Marisawright Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Compared to Coles & Woolies best, Markies Food is waaaay ahead. Oh and it doesn't shut at 5:30 or on Sundays. Love the £3 brekkie special with tea & toast on these winter Sunday morns after doing our weekly shop. As they say in Scotland, "Ye cannae whack it jimmy" !! Here in Southampton, all the supermarkets close at 4pm on Sundays. M&S closes at 5 pm. In Sydney, Coles and Woolworths have been open 24/7 for years. £3 = $6. In the Inner West of Sydney, I'd get a bacon and egg bap and good coffee for that. And that would be in a nice cafe, not in a faceless supermarket cafe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Compared to Coles & Woolies best, Markies Food is waaaay ahead. Oh and it doesn't shut at 5:30 or on Sundays. Come to think of it, the 2 new supermarkets in town are 24 hours, 7 days a week, they are HUGE and really cheap too. Love the £3 brekkie special with tea & toast on these winter Sunday morns after doing our weekly shop. As they say in Scotland, "Ye cannae whack it jimmy" !! I don't buy much food produce in Coles/Woolies. They both need a damned good shake-up. Compared to UK supermarkets they are lacking big time. I shop mainly at the local farmers' markets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Here in Southampton, all the supermarkets close at 4pm on Sundays. M&S closes at 5 pm. In Sydney, Coles and Woolworths have been open 24/7 for years. £3 = $6. In the Inner West of Sydney, I'd get a bacon and egg bap and good coffee for that. And that would be in a nice cafe, not in a faceless supermarket cafe. West Sydney....oh dear, Rooty Hill & Parramatta !!!!, been through those places a couple of times...not the sort of places you go wandering about. Every door & window on every house is covered in those hideous cream coloured security meshes. I am sure I went go-karting somewhere out there once too, great track. Then we went up through the Blue Mountains and ended up staying in a dodgy but very expensive motel in some one horse town. For what that long weekend cost us, we could have flown to Singapore and stayed in the Orchard Rd Marriott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelbourneTractor Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Here in Southampton, all the supermarkets close at 4pm on Sundays. M&S closes at 5 pm. In Sydney, Coles and Woolworths have been open 24/7 for years. £3 = $6. In the Inner West of Sydney, I'd get a bacon and egg bap and good coffee for that. And that would be in a nice cafe, not in a faceless supermarket cafe. $6!!!! You wouldn't get much change from $20 if you bought those in a nice cafe in Melbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 $6!!!! You wouldn't get much change from $20 if you bought those in a nice cafe in Melbourne. hehe, She's talking about Rooty Hill here though....oh sorry I meant "West Sydney" They need to make it $6 and cheap just so they can get people to go there !!!!. Oh yes, Sydney. I couldn't wait to get to see the "world famous" Bondi Beach.... but I needn't have bothered. What a "damp squib" that place turned out to be. Sydney...not for me. The Blue mountains were quaint though and certainly worth travelling to Sydney for. Apart from Darling Harbour, the bridge and the Oprah house, there wasn't much there that "floated my boat". Just looked like a much bigger,crowded, messy, disorganised, more dated version of anywhere else in Australia once you headed out of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 hehe, She's talking about Rooty Hill here though....oh sorry I should say "West Sydney" They need to make it $6 and cheap just so they can get people to go there !!!!. Oh yes, Sydney. I couldn't wait to get to see Bondi Beach, what a "damp squib" that was ! Not western Sydney. Marisa means the inner west. Huge difference. Bit like comparing trendy parts of Glasgow with some of the suburbs that my Glasgow pal described as downtown Soweto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Not western Sydney. Marisa means the inner west. Huge difference. Bit like comparing trendy parts of Glasgow with some of the suburbs that my Glasgow pal described as downtown Soweto. No doubt...., but I couldn't resist winding Marisa up a bit.. Actually I did have a nice time in Sydney come to think of it, and the drive up the Blue Mountains was probably the nicest car journey I made in my time in Australia. Going back to Perth after a break in NSW and Sydney, admittedly was a bit of a contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Not western Sydney. Marisa means the inner west. Huge difference. Bit like comparing trendy parts of Glasgow with some of the suburbs that my Glasgow pal described as downtown Soweto. Springburn and Pollock would have to be two of the roughest Glasgow 'suburbs' I have seen. Makes the western Sydney suburbs look very posh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Not western Sydney. Marisa means the inner west. Huge difference. Bit like comparing trendy parts of Glasgow with some of the suburbs that my Glasgow pal described as downtown Soweto. Exactly what I was going to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 No doubt...., but I couldn't resist winding Marisa up a bit.. Actually I did have a nice time in Sydney come to think of it, and the drive up the Blue Mountains was probably the nicest car journey I made in my time in Australia. Going back to Perth after a break in NSW and Sydney, admittedly was a bit of a contrast. The Blue Mountains are very pretty, especially in winter. Some nice wee cafes with open fires - lovely on a cold day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johndoe Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 It's weird down there. Last time I went to the Blue mountains in a campervan, I woke up to snow. The following day, down in a campsite in