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I'm from Newcastle living in perth for just over 8 month.

Just wondering what you miss most obviously friends and family but what else?

i think top of my list would be

 

supermarkets (24 hours, the price and range)

been able to walk to friends houses!

the NHS

the UK high street

British tv

good sausages and bacon.

Country side

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Nothing, each State is so different that the things you miss in Perth may be available in Perth, Sydney and Adelaide as we have different laws.

 

We have daylight saving

We have 24 hour shopping

 

Can't help you with the sausages or the bacon Huttons Bacon is the one I would say is the nearest to the stuff in UK.

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Special fish'n'chip supper

A decent sweet and sour chicken'n'rice

Irn Bru

walking thru the Rose gardens in Edinburgh at xmas

and the courtesy of drivers vs Sydney - yes I spent 3months in 2011 covering miles and miles around Scotland, so I don't have rose colored glasses on.

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Friends / Family and Bisto (when we unexpectedly run-out).

 

Ha. I remember when I migrated here, a friend asked me if I would bring 6 packets of Bisto to her daughter in Melbourne. You'll eventually become acclimatized. I will take Gravox back to Uk with me when I go......lol

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mmmmm sausages.

 

Managed to find:

Good Tea

Passable bacon

English real ale (in bottles, but brewery in Wagga making English ales so quite close, see next item.)

Giving a taste of the real ales without charging for it!

Topping the pint up without an arguement.

Giving back a bad pint without an arguement.

 

 

Oh yes.........a good curry with some taste!

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Special fish'n'chip supper

A decent sweet and sour chicken'n'rice

Irn Bru

walking thru the Rose gardens in Edinburgh at xmas

and the courtesy of drivers vs Sydney - yes I spent 3months in 2011 covering miles and miles around Scotland, so I don't have rose colored glasses on.

 

They have Irn bru in Woolworths

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Ha. I remember when I migrated here, a friend asked me if I would bring 6 packets of Bisto to her daughter in Melbourne. You'll eventually become acclimatized. I will take Gravox back to Uk with me when I go......lol

 

To be honest, Green's gravy granules are a reasonable replacement. The main issue I had with gravy powder was all I ever seemed me make was a lumpy mess!

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Tesco's

Clothes shops especially River Island and Primark

Trebor Extra Strong Mints (although I have now found a shop in Brisbane that sells them)

Brother's Strawberry Cider

Apple and Raspberry juice, particularly Tesco's Sungrown range (and no the cordial you can buy in the supermarket here is not the same, I've tried it and didn't like it)

 

That's it I think :-)

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My OH misses Marigold rubber gloves.

 

And my youngest misses Vimto (has to be sugar free version).

 

Only been here since july and haven't really tried buying new clothes or shoes yet but I've seen loads of shops with nice looking things in so I don't think I'll miss the clothes shops either. Can't think of anything I miss really. Found lots of new things that I love though.

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.........lots of things...........often at Christmas time when the cards arrive.............showing red post boxes and robin red breast.....

.........been here too long to honestly remember the taste of the food in the uk.......

..........though have enjoyed some uk food recently..........pork pies were nice....

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