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Omgz posted:It sucks that you had such a rough time here, wish you all the best of luck back home. It does, but I don't regret giving it a shot; in my opinion it's better to cut my losses now and say 'welp' than wonder what it would have been like for the rest of my life. All the best to you too!  quote:Also I thought america was the land of cheap booze and minus temperatures??? poo poo. BCR posted:Welp, you gave it your best shot and next time you'll have a better experience since you know what to do! I hope so! I'm thinking as well that if/when I do come back I doubt I even have it in me mentally to attempt to stay for a year again so I'm thinking shorter breaks of a few weeks at a time so that it's a) slightly more financially viable and b) less time = more pressure to go out and see stuff. I've admittedly been languishing in my own misery for a few weeks through boredom and the effects of the 'I can do it tomorrow' mentality. I'm feeling a lot better now I know the end is in sight! New year, new start and all that.Thanks for all the advice everyone's given me in this thread
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We're sending a group of people over to AU/NZ (so I may post this question there too). Will a standard US-based credit card work there, or do they need to ask for an EMV-equipped one?
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Dec 1, 2013 02:19
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Any VISA or Mastercard will be fine. All card machines are still swipe enabled as well as chip/paypass.
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http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4352.asp When they say 50 cigarettes, is that 50 packs or 50 sticks?
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If I wanted to rent a house and an office near Sydney, how should I go about finding reputable real estate agents? Googling gives me a bunch of websites with ads but I wonder where there is some "standard" way to deal with real estate over there. Is there a website that is commonly used for such things? Or will random googling give me the best results? Is there anything special I need to know about renting real estate in Australia? Are there any unusual practices or rules that need to be followed? Speaking of setting up an office - if I were to do it, I would probably want to do it in an area of Sydney that makes for an easy commute for the employees. What are the neighborhoods in the Sydney area with the best traffic situation?
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^^^ realestate.com.au and domain.com.au for housing. What ever companies they link to for commercial stuff should be reputable too.Raphisonfire posted:http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page4352.asp 50 individual cigarettes.
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EssOEss posted:Speaking of setting up an office - if I were to do it, I would probably want to do it in an area of Sydney that makes for an easy commute for the employees. What are the neighborhoods in the Sydney area with the best traffic situation? Also, real estate prices are usually done per week in Australia, not per month. Bond is usually four weeks rent, which can be a lot depending on where you come from (here it's illegal for it to be more than half a month's rent).
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EssOEss posted:If I wanted to rent a house and an office near Sydney, how should I go about finding reputable real estate agents? Googling gives me a bunch of websites with ads but I wonder where there is some "standard" way to deal with real estate over there. Is there a website that is commonly used for such things? Or will random googling give me the best results? For a house domain.com.au realestate.com.au For an office commercialrealestate.com.au and then also check a bunch of the agents who specialise in commercial. As for where you should put your office you probably want to be near a major train line at the minimum. You don't know where your employees will all live so you probably want somewhere that is accessible for all sides of Sydney. This is probably going to be near the CBD. Pretty much any suburb will have transport to the area from Circular Quay down to Central. Circular Quay, Wynyard, Town Hall and Central are all major train stations/major bus stops. So look into the suburbs within walking distance of those. Somewhere like North Sydney is also very popular (and quite corporate) but depending where someone lived they might be catching a bus to the CBD and then a train to North Sydney. It also depends what you want from an office. I like working in Surry Hills because its right next to central, has plenty of good restaurants and places for coffee nearby and places to go after work. The downside is that its expensive (and finding cheap food for lunch is hard). Previously I worked in Ultimo which was great because it was next to chinatown (cheap food) and central however it was a bit dead in areas. Or if you want to be around people in certain industries I can advise. If its the kind of work that needs to show some level of prestige or to appear cool I can probably narrow it down a bit more.
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Thanks for the suggestions and links! The office would be mostly filled with software developers - so having somewhere nice nearby to spend time after work is desirable; on the other hand, prestige and visitor-friendliness are not very relevant. I have been recommended Parramatta - does that sound like a good spot?
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Parramatta is Sydney's second largest CBD but its still over half an hour from the Sydney CBD (what is usually called the city) so some people won't like that. It has good public transport options, parking isn't as difficult (compared to the city) and theres loads of restaurants and shopping there at least. If you were going to avoid being in the city then its a good option. How big is your team? Have you considered working at a co-working space for startups/tech companies? Theres a few of them around the CBD like The Hub, Fishburners, Tank Stream Labs etc.
