I live in Melbourne and it's a great city. Good nightlife and I'd say it's more cultural and artistic.
[QUOTE=NeoTurtle;15995307] Also yeah the graffiti is fucking awesome.[/QUOTE]
Hosier lane is awesome
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[QUOTE=phill977;15995183]I can get $2 per hour in Sydney for a gaming/internet cafe.
[b]That's if i'm not bothered to get around the log in system.[/b][/QUOTE]
Oh Phillip, you.
Its too easy isnt it?
What's all this shit about Sydney being homo? The only place in Sydney that's homo is Darlinghurst (no joke, it's pretty much the gay capital of Sydney), but that's just one suburb. I don't know anything about Perth, but Melbourne is pretty good, I've been there a few times, it's a lot more quiet than Sydney but it's not rural or anything. Sydney would have more job opportunities obviously but Melbourne is still a very big city so either one would present a lot of opportunities. Personally I'd go to Melbourne even though I live in Sydney because I liked Melbourne but it's best if you know any friends who live there to give you some info. Don't just take FP's advice, most people on this forum don't even live in Australia.
[QUOTE=ashxu;15995154]Melbourne. Sydney is filled with $10 per hour internet.[/QUOTE]
Most internet cafes in Sydney are 2 or 3 dollars an hour.
I live in Melbourne and would also give it a +1
I've been to Sydney a few times and it just seems rediculously overpriced. I'm not sure if that's just because we hung around the touristy spots but paying $16 for a small pizza is rediculous, as is making people pay to climb up a bridge. The monorail and harbour were pretty awesome but get boring fast.
Melbourne, on the other hand, has a great public transport layout (delays and overcrowding suck though) and the city itself is very compact so easy to find what you want.
[QUOTE=SBD;15995382]Considered doing the defence force gap year thing?[/QUOTE]
They stopped people doing that, only the Navy offers it, and I think this is the last year they're letting people do it.
I've got a pretty big Melbourne bias, I love this city.
There's work in Melbourne, the telemarketing/canvassing companies hire pretty much everyone because they go through so many employees (cause it's shit work) - if you can lie to people on their door about how you can make their electricity emit no carbon emissions you can sell heaps.
Or you can go fruit picking.
Don't worry about internet access. Most backpackers I know steal their wireless.
[QUOTE=ksenior;15996451]Perth is boring. Melbourne and Sydney are overcrowded and overpopulated. Brisbane's nice, but stay away from the Gold Coast, it's a shit hole with an overrated beach
Adelaide's nice, go there.[/QUOTE]
Adelaide is the drug capital of Australia, no thanks.
:rolleyes:
Melbourne ftw.
[QUOTE=bregitta;15997661]I live in Melbourne and would also give it a +1
I've been to Sydney a few times and it just seems rediculously overpriced. I'm not sure if that's just because we hung around the touristy spots but paying $16 for a small pizza is rediculous, as is making people pay to climb up a bridge. The monorail and harbour were pretty awesome but get boring fast.
Melbourne, on the other hand, has a great public transport layout (delays and overcrowding suck though) and the city itself is very compact so easy to find what you want.[/QUOTE]
Uhh nobody uses the monorail because it doesn't go anywhere.
The City Rail trains are really good in non-peak hours.
Ok so the overall consensus is to go with Melbourne.
Cool. Now, am I wise spending £1750 on all this plus needing £2000 backup money for my visa?
[QUOTE=VladimirPutin;15995125]Check out Brisbane, great weather. :biggrin:[/QUOTE]
This, we went for a month (not to work however), spent 3 in Brisbane and one in Sydney, Brisbane is by far the better of the two.
Can you surf and do watersports in Melbourne?
Sydney probably has an advantage there with better beaches and a bit warmer weather. If you want to find a good surf beach in Melbourne you're gonna have to travel a bit. Depends where you are in the area.
1 out of 3 people in Australia get skin cancer sometime in their lives. Bad times. :(
Congratulations, you're qualified to paint computers.
Well actually, I'm the best artist from my school, I've covered aspects of CAD/CAM in Technology, product design, working drawings and I've created a wireless oil/coolant level and temperature sensor and receiver alarm system and the necessary documentation at 60 A3 pages. In ICT I created 2 databases and all the necessary documentation mounting at 320 A4 pages.
So that was school which is probably still small buns, but I've got all this experience running the marina, driving various boats and my lifeguard crap.
I'm good with computers so it's all gotta count somewhere along the lines of getting a job.
and about painting computers, yeh me and me bro cut cases and paint them :v:
Melbourne is much drier than Sydney, and Sydney is much better for beaches.
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FYI there's a hell of a lot of lifeguarding available in this country.
Sydney has a cooler bridge than Melbourne.
[QUOTE=Patttttttttt;15995152]It's true, sydney kids are all very homoerotic.[/QUOTE]
Their are some very fucking gay looking kids around, But the rest are all straight!
Australia is a terrible country and you should feel bad for wanting to come here.
Glad to have you though
[QUOTE=nottaken;15998429]Can you surf and do watersports in Melbourne?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, good surf beaches aren't that far from Melbourne.
plus i seem to recall you dig urbex (Melbourne's good for it)
Perth, i live in perth and its a fucking hole full or bogans, derros and fucking abos, dont come here.
Addi is a druggie tryhard state.
Queensland is full of surfer cunts who think they are the shit because they are in the brah boys and mob ya in a pack of 50. but good rainforests
NSW has awsome theme parks.
and the rest arn't even worth mentioning
OP please don't tell me you chose where to go only on the basis of the responses in the thread. Seriously get some opinions from other people or do a bit of searching on the net. Don't base such a big decision on replies on an internet forum.
[QUOTE=nottaken;15995485]What are they?
and yeh I just remembered I'm watching artists from melbourne on deviantart and there is some awesome street art.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.defencejobs.gov.au/education/gapyear/[/url]
You basically sign up with either the army, navy or air force for a year to see what it's like. You still get paid and everything. You can quit at any time in the air force and navy programs or within the first 80 days in the army one.
[QUOTE=Wisebrant;15997719]Adelaide is the drug capital of Australia, no thanks.[/QUOTE]
Excuse me what? I think you'll find that Melbourne is the drug capital of Australia. Even the legit drug companies are moving to Melbourne.
Go to Melbourne, It's laid out the best of any city I have ever been to
[QUOTE=DaveP;15996560]Friend just booked flights and went for it, totally slummed it at times, got work in a restaurant for a while, did veracious amounts of drugs, and had a great time[/QUOTE]
That's pretty lame. Going to a different country and everything you can talk about is your work in a restaurant and the drugs...
Go to melbourne. Don't come to Perth, it's a poor excuse for a city.
[QUOTE=nottaken;15998429]Can you surf and do watersports in Melbourne?[/QUOTE]
Bells Beach is awesome for surfing.
And OP already decided on Melbourne, stop making requests people!
Well I don't know really. I could do both you know. I'd have a working holiday visa which means i can stay in oz for a year and work with any single employer for 6 months at a time. I want to see sydney for the water aspects and Melbourne for the (obviously apparent) awesomeness.
and yeh I havn't had anywhere to urbex in northern ireland either :(
Also lifeguard jobs you say?
My parents' only concern is the current recession and me not finding a job.
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