You really do need at least a month. I have friends from the UK who have come for a couple of weeks because of their jobs but really what do they see? Distances are vast compared to the UK even a trip from Sydney to Broken Hill will take at least a week if you drive there and back (and rush) yet you still haven’t left NSW (though you are in a different time zone)
My brother came last year for a month; flew to the Barrier Reef and Melbourne but still ran out of time and didn’t even get to the Blue Mountains. He is coming back in February.
Backpackers get the best deal with their outback working visas so they can stay for up to 2 years.
Our son went on an out back visa, he now has citizenship
We will probably get their when we retire. That’s why I’m saving now. It will be the once in a lifetime trip and if I’m going to travel that far, I want to see as much as I can and I know that means a lot of internal flights and of course being older, I don’t want to have to penny pinch and slum it I understand the cost of living is pretty horrendous out there
Fella I’m working to ATM has a brother in Perth and his brother flies over here for a weekend :shock: Would take me a week to recover from the flight
No massive spiders where I live, they’re all on the East Coast.
The churches are quite massive though. Tell me your favorite denomination and I’ll see what I can do.
Strange thing prices I can only go by my most recent experience in the UK but that was a few years ago now. Supermarket food here is more expensive but restaurant, club food and take ways are much cheaper, train and basic travel costs are cheaper here but overseas travel is more expensive, electronic goods and white goods are cheaper here as are clothes.
The cost of living is higher here but then so are our wages and pensions - swings and roundabouts I guess.
Personally having lived in both countries I have always been much better off here both financially, socially and in life style and that is without considering the space and climate. I certainly wouldn’t want to live here on a UK pension or wage but with my pension I live very well.
If I had a ‘Bucket List’ which I don’t, a visit to Australia would be at the top of it…
I would love to visit Aus…Mainly for the great open spaces of the ‘Outback’ and of course the mountains…Perhaps one day before I get too old to fly that far it might be possible…Watch this space Bruce and Ploppy…
No they still have sun blessed beaches , cloudless skies, hot days, sun tans. Non of this snow and rain. you see pictures of them on the Beach , drink in hand , all smiles,I do feel sorry for them, they dont know what they are missing
Last year one of my friends from Malaysia visited in September especially to see snow - something she had never seen before. As it happened that year the snow season lingered longer than usual so there was still a bit of snow in the Snowies.
We drove up to Perisher and she enjoyed herself walking about in the snow for a couple of hours. It also reminded me, who hadn’t seen snow since 1974(ish) in London when it snowed at Easter, that I could die happy if I never saw snow again.
On the other hand my kids (born here) spend a fortune visiting the snowfields here, in New Zealand and Japan just to snowboard and ski. They used to invite me to join them but I always politely refuse.
Here she is doing her impression of a parcel. She (and I) wore every bit of warm clothing we could find including some of my kid’s snow gear (she is used to 32°C all year round)
Personally I freeze when it gets below 10°C at night.
