Are you planning on Melbourne PAX?
Great to hear DS I figured less talk in here meant more clearing the air out there, so it's great to have that theory confirmed
a low profile here means I'm enjoying life out there.
Couldn't be happier for you, and your wife must be super happy too.
So glad that leap of faith worked out for the best.
Glad to hear it! Bit of a tangent, but what were your thoughts on Fiji? Thinking of heading there later this year.
Yeah the idea of commuter ferries was really unique to me when I visited Sydney.
Glad things are going well!
I am glad everything is going great for you DS, and that the second job is working out much better!
Sonicator wrote:Glad to hear it! Bit of a tangent, but what were your thoughts on Fiji? Thinking of heading there later this year.
Fiji is beautiful. Abundant sun, warm, clear water for swimming and very lush and green. We didn't sight see. We went there for a beach getaway so we just went straight to a resort and relaxed there. So I can't speak to what there is to see. The people were really nice and friendly and the food was amazing where we stayed. There's definitely a slightly uncomfortable "ghosts of colonialism" thing going on there. We find this in many developing countries we travel to. They have abundant fresh fruit, food and natural resources, but it's so obvious how poor they are, how much they rely on tourism and how much their poverty is a complete accident of history. I generally spend a little time on trips to places like Fiji feeling really guilty about the randomness of my station in life and hope that brining my tourist dollars there helps in some way.
We didn't do much there other than relax by the pool and swim in the ocean. The snorkeling wasn't amazing, at least what we saw. But swimming in the ocean was great. Some warnings about sting rays in mating season and reef sharks, but we didn't see anything. The water there is so warm, really comfortable. There was hardly any rain and it was very quiet there. It was exactly what we needed, especially my wife.
We'll definitely go back again.
Sounds like exactly what we'll be needing at that point, thanks. Had very similar feelings about colonialism with Bali.
Glad things are continuing to go well, man.
Love hearing that!
jonnypolite wrote:Good luck and good adventures, DS:) My brother's been living in New Zealand for the past 4 or 5 years, working and loving it. I love that part of the world. Been thinking i'd get down there in the next 5 years or so to live/work. Hope it works out for you guys.
p.s. stuff is overrated.
Hopefully you're still following this thread, Jonny, because this has been one of the most surprising aspects of the move. Stuff matters so little right now. We brought too much, #1. The stuff we left back home doesn't matter. It so doesn't matter. I don't play games much here. I mostly spend my free time relaxing with the wife, cooking healthy meals and reading. I've been toying around with selling my PS4, actually. Usually when I finally take the time to sit down and play it I go on a 3 hour bender of Rocket League and hate myself for it. I never get on my gaming PC. It's crazy how little stuff matters after a move this big.
Glad to hear it's going well.
jonnypolite wrote:Good luck and good adventures, DS:) My brother's been living in New Zealand for the past 4 or 5 years, working and loving it. I love that part of the world. Been thinking i'd get down there in the next 5 years or so to live/work. Hope it works out for you guys.
p.s. stuff is overrated.
Hopefully you're still following this thread, Jonny, because this has been one of the most surprising aspects of the move. Stuff matters so little right now. We brought too much, #1. The stuff we left back home doesn't matter. It so doesn't matter. I don't play games much here. I mostly spend my free time relaxing with the wife, cooking healthy meals and reading. I've been toying around with selling my PS4, actually. Usually when I finally take the time to sit down and play it I go on a 3 hour bender of Rocket League and hate myself for it. I never get on my gaming PC. It's crazy how little stuff matters after a move this big.
Great to hear!!! So glad to hear you're prospering down there, sounds like a life reboot:) I have a friend from college who just relocated to Brisbane for the next couple of years with his 3 and 5 year old in tow. Australia/NZ is definitely trending in my mind. Makes me want to go on an adventure, and soon.
Keep posting pictures, they're great!
p.s. re: gaming, you could try seeking out one of the board game groups there in Sydney, there's a few on BGG. Hooking up with a group like that after moving to a city where i knew not a soul changed my life, literally.
Apparently there is some massive sale on where you can get a return flight to Australia for ~$500 for those that want a taste of the down under life.
Indeed! They should get on it while the AUD is so weak!
Any more info? Best i can find is like $1200 roundtrip to sydney. For $500 apiece, i'd consider a spontaneous family getaway:)
It might be too late...
Well... at least you're saved from having to fly United for 26 hours.
Well... at least you're saved from having to fly United for 26 hours.
My thoughts exactly.
I'm trying to picture the person who wants to randomly tussle with you and coming up blank.
Hehehe, you called him a bloke! You're one of us now.
Sydney seems to have more walking etiquette than Melbourne. It's only recently that Melbourneinans have learnt to stay on the left of escalators so people who are in a hurry can walk past them.
I do miss the Sydney rules a little.
I reckon you'll find dicks wherever you go. Sounds like you did the right thing!
In Japan, I was recently starting to enter the ticket gate so I could exit the station. A guy coming the other way clearly entered the other side of the gate without putting in any ticket or pass (dodging fare) and presumably expected me to give him some room to slip past. Instead I gave him a solid shoulder check on the way through. He yelled something at me that could roughly translate to "You motherf### something something". I just ignored him.
I don't like to think of it as long-term rudeness. Most of the time people are great! Every once in a while you get someone who isn't but think of all the thousands of people that you pass by all the other times.
Even yesterday it was just that one person. Who knows what was going on in his day? maybe he was having a terrible time in his own life.
I think that when something like that happens we have a physical response to it, and it takes a while for it to go away. To make it worse, if we are people who don't normally get into that kind of situation, we don't know how to react or how to deal with the effects of it. It's horrible! others will get into that kind of situation and walk away almost exited, or happy that they held their ground or whatever.
Would it help to keep in mind that probably everyone else there, including the lady, thought the bloke was being an idiot?
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