question for the aussies
 

i'm thinking of moving down south... where would be a good place to go?


like for work and good neighborhoods and such, umm... if i have anymore questions about ill ask later... can't think of others right now...




p.s. don't ask why cause i dont know...

p.p.s. also same question to any tokyo dwellers

im in Adelaide, its nice, if you have a reel that sells you.., you'll work. unlimited work in Sydney if your good enough but the price of living is extreme there.., but if your thinking Tokyo.., well Sydney should be no problem.

but dont bother coming without a reel.., you'll blow your doe.

i feel the same.., i really need to get out of this country.., or as far away from someone as possible and get a life.

good luck.., if you make it here ill catch you at coffee and show you around the production houses.., some of them ive never been in but that wont stop us LOL

i dont mean just work in the sense of 3d (one day hopefully) i mean work in general

i wasn't even considering sydney cause, being a "tourist" myself it sounds wierd but, there'd be too much tourists :p

as for tokyo, well, anywhere if i end up on a big city, i'd be on the outskirts so it's cheaper and probably just work in the city...

coffee sounds nice right now...craving... gotta go :D

forgotten melbourne if youre thinking of living on the outskirts about 45min out of the city price for houses drop a lot it's really affordable

...and are you going to take that monkey of yours with you?
-just kidding.
I'm neither from australia not from japan, but I can tell you that you won't work in japan without speaking japanese. You'll have a tough time. I went to osaka a while ago and even having studied japanese for two years it was really hard to communicate. You leave the airport and the english language disappears alongside with our alphabet.
The people are loveley <nd they really make an effort to help but 90% will not speak or understand english, -even students and high school kids.

thought you might want to consider that.

it's shifted far off from tokyo now, ive heard some eeeeeeeeevvvvil things... about cost of living and such... not the people...


so, the aussie hole it is then... sorry for that i've been calling it that all day for some reason...

hmm... everywhere sounds perfect so far :p

keep the places comin!:beer:

Wagga Wagga, Nambour, Logan, Kenilworth so many places!

what the shit is a wagga wagga?

*gasp* You're not invited to the barbecue!

lol, only joking! :)


OK, advice, don't go for a place in the country - if you want to use a computer with an Internets connection. There's also a major drought going on, so the economy in those parts isn't as good as it could be, so there wouldn't be that many jobs. Plus it is so different from urban life. The ads on the TV in the country are about John Deere tractors, fertilizer and other very... umm... exciting subjects... like cows, and wheat and that. :)

As for wagga wagga, that's out in the country...

You know what the sad thing is. I actually had a bbq today.

Somehow I don't see a 3d artist living in the country. Kind of lacks the necessitys that the job entitles.

Sunshine Coast i say. Not too big, not too small, has everything plus awesome beaches and hot girls. what more could you possibly want :p

lol, actually im thinkin WA around the outskirts of perth cause it's really cheap, and the internet is fine around there

COME TO NEW ZEALAND INSTEAD!

where you can pay 33% tax (or 19% if you're on low income) and pay $500 for rent per week, oh and 12.5% for gst, because we can't have people getting rich here, oh no, everyone has to be poor and find it hard paying for anything... (although i dont know if this is better or worse than other countries)

oh and did i mention the lack of 3D-ness in jobs and crappy internet prices and small caps on internet usage? not to mention that NZ internet is slower than some 3rd world countries

not to mention the crappy advertising that try to get you to buy into things by talking about irrelavant things that have nothing to do with the product or service and yet i swear people are dumb enough to fall for it and give in

on the plus side, if you'll never too far away from about 6+ trees unless you're inside a building... in that case you might have plants around...

and relative to america, its peaceful.... (so i hear)

Haha NZ isnt that bad. I mean the fact that their are debates about the colour of a god damn train (kiwirail) which may be biased to canterbury. WHAT THE HELL!! ITS A DAMN COLOUR!!

And petrol prices may be over $2.00 (helen clark still making you guys pay taxes for fuel?). Also the average wage may be $14 an hour but hey who doesn't want to live on bare minimum these days.

Another thing I hate is the amount of scare campaigns that just blatantly disturb yuo when your watching a nice family movie or tv show. Why spend money on making people uncomfortable rather than targeting the actual problem.

