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monkeyman40210 on 24 December 2009

 

Here is my Response:

For myself, Australia, No thanks.... If Spiders do not freak you out go for it....It is a beautiful place to live.



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trashleg on 24 December 2009
tombi123 said:
Khuutra said:
trashleg said:
come to scotland.

I've actually considered doing this, one day

How's the food

Amazing! 

Haggis is really nice. Aberdeen Angus beef is probably the best beef in the world. The fish is also great. Britain has some of the best produce in the world.

the food, is food. depends on your tastes i guess, but we eat a lot of local produce because we have so much farmland :D

and we're surrounded on all sides but one by the sea, so we have a lot of local seafood too.

-16?!? that's crazy, i don't think its that low... at least not in the busy parts, maybe in the crazy highlands. (i just checked.. i think at my bit its about -5, tomorrow night its expected to be -8. in the highlands its -9 tomorrow night, so no difference really..) there's snow everywhere :D

here's the castle :D

 



Highwaystar101 said: trashleg said that if I didn't pay back the money she leant me, she would come round and break my legs... That's why people call her trashleg, because she trashes the legs of the people she loan sharks money to.
Khuutra on 24 December 2009

That's a pretty gorgeous shot of the castle

Though the photographer's apprentice in me (my mother was a professional for a while) is wondering what that statue would be of if it were in focus



thanny on 24 December 2009
FootballFan said:
starcraft said:
FootballFan said:
NO WAY!

There are lots of hidden problems with Australia, some you may be aware about others not.

Hard to gain entry
Low average wage
Low minimun wage
High unemployment
Extreme weahter conditions
Sparsley populated
Lack of good public services
Country is isolated in itself
Don't play football
Is very left wing. England is aswell but...meh

Low average and minimum wage? My understanding was they are very decent?

They are decent but not compared to England.....To my knowledge

High unemplpyment?  Compared to who?  Until recently our unemployment was very low, and unless the Labor government keeps pissing away money in an attempt to make Kevin Rudd a global celebrity, 10 years of good coalition economic governance should mean we can still go back there.

I heard that employment was low again im comparing to England. Also isn't it true that a large percentage of aborginies don't have perminant employment?

Extreme weather?  Where?  In the cities?

Yes! Just the other week it was apparently over 30 degrees and in one place it was 40! I also heard that a few years ago extreme drought effected one part of Australia whilst flooding occured in another. There was also severe bush fires partly caused by the weahter and partly casued my murderers.

In some cities I'll give you the bad public services on transport at least.

Maybe im being a tad unfair comparing it to England but thats just from my perpective.

 

ROFL. wow. over 30 degrees?!?!?!?! OMG ITS A FREAKIN HEATWAVE. Actually 30 degrees is quite common... It isnt even that hot! 30 degrees is average. i played a full day of cricket in 41 degrees 2 weeks ago... Yeah thats hot, but it isnt extreme. No one in Aus really cares about the heat, when you live in it you get used to it. I would argue that Englands current snow/cold weather/ice is FAR more treacherous and 'extreme' then Australias heat. Its all relative to what you are used to...

As for floods/bush fires/whatever, Find me a country that DOESNT have disasterous weather at some point, whether it be floods, cyclones, bush fires etc. No matter what the climate is there are going to be bad environmental situations, and Aus is no exception.

edit* also, spiders are no where near as common and prevalent as the rest of the world thinks...

(wiki) There have been 26 recorded deaths in Australia in the last 100 years from spider bites,  And none since 1979

You run into a huntsman every now and then, but theyre so harmless a lot of people will just pick it up and put it outside... they would never bite, and even if they did, they arent venomous. The funnel-web has killed 13 people out of those 26 from above, but that is confined to Sydney.



 

 

 

 

 

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trashleg on 24 December 2009
Khuutra said:
That's a pretty gorgeous shot of the castle

Though the photographer's apprentice in me (my mother was a professional for a while) is wondering what that statue would be of if it were in focus

ah.. its this, but in winter. i tried to take it in the same place, but my phone doesnt have the best camera in the world and i cant afford a good camera. i love taking photos ^__^ the statue is a fountain, its gorgeous. it has "the Arts" on it.



Highwaystar101 said: trashleg said that if I didn't pay back the money she leant me, she would come round and break my legs... That's why people call her trashleg, because she trashes the legs of the people she loan sharks money to.
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FootballFan on 24 December 2009
thanny said:
FootballFan said:
starcraft said:
FootballFan said:
NO WAY!

There are lots of hidden problems with Australia, some you may be aware about others not.

Hard to gain entry
Low average wage
Low minimun wage
High unemployment
Extreme weahter conditions
Sparsley populated
Lack of good public services
Country is isolated in itself
Don't play football
Is very left wing. England is aswell but...meh

Low average and minimum wage? My understanding was they are very decent?

They are decent but not compared to England.....To my knowledge

High unemplpyment?  Compared to who?  Until recently our unemployment was very low, and unless the Labor government keeps pissing away money in an attempt to make Kevin Rudd a global celebrity, 10 years of good coalition economic governance should mean we can still go back there.

I heard that employment was low again im comparing to England. Also isn't it true that a large percentage of aborginies don't have perminant employment?

