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As an Aussie I read the posts with great interest- some very happy, some going back, some waiting to come over etc, but why does everyone go to Perth?
ps Congrats to everyone who makes the move- it must be quite something to leave friends and family and come half way around the world to start a new life.
TonyT
ps Congrats to everyone who makes the move- it must be quite something to leave friends and family and come half way around the world to start a new life.
TonyT
I was in Perth too for about 9 years in the 90s but work consolidated everything to Brisbane and Melbourne so ended up going with it. I now look after most of WA from Melbourne, plays havoc with your sleep, but I enjoy my job most of the time, except maybe when the Thunderstorms show up! I could probably go back to Perth but would have to look after Perth only and not the rest of WA.
WeirdNeville said:
I'll just leave these here:
I know other bits of Oz are spectacularly beautiful, but Perth has it's fair share IMO. And those aren't even the nice Urban bits.
Bugger off posting those Nev!I know other bits of Oz are spectacularly beautiful, but Perth has it's fair share IMO. And those aren't even the nice Urban bits.
I'm desperate to get to Perth but struggling on the job front (IT Security), mind you we are only just in the early stages of the 190 visa app, just got my ACS assessment back yesterday that said I am suitable for the ICT Security Specialist category, with my CISSP being an AQF Diploma majoring in computing and 11 years 9 months of work in that arena to back it up, just need to get through my IELTS on the 15th Feb then get the EOI in and hopefully get going.
Would have loved a sponsored visa and job offer but they seem to be drying up a little.
Have a potential offer on the cards for Welly in NZ, Wifey likes that idea but I'm on the fence having been to Perth and falling for it last year.
Plus the PH fraternity seem a bit more active in Oz than NZ!!
Stef
TheValk said:
As an Aussie I read the posts with great interest- some very happy, some going back, some waiting to come over etc, but why does everyone go to Perth?
ps Congrats to everyone who makes the move- it must be quite something to leave friends and family and come half way around the world to start a new life.
TonyT
They go to Perth because it looks like Neville's photos, and it was nice when they went on holiday.ps Congrats to everyone who makes the move- it must be quite something to leave friends and family and come half way around the world to start a new life.
TonyT
My understanding is they leave Perth because:
- it is too hot
- it is too expensive
- it is too hot and too expensive
- it is the arse end of the world, and any visit to anywhere else takes hours, and is very expensive
- they miss their mates/gran/budgie/dog
- they don't like spiders/snakes/sharks/bogans
I chose Melbourne by the way, despite the fact my wife is from Qld and neither of us had ever been to Melbourne before we visited to find a rental house. (We didn't have any jobs either
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WeirdNeville said:
I know! And they've built a bunch of Greek style high rises on the beach front, and THEN parked a bloody great ship in the way of the view!
On the east coast we have these things called elevators. They carry people up many storeys of a building. They use electricity.
It's stuff that provides power for objects and services. Ummm, you should be getting it soon I would have thought.
Colonial said:
On the east coast we have these things called elevators. They carry people up many storeys of a building.
They use electricity.
It's stuff that provides power for objects and services. Ummm, you should be getting it soon I would have thought.
Nah, we'll just carry on digging stuff out the ground, sending it to China, and giving the money to you lot to spunk up the wall on such frivolous things. They use electricity.
It's stuff that provides power for objects and services. Ummm, you should be getting it soon I would have thought.
Colonial said:
You mean to the largest coal exporting port in the world? 
Didn't know that. Didn't know until I looked it up but suspected it moved a lot, Port Hedland moves nearly double the tonnage of Newcastle. Dampier is also higher but that is really 2 ports I reckon, Dampier and Cape Lambert. I am always amazed when I go looking for passing oil rigs on www.marinetraffic.com when the whirlybirds fly to some unheard of platforms. When you go off the NW coast of WA, don't go to the port, go and look what is sitting off the coast. Start at Karratha and then Camp Lambert and then Port Hedland. Karratha and Cape Lambert each have about 15 bulk carriers sat waiting to be filled. Then go to Port Hedland, there is about 45 ships waiting to be filled with iron ore. The infrastructure up there is just bonkers if you go and google map some of the mines and ports.
What I did notice on my trips to WA was that they are a bit behind the UK tech wise. (I felt anyway) The Sky equivalent looks like Sky from years gone by and parts of Mandurah was just getting broadband internet!
Was I just unlucky with what I saw?
Everything seemed to shut ridiculously early as well in Mandurah chippy was the last one at 20.30! No 24 hour supermarkets :-(
Does that change the closer you get to Perth? Or is it a cultural thing?
Was I just unlucky with what I saw?
Everything seemed to shut ridiculously early as well in Mandurah chippy was the last one at 20.30! No 24 hour supermarkets :-(
Does that change the closer you get to Perth? Or is it a cultural thing?
WeirdNeville said:
but once you take a deep breath and downshift to their speed, it's actually quite refreshing. Ahh, fukkit mate. Let's go fishin'.
This.Its amazing how people get bothered by stuff that doesn't matter.
Living in Perth, once you get over what you don't have you really start to appreciate what you do have here - that's why many feel they've found 'their place' as they become oblivious to the flaws and entranced by the benefits.
As idiotic as it sounds it gives a pervading sense of wellbeing and satisfaction. It's really quite emotionally fulfilling.
Edited by Pommygranite on Saturday 25th January 22:57
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