Six weeks back - my impressions (warning, whinge)

[paul1977]

North QLD or north WA?

 

I thought you were already in the UK.

barrow island WA

[Que Sera Sera]

North QLD or north WA?

 

I thought you were already in the UK.

 

 

He works Fifo at the same place as my OH .

[paul1977]

He works Fifo at the same place as my OH .

I'm in clusters not fly

[fifi69]

What do you do when your back in Perth Paul??

 

ive never seen a post from you saying you've been to ??? In Perth or surrounds.

 

Do you bother to get out and explore??

 

I realise Fifo can be hard on families, especially those with young kids, but surely you don't just hang about the suburbs?

 

Fwiw....on the arguement re metro/ not metro.

 

for the first couple of years I lived inner metro, for the last year I've lived SOR in the burbs.

 

Really, for us anyway its been swings and roundabouts. Yes you are a lot less closer to more amenities, the city, choice of restaurants, pubs etc, when your metro, but when your working mon-Fri, 9-5, it doesn't really make much difference. You tend to be busy doing housey things anyway.

 

It also doesn't always mean a long commute to work. I'm 10mins away from mine. OH, is 40mins away from his.

 

I actually find the burbs friendlier, and love living in the peace n quiet, but understand the draw off a busier place, maybe one day an apartment closer to the CBD may be what we look for.

 

i look at the choices we do have, plenty of beaches, as all of Perths coastline, can be in the hills in less than an hour, can be in the Margret river region in 2 hours. If we do want to travel into the city, then its a 40min train ride, no dramas, and we do quite a lot. But if we want to stay local then there is places within walking distance.

 

have you lived in more than one area of Perth?? Or is all your negativity geared to a certain area?? Have you tried to socialise in your area??

[paul1977]

What do you do when your back in Perth Paul??

 

ive never seen a post from you saying you've been to ??? In Perth or surrounds.

 

Do you bother to get out and explore??

 

I realise Fifo can be hard on families, especially those with young kids, but surely you don't just hang about the suburbs?

 

Fwiw....on the arguement re metro/ not metro.

 

for the first couple of years I lived inner metro, for the last year I've lived SOR in the burbs.

 

Really, for us anyway its been swings and roundabouts. Yes you are a lot less closer to more amenities, the city, choice of restaurants, pubs etc, when your metro, but when your working mon-Fri, 9-5, it doesn't really make much difference. You tend to be busy doing housey things anyway.

 

It also doesn't always mean a long commute to work. I'm 10mins away from mine. OH, is 40mins away from his.

 

I actually find the burbs friendlier, and love living in the peace n quiet, but understand the draw off a busier place, maybe one day an apartment closer to the CBD may be what we look for.

 

i look at the choices we do have, plenty of beaches, as all of Perths coastline, can be in the hills in less than an hour, can be in the Margret river region in 2 hours. If we do want to travel into the city, then its a 40min train ride, no dramas, and we do quite a lot. But if we want to stay local then there is places within walking distance.

 

have you lived in more than one area of Perth?? Or is all your negativity geared to a certain area?? Have you tried to socialise in your area??

After being here for 4 years I can safely say that after 3 months you've seen everything in Perth, I've flogged the beaches and parks to death, you can walk around the CBD in 15 minutes and I've also done the only 2 day trips from perth ( freo and mandrah ) I spent countless hours staring out to sea like a penguin along the paths, my idea of living somewhere isn't to fill it up with sporting events as there's sweet FA to do/go apart from that. Next month I can count on one hand the months till I leave , I can fully understand why perth gets labled the most boring city in australia

[paul1977]

What do you do when your back in Perth Paul??

 

ive never seen a post from you saying you've been to ??? In Perth or surrounds.

 

Do you bother to get out and explore??

 

I realise Fifo can be hard on families, especially those with young kids, but surely you don't just hang about the suburbs?

 

Fwiw....on the arguement re metro/ not metro.

 

for the first couple of years I lived inner metro, for the last year I've lived SOR in the burbs.

 

Really, for us anyway its been swings and roundabouts. Yes you are a lot less closer to more amenities, the city, choice of restaurants, pubs etc, when your metro, but when your working mon-Fri, 9-5, it doesn't really make much difference. You tend to be busy doing housey things anyway.

 

It also doesn't always mean a long commute to work. I'm 10mins away from mine. OH, is 40mins away from his.

 

I actually find the burbs friendlier, and love living in the peace n quiet, but understand the draw off a busier place, maybe one day an apartment closer to the CBD may be what we look for.

