Yo! I've been offered a job in Australia and am just in the process of applying for a visa (should hopefully be relatively straightforward as the company is sponsoring me).
Sweeeeeet :):):):):)
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Yo! I've been offered a job in Australia and am just in the process of applying for a visa (should hopefully be relatively straightforward as the company is sponsoring me).
Sweeeeeet :):):):):)
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You'll have to meet up with submeg.
Nice. Have you been out to Aus in the past, or will the move be the first experience? And what part of Aus will you be moving to?
Sounds good :).
Maybe we can all come and stay for a holiday in the later in the year :p.
The job is in a little town called Moss Vale, about 130km south of Sydney. The interview was done over the telephone, so I really don't know what to expect beyond the scope of the usual internet searches.
We've been before, we went to Cairns and were in Sydney for Christmas and new years 2007-2008. It was ace, even if we did stay in a hostle in a slightly crummy part of the city. I know that living and holidaying are two completely separate things, but it is still rather exciting. I haven't lived abroad before.
It's a four year contract and visa, I'll very much be a foreigner working in their country - but who know how it will go.....
When are you due to go?
You will have to posts lots of pictures once you are there. And being there for 4 years, maybe some on here might pay you a visit. Submeg at least is already there.
I wish you good luck to your new opportunity my friend.:thumbs:
We're aiming to be out there around the end of June so I can start early July.
Of course, once we are settled we would be happy to have people come and visit :wave:
What kind of work will you be doing?
Well, I hope you enjoy your stay there, and well done for getting a job :) (I'm having trouble finding work even in my local area).
I would like to visit Austrailia sometime. I doubt it will be in the forseeable future though.
They have Google Street View in Moss Vale and surrounding area, so you'll have to let us know your street if you move to that town.
I keep forgetting about Google Street View.
They announced the other week in the Chichester Observer that Google have finally completed Chichester, and there was a funny article/letter in the paper where a guy noticed the Google van was coming down his street, so he stood in his driveway and mooned it as it went by. Sadly he discovered the van later did his street again (for obvious reasons). :lol:
They did Sheffield a while back. I noticed a few months ago that the dual carriageway which goes through Wickersley was done, but now our whole area is photographed.
It has blurred out the street sign on the road where my grandparents live, as awell as an estate agents board. Perhaps it thought they were car registration plates. Also, the registration number of a car in Sheffield (someone who I know) is visible, as are the faces of several people walking along the pavement on my street.
Chichester is quite well done, although as the centre of the town is pedestrian only, you don't get to explore the actual centre streets, which is annoying. They have even done our road, but you can't quite see our house as it is down a small close and they never went down that actual close, just the main part, but you can see the drive and annoyingly a friend's car is parked there instead of ours.
Cheers, Steve. I'll still be doing science researchy stuff, similar to what I do now, but this job is a good step up the career ladder so I'm pleased.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
We're thinking of living in the charmingly named Wollongong (a city by the sea), but I have to see when we get out there what the drive is like between there and work as it involves a mountain forest pass that some people has described as 'tricky'.
Just remember you won't be able top get any Malt Loaf out there. And you'll have to use Vegemite.
Vegemite... Urr... worse that Marmite... and that is saying something!
And have you factored in the fact you will be surrounded by Australians? ;) :lol:
On a more positive note, have you seen some of the muscle cars they still make over there? And supped up pick-ups?
Is that better or worse than moving to America and being surrounded by Americans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
Oh, definitely better. At least in Australia they are more like the American's of the 1950's!
What were American's like in the 1950s?
I browsed around the tvtropes.org site the other day (followed a link there, and closed the last tab three days later. That site is dangerous!) and looked at the article Everything Trying To Kill You. Under real-life examples, there is a long list under Australia:So, umm... Safe journey, JT! Seriously!Quote:
- Arguable Truth In Television: Australia.
- That's not very nice :(
- No, this Aussie can comfirm that this is true. About the only things that aren't dangerous or poisonous are some of the sheep. And maybe wallabies. The following things will kill you: common spiders, the most common snakes, ticks, crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, stonefish, we have a seashell that will go for you and deliver a very painful, fast death. Even platypus are poisonous.
- Even the Trees can kill you!
