Life in Australia – What it is Really Like – By BobinOz — What it’s Really Like Living in Australia

November 5th, Fireworks and Bonfire Night in Australia.

We don’t do it here, not a cracker to be heard, anywhere. Marvellous! But then of course, you knew that, didn’t you? You would have read my post last year about there being no fireworks in Australia on bonfire night. So instead, this…. I do a lot of charity work, but I just don’t like [...]

Time for Our Fourth Annual Pest Control Treatment….

5 November 2010 Australia's Bad Things

Once a year, around this time each year, we have our house sprayed for pest control. It costs around $250 and I wrote about the last time we had it done in my post called Good News for Those Scared of Australian Spiders and Creepy Crawlies. Time, I think, that we have it redone. But [...]

Traffic Chaos in Brisbane? Clogged Roads? Try This….

3 November 2010 Life in Australia

The big news here in Australia this week is that “Americain” won the 2010 Melbourne Cup. If you don’t know what the Melbourne Cup is or how important it is here in Australia, then you should read my post from last year called….. Australia’s Unofficial National Holiday Because today I have something more important to [...]

Halloween 3 – It’s Getting Regular!

1 November 2010 Entertainment Australia

As I mentioned in Friday’s post about zombie walks, on Saturday we had a Halloween party. In fact it was our third annual Halloween party since moving to Australia. Halloween parties are definitely now our thing. But this Halloween party was the first to feature our brand-new “Gin Table”, which you also already know about [...]

Australian’s are Strange People, or is it just a Bizarre World?

29 October 2010 Life in Australia

Last Sunday we popped over to Fortitude Valley. We are having a Halloween party tomorrow night and Mrs BobinOz deemed that we were short of one tall drinking table out in the garden. So on Saturday we went-a table shopping and found the table we wanted in a store over at Jindalee. It was called [...]

The Cost of Living in Australia: House Prices Part Four

27 October 2010 Cost of Living - Australia

The first time I compared the cost of houses between England and Australia was in February 2009 when I wrote…. Australia vs England at House Prices On that occasion there were lots of news headlines going around suggesting Australia’s houses were among the most expensive in the world. I didn’t think so, having moved from [...]

My First Visit to the Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

25 October 2010 Entertainment Australia

Well it was about time that I went to one, after all, I’ve been here nearly 3 years. So on Saturday evening I did, I went to one, with my friends Mark and Andy. The venue was the Suncorp Stadium, Milton. The tickets cost $20 and included the train fare. The match was Brisbane Roar [...]

Australia or England? The Pros and Cons.

22 October 2010 Life in Australia

A couple of months ago I wrote a post in which I asked the question who is it in Australia who takes 23 cents out of every dollar that Australians spend? The answer was quite surprising, well, it was to me. Because it wasn’t the taxman. If you want to know who it is, you [...]

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