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So I've been in Alice Springs for my last week pretty much by accident as I was only supposed to be here for like four days and it's been twelve (I had a flight scheduled for like, last Tuesday but I was like, gently caress it) and I start the long journey home tomorrow (Melbourne, then to Belgrave to get the rest of my stuff, then fly to Dubai-Heathrow-Edinburgh on Weds/Thurs) and I'm dreading it because I've been such a wreck the whole time I've been in Alice for a variety of reasons and I hate flying and I'm just so, so tired and emotionally drained and sitting on a plane for 24 hours is not what I wanna be doing ever but oh welp. I hope I made the right decision to go home. Also why is it loving 38+ degrees every day my god man. It's 12 degrees back home right now, can't wait to acclimatise 
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When I was in Broome in WA a few years ago it was 30+ degrees every day. In the middle of winter. You really learned to appreciate the cold land breeze in the morning when you were camping outside.
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Octy posted:When I was in Broome in WA a few years ago it was 30+ degrees every day. In the middle of winter. You really learned to appreciate the cold land breeze in the morning when you were camping outside. It's down to about 31 right now and I'm sitting here enjoying this sudden blessed cool change. As much as it's uncomfortable the novelty of this sort of heat will never wear off for me seeing as it never gets this hot even in the height of summer back home. Everyone pretty much gets naked once we hit double digits. edit: oh god I was camping out near Curtin Springs last weekend and that loving amazing midnight breeze kept me awake* all night because it was so refreshing (*that and the fact I found a snake beside my swag.) Gloomiebat fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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Got my acceptance letter for the University of Tasmania this morning, along with accompanying international student scholarship  Going to be starting in February of 2015.Bit far off to be asking any more specific questions than that, but does anyone here live in Hobart? (I know there was someone in the thread there temporarily who has since moved.) If it wasn't too much trouble and you have Paypal, wanted to see about getting a UTAS shirt or something mailed to me overseas, can't find anywhere to buy them online.
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I don't live in Hobart so I can't help you out but I am so jealous, it's a fantastic place and if I wasn't leaving Australia in the next 18 months I'd be planning a move there. A friend of mine moved there last year because she loved it so much after we did a 10 day motorhome tour of the state in 2011.
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There's at least four Tasmanians that post in the D&D thread, you might want to check there.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Got my acceptance letter for the University of Tasmania this morning, along with accompanying international student scholarship I'm in Hobart. It is indeed awesome. I don't know anything about UTAS shirts as I have never attended the Uni here (apart from the bar)but I have some friends who are uni students so I could ask around. HookShot posted:There's at least four Tasmanians that post in the D&D thread, you might want to check there. I'm pretty sure there are more Tasmanians in the Australia thread in LAN than the D&D thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032544 Friendly Fire fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Friendly Fire posted:I'm in Hobart. It is indeed awesome. I don't know anything about UTAS shirts as I have never attended the Uni here (apart from the bar)but I have some friends who are uni students so I could ask around. Are there any real poo poo areas to avoid living in? When I was an exchange student in Perth I lived on campus, which as it turned out was in a really lovely suburb/neighborhood, a bunch of my friends got mugged (myself included). When I meet people from Perth they're always like "Oh Christ, why did you live in Joondalup?"... would rather not make that kind of mistake again.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Are there any real poo poo areas to avoid living in? When I was an exchange student in Perth I lived on campus, which as it turned out was in a really lovely suburb/neighborhood, a bunch of my friends got mugged (myself included). When I meet people from Perth they're always like "Oh Christ, why did you live in Joondalup?"... would rather not make that kind of mistake again. We have nothing to really compare to Joondulup in the Hobart area, like was said in the other thread Sandy Bay and South Hobart are good choices. Any Suburbs I would warn you about are probably too far from the Uni for you to consider anyway. A good option would be to go to Google Maps and find every suburb within 10km of the Hobart CBD and throw them all into realestate.com.au as all of those suburbs will be fine for a Uni student. Friendly Fire fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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This has nothing to do with Australia obviously since I've moved back home but I did bemoan my lack of employment for pretty much my entire stay there in this thread so I wanted to let you guys know that I've been back home for a month and got offered a full-time job today with the company I used to work for before I left the UK (where I worked for eight years prior). It's a slightly different job role but on more money, so I'm feeling pretty goddamn pleased with myself Feeling a lot better about packing in the 'working' holiday early. Fake edit: in one of my last posts in the thread I was moaning about the 24 hour flight home. In reality it was a 24 hour flight and immediately afterwards a 9 hour drive home from London because my UK flight got cancelled due to bad weather  When I finally reached my bed I slept for 16 hours!
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You should have taken the train! London-Edinburgh and vice versa is very scenic and relaxing and takes maybe three hours in total.
