Any Albion fans in Adelaide?

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

As I will be moving there in a a month or so, just wanted to know if there are any out there?

 

[Wozza]

Are you collecting roo poo or catching koalas?

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[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

My sister lives in flagstaff hill, her boys are Albion nuts,they go and watch the strikers regularly.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The guy who used to run the Seagulls Down Under Brighton fan club was from Adelaide.

 

[Boroseagull]

Yes when visiting my daughter in Craigmore.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Leave off the pie floaters, they're indigestible, particularly in the height of Summer out there.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

It's the biggest bogan(chav) city in the country, Hope you end up in one of the nice suburbs!

 

[Dizzle.]

Should have come to Perth

 

[imissworthing2]

To all you guys down under, Is it as easy to get a permanent visa to live in adelaide as it has been suggested recently. I've got a sport science degree but no work experience in the field yet at all.

I've had enuf of the uk to be honest and would jump at the chance to relocate!!!

 

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Not easy, but I assume you are a new graduate so it is different. I needed a msc and a long career history, cost 2k and took 18 months.

 

[Buffalo Seagull]

I grew up in Adelaide and only moved away in 2006. It's a really nice place to live, but it sometimes has a bit of a country town mentality to it, in which a lot of people are opposed to modernising and developing the city. It can get rediculously hot in Jan and Feb (up to 42-43 degrees, and you might go for a week where the max is above 35, or 2-3 nights where the min doesn't go below 30) - but one of the trade-offs is it has some of the nicest suburban beaches in the country (coincidentally, Brighton beach being perhaps the best). Every few years there is a fatal shark attack, but these tend to be more directed at divers off the coast, or people on surfboards who sharks tend to mistake as turtles. If you're swimming in the shallows you will be fine. Most of the suburban areas are perfectly fine to live in and public transport is pretty good going into the city. Do you know where you're going to be living and working yet?

 

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Thanks BS, no, don't know where, but we have a pretty good idea of where not as it were. Not the expensive close to CBD districts either. Nice average surburbs (any advice more than welcome).

I have no job and will not start looking until I get over there. Have a few contacts in the IT job agancy market from friends, but no point until I get there as I wouldn't employ somebody yet to enter the country.

Looking forward to it really, just gutted to be moving away just before Falmer...

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

To all you guys down under, Is it as easy to get a permanent visa to live in adelaide as it has been suggested recently. I've got a sport science degree but no work experience in the field yet at all.

I've had enuf of the uk to be honest and would jump at the chance to relocate!!!

Check out Australian Visa wizard - Visas Immigration for more info on how 'easy' it might be to get a visa to work out here.

If you are under 30 you can get a Working Holiday Visa which allows you to work and travel for up to 2 years - also gives you an opportunity to find out that the grass isnt always greener.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

If you are under 30 you can get a Working Holiday Visa which allows you to work and travel for up to 2 years - also gives you an opportunity to find out that the grass isnt always greener.

Except in this case it is

 

[Buffalo Seagull]

Thanks BS, no, don't know where, but we have a pretty good idea of where not as it were. Not the expensive close to CBD districts either. Nice average surburbs (any advice more than welcome).

I have no job and will not start looking until I get over there. Have a few contacts in the IT job agancy market from friends, but no point until I get there as I wouldn't employ somebody yet to enter the country.

Looking forward to it really, just gutted to be moving away just before Falmer...

Most of the suburbs within 15-20 kms of the CBD are perfectly nice to live in. There are also nice areas further out than this, but the not-so-nice areas aso fall in to this category. As a general rule, the eastern side of town is more expensive than the western. Actually, if you're looking for somewhere in the middle, you could do a lot worse than the suburb of Brighton (or the area around it). The transport in the area is pretty good and Marion shopping centre (Adelaide's largest suburban shopping centre) is only a few minutes drive away.

 

[GNF on Tour]

Should have come to Perth

I've just been offered a years contract in Perth, not sure what to do, bit hot for my liking.

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

Except in this case it is

Same here. There are still the realities of everyday life though; Work, shopping, bills, taxes, sunshine, beaches, sunshine....

 

[Danny-Boy]

I grew up in Adelaide and only moved away in 2006. It's a really nice place to live, but it sometimes has a bit of a country town mentality to it, in which a lot of people are opposed to modernising and developing the city. It can get rediculously hot in Jan and Feb (up to 42-43 degrees, and you might go for a week where the max is above 35, or 2-3 nights where the min doesn't go below 30) - but one of the trade-offs is it has some of the nicest suburban beaches in the country (coincidentally, Brighton beach being perhaps the best). Every few years there is a fatal shark attack, but these tend to be more directed at divers off the coast, or people on surfboards who sharks tend to mistake as turtles. If you're swimming in the shallows you will be fine. Most of the suburban areas are perfectly fine to live in and public transport is pretty good going into the city. Do you know where you're going to be living and working yet?

I've swum off Brighton (Adelaide) beach, after doing some gardening. It was fantastic on a weekday afternoon, and there was no-one else around!

Then I heard that a few months before, there'd been a shark attack...

 

[Buffalo Seagull]

I've swum off Brighton (Adelaide) beach, after doing some gardening. It was fantastic on a weekday afternoon, and there was no-one else around!

Then I heard that a few months before, there'd been a shark attack...

Unfortunately there have always been great whites in those waters. A couple of months before I left Adelaide, I was having dinner at a beachside restaurant in Henley. However it was hard to eat your dinner with a 50m long line of boats trawling up and down the coast looking for the body parts of a diver who'd been taken early in the day. As I said before though, if you're just swimming in the shallows it's not really a problem. During the summer months they also often have planes up in the air over the coast looking for any sharks in the area.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Same here. There are still the realities of everyday life though; Work, shopping, bills, taxes, sunshine, beaches, sunshine....

I was in Melbourne today, and there was no sunshine! None in Sydney too