Sydney, I woke to the most incredible sunrise, so much so, that the inside of the van glowed red..............stepped outside and it was that huge red dust storm!...............if anyone remembers that a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macalec Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Been here 50 years now heading back never settled big decision but the right one , Don't stay to please other people do what you feel in your heart ,Wish I had a lot earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 It's weird down there. Last time I went to the Blue mountains in a campervan, I woke up to snow. The following day, down in a campsite in Sydney, I woke to the most incredible sunrise, so much so, that the inside of the van glowed red..............stepped outside and it was that huge red dust storm!...............if anyone remembers that a few years back. Remember it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrom81 Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Agreed, anywhere west of Balmain and youre talking a completely different city.. auburn, Granville.. basically like mini istanbuls! Bondi is very much a vegemite love it or hate it place.. coffee, breakfast, early weekend mornings on the beach before the sun rises, views of icebergs, the disjointed scruffy charm of the place and the cliffs between bondi and bronte are all winners. however the rubbish bars, rubbish housing, rubbish parking, rubbish people can outweigh these things. agreed with you there johnny til you mentioned darling harbour?! get your head tested, worst area in Sydney. unless you like tourist restaurants, dodgy aquariums and tacky bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Agreed, anywhere west of Balmain and youre talking a completely different city.. auburn, Granville.. basically like mini istanbuls! Bondi is very much a vegemite love it or hate it place.. coffee, breakfast, early weekend mornings on the beach before the sun rises, views of icebergs, the disjointed scruffy charm of the place and the cliffs between bondi and bronte are all winners. however the rubbish bars, rubbish housing, rubbish parking, rubbish people can outweigh these things. agreed with you there johnny til you mentioned darling harbour?! get your head tested, worst area in Sydney. unless you like tourist restaurants, dodgy aquariums and tacky bars. Agree with you about Darling Harbour - just tacky and also whilst I'm whinging ..................... the casino - what a dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Agreed, anywhere west of Balmain and youre talking a completely different city... I would put the border a bit further out - round about Concord - but you're right. It's one reason I'm sitting here in Southampton and not still in Sydney. The Inner West and Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are both special places and great to live in. Once you get beyond those boundaries, you're too far from everything that makes Sydney worthwhile! I got to the point where I realised I couldn't afford to live in that magic circle so I decided I'd rather move elsewhere altogether - finding the right alternative is turning out to be difficult though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I met a man in uk (he's australian) but due to his parents being poms. Holds both passports. a couple of children later and a move to australia was on the cards. 10 years down the line and I am still homesick, more homesick with each year. We have done ok here and had a couple more kids. but I am starting to hate australia. I want to go home, he is not keen on the idea. I have explained we are actually financally better over in the uk as I have a job I can walk into. He says NO, australia is best. But he doesn't work here, sits at home. I have no family here, bar his (no comment on that) and my parents and family obviously come for hoildays. But I don't know what to do with him. How do I put my case across? Back to the OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrom81 Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I would put the border a bit further out - round about Concord - but you're right. It's one reason I'm sitting here in Southampton and not still in Sydney. The Inner West and Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are both special places and great to live in. Once you get beyond those boundaries, you're too far from everything that makes Sydney worthwhile! I got to the point where I realised I couldn't afford to live in that magic circle so I decided I'd rather move elsewhere altogether - finding the right alternative is turning out to be difficult though. concord? I'm a bondi boy so never been there. I work in the CBD so haven't been west of Balmain in a year or so. having said that I'm breaking my duck tonight and having a weekend in the blue mountains. youre right it is depressing. like many things in life, sacrifices are needed.. I live in a very modest flat share in bondi, don't drive and earn 130k. means I can get home once a year to see family, eat at nice places now and again and generally enjoy what the city has to offer. that said, theres not much left at the end of the month, but I don't intend staying here for much longer so I'm not leaving anything undone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoDemocracy Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 hehe, She's talking about Rooty Hill here though....oh sorry I meant "West Sydney" They need to make it $6 and cheap just so they can get people to go there !!!!. Oh yes, Sydney. I couldn't wait to get to see the "world famous" Bondi Beach.... but I needn't have bothered. What a "damp squib" that place turned out to be. Sydney...not for me. The Blue mountains were quaint though and certainly worth travelling to Sydney for. Apart from Darling Harbour, the bridge and the Oprah house, there wasn't