- Except that, if a spider spins a web (as in a traditional, picturebook cobweb), it won't kill you normally. Just make you wish it had.
- One hesitates to point out that the sheep aren't native to Australia.
- This troper collapsed in stitches at reading "some of the sheep]]." One wonders what the other ones are like.
- In fact, sheep wound shepherds more than any other animals. You can't really befriend a sheep (too stupid - Try pigs, dogs, cows or horses, but not sheep) and they like to run into you legs when you turn back from them.
- RAMpaging maniacs. Didn't you ever read Discworld/The Last Continent?
- Is this because wallabies are too small to kill you?
- ...yes.
- a wallaby could still probably break a few of your ribs by kicking you, and thats pretty bad as broken ribs can lead to punctured lungs or a punctured heart.
- Then there's the most humiliating thing of all - death by Wombat.
- The wombat hits! You die....
- Don't forget Drop Bears.
- and then there is the kangaroo, which is quite capable of disemboweling a person with its back feet.
- Breaking the old stereotype that island faunas are wimpy, kangaroos have proven themselves quite able to compete with other animals on the mainland. So don't diss the 'roo, mate!
- Looking at the top 10 list of nearly any given venomous animal in the world, numbers 1-9 probably live in Australia, and the one that doesn't is a pushover by comparison.
- I believe I read that the most poisonous snake in the world lives only on one island near Brazil, but have a population density of between one and five snakes per square meter. Apparently no one has ever managed to successfully live on said island, to the point where the Brazilian navy declared it totally off limits for everyone ever.
- We also have a poisonous Monotreme (sub-species of a Mammal), the Platypus. I think it is the only poisonous mammal on earth.
- Actually, it's the only VENOMOUS mammal. Still, a venomous mammal!?!
- Not the only one. Shrews are venomous too, although they're too little for their bites to be more than uncomfortable to humans. If you're a mouse, though, watch out.
- It's not merely venomous, it has probably the most terrifying venom in nature. The other animals on this list will just kill you, the Platypus isn't that humane. It's venom attacks the victim's pain receptors, cranking them up to 11 and ripping off the knob. It causes pain so horrible that even the highest non-lethal dose of morphene isn't enough. To stop the pain doctors actually have to physically sever the nerve from the affected area to the brain because that's the only thing powerful enough.
- According to the Made Of Explodium page, eucalyptus trees have a rather amusing tendency to, well, explode, given the proper stressors. Truly a gamer's continent.
- Eucalypts also produce dry, waxy leaves and loose bark that fuel the frequent and highly dangerous bushfires, and have a tendency to lose branches in high winds, or just after said fires. Add in the fact that eucalypt branches are often 1-2 metres in length, and all grow from the top foot or so of trunk, and you can see that even the trees are trying to kill you.
- Tha's jus' what I've been sayin' this whole time!
- Australian plant life has specifically evolved to take advantage of regular bushfires. They grow back quickly. But as for everyone else...
- And that's just the stuff on land, they also have - apart from the sharks and saltwater crocodiles - blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, cone snails, stingrays, etc.
- The only non-poisonous creatures in Australia are the Great White Sharks and Salt Water Crocodiles.
- That's a good thing? This troper would rather be bitten by a funnelweb than a Saltie. At least spiders kill you faster.
- That is one of the reasons why Steve Irwin is considered one of the best Real Life badasses. "Now watch as I approach the kangaroo's babies, if I'm not careful the mama will rip off my arm and start beating me with it!!" Nothing he says is worth anything less then two exclamation points.
- Kangaroos are very, very badass. They have been reported to beat the crap out of Australia's native apex predator, the dingo. There are stories of kangaroos grabbing dingos and drowning them underwater.
- And yet, he was afraid of birds.
- Have you ever 'heard' of the Cassowary before?
- Emus are basically really big velociraptors with feathers and a beak. Be glad that you do not meet their dietary needs.
- If you think that's bad, Australia was even more of a Death World back in the Pleistocene, when humans first arrived. Carnivorous buzz-saw toothed kangaroos? Ckeck. Monitor-lizards the size of a city bus? Check. Climbing warm-blooded saw-toothed crocodiles? Check. Gigantic killer pseudo-python? Check. Marsupial lion with sickle thumbs? Check. The Demon Duck of Doom! (I'm not joking, scientists actually call it that). Oh yeah, its there. Ninjemys, a gigantic horned turtle built like a panzer tank (and yes, the name means exactly what you think it means), check.