 

i look at the choices we do have, plenty of beaches, as all of Perths coastline, can be in the hills in less than an hour, can be in the Margret river region in 2 hours. If we do want to travel into the city, then its a 40min train ride, no dramas, and we do quite a lot. But if we want to stay local then there is places within walking distance.

 

have you lived in more than one area of Perth?? Or is all your negativity geared to a certain area?? Have you tried to socialise in your area??

After being here for 4 years I can safely say that after 3 months you've seen everything in Perth, I've flogged the beaches and parks to death, you can walk around the CBD in 15 minutes and I've also done the only 2 day trips from perth ( freo and mandrah ) I spent countless hours staring out to sea like a penguin along the paths, my idea of living somewhere isn't to fill it up with sporting events as there's sweet FA to do/go apart from that. Next month I can count on one hand the months till I leave , I can fully understand why perth gets labled the most boring city in australia

[ali]

After being here for 4 years I can safely say that after 3 months you've seen everything in Perth, I've flogged the beaches and parks to death, you can walk around the CBD in 15 minutes and I've also done the only 2 day trips from perth ( freo and mandrah ) I spent countless hours staring out to sea like a penguin along the paths, my idea of living somewhere isn't to fill it up with sporting events as there's sweet FA to do/go apart from that. Next month I can count on one hand the months till I leave , I can fully understand why perth gets labled the most boring city in australia

 

I've been here 8 years and don't feel that we've seen or done everything there is to do - we obviously have very different outlooks on life. I do wish you well and hope that your return to the UK provides you with more enjoyment. I honestly can't imagine living in the mindset of hating somewhere so much that you describe in your posts Paul.

[HappyHeart]

Well I've been here in Perth for 6 and a half years and I can hand on heart say I've never ever been bored. I love living here and I never want to leave.

[Que Sera Sera]

Paul you've been on Barrow all that time haven't you? And you've a new baby? How on earth have you managed to do everything in that time?

[HappyHeart]

2 day trips from Perth? I wouldn't even call them day trips?? Get a map and stick pins in it then drive. In the UK you'd drive for hours in traffic to get to a different city. If you're bored explore. I could list the interesting places north South and East of Perth but it would not be appreciated I feel. Once you've written a place off that's it really. It's just about the person and what suits their needs/floats their boat not the place.

[beach pig]

After being here for 4 years I can safely say that after 3 months you've seen everything in Perth, I've flogged the beaches and parks to death, you can walk around the CBD in 15 minutes and I've also done the only 2 day trips from perth ( freo and mandrah ) I spent countless hours staring out to sea like a penguin along the paths, my idea of living somewhere isn't to fill it up with sporting events as there's sweet FA to do/go apart from that. Next month I can count on one hand the months till I leave , I can fully understand why perth gets labled the most boring city in australia

After adelaide mind.:laugh:

[flag of convenience]

Bunbury is lovely, we actually were looking at blocks down that way a few weeks back. It's proximity to the south west especially. My OH has distant relatives living at Boyanup, lovely place.

 

Bunbury has vastly improved from days of old. It was a somewhat tough sort of place decades back with little to say good about it. I know spent a year and a half there as a kid. I just wish they wouldn't charge city prices going out to eat. Elements of course still exist of course.Still a place close to the city would be fine. House prices not too bad as things go. I regret didn't buy in Marsden Point,(the recently developed area up from the old port) when could and cheaper on its development. But anywhere near the CBD is good. Short walk to the Back Beach to the town and Point etc. Train service to Perth as well, although nowhere as frequent as the Mandurah Line of course.

[Que Sera Sera]

Bunbury has vastly improved from days of old. It was a somewhat tough sort of place decades back with little to say good about it. I know spent a year and a half there as a kid. I just wish they wouldn't charge city prices going out to eat. Elements of course still exist of course.Still a place close to the city would be fine. House prices not too bad as things go. I regret didn't buy in Marsden Point,(the recently developed area up from the old port) when could and cheaper on its development. But anywhere near the CBD is good. Short walk to the Back Beach to the town and Point etc. Train service to Perth as well, although nowhere as frequent as the Mandurah Line of course.

 

 

We we had lunch in that exact spot a couple of weeks back. Forget the name of the place but it was lovely this was the view from our table.

[flag of convenience]

I've been here 8 years and don't feel that we've seen or done everything there is to do - we obviously have very different outlooks on life. I do wish you well and hope that your return to the UK provides you with more enjoyment. I honestly can't imagine living in the mindset of hating somewhere so much that you describe in your posts Paul.

 

Although hardly an original comment from Paul in that many repeat much the same. Perhaps even more Europeans than Brit's if that is believable. I fully take on board both arguments. It does depend on variables. For example your stage of life. In the twenties certainly found it super boring. Many still do.