much there that "floated my boat". Just looked like a much bigger,crowded, messy, disorganised, more dated version of anywhere else in Australia once you headed out of town. That's a bit harsh, but I must say I was never very impressed myself I must admit, I'm sure there are some nice bits tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoDemocracy Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I would put the border a bit further out - round about Concord - but you're right. It's one reason I'm sitting here in Southampton and not still in Sydney. The Inner West and Eastern Suburbs of Sydney are both special places and great to live in. Once you get beyond those boundaries, you're too far from everything that makes Sydney worthwhile! I got to the point where I realised I couldn't afford to live in that magic circle so I decided I'd rather move elsewhere altogether - finding the right alternative is turning out to be difficult though. Southampton may not be the place to choose for several reasons, it was heavily bombed and the guts of the city were ripped down and rebuilt in the brutalist way of the 50's and 60's; the mainstay of the city was the docks and transport of goods and as a liner port, that is now mainly gone and I'm not sure that anything as well paying in the job line has come along to take its place, it's now just a dormitory town for London I would guess with most of it's brightest people either left or commuting up to London and hardly ever using thd city centre but shopping up town, I would guess it's suffering the fate of a lot of the provincial towns and cities around London seeing most of their brightest and best either commuting or upping and leaving as the life blood gets sucked out of them by London and by the decline in traditional industries which were their original raison d'etre and which provided relatively well paid jobs for a populace which had no aspiration to have a university education. You will find this scenario repeated all over England, towns and cities where good paying fundamental industries are gone and low paid service sector jobs are all that is available and the places are becoming sad, sad shadows of themselves with little hope of recovery without massive re-jigging of the economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Southampton may not be the place to choose for several reasons.... We didn't choose it, we started out in Bournemouth which felt like God's waiting room, so we jumped a bit too hastily at the next option (we couldn't extend our temp accommodation any longer). The reason we're still here is that though we've found a few places we like better, they're too expensive (I know, champagne tastes beer income!). I haven't settled into English culture anyway so we are going back to Australia, therefore there was no point moving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patphillips47 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 We didn't choose it, we started out in Bournemouth which felt like God's waiting room, so we jumped a bit too hastily at the next option (we couldn't extend our temp accommodation any longer). The reason we're still here is that though we've found a few places we like better, they're too expensive (I know, champagne tastes beer income!). I haven't settled into English culture anyway so we are going back to Australia, therefore there was no point moving. Thinking should we have a moving back to Oz forum to put a slant on why people want to move back ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoDemocracy Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Thinking should we have a moving back to Oz forum to put a slant on why people want to move back ? Now that I like!!!!!!!!!!!!!:jiggy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
can1983 Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Southampton may not be the place to choose for several reasons, it was heavily bombed and the guts of the city were ripped down and rebuilt in the brutalist way of the 50's and 60's; the mainstay of the city was the docks and transport of goods and as a liner port, that is now mainly gone and I'm not sure that anything as well paying in the job line has come along to take its place, it's now just a dormitory town for London I would guess with most of it's brightest people either left or commuting up to London and hardly ever using thd city centre but shopping up town, I would guess it's suffering the fate of a lot of the provincial towns and cities around London seeing most of their brightest and best either commuting or upping and leaving as the life blood gets sucked out of them by London and by the decline in traditional industries which were their original raison d'etre and which provided relatively well paid jobs for a populace which had no aspiration to have a university education.You will find this scenario repeated all over England, towns and cities where good paying fundamental industries are gone and low paid service sector jobs are all that is available and the places are becoming sad, sad shadows of themselves with little hope of recovery without massive re-jigging of the economy. Er have you ever been! Southampton is still one of the worlds largest cruise ship terminals. I would say second to Miami. The container port is UK top 10. Largest car export port. Heaps of jobs I've never had trouble getting a job there and it provides everything you need. Weather like all of the UK is shite that I will admit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imapla Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Thinking should we have a moving back to Oz forum to put a slant on why people want to move back ? Good idea - if we could help a few people avoid the ping pong scenario - it will be well worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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