- Actually, the species' name as a whole might mean then, but Ninjemys (which, by the way, was one of the smaller breeds of the Meiolaniidae family) has a name that translates into English as "Owen's Ninja Turtle". The largest of the Meiolaniidae only grew to 2.5 meters anyway.
- This Cracked article feels appropriate. No, it isn't all in Australia, but half of it is.
- Then there's the Dingoes. Some animals can do worse things to you than kill you.
- They could get your baby?
- Dingoes aren't properly native (reckoned to have arrived about 4000 years ago).
- Another Oz-related Cracked article.
- Any child growing up in Australia learns (unless the parents are trying to kill the kid) a long list of things that can kill you, practically by heart. It's a long list, and just to make sure at least one state teaches it in primary schools.
- As an Australian I briefly thought this was a bit overkill - then I remembered that there are only two species of ant in the world that are potentially lethal, and both have colonies all over our property. I've been bitten by them a few times as well..
- And this list doesn't even take into account the humans born and raised Australia!
- Well Australia did start out as a prison colony...
- Actually, we're pretty nice. Though we do have one of the most professional and effective militaries in the world.
- And they drive on the wrong side of the road there too!
- Don't forget the Koala Bears. If you try to hug a wild one, they will be happy to "hug" you back with razor sharp claws that are designed to be habitats for nasty shit, making them natural experts of biological warfare.
- And have you ever heard one growl at you? The cute little bears sound like giant ogres!
- Out of all these critters, the only ones that really cramp your style are the jellyfish. Sharks? Pfft, there's like three left. Spiders? Don't go picking up random bits of rusty iron. Snakes? Make a lot of noise whilst walking through undergrowth, wear tough shoes, etc. Stonefish/cone shells? Don't walk barefoot on reefs. Drop bears? Don't hang around underneath gum trees. But jellyfish? "Oh, I'm sorry if you wanted to go for a swim at that otherwise harmless sandy beach when it's 42 degrees. We'll just be floating around by our thousands, invisible and potentially fatal."
- They may not be dangerous to humans, but the only known variety of sea squirt that snares prey like a Venus fly-trap rather than passively filtering water lives just off Australia.
- Maybe all that is why Australians are so good at killing people. It kind of rubs off.
- Speaking of Cracked, column writer Robert Brockway has written a book titled "Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead"
- This troper wonders if the lyrebird can do anything to you besides reciting a Brown Note.
- Australia isn't the only place trying to kill you. How about the ocean? Let's see, it's the most plentiful source of water, too bad you die if you drink any of it. Also home to the largest animals in the world, including sharks, whales, and dolphins. Not to mention when things are venomous, they're really poisonous, most can kill you if they sting or bite. Jellyfish, sea urchins, lion fish, octopi, etc. Oh, and it's also home to the one animal in the world that's actually electricified as a weapon. The electric eel.
- Octopi are rarely dangerous, in spite of their reputation. First, almost no octopi are venomous (although one that is has a venom stronger than that of any poisonous snake, and you WILL die if it bites you.) Second, the giant octopi, the only ones capable of harming a human with sheer size, usually hide in caves deeper than human beings tend to dive. Third, in the very rare situation that an octopus is harming you, you can usually get it to let go by pinching the incredibly sensitive membrane between the arms.
- Of course, most of these congregate in the waters around Australia.
Younger and more arrogant and bigoted (they hadn't been through Vietnam then and mind altering drugs had not become relatively common place).Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
It depends on where you go in Australia as to how they are. I think that most of the people who settled in Australia were from Yorkshire (I know my family that live there were). Some areas have attitudes from the Victorian era whilst others are very liberal. Like Yorkshire they can be very welcoming to outsiders whilst others would look at you as if you were an alien because you speak with the wrong accent.
They love their cars there and if you watch Top Gear you will find that unlike Americans they can make muscle cars that can go round corners.
We have a relative who lives in Australia. I think she is related to my Grand mother, who went to live there for a few years, many years ago.
Oh no Teho, you didn't just link to TVtropes did you?
