Paphitis wrote:Pyro,
when we refer to Australian cities, we refer to capital cities. They are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, and Darwin.
Some cities can be about 2000 kms apart. For instance, Adelaide and Brisbane, Adelaide to Perth, Sydney to Perth and so on. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra are within an 8 hour drive. Sydney and Brisbane are also fairly close.
You generally do not drive. Most people fly and it is cheap.
Driving is done when you have heaps of time and you want the adventure. The Australian continent is larger than Europe. To drive from one side of the continent to the other can be up to 4000 kms.
Sydney Opera house is also nowhere near the best place in Sydney either. That is just the postcard picture everyone recognizes. It's like the Australian icon. So many better things in Sydney than the Opera House.
And there are so many better places in Ausralia than Sydney, if you are holidaying. Sydney is a commercial center like Melbourne and Brisbane is too. These cities happen to be extremely pretty for big cities. They are great places to work and live.
But you got hundreds of interesting towns to see in Australia. One of my favorite places in all of Australia is 5 Rivers - biggest town is Coffs Harbour population about 110,000. Another favorite is Noosa (QLD) and Lorn (Victoria). You can go on and on.
As for nature, well Australia is pretty much a very good place for that. From Rain Forests to snow, amazing coral reefs, to dense bushland and Sub Tropical forests, and also plenty of desert, wildlife and fauna too.
Yes financially you wcould have been better off in Australia. Engineering is a growth area in Australia. Australia is so short of engineers, they are offering 457 VISAs to qualified engineers. It isn't just for Mining they need engineers. There is also a Petroleum and Gas industry. Australia is the biggest producer and exporter of gas in the world.
Salaries of about 300K per annum are not uncommon for engineers in Australia plus 10% Super. So you would end up with a Super account and shares, like it or not.
Australia has a massive Green Energy industry, there are massive hydroelectric projects, major infrastructure being built from roads to huge high rise. New Airports are being built too and expensive runways on top of major highways (yes, you could be driving you car and see an A380 on a bridge above you).
They are spending 200 billion to improve all Military Airports alone.
There is the Submarine Baracuda project (55 Billion). but some of these will require Security Clearances and I am not sure if you will be able to get into these sensitive areas. hey do have foreigners work on these projects though, subject to strict security clearances.
If they find out you are an AKEL member or supporter, you can kiss any Security Clearance good bye and the Australian Security Apparatus will find out if they wanted to look into your life.
There are so many, literally hundreds defence projects all ranging from something small to the mega billion dollar projects. There is also a lot of testing of rockets, missiles, radar systems, Drones and all kinds of things. this is a very large sector in itself.
There is a lot of shit going on in Australia.
If you were to come to Australia, I believe Melbourne would be the best fit for you because that is where most Greeks and Cypriots live. Boomerang lives there too.
God forbid if I was to expect Boomers to write in Chinese… but I’m hoping he’ll type it out using Latin characters for us!
