Reply to: Oz here I come!

[northernladyuk]

Au contraire DP. There is a class system in Australia but it's based on money - exactly how it should be. Meritocratic.

We have already established that Australia is a polechokocracy.

[greenlake]

Biggest killer in Australia isn't a spider, a snake or a shark. It's horses.

Yeah, don't mess with those crazy horses....

[teapot418]

and with countless venomous critters.....

Which could be why we never heard from janey again

[Mordac]

Are you gonna be flying over the middle east ? If you are good luck with that.

Also, what jobboard / what skill ?

You might want to check the date of the original post...

[europetractor]

just received a positive result from my Australia skills assessment!

wahoo

Are you gonna be flying over the middle east ? If you are good luck with that.

Also, what jobboard / what skill ?

[NickFitz]

Au contraire DP. There is a class system in Australia but it's based on money - exactly how it should be. Meritocratic.

That's a plutocracy, not a meritocracy. The slightest examination of any human society will immediately show that the distribution of wealth is not correlated with merit, unless the latter is vacuously defined as "wealth"

[DimPrawn]

I must tell you something of the pain.

The pain attacks your body at a speed that is so fast it cannot be measured. Already your lungs are paralyzed and your stomach is turned upside down. Simultaneously your tongue is trapped and quickly dries out, while your jaw slams shut and your eyes squeeze tight. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles tense in an attempt to combat the pain; then they release succumbing to its awesome power.

Since I put Scooterscot on ignore this has stopped thankfully...

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Biggest killer in Australia isn't a spider, a snake or a shark. It's horses.

You still wouldn't get me swimming in the sea there.

In Queensland, they have the deadly box jellyfish which, apparently, has the most agonisingly painful venom of all.

I must tell you something of the pain.

The pain attacks your body at a speed that is so fast it cannot be measured. Already your lungs are paralyzed and your stomach is turned upside down. Simultaneously your tongue is trapped and quickly dries out, while your jaw slams shut and your eyes squeeze tight. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles tense in an attempt to combat the pain; then they release succumbing to its awesome power.

Feck that....

[Mordac]

Biggest killer in Australia isn't a spider, a snake or a shark. It's horses.

Even the horses are venomous?

[WTFH]

and with countless venomous critters.....

Biggest killer in Australia isn't a spider, a snake or a shark. It's horses.

[Fronttoback]

Australia seems like one giant rough council estate with searing heat and sunshine to me...

Au contraire DP. There is a class system in Australia but it's based on money - exactly how it should be. Meritocratic.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Australia seems like one giant rough council estate with searing heat and sunshine to me...

and with countless venomous critters.....

[DimPrawn]

Australia seems like one giant rough council estate with searing heat and sunshine to me...

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Most people cannot implement a successful migration.

You have to fully integrate, which means you have to give up part of yourself.

It benefits your children perhaps, but you lose.

It's for the aspirational working class.

Ironically, I've never had a problem integrating when I've worked in Spain and Italy but I think I would if I went to Australia.

That may be unfair, though, as I'm sure it's not really full of the boorish types I met whilst travelling around the States 25 years ago.

[Fronttoback]

Most people cannot implement a successful migration.

You have to fully integrate, which means you have to give up part of yourself.

It benefits your children perhaps, but you lose.

It's for the aspirational working class.