Extreme weather?  Where?  In the cities?

Yes! Just the other week it was apparently over 30 degrees and in one place it was 40! I also heard that a few years ago extreme drought effected one part of Australia whilst flooding occured in another. There was also severe bush fires partly caused by the weahter and partly casued my murderers.

In some cities I'll give you the bad public services on transport at least.

Maybe im being a tad unfair comparing it to England but thats just from my perpective.

 

ROFL. wow. over 30 degrees?!?!?!?! OMG ITS A FREAKIN HEATWAVE. Actually 30 degrees is quite common... It isnt even that hot! 30 degrees is average. i played a full day of cricket in 41 degrees 2 weeks ago... Yeah thats hot, but it isnt extreme. No one in Aus really cares about the heat, when you live in it you get used to it. I would argue that Englands current snow/cold weather/ice is FAR more treacherous and 'extreme' then Australias heat. Its all relative to what you are used to...

As for floods/bush fires/whatever, Find me a country that DOESNT have disasterous weather at some point, whether it be floods, cyclones, bush fires etc. No matter what the climate is there are going to be bad environmental situations, and Aus is no exception.

edit* also, spiders are no where near as common and prevalent as the rest of the world thinks...

(wiki) There have been 26 recorded deaths in Australia in the last 100 years from spider bites,  And none since 1979

You run into a huntsman every now and then, but theyre so harmless a lot of people will just pick it up and put it outside... they would never bite, and even if they did, they arent venomous. The funnel-web has killed 13 people out of those 26 from above, but that is confined to Sydney.


Well, snow last approximatly 5 days a year. 6 so far this year. On occasions we don't get any. With all this global warming (BS) been talked about potentially our temperature will go up from at its lowest in the harshest of winters -2 to 5 degress. Wheras yours, 42 could go up to 45 if the scaremongering is to be believed. Jeees i thought Las Vegas' heat was bad, but Australias' is far worse. The climate in any part of America will be vastly different from that of Australia. Also when we had a heatwave in 2005 the highest it got to was 34 degrees.

 

Natural/or unnatural in Australias' case are far more frequent and dangerous in comparison to England. And one more thing i forgot to mention, the crime rate in Australia is digusting in comparison to England!



trashleg on 24 December 2009
FootballFan said:


Well, snow last approximatly 5 days a year. 6 so far this year. On occasions we don't get any. With all this global warming (BS) been talked about potentially our temperature will go up from at its lowest in the harshest of winters -2 to 5 degress. Wheras yours, 42 could go up to 45 if the scaremongering is to be believed. Jeees i thought Las Vegas' heat was bad, but Australias' is far worse. The climate in any part of America will be vastly different from that of Australia. Also when we had a heatwave in 2005 the highest it got to was 34 degrees.

 

Natural/or unnatural in Australias' case are far more frequent and dangerous in comparison to England. And one more thing i forgot to mention, the crime rate in Australia is digusting in comparison to England!

6 days of snow? its been snowing up here for a whole week already this month, but it snowed for at least a month earlier this year. XD

do you have proof of the crime rate comparisons?



Highwaystar101 said: trashleg said that if I didn't pay back the money she leant me, she would come round and break my legs... That's why people call her trashleg, because she trashes the legs of the people she loan sharks money to.
FootballFan on 24 December 2009
trashleg said:
FootballFan said:


Well, snow last approximatly 5 days a year. 6 so far this year. On occasions we don't get any. With all this global warming (BS) been talked about potentially our temperature will go up from at its lowest in the harshest of winters -2 to 5 degress. Wheras yours, 42 could go up to 45 if the scaremongering is to be believed. Jeees i thought Las Vegas' heat was bad, but Australias' is far worse. The climate in any part of America will be vastly different from that of Australia. Also when we had a heatwave in 2005 the highest it got to was 34 degrees.

 

Natural/or unnatural in Australias' case are far more frequent and dangerous in comparison to England. And one more thing i forgot to mention, the crime rate in Australia is digusting in comparison to England!

6 days of snow? its been snowing up here for a whole week already this month, but it snowed for at least a month earlier this year. XD

do you have proof of the crime rate comparisons?

Scotland/England varies greatly. In the highlands in Scotland it apparently hit -12 wheras where i am its not going much past 0

 

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita  Australia very high - 43rd in the world per person

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita Australia 3rd highest rape per person in the world

Unfortunatly due to greatly different populations we can't compare overall crime rates we need to compare per capitia. Murders and Rapes are two major factors to do with crime.

Weather is also very unpredicatable when it comes ot snow, some wonters there won't be any snow.....In comparison there will always be high temperatures in Australia.



MontanaHatchet on 24 December 2009

Lulz at Australia's crime rate compared to the UK's:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html



 

 

FootballFan on 24 December 2009

Newspaper.

Also i specified mine upon two things most of us would agree to be most serious.

I need a better definition upon vilolent crime, i just took my evidence based off a website i thought to be reliable.

Also your data does no go with this data:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a6_1228325449  Specifically about violent crime comparison between the US and Australia.

Again, more contradictory facts all be it based upon a survey done.

http://www.britzinoz.com/uk-australia/comparisons/crime-comparison-uk-aus

  http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/statistics/statistics35.htm