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 Apr 2 2010, 02:10 PM
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Are there any UMSFers with advice for someone moving from the UK to Brisbane, Australia?
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Apr 2 2010, 03:11 PM
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 Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Don't burn your feet on the beach sand. This happened to a guy I know's kids. He eventually came back to the UK as the weather was just too damn hot.
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Apr 2 2010, 03:35 PM
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Try Vegemite on toast.
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Apr 2 2010, 03:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Apr 2 2010, 04:35 PM)  Try Vegemite on toast. Britain shares with Australia a love of salty yeast based viscous foodstuffs ending in 'mite'. Ours is better of course!  Both are fun to feed to unsuspecting Americans...
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Apr 2 2010, 04:21 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
I am British and can't stand marmite, so there.
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Apr 2 2010, 04:29 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
"Are there any UMSFers with advice for someone moving from the UK to Brisbane, Australia?"
Take me! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 2 2010, 04:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Apr 2 2010, 05:21 PM) I am British and can't stand marmite, so there. That love it/hate it ad campaign was really on to something. I don't eat much of it these days anyway. I do eat a lot of natural peanut butter though - good source of healthy fats. From my preliminary research (read: quick googling) I don't think there's much planetary/space stuff to look at in the SE QLD area (long long way from cool places in other parts of the continent like Canberra DSCC, Woomera, Gosses Bluff etc). There's an impact crater in SW QLD but it's not visible at the surface. I might go visit the little planetarium near Mount Coot-tha. |
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Apr 2 2010, 09:20 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
FWIW, every non-native I've ever known who has lived in Australia has absolutely loved it. I recently applied for a job in Melbourne myself, and my odds of getting this particular position are roughly equivalent to my odds of being transported to Mars via a random quantum fluctuation; they normally get several hundred applications for these jobs, all from US citizens.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 2 2010, 09:45 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
QUOTE (SFJCody @ Apr 2 2010, 06:41 PM) From my preliminary research (read: quick googling) I don't think there's much planetary/space stuff to look at in the SE QLD area (long long way from cool places in other parts of the continent like Canberra DSCC, Woomera, Gosses Bluff etc). There's an impact crater in SW QLD but it's not visible at the surface. I might go visit the little planetarium near Mount Coot-tha. You forget Hayabusa landing didn't you? 
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Apr 2 2010, 10:44 PM
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Besides apparently being a machine, my GF is Australian-born, loves Vegemite. We do Vegemite and banana on toast -- mmm!
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Apr 2 2010, 10:59 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Vegemite and banana!!! Brellis you evil dude.
Now, as for vegemite and tomato yum!SFJCody...no one in Australia actually thinks that anywhere is a long way from anywhere. Distance, hah, that means nothing to we Aussies  You should send us to Mars, it looks like the outback anyway (except for the lack of kangaroos )My advice, for anyone considering coming to live in Australia...YES, DO IT! All UMSF'ers have a standing invitation to come and visit me in Canberra and take my DSN 50cent tour. Brisbane is a slightly more 'relaxed' lifestyle. I'd put it in the same category as Florida or Brighton
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Apr 2 2010, 11:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1597 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Apr 2 2010, 06:59 PM) SFJCody...no one in Australia actually thinks that anywhere is a long way from anywhere. Got that in Utah, too. Must be a desolation thing. Moving here was the first time I'd ever heard "It's only a 10 hour drive." Utahns seemed determined to insist that the entire western US is within a reasonable day's drive. |
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Apr 3 2010, 12:07 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
Utah...
just do not get me started on the world view of Detroit well i am in A^2 but close to the D |
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Apr 3 2010, 12:53 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
QUOTE (stevesliva @ Apr 2 2010, 04:32 PM) Utahns seemed determined to insist that the entire western US is within a reasonable day's drive. Montana's that way too, and probably the entire Intermountain area of the West. Population centers are far apart & traffic's light, so it's easy to see how that outlook arises. Huh. Guess I'd feel right @ home in Australia, then!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 19 2010, 09:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Apr 2 2010, 11:59 PM) My advice, for anyone considering coming to live in Australia...YES, DO IT! All UMSF'ers have a standing invitation to come and visit me in Canberra and take my DSN 50cent tour. If I'm ever near Canberra I will definitely take you up on that! I've decided to leave a little telepresence rover behind in the UK. From next month onwards (volcano permitting), this will be my representative in the northern hemisphere.
This is surely what mankind has dreamt of since time immemorial, the ability to startle a pet dog from a distance of over 10,000 miles!
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