Must...... Resist...... clicking on link.......
Wollongong is nice, I've been there :) So you're not working in Sydney? Hopefully not, because traffic is a b1tch. I don't live in NSW, I live in SA, which is quite a distance SW. but I will eventually go back to NSW! Aus is awesome, I enjoy living here a lot, it is so laidback, it's a great atmoshpere :)
You should be al right for water. My mothers been in Oz for 5 weeks and she's made it rain wherever she's been including Uluru and Alice Springs. Mind you if the eruprion keeps going on in Iceland she may never make it back!!!!
Which reminds me..... A friend sent this over a while ago, and I did enjoy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
Visas were granted today, so we now have rights to live and work in Australia 'til 2014 :D
Good stuff!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tab_explosion.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by J T
A bit late perhaps, but I would like to say congratulations on obtaining the visas. :) Hope you'll enjoy Australia and all it has to offer.Quote:
Originally Posted by J T
Thanks mate.
Submeg - How does it stand with (illegal) downloads in Aus? Are they mega hot on trying to stop it? I torrent a fair bit, and over there would be wanting to download some good ol british TV shows.
Holy shizzle, we've been out here for over 3 months already.... Time really does fly.
Haven't had much chance to come on here either, will be aiming to pop by more frequently.
Great to hear from you. How is it going down under? Enjoying yourselves? Any great pictures to share?
We're settling in, it's been a bit tough for The Lady, but we are enjoying it.
We have quite a few neat photos. Heaps, in fact. I'll put some up here shortly.
I'm guessing you already have? There has been a bit of a push lately to stop people, but not sure how serious it is, you may have seen it on tv?Quote:
Originally Posted by J T
Hi JT !!!
we're waiting for photos !!!
I'd also like to see the photos.
Out of interest, why did they choose to employ you and not someone who already lived in Australia? Does Australia have a shortage of scientists?
It's a good question, Steve. Australia as a country has been trying to expand its science industry and that does entail getting workers from afar, especially as many australians do like to work abroad themselves.
I think the key reasons they brought me out here were my experience and my willingness to move. There aren't a huge number of people that have experience with these techniques, and a lot of them are already settled in jobs. The facility is also a fair way from Sydney, which may have made people reluctant to move out here. I know that this job was advertised a number of times before I applied, and in reality I don't think there were many other applicants (if any).
I did apply for another similar job in Sydney around the same time as this one I'm in now, and that was given to someone that already had work rights in Australia (think they may even have been a citizen). In all likeliness, with two candidates that are roughly equivalent, the one that already has the rights and is in the country would be preferable (understandably so). This place had to spend time and money getting the visa sorted and then me out here.
Here are a few pics to start with:
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Is that your house JT?
Some great pics JT. Some of the landscape shots look amazing. A complete contrast to the UK.
It's rented, but yes that is where we are staying until at least Feb. After the lease term expires we might move closer to the city, where the winter will be a bit milder and there will be more life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiago
There will be more pics to follow, we've taken tons already. Most of the good ones are taken by The Lady, she has a much better eye for a shot than me.
Looks nice.
Are you likely to be staying in Australia indefinitely then?
It's a four year visa. I think after that the Lady will want to go home. I'm keeping more of an open mind myself. I do rather like it out here, but we will have to evaluate and re-evaluate as we go along. It's certainly an adventure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
Here are some more, again many (most) of them taken by the Lady.
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Definitely more than I get to see :P
I've been here for almost 9 years now!
How are you liking it compared to England?
It is amazing how time flies! I've been married 11 years this year and my son is already 7. Happy you moved? Have you visited the UK since moving? Bet you are glad you have avoided the whole Brexit crap?
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Originally Posted by Harrison
I've never met J.T. so I don't want to appear rude doing this, but if I was in J.T.'s situation since moving to Oz, I would have to retort in the following manner:
I've been married 11 years this year and my son is already 7. - "You've been Lucky, ...very Lucky"
Happy you moved? - "Of course of course, ....I'm still Living here...."
Have you visited the UK since moving? - "Nope"
Bet you are glad you have avoided the whole Brexit crap? - "Don't give a F'k, I don't Live in that sh!thole anymore".
Soz, couldn't resist. :D - I'm even funnier after a Drink! :ninja: