Skybluefaz
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Thinking about it. Anybody done it? Be interested to get opinions on whether the lifestyle is actually better or it's just in my head.
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jimmyhillsfanclub
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Fuck that..... stuck in the far corner of the world in a racist cultural backwater where its just too fucking hot to be healthy for atleast 1/3 of the year.....wild fires a plenty & an ever increasing chance of annual droughts so bad you'll be queuing up in 43C blazing sun to take your turn at the community water standpipe....
.......living the dream...bonza!
.......living the dream...bonza!
Skybluefaz
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Got to consider the negatives. Sure.
chiefdave
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I know two people who have done it, one works in IT and one is a mental health nurse and they love it and have zero regrets. I had the opportunity to do it but as an only child with elderly parents it wasn't really possible, get more than a bit jealous seeing the life they're leading now compared to the lives they had back here. And of course they've had relatively little covid disruption.
The mate who works in IT was living in Bristol and on his salary could afford to rent a very small flat. Over there doing exactly the same job he has a huge apartment overlooking Sydney Harbour. His apartment block has a gym, pool etc.
The mental house nurse (wifed up with 3 kids) had an end terrace, the sort you see all over Cov. Again he's going the same job there and has a much larger house with a pool and is literally 10 minutes walk from the beach.
Both say the culture is completely different. You're not a slave to work and they now have less hours, a lower work load and more flexibility.
If you move to Sydney you can go and watch Sydney FC aka The Sky Blues.
chiefdave
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Biggest negative is the massive spiders and snakes!
hill83
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STREWTH
Moved to Melbourne 5 years ago. Best decision I ever made. Lifestyle is just so much better here, everyone seems generally more optimistic and friendly. Standard of living is better. Some things are more expensive, but you earn significantly more so you're better off overall. Weather here is perfect - winter normally around 10-20 degrees, summer 25-35 (yeah, maybe 2-3 days a year over 40), but everything is designed for it (just like the UK is designed for cold). Don't miss the constant overcast grey skies and drizzle at all. Melbourne's a great city if you love sport, live music etc. Always lots going on. Worst part is the time difference for Cov games - midweek games currently start at 4am here.
Marty
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I've visited for extended periods, and know of others who have as well, the place is amazing and you won't regret it at all, lifestyle is so much better then what we have, everything seemed a lot more community based, standard of living is higher etc. Prices are crazy though ($4 for a bottle of water, $11 for a pint.)
Of the state's I've visited, I found Queensland to be the best, with the gold coast being the best city, I never want to come home when I'm there.
Skybluefaz
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Cheers Dave, I'm a couple of years in as a Web Devloper and completing a degree this year, the wife is a senior primary school teacher so I think we have desirable enough skills to get in. Got two kids (6 and 9), if we were going to do it I'd like to do it before the eldest hits secondary school age.
"Both say the culture is completely different. You're not a slave to work and they now have less hours, a lower work load and more flexibility."
This is the important part.
Snakes and spiders I was literally worried about, silly really. Read up about it and you have more chance of dying falling off a horse.
Skybluefaz
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Starting to favour Queensland tbh, cheers for the knowledge.
Skybluefaz
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Great to hear, I didn't used to mind the shit weather here but the older I get the more I dislike it.
LastGarrison
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I absolutely loved Melbourne.
Although we were there for Christmas Day and it was cold and raining.
Needless to say our mates back home ripped the piss out of us as we’d told them we’d be on the beach having a BBQ for Christmas.
Ended up on the piss around St Kilda instead with loads of Wolves fans who were out there for the Ashes.
LastGarrison
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Oh and my advice on the original question is do it.
If it doesn’t work out then move back, absolutely no shame in that.
If it doesn’t work out then move back, absolutely no shame in that.
I absolutely loved Melbourne.
Although we were there for Christmas Day and it was cold and raining.
Needless to say our mates back home ripped the piss out of us as we’d told them we’d be on the beach having a BBQ for Christmas.
Ended up on the piss around St Kilda instead with loads of Wolves fans who were out there for the Ashes.
Haha. I'm convinced St Kilda is entirely populated by Brits - mostly drunk ones
chiefdave
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Would love to do an Ashes tour.
I was so close to moving to Melbourne a few years ago. It ultimately came down to a choice between myself and the other candidate. I was absolutely gutted...it has always been my dream to move to Australia, such an amazing country. Sadly for me that dream is now over as I hit the big 4-0 this year. Holidays instead will have to suffice
Marty
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You still can, the cut of point is your 45th birthday, I'm retaining from this summer so all being well, I hope for around 42 once I meet the requirements.
jimmyhillsfanclub
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I enjoyed my holiday but I couldn't live there....