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Congrats, glad to hear things are working out better for you. Enjoy the cool weather while we bake 
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Octy posted:You should have taken the train! London-Edinburgh and vice versa is very scenic and relaxing and takes maybe three hours in total. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but it takes way longer than three hours (I went on one of the faster Virgin pendolino trains a few years ago and it was still 4 hours)! Anyway, I was met by my dad who'd driven all the way down as his flight down was cancelled as well so we had no choice but to take the car back up north. Would not recommend ever doing the Melbourne-Edinburgh scenic route to anyone, ever. Omgz posted:Congrats, glad to hear things are working out better for you. Enjoy the cool weather while we bake Cheers As you'll know that light at the end of the tunnel feeling is like none other, I'm so relieved that my life is somewhat coming together again. Can't wait to get my own place as well, staying with my parents right now but because I don't drive getting into the city is a bit of a ballache.Would gladly swap weather! Stood at a bus stop today for 20 minutes and my feet got so cold that you literally could have amputated a toe and I wouldn't have noticed. We've had no snow though, for which I am eternally grateful.
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I would gladly swap as well, I think the whole east coast is going to be pretty warm this week. Temps look like they'll be around 40C all week for Melbourne, while I'm becoming accustomed to the heat I still don't enjoy cycling above 35C or so.
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I was cycling in 37 or something in Alice Springs and it absolutely murdered me so I don't envy you there! I think it got to about 43 when I was there and I was like, yeah, nah and just melted. It was 6 degrees today and on Weds/Thurs it's going up to 8 so I'm really looking forward to being able to feel my extremities for five extra minutes when I leave the house!
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Gloomiebat posted:I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but it takes way longer than three hours (I went on one of the faster Virgin pendolino trains a few years ago and it was still 4 hours)! Anyway, I was met by my dad who'd driven all the way down as his flight down was cancelled as well so we had no choice but to take the car back up north. Would not recommend ever doing the Melbourne-Edinburgh scenic route to anyone, ever. You're right. I just remembered I actually went from Edinburgh to Oxford by train. That'd be a good hour less.
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Help me guys - I've got annoying knees that hurt when I cycle and want to see a doctor about it (so I can finally start exercising properly...yay new years resolutions ). But where do I go - orthopaedic surgeon, sports medicine? I'd prefer to skip the GP since my insurance doesn't cover the visit 100% and they'd probably refer me to a specialist anyway. If you know someone near the CBD or Inner North please let me know!
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Before you spend money on a doctor have you tried foam rolling? You might just have a tight IT band/hips. edit: and yeah a physiotherapist is the right person to see. HookShot fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Oh oops, I had “Hi Melgoons” written first but changed it and forgot to say where I’m at.  But a physiotherapist makes more sense, there are actually a lot around my home/work so I might try one of them. Oh and I haven't tried foam rolling but we have a roller sitting around so I might look into that too. Thanks!
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I'm Australian and my American fiance is gonna be working in Australia in a couple of weeks. Is the tax rate seriously 32c in the dollar, what a loving rort!
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Sharks Below posted:I'm Australian and my American fiance is gonna be working in Australia in a couple of weeks. Is the tax rate seriously 32c in the dollar, what a loving rort! How is this news to you? Do you not work?
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I work but I'm Australian so I don't pay that much tax.. On the same amount of money he'll be getting paid as a non-resident, I'd pay like half the tax. I was just surprised that's all, but I admittedly have worked for the govt for the last like 7 years so I've been pretty sheltered from having to, you know, give a poo poo or look into it myself 
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Sharks Below posted:I work but I'm Australian so I don't pay that much tax.. On the same amount of money he'll be getting paid as a non-resident, I'd pay like half the tax. I was just surprised that's all, but I admittedly have worked for the govt for the last like 7 years so I've been pretty sheltered from having to, you know, give a poo poo or look into it myself Wait, sorry I might have misunderstood you. Do you mean that you're working in the US? In Aus, everyone between $37,000 and $80,000 pay 32 cents in the dollar. e: \/\/\/ my bad I see what you meant now, yeah non residents pay 32 cents on anything up to $80,000. That would really suck at the lower end. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:Wait, sorry I might have misunderstood you. Do you mean that you're working in the US? In Aus, everyone between $37,000 and $80,000 pay 32 cents in the dollar. Nope, looks like the mistake is mine my friend! I'm Australian, working in Australia. My fiance will be working here in Aust from 10 March and when I used the ATO's tax calculator with him as a "non-resident" he paid twice the tax I did at the same amount. Perhaps I did it wrong, but certainly replies from people on my FB whine about it indicates that they do indeed pay more tax? E: Yes I think it's the non-tax free threshold aspect that's the killer.
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Can't he come over as a resident for tax purposes since he's your fiancé? I'm an American living and working here and I am a resident for tax purposes.
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Omgz posted:Can't he come over as a resident for tax purposes since he's your fiancé? I'm an American living and working here and I am a resident for tax purposes. 462 visa, can't be a resident for tax purposes. We're not settling here.
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