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We were 15, 12, and 10.  Couldn’t have turned out better 

39 minutes ago, Blue Flu said:

After  reflection if you at any time have a change of mind ......

No my days visiting the wrong side of the country are well and truly behind me 

1 hour ago, Blue Flu said:

Well okay..... Another Sandgroper first we'll call it then. Our expertise will no doubt reach out across the miles help you deprived eastern staters out then.  

No thanks, we’re doing just fine 

3 minutes ago, Blue Flu said:

The way Australia is going frightens me. Of course without the benefit of duration of time, the decline may pass somewhat unchecked. Instead of placing scorn on longer term participants, surely they are better placed to take in the changing environment and able to illuminate the situation as stands.

Obviously there is a whole industry out there selling Australia sometimes as some Lotus Land or at best as a vast improvement on UK. It can be for some. I know some that gloat over how well they are doing (especially to relatives remaining in UK) but not always forthcoming in just how that is so. But moving on. We in WA at least, have similar problems to UK , just not yet arrived at their levels of decline (thanks a lot to more than a dozen years of austerity) But then, as here many people are doing very well.  But to further the reasons why things are not so different in the real world is that the hospital system is stretched here as well. WE have the luxury of attracting a lot of UK/Irish nurses though (better pay) so would hate to think how bad it would be otherwise. Still the nurses display disquiet at conditions in recent protests. Teaching? Recent figures showed a teacher is in some form assaulted every forty minutes in a WA school setting. (must admit a result that surprised me) Police? resigning it record numbers and seems unable to stem the flow. Doctors? Close to impossible to find one not charging. Dentists? Expensive .Work? Recent figures show Australians are working some of the longest hours in the world, ( high work stress levels) carry second highest personal debt in the world , (a lot due to having some of the most inflated housing in the world) a pretty much broken rental system,  the highest level of recreational drug use in the world, but besides those few things , the sun shines, the beaches remain attractive and every thing else is hunky dory. 

 

 

Not like that here.  Must be a WA thing…

17 minutes ago, Ausvisitor said:

I guess my issue is that people are very keen to have equality with money they haven't earned.

It's easy to say the government should spend on "this or that" if in reality you are not the one paying for it

You aren’t.  Govt finance isn’t run like a household budget.  

3 hours ago, InnerVoice said:

After some arguing they'll print some more like they always do.

Well they don’t have to ‘print it’, they create it on a keyboard.  

3 hours ago, Parley said:

The US will in about 18 days.

You need to educate yourself.  They’re a currency generating country as is Australia.  Neither can ‘run out of money’ 

36 minutes ago, Parley said:

As Margaret Thatcher pointed out, eventually you will run out of other peoples' money.

The govt can’t ‘run out of money’  it shouldn’t need explaining to you..

20 minutes ago, FirstWorldProblems said:

That’s really good. She must be impressing them and doing well. 

Smart and an asset to any business.  And they still say young people today are no good… 

A month into new job and daughter is looking up.  Senior sales support lady earns $130k and they’re indicating that’s where she’ll be heading, down the track.  Horse bills will be a little easier to handle now..

Anybody watch Herr Kipflers budget reply?  It was all over the place…

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

Hot?  It always sodding rains when I visit Sydney!

Better not this coming weekend as we’re there for a round of the Top Fuel Championship 

22 minutes ago, Skani said:

But most people don't select  their location in Australia based on the narrow,    often ignorant (and mistaken) view of the country by foreigners who have never visited.   Kangaroos, koalas, heat, an opera house and bridge don't contribute to daily quality of life for most people - they are holiday attractions.

There is nothing more insular in Australia than Sydneysiders who consider that Sydney is Australia and somehow superior to every other place in the country.  It isn't.  It suits some people  but it's anathema to others.  Internal migration stats show that it's consistently been losing 30,000+ residents annually to other parts of Australia  - and they're not all leaving for affordability.

It’s an OK place to visit as we will next weekend for a round of the Top Fuel series at Eastern Creek, but having spent so much time there over the last four decades, you couldn’t pay me to live there. 

