Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne’
Found underground living in australia in Study, Work, and Live in Australia – Perth or Melbourne?
underground living in australia:
...
Question by IV: Study, Work, and Live in Australia – Perth or Melbourne?
I have the option of studying in Melbourne and Perth. I’ve seen Melbourne back in February 2009. Beautiful city. Its large with many suburbs. Without the trams and underground shopping malls, the city would be overcrowded. I got friends in Melbourne so that is why I consider studying and living there. Besides, Uni of Melbourne is one of the best. But some people suggest I go to Perth. I haven’t seen Perth and don’t know anyone there. But I have visited Geelong once at night. It was quite and simply beautiful. Empty roads, couples walking, few restaurants with happy faces, very peaceful.
I don’t get drunk, don’t want to attend parties every night all night long. Just want to be in a quite, peaceful city, where I can make friends, study, work, and live.
Please tell me about Perth? How are the people? Do they welcome Asian (Afghan) expatriates or do they mock them? Is snobbery common in Perth or do they become friends quickly with everyone? Is it generally safe to live in Perth? Is Perth quite and peaceful like Geelong? Are there many Asian expatriates in Perth? Is it relatively easy to become friends with Perthians?
btw.. I want to leave Dubai and go to Uni of Western Australia to do Postgrad in engineering. So, I am not just a refugee seeking asylum. I am going there to study and work as a professional engineer and maybe don’t have to return to the deserts of Middle East again where only camels and people with camel brains live!
Best answer:
Answer by Hit The Road
MELBOURNE ! No contest. Unless youre a surfie.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
...
Found underground living in australia in Do you agree Melbourne & Australia is pretty average?
underground living in australia:
...
Question by stayblaq: Do you agree Melbourne & Australia is pretty average?
I am 24 years old and have lived in Melbourne Australia all my life.
I have backpacked Europe several months and the USA for several months as well.
Having seen alot of the world, I often wonder why Australians continuously say “This is the best country in the world!” or “Mate, we live in the lucky country eh!” or most often “It’s good to travel overseas but it makes you realise how lucky we are to live here!”
Whilst I think Australia and Melbourne is comfortable to live in, I don’t think it’s necessarily “the best place in the world!” when compared to other countries. Why? See below
a) Australia has only 3 “big” cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane. Once you’ve seen and explored them several times there is not much else busy going on.
b) Melbourne lacks beaches. The port is dirty. Beaches in places like Cairns and Far North Queensland are shut in Summer because of deadly box jellyfish that move in.
c) Housing is extremely unaffordable. 6.5 time the average household income per year (compared to 3x in the USA). If you want to live “inner city” in Melbourne which is about 20-30 mins away from the city in decent subarbs without hoons, crime and gangs you pay literally millions for a house and hundreds of thousands for units of apartments with no land.
d) Prices – Prices are insanely high and inflation is growing. Also caused by the drought. I mean, $ 3.50 for a 600ml bottle of coke? that is ridiculous. Any dinner at a restaurant that’s decent costs $ 25-$ 50 these days and meat prices have shot up. Also everything imported costs so much more than the US/Europe because of Australia’s tiny population and distance away from the rest of the developed world.
e) Transport – Transport, even in big cities like Melbourne and Sydney is totally sub-par. There is no underground railway, and trains are slow, over-clogged and do not run efficiently. Often to go from East to West by train you have to go North then change trains and come back down. Trams are slow, clogged, inefficient, almost always late and yet the Gov’t continuously promotes them over cars, even to the extent that major roads in the city have lost all but 1 lane, to trams that don’t event run continuously!
f) Tax – Australians are some of the most heavily taxed people in the world. GST (Sales tax) is at 10%, Income Taxes are high, Stamp duty on property is 5%!!!, Capital Gains Tax is high, Luxury Car tax is at 140% of the car’s value!!!, car “registration” is approximately $ 600 and road toll’s are increasingly common, Superannuation (retirement savings) are taxed at 15%, Businesses are taxed at 30%, Alcohol is taxed at 40% – where the hell does all this tax money go?
g) Proximity – Australia is far away from Europe and the USA. Even Asia. Any time you want to see anything other than the “lucky country” it’s going to cost you about $ 2,000+ to fly out of here.
h) Crime – Crime is on the rise, largely due to poor immigration choices of unskilled, unintelligent migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The city of Melbourne and Sydney is dangerous at night with all of the gangs around.
Best answer:
Answer by elsaaa; (:
Melbourne, and Australia most definately isn’t that exciting.
What do you think? Answer below!
...
underground living in australia and I live in Melbourne, Australia..?
underground living in australia:
...
Question by SRO ◄–: I live in Melbourne, Australia..?
I immigrated from the US about 6 months ago, i wanted to buy underground Rap Hip Hop albums such as..
Cassette City – Lushlife
Tobacco Road – Common Market
Tronic – Black Milk
Below The Heavens – Blu & Exile
A Piece Of Strange – CunninLynguists
Do you know anywhere in Melb that would sell these CD’s? (Ive tried JB Hi Fi, Sanity, Leading Edge and to no avail)
Thankyou for your help
Best answer:
Answer by Helpme
Hello SRO :
I’m not saying you’ll find the CDs you want, but, you can visit Music of Melbourne, The Royal Arcade and The Block Arcade.
Good Luck music-hunting !, SRO !
I found these at WikiPedia.com. Check out more for yourself.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
...
