I want to emigrate to Australia

[TheIdleProgrammer]

Yeah, if I'm honest it's a downside. I don't like the idea of my little boy playing in the back garden and coming across a poisonous {insert dangerous animal here}. However, it's pretty rare so it's a risk worth taking I think.

Joan Murt wrote:

Good luck if you travel there...

Thanks!

[TheIdleProgrammer]

:laugh: I only speak English, so most of Europe's out of the question.

[Mark_Wallace]

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[Mark_Wallace]

TheIdleProgrammer wrote:

I only speak English, so most of Europe's out of the question.

If you don't speak Strine, you'll have a Hell of a hard time in Oz.

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[Lost User]

Really? Here in the Netherlands we have many English/Dutch 2-language signs.. And everyone here speaks English (with "everyone" I mean "everyone who also speaks Dutch and is of reasonable age") .. to some degree anyway.. Of course France would be hopeless though :) edit: but of course if you're moving for the weather, the Netherlands doesn't help at all, the weather isn't any better than in the UK

[Mark_Wallace]

harold aptroot wrote:

Here in the Netherlands we have many English/Dutch 2-language signs..

The Hell you say! Where I am, they're Frisian/Dutch 2-language signs!

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[Lost User]

Ok so maybe I should have said "except in Frisia"? :)

[Caslen]

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[TheIdleProgrammer]

5 :laugh:

[Ian Shlasko]

I've always wanted to visit NZ... Looks like a beautiful country. Australia too, but NZ even more so... But it's just so far away! Isn't it like a 20+ hour flight from the US? Lewis Black said it best... "If the people of New Zealand want to be a part of OUR world, then they should all step off their little island and push it closer!"

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[Ian Shlasko]

Definitely +5 :)

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[Jim Crafton]

and the crap football teams

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[Lost User]

I spent a year in NZ as a kid (7 years old) in north island, arond Auckland and further north. It is a staggeringly beautiful country, and almost empty. We then drove across Auxtralia. NSW is OK, but lacks the tropical look of NZ. The rest is dry and hot.

Ian Shlasko wrote:

But it's just so far away! Isn't it like a 20+ hour flight from the US?

Even worse from the UK.

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[Lost User]

Holland and FLanders is pretty much bilingial Dutch-English, but picking up a bit of Dutch helps, and its not that difficult. The main attraction with Europe is the cultural richness compared to Australia, and the cafe and restaurant lifestyle. Hollland, Belgium, Luxembourg are great places to be, Germany and France are close, as is the UK. Denmark not a million miles away. Still, you need a bit of language. I learnt French form one of those 'Learn French in a month' books and got a job in Aix, in France, for a US company. And many companies have a policy of using English, even ones not having an English/US component, such as German/French/Italian firms. They will use English beause ot gives them all an unfair advantage and they all know it well enough. Mind you the weather isnt any beter. If you want that then head for Sophia in the South of France. A lot of IT, mostly GSM based, and chip manufacture. If not Barcelona is supposed to be up and coming. Spanish is pretty easy to get to grips with.

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[Lost User]

I found English a lot less used in Maastricht than in north Belgium though. In many pubs I had tro order in Dutch. Not that its difficult. Mag ik nog een dre and dirticher alsjeblieft. (Or at least somethign like that)! Anyway, the frogs language isnt so bad, its their bloody accent that the bugger. Especially down south!

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[Lost User]

And Fris is supposed to be the closest language to English. DOnt know how close, havent been there, but its supposed to sound the same at times.

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[Lost User]

In the south of france we have locusts, wasps the size of USB sticks, moths the size of small birds, vipers, scorpions, mosquitos, big green lizards that bite really badly, and bizare tiny things that leave a visible hole in your skin whcih then swells up to the size of a ping pong ball and leave your limb almost incapable of movement! But Australia is the worst for everything though it has to be said.

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[Joe Woodbury]

I want to emigrate to Australia, but it looks like they aren't letting anyone in, especially folks like me in their late 40s. My CFO is from the Brisbane area and a friend of my wife now lives in Melbourne with her New Zealand born husband. I keep hoping either will come up with a solution.

[Mark_Wallace]

Grammatically, it's closer to English than Dutch, but the words are just as much gibberish.

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[bryce]

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It's still the best bloody country to live in on the earth.

Bollocks bryce

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