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What's Australia like?
2009-02-06, 11:24 PM #1
So, my company finally got around to sorting those redundancies they announced way before Christmas, and I was booted out. Fortunately, I've got myself a new job within the week, so no worries as they say. Part of the job involves support of an Australian client and so they'll be sending me and the family out to Sydney for two years. Eeee!

So what's it like out there to live?
2009-02-06, 11:27 PM #2
Fosters is NOT actually Australian for beer
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2009-02-06, 11:29 PM #3
scary creatures. good luck
2009-02-07, 12:41 AM #4
It's hot.

Lots of spiders.

Good looking women.

More spiders.
2009-02-07, 12:54 AM #5
[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/garosaon/bandwidth/araluen2_001.jpg]

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2009-02-07, 2:28 AM #6
I was at a friend's party a few week ago and a couple of guys were claiming to be Australian. My friend (who was hosting the party), his roommate stumbled into a group of people at the party. He goes, "some two *******s are pretending to be Australian!" unbeknown to him, one of those guys was in the group of people he was talking to. So in reply, he gets:

"Oh, that's terrible mate!"

hahahahaha

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2009-02-07, 5:04 AM #7
It's very much like America but without the guns and food comes in reasonable portions.
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2009-02-07, 5:12 AM #8
It's a billion degrees and everything wants to kill you.
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2009-02-07, 5:43 AM #9
Australia's still like "WTF mate?"

****ing kangaroos.

:D
2009-02-07, 5:47 AM #10
No-one's brought it up yet, so I thought I'd mention the spiders.
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2009-02-07, 5:55 AM #11
It can't be that good in Australia given that most of them seem to end up in London of all places.
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2009-02-07, 7:05 AM #12
australia has communitychannel

2009-02-07, 7:11 AM #13
Prepare to have terribly expensive, bandwidth-capped, slow internets (at least to anywhere outside Australia, aka 90% of the internet).
2009-02-07, 8:20 AM #14
Actually it's pretty much just as slow to sites within Australia as it is to anywhere else.
2009-02-07, 9:04 AM #15
Originally posted by TheNewKid:
australia has communitychannel

They also have more interesting channels!

Everything in oz is poisonous.
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2009-02-07, 9:48 AM #16
Ugh I couldn't deal with those spiders. >_>
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2009-02-07, 12:05 PM #17
Originally posted by Martyn:
Australia's still like "WTF mate?"

****ing kangaroos.

:D


HA! i remember what thats from and i loled
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2009-02-07, 12:34 PM #18
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2009-02-07, 2:26 PM #19
It's on fire.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires
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2009-02-07, 3:16 PM #20
Originally posted by Avenger:
It's on fire.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires


The sun is orange/red coloured here in New Zealand, and I'm guessing it's because of smoke from the fires in Oz. It's happened a few times in the past too.
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2009-02-07, 3:22 PM #21
To answer your question, it's something kinda like this;

[http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/don_veto/mad_max/madmax.jpg]
2009-02-07, 4:55 PM #22
I'm supposed to get a trip to Perth for work at some point. I'm told that's a relatively boring city though.
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2009-02-07, 5:09 PM #23
It is, but it's better than Dundee.

:ninja:
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2009-02-07, 5:24 PM #24
Boco, you're not in Dundee are you!?!?!??
2009-02-07, 5:48 PM #25
No.
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2009-02-07, 11:51 PM #26
Well, during the summer, its only a couple degrees warmer than here. So I guess you could cook an egg on the pavement, or leave cookie dough in your car, and come back in some hours, and tada! :P
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2009-02-08, 12:07 AM #27
i think australia counts as a first world country/continent

2009-02-08, 12:09 AM #28
What about New Zealand?
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2009-02-08, 12:14 AM #29
they have the waltzing matilda
and kiwis

2009-02-08, 2:03 AM #30
Originally posted by sugarless5:
What about New Zealand?


We're way better. There's alot more green in NZ than in Australia. Don't have quite as many bushfires... at least not big deadly ones like Oz.
Alot of kiwis seem to leave NZ to work in Oz though, mainly for much better wages. From what I've heard, we kiwis supposedly have a better work ethic. We do some jobs that some Aussies think you'd be crazy to do. But that's just what I've heard. And I'm sure there is some kiwi bias involved :D
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2009-02-08, 7:19 AM #31
not all of australia is on fire at the moment, some of it is underwater now as well.
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2009-02-08, 7:23 AM #32
watch out for seagulls
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2009-02-08, 9:15 AM #33
Originally posted by JediNeo:
We're way better. There's alot more green in NZ than in Australia. Don't have quite as many bushfires... at least not big deadly ones like Oz.
Alot of kiwis seem to leave NZ to work in Oz though, mainly for much better wages. From what I've heard, we kiwis supposedly have a better work ethic. We do some jobs that some Aussies think you'd be crazy to do. But that's just what I've heard. And I'm sure there is some kiwi bias involved :D


New Zealand is essentially Scotland but sunnier. :P
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2009-02-08, 9:38 AM #34
I'm surprised it took so long for someone to post Mad Max.
2009-02-08, 10:11 AM #35
Originally posted by Baconfish:
New Zealand is essentially Scotland but sunnier. :P


And without the haggis and scotsmen :XD:
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2009-02-08, 10:21 AM #36
Originally posted by JediNeo:
Alot of kiwis seem to leave NZ to work in Oz though, mainly for much better wages. From what I've heard, we kiwis supposedly have a better work ethic. We do some jobs that some Aussies think you'd be crazy to do. But that's just what I've heard. And I'm sure there is some kiwi bias involved :D


Sounds like Mexico.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2009-02-08, 10:44 AM #37
Originally posted by JediNeo:
And without the haggis and scotsmen :XD:

Pfft, you compared to the aussies is like scots compated to the engs.

:P
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2009-02-08, 7:53 PM #38
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Pfft, you compared to the aussies is like scots compated to the engs.

:P


New Zealands origins have way fewer convicts than Australia. As far as I know we were never a penal colony. :)
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2009-02-10, 12:30 AM #39
My Australian Friends from Eve Online are always complaining about their internet connections.

"Sorry, I can't watch that youtube video because I've almost capped my bandwidth for the month." was a common thing to hear.
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