Other than that and more, its great. Greatly reccommend for retirement :p

damn, new zealand is starting to sound like a good horror movie:p

I would kind of go for NZ aswell.
But yeah, louis56 is right aswell...
the scare campaigns arent that bad though. You barely notice them after a few month.

yeah, NZ is good for retirement...

and to scare you more...
i think its actually more than $2 a litre for petrol and if you move to auckland you get to put up the most horrible transport system you will ever face... possibly.... i've never seen anything worse than it :p

<begin-rant>
the motorway keeps changing from 2 lanes to 3 lanes back to 2 lanes then randomly to 4 lanes for a short distance
oh, and don't forget about the public transport... there is NO public transport going out to the airport, so you have to pay $100+ for a taxi, not only that but if you DO get to see a bus it's probably at some random time of the day and everyone abuses the poor busdrivers, bus routes connect the city but you can't go everywhere on just one bus... if you are in south part of auckland (where all the highschool dropouts try to be american gangsters) you can't take the bus anywhere other than to central auckland or some other parts of south auckland, going anywhere else means you have to take a seperate bus
oh and if you get sick of the buses that are falling apart and are just things found in overseas junkyards, try the trains which were also found in some other countries junk yard. with a limited speed of 60km/h (or is it 80 now...?) you can go to either south, central or west auckland in a few hours stopping at stations in sometimes obscure places in the middle of nowhere (although theres one that i catch which is only 8 minutes walk away from where i live)
you can't take the train out to the more populated parts of auckland in north and east, and most parts of south, west, and central...

although i hear the public transport is somewhat better in wellington

other than that, the scenery can be nice so long as you aren't in the factory areas

</end-rant>

don't get me wrong, its a nice place to live :p

Yeah, auckland iss a bit polluted in the center as well. If you don't mind ice-cold wind every day, you will enjoy Wellington. Public transport is pretty good, but could be better.

melbourne's a pretty good place to live ;) though as anasasis said about the prices of housing, is totally true... also if you do come here later on in the future, be prepared for the weather :p ohh its horrid, i tell you ...

(ps. anyone from the western suburbs like me? lol)

a friend of mine is making good money from the country (nth NSW).., in this age of remote and e mail.., but he has 25 years of compositing experience.., a flame artist.

depends if you are a city person and enjoy all the smiles and partying.., or a country person.., a quiet life working at your own terms.

2marlon - dude the weather anywhere isn't as bad as canada...

it's like sring and fall killed eachother... 25-40 degrees C in the summer and -25 - -35 in the winter... we suck...


@merik - i'm a middle person, i like being close to the hussle and bussle, and working in it but not living in it... and county... too boring to live in, somedays i like it though... so i like the smaller towns that surround big cities

:ninja: :ninja: :ninja:

yea, i hear that.., its hard to find the right place at the right time.

$2 a litre! Be glad were at about £1.20 (about $2.40/$2.50) a litre at the moment

LOL gas is $4 per gallon on average in the U.S. Crazy stuff.

yeah, but doesn't everything there cost more than here?
the prices is the UK are the same/similar numbers as whats here but the salary/wages are better

that, and hear NZ dairy products are cheaper there than they are here


@GecT, 1 gallon = 3.78 litre according to the convertor thing on my phone and $US4 is $NZ5.73 (so says the convertor again, i dunno if it keeps up with the exchange rates and i'm not gonna bother finding out)
so thats $NZ5.73....:eek:

unless my math was wrong that's just crazy.....!

Dunno, never gone to the shop for a pint of NZ milk, dont think I've ever seen it? Or many or any NZ dairy products here that I cant thikn of off the top of my head?

I knw we have a pretty high cost of living, but I've not looked into a comparason between here and NZ.

all i know is that no matter where.., im thinking the price of food is less than petrol.

as 'artists' i think we need to be careful with money.., one can live as cheaply or expensively as they like in any country.., eg, cigarettes, drinking, drugs, eating out.., how one spends there money dictates their life style to a certain extent..,

i dont have any money really by ozzy standards.., but i eat OK.., but not much of a life.., just me and the computers.

gee, that really sounds like soapbox material.., but i hope you guys know what i mean

hey marlon where in the western suburbs are you im in mornington near frankston in south east suburbs

I live in a town down south near Melbourne called Torquay.
Its a nice place and we get heaps of tourists during summer which is good for all the shops. Overall i'd say Australia is probably one of the better places to live.

@ anasasis - i live in a suburb called, deerpark/brimbank just outside of st albans/footscary ... lol guessing you heard of those places :p but my area is fine really, just plenty of hoons.

"Overall i'd say Australia is probably one of the better places to live."

yeah gotta agree with you there someguy

i agree with that marlon australia i reckon would be one of the greatest places to live

you guys are only saying that cuz you never lived anywhere else :p

well, apart from the obvious exceptions, if you grew up in each country equally you'd probably say the same thing about all of them