If you're renting an apartment, chances are the community rules may not permit pets. You'd have to rent a free standing house to keep a pet and of course houses are more expensive than apartments.
Is there anyone you know who can adopt them?
If it makes you feel better, Jonny Depp and wife snuck their pets on a private jet and are now being prosecuted by the authorities. It's not easy or cheap to relocate so I doubt any of us would pass judgment on you.
Plus the rent market (and property market generally) is crazy here, that having pets will drastically lower your chance of finding a place, especially if the listing agent knows you're from offshore and may be renting on a very temporary basis. Last thing you'd want is to be stuck in a hotel at hotel rates.
Yeah, but I completely understand where Australia's coming from, being the only continent without rabies.
I would advise against bringing an aging cat into an Australian Summer also. Today we have almost 39C, our cats are sitting under the air con and only just managing, and they are 'used to it'. Bringing yours at a time they'd be expecting Winter, and being held in a quarantine facility for a while once they get here... It might be more than a little distressing for them.
If you trust the people you'll be leaving them with to love them like they were their own, then I would say that would be the better option for the cats for sure.
We're not sure where we're leaning yet, but we're delaying a definite decision for now, that's for sure. An update. So I officially have a job as of yesterday. Not adding it on LinkedIn or anything until the Visa clears and I set foot in the building, but so far everything is going well. It's public knowledge now (announced within my wife's company and all friends and family told), so that's cool. Now we just need to finish packing.
Congrats on the gainful employment!
We're not sure where we're leaning yet, but we're delaying a definite decision for now, that's for sure. An update. So I officially have a job as of yesterday. Not adding it on LinkedIn or anything until the Visa clears and I set foot in the building, but so far everything is going well. It's public knowledge now (announced within my wife's company and all friends and family told), so that's cool. Now we just need to finish packing.
Congrats! I'm so excited for y'all! Mildly jealous, as well.
Would you like to look at another Australian spider while you wait? If yes, click this link. https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/6...
I mentioned this earlier:
For the Kindle store, if you continue to buy books while in Australia, Amazon will intermittently email you, asking if you want your account to be transferred to the Asia/Oceania store (hell no). You can ignore these but after a year or so they will contact you telling you that your account will be forcibly transferred by a certain due date. At this point you need to contact them (I think there are details in the email) and send them a scan of your passport. That will get them permanently off your back.
Steam will block purchase of content not available in Australia. You will also be charged according to local pricing (which will suck). PSN should have no such issues and work as before. I'd like to say that the e-Shop will be the same but I don't have any personal experience there.
I mentioned this earlier:
Mr GT Chris wrote:For the Kindle store, if you continue to buy books while in Australia, Amazon will intermittently email you, asking if you want your account to be transferred to the Asia/Oceania store (hell no). You can ignore these but after a year or so they will contact you telling you that your account will be forcibly transferred by a certain due date. At this point you need to contact them (I think there are details in the email) and send them a scan of your passport. That will get them permanently off your back.
Steam will block purchase of content not available in Australia. You will also be charged according to local pricing (which will suck). PSN should have no such issues and work as before. I'd like to say that the e-Shop will be the same but I don't have any personal experience there.
What about receiving gifts on Steam? Asking for a friend.
Gifts definitely allow you to access pricing from other regions. I don't know if there are any issues with gifting stuff that is barred from sale. Humble Bundle etc. always don't even let me purchase the keys
Thanks. I forgot that. It's been a long time. That's a bummer about Steam. Although that won't matter to me as much as PSN and e-Shop. The games I'm most looking forward to are the above mentioned Nintendo games and Persona 5.
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I've been using PSN in the US since I bought a PS3 slim. Apart from needing to enter a US address, it's been smooth sailing!
Clock sent me an eShop gift code when I first got a Wii. It told me the code was "not valid for my region", so if it's a worse case scenario, and you're actually blocked from making the purchase due to the mismatch of ISP, DNS, Internet gobbledygook, then you could still get someone in the US to hook you up that way also. Don't rule out physical media sent from the US as well if you're into that sort of thing
What about a using an Internet proxy?
For streaming media you either will need a proxy or live with what the services offer their Australian customers. Of course, there's aways talk that they might start blocking proxies...
Fedaykin98 wrote:I am jealous of the awesome adventure you are embarking on! One of my best friends (you probably met him at the PAX 07 meetup, but he's not a Goodjer) did a similar thing with leaving the PNW for Germany, and he's still there years later. I know it has been a fantastic, enriching experience for him.
The company I'm interviewing with wants me to stay longer if they hire me so you never know. Life is weird. A little over a year ago I started the worst two week period of time of my entire life. Now this is happening. And yeah, it could last longer. You're right.
This delivered a morning smile. I hope it's a blast, and really happy you found a light.
For streaming media you either will need a proxy or live with what the services offer their Australian customers. Of course, there's aways talk that they might start blocking proxies...
f*ck me dead, don't rely on that!?!?
I can 'live' with our Netflix, because I know no better. Coming from the land of plenty, you'll find our sun baked offering half hearted at best.
Check out http://flixusa.com.au/ to see if that is something you could use to get around the problem, especially with their free trial.
Good luck, man! I'm still jealous of this adventure you're embarking on!
Yeah, good luck DS! Portland will still be here, go have new adventures:) Sad about the cats, that's tough, I know.
I Hope You Like Heatwaves.
Well, the worst of it is skipping Sydney, I think. Have a safe trip!
We're having a late Summer here in the West. Temps haven't been that high so far, mainly high twenties to mid thirties.
Usually we would have had mid-thirties to low forties leading into Chrimbo... March is going to be a STINKER!
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