Asians I speak to find it a little too slow unless like a Chinese lady was speaking to yesterday preferred the quieter life to Sydney which reminded her to China.

 

It's what one is looking for and Perth/WA certainly does not suit all for a host of reasons. I think the reasons for both arguments should be clearly aired.

[newjez]

I've been here 8 years and don't feel that we've seen or done everything there is to do - we obviously have very different outlooks on life. I do wish you well and hope that your return to the UK provides you with more enjoyment. I honestly can't imagine living in the mindset of hating somewhere so much that you describe in your posts Paul.

 

Seriously ali you must have done the Perth zoo, aqua, white man park loop with young kids? It does get a bit tedious. You get that effect anywhere, it does happen fairly fast in Perth though. Problem is and always has been that you don't have the itinerant population to sustain the variety due to the isolation of the place.

 

It is a known factor and something you have to move through. If you're kids aren't sporty, Perth can get a little dull.

[HappyHeart]

Get yourself down to Margs QSS. The areas surrounding the actual town are the best (imo) Boranup Prevelly Gnarabup witchcliffe cowaramup. It's so beautiful and I am devo'd to be leaving again

[Que Sera Sera]

Get yourself down to Margs QSS. The areas surrounding the actual town are the best (imo) Boranup Prevelly Gnarabup witchcliffe cowaramup. It's so beautiful and I am devo'd to be leaving again

Lovely, Cowaramup is that the ones with the cows?

[flag of convenience]

We we had lunch in that exact spot a couple of weeks back. Forget the name of the place but it was lovely this was the view from our table.[ATTACH=CONFIG]30221[/ATTACH]

 

Now allow me to guess which glass belongs to who? The wine drinker being obviously thirstier of the two. I take it you refer to Marsden Point overlooking the marina place there. First was a little confused thinking those were buildings in the distance . Of course it's the Bunbury Port not buildings. It started operations in the early eighties, prior to that all shipping docked near where you were sitting. Either at the jetty or land backed wharf.

[HappyHeart]

Yes they call it cowtown. The beach there down cowards up bay road is pretty awesome. Gracetown. Selling blocks there for 115k

[HappyHeart]

We've put our plans to move down on hold. Not feasible with our jobs and too good to walk away from. Looking at a second home down here (as I do after each trip)

[fifi69]

After being here for 4 years I can safely say that after 3 months you've seen everything in Perth, I've flogged the beaches and parks to death, you can walk around the CBD in 15 minutes and I've also done the only 2 day trips from perth ( freo and mandrah ) I spent countless hours staring out to sea like a penguin along the paths, my idea of living somewhere isn't to fill it up with sporting events as there's sweet FA to do/go apart from that. Next month I can count on one hand the months till I leave , I can fully understand why perth gets labled the most boring city in australia

 

Well I reckon you've just told me what I needed to know.

 

i find it a shame, you've done so little, you've missed out on heaps of good stuff.

 

15 mins to get round the CBD, really!! Every time I go I find new places. 15 mins wouldn't even cover hay n Murray street....what about the rest:wacko:

 

you count Freo n Mandurah as a day out from Perth!! As far as I recall they are Perth :err:

 

so your basically saying apart from work, you've never left Perth.

[fifi69]

We've put our plans to move down on hold. Not feasible with our jobs and too good to walk away from. Looking at a second home down here (as I do after each trip)

 

Dont worry....you will get there.

 

Life's a hard balance on what you would like to do and what you need to do.

 

just don't leave your dreams too late for you to be unable to enjoy them:daydreaming:

[Guest]

i quite like burger rings , blue sky's are nice (don't like the heat now ) , grilled(a burger chain) burgers are just fab, like boost drinks, and the last thing and most important is i thank Australia for showing me what a fantastic city/country i come from, it was right under my nose but was too blind to see it .

 

Grill'd burgers are great. Nice to see a positive post :shocked:

[fifi69]

Grill'd burgers are great. Nice to see a positive post :shocked:

@Lindor and myself went to one because it was handy on our last night out.

 

Personally....its just another glorified burger joint.

 

That was my first n last time I can assure you.

 

Yesterday after taking the dogs walking on the swan river, we called into a lovely little cafe. OH had the homemade lamb burger , not my cup of tea but he said it was great, certainly looked the biz, far better than some chain.

 

but as we can gather....I don't think the OP is too adventurous regarding his tastes, or travels.

[Guest]

I don't know, they are a lot better than your average chain. They also aren't all the same like some chains, my local now serves beer from the local microbrewery which is a bonus rather than the standard big brewery's.

 

Paul does sound like one of those people who wanted England in the sun and is now disappointed he cant hit wetherspoons