possie in brissy Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Just wanted some opinions on whether people get bored with the "Aussie" Lifestyle, whether you can have too much of a good thing, Sunshine,sea ect. Then realising that what is more important is what you left behind????? And that living and working the "Aussie" way is just nothing like being on holiday!!! How long does it take before Reality sets in??????? This is not a "I HATE AUSTRALIA" thread more a peoples opinion on how it really is !!!!!!:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zemanek74 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Hi there I posted a thread similiar the other day. My husband and I live in McDowall and my husband is always bored as he feels he has no social life here, I don't think the geography helps as none of the friends we do have are close by to just drop into on the way home from work. Sometimes it feels like things have to be planned way in advance, I think in the UK everyone was a lot more spontaneous?:spinny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxine Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Not bored yet, but definately miss our UK social life. Making friends hasnt been as easy as we thought - and yes you do miss folks just "popping in" for a cuppa. Living and working in OZ has been a reality check for us and is NOTHING like coming here on holiday.That said, everything takes time and slowly but surely things are looking up for us :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treesea Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 It probably takes a while in any new place to connect up with kindred spirits. An Aussie guy at work in Melbourne once said to me that he didn't really make much of an effort with immigrants (we worked at a European owned company) because, in his opinion, they were unlikely to stay in one place for very long, so making an effort on the friendship front wasn't worth it. There's something to be said for moving around and trying out different cities while in Australia. I've lived in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and I thought they were all really different experiences, work wise and socially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Oh yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
possie in brissy Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 Thankyou Guys for your quick response!!! I was beginning to think it was just us, Although I am lucky cause we all feel the same, And as someone said, it is probably to do with the geography and I am a big organisor and like to organise, days out at the races and camping trips, kids play days ect, and people never seem to have money, (niether do we, but ya gotta live ya life hey) Yet they all have big massive houses with swimming pools, but never do nothin cause they are morgaged up to the max. As zemane said were is the people who are spontaneous!!!! we evn tried the "A league" for a bit of atmosphere what a diasapointment that was after watching live premiership games. COME ON AUSTRALIA LIVE YA LIFE!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxine Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 That made me smile cause we know people who always use the "we havent got the money" line, and yet they spend $30 or $40 a week at the video store for their kids!!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treesea Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Except for Aussie Rules and rugby league, I found sport tends to be better when Australia are playing, rather than at club level. I remember a qualifying match (soccer) for the world cup against Iran a few years ago at the MCG that was pretty special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest masmithuk Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Very bored indeed. I know it's a generalisation but the Aussies tend to make friends at a very early age and then this "mateship" thing kicks in and they are friends for life. Very difficult to get into this closed shop. We've been here 3 and a bit years, live in an area with lots of families with kids at similar ages and have seen the neighbours probably a dozen times in total over the whole period. Spoken maybe three or four times. Very difficult to get friendly with the locals. Still BORED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30038 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 I'm constantly amazed at the number of folk who put their boredom down to lack of friends or socialising. I'm glad I like my own company...........I can keep me amused for hours :biglaugh:.............I'm alone on home duties, have only one friend who's a 90 minute drive away, and yet I've never been bored in the 15 yrs that I've been here. :tongue: "When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored." Eric Hoffer kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy & Rach Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 We're not bored at all, although we've only been here since last November so ask again in a few years....! Not sure how Perth compares to other cities but we have made some great friends already and we all get together every weekend taking it in turns to cook or going to the beach and having barbies etc. Andy has taken up surfing and two of our closest friends (who Andy met through surfing) are Ozzies and they have been very welcoming. It doesn't feel like a holiday at the moment with this weather but I'm sure we will get that holiday feeling back once summer comes around and we can start going to the beach and kings park again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyandYvonneD Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Hi, Definately NOT bored.......................life is what you make of it!!! Yvonne & Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aldo Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 life is what you make of it!!! can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. Aus' is about as exiting as watching paint dry, Bexleyheath pop in parlour was more exiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyandYvonneD Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. Aus' is about as exiting as watching paint dry, Bexleyheath