Ok i remembered one thing, Is crime high there?? And what sort of natural disasters do your guys get ?

ok one more cause I am having trouble finding it online, what is the average price of housing in the sydney area. Like 3 bedroom maybe 4 bedroom home in a good area. I can find plenty of houses online but not the cost and what is the average home loan in Aus. length that is of the loan.

Diane, I don't know what the cost is, but it has to be more reasonable than the U.S. Crime rate seemed very low. We are out at night a lot in Sydney and Melbourne and everything seemed orderly and safe.

By the way, while we were there, Australia was running public service announcments encouraging peopel to move there. I was really surprised about that. I remember reading something about Australia estimating that it needed to increase it's population pretty dramatically to achieve certain things.

THanks Issac I was trying to look up realesate online and was having a hard time finding a cost or what is a good affordable area away from the snakes and spiders:P and such.

The wolf Creek movie creeped me out but heck that is childs play to the daily crime we have here. For my profession it would be easy for me to get a visa for the family to move there allthough I am thinking 10 years down the road. Give or take but I am seriously considering it. I want to be able to enjoy life not just be worked to death always trying to stay safe and get by ya know.

Australia is probably the first, second, and third choice for an American to consider moving to if you were going to leave here. Except for what side of the road you drive on, it seemed identical to America to me.

Less tv channels, though. I think there were like 5 in my Sydney hotel room.

Also, it is a freaking 13-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. 13 hours!!! So, if you move, you will basically be leaving your friends and family pretty much for good.

That is not a casual flight -- I can tell you that. I watched something like four full-length movies on the trip up. On the positive side, beer and wine were free and unlimited. Being someone who loves free stuff, I drank three glasses of merlot (maybe more - who knows?) and passed clean out. When I woke up again, all the lights in the plane were off. I had to use the bathroom and almost threw up getting out of my seat. I staggered down the aisle into the bathroom, holding onto seats the whole way.

Glad I wasnt on that flight.

Friends I can keep in touch via internet we dont see eachother a lot anyway and only family I have is dad and step mom and I would try hard to convince them to come too LOL.

Not to bum you out, but you would really have to think of the logistics of it. By the time you move, your sons could be of the age where they flatly refuse to go. I know people whose kids stayed behind and finished high school with friends rather than move with family. So, this is the kind of thing that you would have to do soon, or would have to make a great "marketing push" to them that being on the other side of the world would be good for them.

Actually Issac the kid aspect would be the easiest part. They are very eager to go new places and expiearnce new things us moving to CO they are more excited than us to go and to live where there are beaches they would be in heaven.

In relation to major cities in the USA crime is low. As in every major city around the world we are no utopia but crime levels will almost certainly be lower than anywhere in America.

In the north of the country you may get the occasional hurrciane/cyclone but that is it. In sydney the worst thing you will get from mother nature is sunburn



The closer to the CBD you get the higher the prices are. Median prices I believe are approx $450k to A$500k

Home loans can be taken over any period you choose to pay it off, usually with a maxiumum over 30 years but its a case by case situation.

Isaac yes we only have 5 free to air channels but cable is very common and inexpensive here

I forgot which hotel only seemed to have the 5 free to air channels. I think it was Carlton Crest Melbourne. Four Points Sydney was a better hotel in ever way. Not that Carlton Crest was a dive, though.

I think we only have about 5 free local channels as well, Abc, Cbs, Fox, Nbc, and Pbs not sure though,


Thanks for the info I searched on crime stats a lot today and it seems pretty mild comparred to here I read about Anita Cobby though and that was really sad and terrible what happened to her, but crime doesnt seem to be anything comparred to what it is here.

No, I had to google it But after reading the full quote I remember it.



$450-500K for a house?!
No wonder one needs to make at least 65K a year there. I guess some places in Canada are that high, but it varies widely. Where I live, if you spent $450,000 on a house you'd get a probably 3000-4000 square foot brand new house with EVERY amenity you could think of. For $200,000 here you can get a very nice house.

Not here.

Shoot in cali for half a mil you can get a box big enough to fit a bed,

You forgot WB and in most major cities the religous channel (my personal favorite, I watch it anytime I can't find something good on)

WB???? Ohhh is that the channel 7th heaven comes on I used to love that show back in the day not sure if that is it though.


Religious channel??

I have always had cable so I am talking about the old school free channels I guess I dont know about new ones

Yes the religous channel, I believe it's done mostly by Catholics.

Yes, 7th Heaven is on the WB. I think Gilmore Girls too.

Ever since about 1970, the Washington, DC area has had channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. And that was just VHF. And on UHF, it was 20, 22, 26, 32, 45, and 50. So, when I would read about Britain having like 2 or 3 channels, I wanted to throw up.

I'd like to nail the mum on the Gilmore Girls....hell I'd do the daughter as well, preferably at the same time.

Even I am not sure who Anita Cobby is???



Ah Ha!!! I finally cought you out with one!

I didnt pay that much but I live in a unit (apartment) so it differs, but yeah, Sydney is an expensive place to live. Qld is a whole lot cheaper, just as nice but not as populated.

jesus u can come here Gnappy but I am moving to Canada! What would an alcohol sales rep get in your parts?

Apparently Anita Cobby is one of the most horrific murders that has hapened in Australia she was Mrs. NSW I think it was and was a nurse was murdered by a gang of guys and was so brutilized they even found semen in her slice in her neck.


http://www.thecrimeweb.com/murder_of_anita_cobby.htm

I came across it when I was searching australian crime. Happened in 1996 at the same time we were having the Low Speed OJ Simpson chase.

Without wanting to alarm you in 96 I was 15 and barely gave a fuck about anything!

I forgot you are a youngen allthough so am I but even in my teen years big news murders always caught my attention.

I lived in Florida when Ted Bundy was Fired I think I was 10/11 can't remember the year but always been interested in that stuff so of course I read all the well known Australian Murderes

Hmm in Florida for the Ted Bundy murders, California for OJ, I'm thinking there might be some ties.

dude, the sky is the limit!

Bondi coming to Canada!?

Wow, if you have to go back 9 years to find a spectacular crime in Australia, then that place has a lot going for it. In Baltimore alone, you would only have to go back about a week to read about a grisly murder.

Yeeha... my bags are packed!



Better put on ur party hats

Oj i didnt live in cali but we were staying in a motel during the chase we were driving up from Amarillo Tx to Salem Or for my great granddad's funeral worst road trip of my life. Only calm part was watching the low speed chase in the motel in Sacremento.

We just had our first murder this past year not first but first for the 8 years I have lived in this city which isnt very big I often stopped on the store where the owner was murdered the shooter was his best bud who apparently is schizo. So not even a murder from a semi normal person. LOL My town is pretty safe.