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Great country, poor cricket team.
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Best country in the world to pack your bags and phuck off for a few months.
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All crime, drugs, prostitution and drunkenness so far. And the ubiquitous surfing.
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Exactly
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I've said it before but I'll say it again - I just wish my parents had travelled out there as ten pound Poms and I'd have grown up there.
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A good watch that....enjoyed the biker birds in the Hot tub
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I visit Australia a lot and am constantly astounded at the number of Aussies whingeing about how crap their life is!
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My neighbour's daughter went out there 18 months ago. She's back here at the moment for a couple of weeks. Her visa expires next January and she's doing all she can to get a permanent job out there as the last thing she wants to do is have to come back here.
She loves it over there. |
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Did you see that petrol price? 88p a litre. They all whinge about that and their minimum wage is £10 an hour!
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It`s a very rich country now and apart from petrol everything else is priced very high, they moan about this but don`t understand they live in paradise compared to this sardine tin.
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Yes, just watching the koala bear up the tree in someone's back garden, as such, was good enough for me.
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It's become a very expensive place to visit because of the strength of the AU$ and the weakness of the £.
But if you're on Aussie wages you have never had it so good. |
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Indeed, EGG.
I know what sport of money my neighbour's daughter is on - and it's an unbelievable amount to what she could earn here (taking into account the comparative cost of living into it). |
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*sort of money
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I know plenty of young travellers who go or have been to Aus to top up their funds there. There is no place in the world where the work is so easy, the life is so good AND you can save up a fortune to spend where it goes a lot further.
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This is a spurious supposition from me as I only have one experience of it, but; I remember watching a programme some years ago about Oz where they mentioned many qualifications for certain jobs don't hold up over there and certain professions have to retrain to Aussie standards - nursing being one of them.
When my mother was alive I had to take her to hospital via A&E many times and she often ended up on wards which weren't the right ones for her condition (because of shortage of beds), so I saw many different working practices and staff in that time on various wards. The best nurse - by a mile - I ever came across was a woman who'd been born here but had spent about 30 years in Oz and had only returned here a few months before to look after her sick parents. She almost single-handedly ran a mixed ward that was an overspill one from A&E where people were put while they were waiting to go to wards elsewhere related to their condition - so there were many different types of cases. She handled them all with extreme efficiency and care. She was so remarkable it's always stuck in my mind. I really don't think it was just her being a superb nurse no matter what, I could see by the way she went about things compared to 'British' nurses she was just so superior to everyone else. I can only assume this was because of her Oz training. |
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I know electricians have to relearn, I presume nurses do too.
Nurses round here are mainly trained in Nigeria or Ghana! |
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Same with the Paramedics in Australia Tommy, they can perform certain treatments at the scene of an accident which only our doctors can in the UK, obviously logistics plays a part with this due to there perhaps not being a hospital for hundreds of miles in Australia.
The Australian hospitals are also designed for efficient communications by having the relevant departments on the same level, where as in the UK many related departments are on different levels meaning life saving time is lost transferring patients requiring critical care. |
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seriously thought about it 15 years ago, great shortage of engineers then.
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My mate blagged his way into a telecommunications job after paying a grand in the UK for some crash course on fibre optics engineering.
15 years later is on $120k Aus Dollars a year. |
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Ah, I'm glad to hear that AG, as it does look like my impression that medical people are better trained over there really does stand up.
The nurse I encountered was so good she was worth at least 5 others (and from what I could see, the hospital management knew it, as there was only her and one other nurse there). Perhaps that's why she was in charge of the one she was in - as it was the type of ward which needed someone really up to scratch to run it. She was just so good it made a massive impression on me as soon as I visited my mother in that ward - and remarked to my mother about it within about 15 minutes. That's when she told me the nurse's history as it had impressed my mother too(which was a very rare thing indeed!). |
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Australia is surely Essex with more sunshine - a lower working class made good type of society ,a jetski,sports car and stone lions adorning every driveway
  surely if youre in a low paid miserable job with a miserable wife in the UK or Aus ,then life will surely suck  |
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greatest bloody country i have ever been to..........the aussies know it and man are they happy...................SUNSHINE is the best cure for eveything
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Too right, BDJockeys.
The one thing that buggers this country up above all is the sodding miserable, relentless, bloody rainy/cold/greyskies weather. We get about, what, 14 days of actual sun and real warmth here (well, in Stoke) a year all told? It's enough to make you commit harry bleedin' karry [sic] |
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SUNSHINE is the best cure for eveything
_______________ yeah the African economy and quality of life is thriving on it  |
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Spain and Greece will be happy to hear it too
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If you want sunshine ffs why live in Stoke on trent ?
- possibly the only UK city with a climate similar to Iceland  but without the beautiful women and scenery .Stoke would appear grim to the average Somalian Move to a sunnier town along our south coast - oh,and with better lookin women too - avoid Eastbourne ,those old dears don't hang too well |
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Well, I'd rather be miserable in the sun than the cold - and that's a fact!
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Very funny Coach!!
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I plan to buy a one way ticket to sunny Australia one day. Wish I had done so 25 years ago.
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Tommy - i know the feeling though , 3-4months of continual dullness anywhere can get you down a wee bit .
some affected are worse than others - do you get SAD ? |
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i wouldn't want to shatter anyones dreams by also reporting that the suicide rate is higher in Australia vs the UK
ooops ,sorry for disclosing that small detail  |
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If I don`t get on that plane, I`ll be another statistic for UK soon
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I've thought about it Coach, and don't think so - but it's like today; most weather reports I saw were saying how hot and sunny it was elsewhere.
Well, in Stoke it was cloudy and not very warm for most of the day. Even though the local forecasters for the Midlands on tv are only about 40 miles away, they rarely get the Stoke weather right. I think what you said about Stoke being grim to the average Somalian just about sums it up! |
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If Stoke is high altitude it might explain it ,and plus youre heading up to the north west .
For the record ,the weather in my patch for the last 12 months has been absolutely horrendous -the worst 12 months i've known by some distance -every bugger has been maoning about it . Out of interest i looked at the stats ,and noticed those 12 months were pretty much the normal average for Manchester and Lancashire I now know why northwesterners complain so much |
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Melbourne 19.9/10.2
London 15.2 /7.5 Stoke 12.22/5.44 So as London is cooler than Melbourne ,so Stoke is as cold again Sunshine averages 30 years Melbourne 2190 South of England(Eastbourne ) 1887 Stoke/Birmingham 1395 ^^^Thats just depressing - i'd move south Tommy |
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Coach, I know from experience of being in the south on holiday when I was a kid and also travelling there for quite a few years through business when I was older, the difference in the temperature is amazing to encounter.
It sounds daft, but just those few degrees extra, meaning warmth and a bit more sun (usually), mean all the difference to a body - both physically and mentally. |
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Ha! Now you have the statistics to see what I mean, Coach!
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Never mind Australia, a move south to Stoke will do me good with an extra 5-10 degrees,
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Mac, I really don't know how you put up with the weather up there.
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