I didn't get to perth or adelaide, but I wasn't particularly wowed by the other 3 cities....Brisbane was exceptionally dull I thought.
My best part was 5 days in a rented caravan at broken head nature reserve after collecting a big bag of weed from nimbim.....but even then, I may as well have been in anglesey or devon so at least I could have floated about stoned in the sea without fear of death by a shark or jelly fish....
...and dont even get me started on New Zealand......
Got a son out there (Melbourne) and have been out there quite a few times and spent a lot of time out there. It is a fantastic place to live, and the people are the friendliest people I have ever come across, in fact I would go so far as to say I have never met and Australian I could not get on with. Fantastic sense of humour.
The life style is different in as much as they build their work around their life, whereas over here we build our life around our work, very different mind set. I honestly do wish I had gone out there as a young man as there are lot's of opportunities to make a good life for yourself. The weather is fantastic, it really is a great place to live.
As soon as things settle down and I can get a flight I will be back out there.
The life style is different in as much as they build their work around their life, whereas over here we build our life around our work, very different mind set. I honestly do wish I had gone out there as a young man as there are lot's of opportunities to make a good life for yourself. The weather is fantastic, it really is a great place to live.
As soon as things settle down and I can get a flight I will be back out there.
Otis
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He hasn't got to the negatives yet.
clint van damme
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fernandopartridge
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I know somebody who tried to emigrate there twice and came back twice. They'd gone to live in Perth which I believe is full of well paid IT jobs but just endless dreary suburbia.
The Penguin
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Whichever state you choose to live in if you make the move, make sure your wife contacts the relevant state body for teacher registration to ensure her qualifications would be recognised (it probably won’t be an issue but better to be safe than sorry).
She might also have to relief teach for a bit depending on where you move, because some places (like south-east Queensland or the inner south-east of Melbourne) don’t have many available teaching jobs.
It’s a great place to live though, with only one major drawback as a Cov fan: for most of the season, games kick off at 2am
Como
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RegTheDonk
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Is that pretty much all around Oz? I always envisage them hating us.
An older colleague (now passed on) went there for a couple of years in the 70s, said they didn't accept him and his kids had a rough time at school. Perhaps things have changed or he just happened to live in the wrong area. Or he was a nob. Probably.
LastGarrison
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Three of us had just done a couple of months in Thailand and then flew onto Oz for 5 weeks in December 2006.
Four mates from home were out there doing a couple of games on the Ashes Tour so we met up with them in Melbourne.
It was the Boxing Day test where Shane Warne got his 1000th wicket (if memory serves me right) and the three of us without tickets managed to get them on the day, in the Aussie end, for $20 which worked out at the time to £8
Randomly you can leave the stadium at lunch so we nipped round to meet our mates and then jibbed back into the England end for the rest of the day right in with the Barmy Army (sneaked in a 1/2 bottle of voddy as well) and had a tremendous afternoon!
One of the best atmospheres I’ve ever been in even though they smashed us 5-0 in the series and the Aussies just couldn’t get their head around the England support cheering their team on whilst being so shit.
Brett Lee took shit all day, the crowd baited ‘Jimmy Saville’ into singing a song which he refused about 3 times and then when he started on the 4th time got hammered with ‘One song, you’ve only got one song’ by the England fans but my personal favourite was ‘Get your shit stars off our flag’ which didn’t seem to go down well with the Aussies for some reason.
Absolutely cracking day although it did end up with me losing $100 in the Crown Casino when some gobby Aussie cracked my aces with his jacks on the poker table!
Skybluefaz
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Were you trying to say something to me here?! You ever been to Oz?
clint van damme
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Fucked up the post and didn't have time to respond properly earlier.
No. I've never been. Know plenty that have. About 60/40 those that loved it and those that couldn't hacking.
Don't blame anyone for giving it a go.
Liquid Gold
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Was literally booked to move to Sydney with my other half's work before covid hit and fucked everything up
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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Go for it @Skybluefaz - I've done things like that a few times, and I guarantee you won't regret it.
If it doesn't work out, just come back after one year. At least after that point you know you have tried. We've literally just lost a year anyway, so you might as well give it a go! Good luck.
If it doesn't work out, just come back after one year. At least after that point you know you have tried. We've literally just lost a year anyway, so you might as well give it a go! Good luck.
Skybluefaz
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Yeah I don't want regrets. Life is too short. All our money is really in the house though. Tbh that scares me a bit, the notion of selling up fucking off and not having the house here to come back to. Got to be brave though I suppose.
Skybluefaz
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Remember you saying now actually. Is that done with? Or do you think you might still go?