21 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

Ask them what they think of it in three or four years' time, especially if they have kids.  

All Sydneysiders think Canberra is the pits.  In fact a lot of Sydneysiders run down the whole of the rest of Australia. I can only say that's their problem, and they're missing out.

Not everyone wants a huge, bustling city.  

Unusual to meet somebody in Canberra that doesn’t come from somewhere else…

32 minutes ago, Ausvisitor said:

I live in Sydney, the only people I know that are moving to Canberra are those that love Sydney but can no longer afford it.

They are all gutted to be leaving the main city - the one the entire globe considers to be Australia

Australia is (to the world)

Kangaroo

Koala

Hot

Opera House

Bridge

 

All easily got within 3 km of Sydney CBD, nowhere else can claim that

Canberra is just behind Sydney house price wise and more expensive to rent.  Fastest growing state/territory but wish folk would just stay away.  Horse paddocks now have bloody real estate on ‘em!

3 hours ago, Ausvisitor said:

Yep - cos it's dirt cheap and populated with people with young families who just want to hang at home/park with the kids.

It's a cultural wasteland and a place to avoid if you have any ambition in life (unless you are a politician)

It’s the most expensive city in the country.  More tech startups than any other city and politicians don’t live here.  

2 hours ago, Blue Flu said:

Lots of smiles  or could that be a 'smugness' around me in Perth Inner City. Cafes doing a great business. Yet few seem to work , at least in what was once thought of as main stream jobs. 'Home work' all the rage. 

Perth City has become more livelier, a lot to do with the sudden influx of Chinese (in the main) International students. Less crack heads visible, at least during the day helps as well. But I doubt if many would term Perth a specifically vibrant city. Especially at night.  

Must have changed, as it was pretty damn good at night when there for race meetings.  

Booming!  Just home from a pub crawl and everywhere is packed with smiles on their faces.  There’s a reason the ACT is the fastest growing state/territory…

45 minutes ago, InnerVoice said:

I can't see the appeal either (don't like anywhere that's as flat as a pancake), but 5 million would beg to differ.

Not as bad as Darwin or Rockhampton but that isn’t saying much..

Left Melbourne in ‘73.  One of the happiest days of my life!

If not now it certainly will be in the not too distant future..

On 02/04/2023 at 03:54, Hands Morgan said:

I am due to move to Darwin with my four children in June, and a concern the children have is are there any football teams for them to join for current age groups 13 and 10, I wish this was my only concern!!  My 13 year old has played at at a high standard in the UK, and wants to get playing straight away.  

Any recommendations and advice on how the leagues work would be very much appreciated. 

Kind regards, Stacey

Don’t use ‘football’ if you mean soccer.  

2 hours ago, Tjsmum said:

I reckon I could handle the dry heat better than the humid heat of up here, I work a physical job so the moisture in the air adds more to heat and I sweat stacks more….

We will eventually take holidays down there in the “worst” of the seasons, summer and winter to see if it’s “doable” and is the better choice weather wise 

I used to run with mates on 40C days here (ACT), you know, “mad dogs and Englishmen”, but doubt I could have done that up north.  Heat doesn’t bother me, humidity does!

2 hours ago, Tjsmum said:

@rammygirl Thank you for your input, I’ve been in dry heat and Uluṟu, it was nicer than up here in FNQ! 

Is the Adelaide heat a skin burning heat? I know it’s a weird question to ask but it feels like withibk 5mins of me being outside (without sunscreen on) my skin is sizzling!

I’m hoping to escape that, for the past 2 summers we’ve had up-to 43*c and it’s oppressive!

Can’t be outside for 5 mins without sunscreen, can’t really be outside from 8am-4pm becuase the sun is insane! 
 

Cold mornings sound nice to me! 

Gets hotter than 43 in South Australia.  Far less humidity than Nth Queensland 

1 hour ago, Blue Flu said:

It must be a competition between Country Victoria and Country WA for where is worse in drugs. It would be fair to say that the drug issue inflates the crime .    

Don’t lump all of country Victoria in the same basket as Shepparton