pop in parlour was more exiting. So why do you keep coming back to this forum then??? Why dont you find a spanish one??? Yvonne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itskaren Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Just wanted some opinions on whether people get bored with the "Aussie" Lifestyle, whether you can have too much of a good thing, Sunshine,sea ect. Then realising that what is more important is what you left behind?????And that living and working the "Aussie" way is just nothing like being on holiday!!! How long does it take before Reality sets in??????? This is not a "I HATE AUSTRALIA" thread more a peoples opinion on how it really is !!!!!!:confused: I sat in the Library today for an hour and picked up the 'Great Britain'magazine. I was nearly in tears! All the lovely castles, Bleneheim Palace, Canterbury, Royal Stuff. YOu really don't know what you miss until it's gone!:sad: All that great history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JoanneHattersley Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Just wanted some opinions on whether people get bored with the "Aussie" Lifestyle, whether you can have too much of a good thing, Sunshine,sea ect. Then realising that what is more important is what you left behind????? Not for us. We came for a lifestyle change which we got! We wanted to leave behind the rushing around and never having time for each other (due to being on opposite shifts) for something different. Oz ticked every box for us! And that living and working the "Aussie" way is just nothing like being on holiday!!! How long does it take before Reality sets in??????? Reality set in for me from Day 1! Landed on wednesday, signed on at my nursing agency Thursday and went to work Friday!!!!! Didnt have time to holiday! lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy & Rach Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Not for us. We came for a lifestyle change which we got! We wanted to leave behind the rushing around and never having time for each other (due to being on opposite shifts) for something different. Oz ticked every box for us! Reality set in for me from Day 1! Landed on wednesday, signed on at my nursing agency Thursday and went to work Friday!!!!! Didnt have time to holiday! lol! Good point... It's probably the people that think moving to Oz is going to be like one big holiday that are the ones who get a shock when they land. We also came for the life changing experience, laid back lifestyle and we've certainly got what we wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in Bris Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Pretty boring to be honest, but we came from London where there was so much available to do any day of the week. The UK had so much more to do than in Oz and the chance to finish work on Friday and be in a European city an hour or so later never ceased to amaze me. There is only so much of "going to the coast for the weekend". I maybe wrong but the impression that I have is that a lot of Aussies have a social life at home with media rooms, pool rooms, "rumpus rooms" in their houses whereas in London there tended to be a lot more places to go, see, visit, experience - and who cared if it was raining outside whilst you're doing it? I'm pretty good - I can spend hours watching a good DVD, playing with my baby daughter or having to do one of the many things around the house but I think that the typical Australian lifestyle is TOO laid back (almost horizontal) which doesn't really offer me anything exciting or stimulating. Each to his own though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aldo Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 So why do you keep coming back to this forum then??? Why dont you find a spanish one??? Yvonne I just like to help people.:cute: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JoanneHattersley Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Good point... It's probably the people that think moving to Oz is going to be like one big holiday that are the ones who get a shock when they land. We also came for the life changing experience, laid back lifestyle and we've certainly got what we wanted. Same as us then! We looked at the amount of time we used to have together in UK and it was well, bugger all! Moving here and having same rosters means that we are together 90% of every fortnight! Though to be honest, if I had achieved just one more day a fortnight with my husband then the move would have been more than worth it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyandYvonneD Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 I just like to help people.:cute: Well try helping them in Spain for a while then eh, or is that a bit close to home? Yvonne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest30038 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Well try helping them in Spain for a while Yvonne What have the poor buggers in Spain done to you, to have you wish that on them? :tongue: :biglaugh: kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyandYvonneD Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 What have the poor buggers in Spain done to you, to have you wish that on them? kev :biglaugh::biglaugh: Yvonne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 No we're not bored, as someone said previously, life is what you make it and as a family we try to make the most of ours. Why would anyone think that living and working the aussie way is a holiday ... work is work, you still have to do the daily stuff, washing, ironing, shopping, kids to school .. so not a holiday, don't live in a McMansion so we're pretty ordinary really. For us reality set in the moment we set off, we knew that we'd have a mortgage, have to work and at some point think about putting the kids through Uni (we hope) - we came for a more laid back lifestyle which despite working we've achieved. Life is good for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Working to fish Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Bored oz is like a box of chocolates . Saw a film once and some one said this line ,think it was about life :jiggy: eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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