitudey as the decades have worn on (perhaps even more so than the places they've come from).

 

It's now one of the most deprived and least dynamic economic areas in western europe, a massive and shocking decline with the social fabric utterly transformed for the worse. Even in the 80s there was a little joy about the place. Not any more.

Did you watch the program?

Or further South

 

This might be useful for the OP

 

http://reiwa.com.au/Research/Pages/Perth-median-house-price.aspx

Pretty far south too I guess.. down past Kwinana area, which is quite industrial around the Cockburn sound and Grain terminal

A shame because the beaches there are nicer than the north and are shallower, finer white sound like Rockingham foreshore

Good start , good rate of exchange currently will work in your favour..

Other Positives...

Interest rates low..

Uncertainty in mining industry leading to housing industry level off

20k in pounds?

Dont want to shatter you dream but if you want to be close to beach you need to look further north of cbd. If you can secure a combined income of $150 + then that will only afford you a place in Kinross/ Currambine/Butler /Clarkson comes to mind of affordability. Its about 45min to an hour + from CBD. Otherwise if you are lucky to secure income of 200K+ then you can afford Scarborough.

Scarborough / Doubleview will cost between 600k + or 1 million for houses closer to beach.. slightly less for smaller units .. $ 500pw for basic house or $350 for unit very ironic considering 30 years ago you could pick up a scarb beach house for less than 50K, used to be a beach bum suburb that families stayed away from.

Hi folks Just a reminder that Part 2 is on tonight. In 20 minutes actually.

Dont forget Swan Valley..not sure if thats been mentioned. Lovely place our little corner of cottage industry and class wineries.. only 30 mins away from cbd

Belmont Best Western Motel is just down the road.. $95 a night and you can still enjoy everything that Crown can offer..just consider all your 5* food paid for after the accom savings.. hehe

That's good to hear. No-one was going to miss me on the thread about who would you miss if they left PIO.:wink:

You obviously didnt read my post on who Id miss Paul1Perth... :cool: and Rossmoyne what street did you live in?

Cant fault the weather.. Feb has traditionally been Perths hottest month... its now midday and its 30C. Forecast was 26 and low of 18! Apart from about a week of hot weather this summers been great.

Theres about a million.threads like this. To the OP Wannabeassie please do a simple search and you will find these. As for places not open after 6pm? Yes the Post Office and Banks come to mind. I wouldnt say its a ghost town unless you mean Midland after 7...

Who killed the large tuna? And why was somebody in the water with a dead fish about.

It is a shame that somebody died I think the media will have more of a feeding frenzy on this than the shark. Then the do gooders and the do bad'ers will fall out over protecting or killing the sharks, then there will be a debate then the papers will sell more papers meanwhile there's a grieving family.

BTW I was sticking to the facts, humans eat sharks and sharks have eaten people and I will also leave the rash commentary to the Advertiser and the TV networks.

Fair Nuff.. Now how about you join me for a glass of red Gary? Nick and Stacey seem to be knocking off Vodkas, fighting and making up...:laugh:

Ok all you late night alcos... The distance between locations - the WA incident in November and the recent SA incident is 2982 km. Might as well been a shark attack in another continent. Thats not even the distance between Rome to Glasgow!! (2447km)

Not quite Gary, ever eaten couple of peanuts and feeling full? We're not on their menu, the shark was attracted to freshly killed large fish.. tunas the size of Hyundai E3s cruise SA waters.. Ive seen them. A man has died, I think we need to cool off and not be too rash with commentary.. Stick to facts... last fatality in SA was 3 years ago. Thats only 2 deaths in 3 years. But the media will probably go crazy on this again (sigh) Australia is a massive country with a large coastline.. There will be shark fatalities as road deaths along the way..

Condolensces to the family. Been ages between incidents in SA actually, a place where GWS populations actually congregate. Spearfishing in GWS territory is asking for trouble really.. its the next highest risk activity to Surfing. Imagine going to an African Safari and dangling a dead deer around.. the person taken today would have known the risks, today was just the wrong day to pick to go spearfishing.

The mean wage which is commonly construed as average is often misleading because of the higher income earners which represent a low bracket in the standard distribution. Therefore $73k is the 2013 national full time average inclusive of the bracket which involves those in mining, medical practitioners, sportspersons, top end business moguls who earn between 200-400K for example. This will skew the mean range. 56k is probably indicative of national average with part time included.

But If you look at median income distributions you will get a better trend of what's not in fantasyland. That would put it around $48k. We refer to full time wage distribution though. Not across casual Or part time. Income by state can also vary, with WA and ACT the highest medians.

Heres a good article

http://mattcowgill.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/what-is-the-typical-australians-income-in-2013/

Interesting metaphor for having choices during illness, been thinking a lot lately about labelling dis-ease, balance of health (or lack of) and the understated influence of the mind on body. The main question is whether being diagnosed or classified medically hinders improvement or not. This has a very strong effect on the mindset, and the minds way of coping with disease and overcoming it. The western model of medicine doesnt really look to far into this, just treats the symptoms and not the underlying causes. But thats for another thread... Thanks for sharing

Here ya go mate, and any one who missed it

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/123641411988/Bradford-City-Of-Dreams

I could never kill a huntsman - they are too big! Id feel so bad lol plus think of the mess..eurgh. I'd just have to ring gee13 lol

No mess Stacey, I just use a dustpan..or jam jar and kindly move them to the neighbours..:laugh:

Haha yeah you ladies crack me up..whats with fear of harmless spiders and cockies? Give me a buzz when you see em and I ll happily remove em humanely for a nice cuppa tea..:biggrin:

Oh and freckles...btw Paul1Perth is more vehemently for the culling of sharks... :wink:

Aborigines came from overseas originally too.

I know..but didnt want to cause a fuss..:biggrin: