Anyone Here From Australia?
 

Might be moving there for a year this fall, with my g'friend and just looking for a bit of info...and possible work.

If you have time to chat ICQ me, thanks.

Nope, Aussies aren't allowed on the U.S. GFY board..they have to use the GFY board in New Zealand!:1orglaugh

Australia rocks! :thumbsup

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Where in Australia are you thinking of going? For how long?

shut the fuk up :321GFY


uh yeh! Theres hundreds of us here.... Movin to east or west?

\/\/estside motherfucker

Going to be living in Sydney, but will be travelling all over.

I live in Sydney, what do you need info about?

Well I would recommend Perth ... middle of winter her today abd blue skies and around 23c ... Summer can be very hot dry and long .... thank god for the beer gardens on the beaches:drinkup

I'm going for a Crown Lager in 3 hours! :thumbsup

Maybe hit me up on ICQ when you have chance

Just knocked the top off a Boags to go with lunch. :glugglug

My ICQ is farked, I gotta uninstall and re-install.

What do you need to know?

Right now everything depends on if my girlfriend gets accepted into med school this September.

She had her interview a bit ago...and in that they told her she should try and get more life experiences and travel more and just live more really, before she dedicates herself to that.

So from hearing that she thinks it might be another year before she's accepted, though we're still waiting to hear back.

Just different things about the area that anyone going there would ask...especially stuff about living accommodations, etc.

So if she doesn't get into med school she wants to go to Australia for a while?

We need to find a flat/apartment and everything I've come across online has been useless. Just looking for a simple place.

Everything I've found online has been around $700-$1000 a week. We're not looking for anything like that. Seems pretty high for a 1 bedroom apartment.

Well we both do, and this would be a good opportunity to do so. She has a job lined up already to work in a lab down there.

$1000 a week ... thats BS ... I could get you a 4 bed house with a yard for under $250 a week in Perth

go here www.realestate.com.au

You can see thousands of places to rent on these websites:

www.realestate.com.au

www.domain.com.au

(make sure you choose the rental section and not the for sale section)

In Sydney, the nicest areas are in the north side and the east side. The south is ok, and the west side is generally considered the least nice side of the city, although its not that bad, but its also the cheapest.

Lots of travelling people live in and around Bondi beach.

Rental rates are quoted by the week here, not by the month.

You can get a decent 1 bedroom apartment in Sydney for $250/week easy

For $700/week you can get a penthouse apartment.

Thanks for the info, going to check it out now for a bit, soon heading to bed, 2:45am here.

and yeah I noticed that (about the rent per week), different...by the month/year around here.

Yeah we're looking to spend around $1000-$1200 a month hopefully.

We don't need anything to extravagant...at the longest we're only staying for a year...and we'll only be buying the minimal amount of accessories/appliances for our place, since it would costs a small fortune to ship them back with us.

You might want to consider an area called Potts Point, its between downtown sydney and bondi beach and there is a subway kindof thing that is near there that can take you into the city in 5 minutes

Potts Point is where alot of travelling people live as well

Also, Canadians are eligible for the working holiday visa

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it :thumbsup

If you want online maps of neighborhoods and shit, go here: http://www.whereis.com.au

Sydney is in the state of NSW (New South Wales)

I haven't talked to anyone about it yet and I'm not sure if you'd have any idea...

but since I'm a graphic designer and can have a computer setup anywhere in the world as long as I have an internet connection...would I still need a visa? It's no different than what I'm doing here...and in no way am I taking a job away from someone there.

You will be fine as long as you DO NOT TELL THE IMMIGRATION PEOPLE AT THE AIRPORT.

Tell them you're coming to Australia under the working holiday visa, if they ask if you have a job lined up already, say "not yet"

Don't bother getting into the details of your situation with them, just tell them you're planning on looking for work once you're here and they'll just assume you'd get a job at some pub or something.

There isn't anything technically wrong with working for yourself though, but if you try to go that route with immigration it can open up a whole world of annoying questions you don't want or need.

They might not even ask you anything though

Could you export a few of those to Seattle?:)

Yeah, that's pretty much the plan we had made up already for me...lol

Those numbers I was giving were in Australian dollars by the way.

$1 USD = $1.60 AUD

those sites are a great help, thanks again!

dont listen to him..

Eastside is da best

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South East Queensland is THE most beautiful part of Australia

Add to that most of the major porners are based there

So my picks would be:

1) Surfers Paradise
2) Brisbane
3) Sydney


In that order

I came from Vancouver, Canada and I'm staying in Manly, across the harbour from Sydney. It's pretty sweet here, super touristy tho..

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Ahahaha

Westside is de best

:321GFY

That HAS to be the "gay ghetto" of Sydney..right?:winkwink:

If you getting a 1 year working visa can you only work for one employer for a maximum of 3 moths? then you have to change jobs? Might add complications if you work for yourself :2 cents:

west australia doesn't exist for 90% of australians... it's so hot they all live in holes in the ground like hobbits. westside aint shit.. seriously. if you're not on the east coast you're in the middle of fucking nowhere. if perth was an ice cream flavour, it would be "pralines and dick".

except the inner west... which is a little trendy and bohemian... i've lived in glebe, annandale and lilyfield.. the former two being quite nice.. the latter more industrial red brick, but it'll get there in 10 years.

potts point is a little expensive no?

Also check http://www.nowwhere.com.au/ Excellent site!