Post: #51

(09-07-2013 05:16 PM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  

(08-30-2013 01:43 PM)TexasMade Wrote:  Smashed an Aussie in Guadalajara and in Thailand. They are chill women. If you want an Aussie but dont want to go there the Full Moon party on the Thai islands are full of them. I think I read on a thread that Bali is Australia's Hawaii.

This is exactly what my boy in Melbourne told me. He said don't even bother visiting OZ because it's crazy expensive and that you'll find Aussie chicks all over Thailand in full party vacay mode. SEA is obviously far cheaper than OZ as well. Something to think about.

Its expensive now, thats why you have to lay up in the smaller town and chill out. The big cities are expensive now, with are low dollar.

Post: #52

where is the courtesy kid rasta ?

Post: #53

(09-07-2013 05:19 PM)+BMDT+ Wrote:  Its expensive now, thats why you have to lay up in the smaller town and chill out. The big cities are expensive now, with are low dollar.

No, that's not good info.

Australia is not like the US where there is a big cost of living divide between big cities and small towns.

All places, big and small are epensive in Australia, in fact Brisbane and Adelaide are cheaper than most small towns.

Australia has very little economies of scale and virtually no competition. Every core industry is basically a duopoly, except banking which is legislatively set at 4 major banks.

Cities like Sydney, Canberra, Darwin and to a lesser extent Perth have high cost of shelter, but even small towns for the most part have corrupt/incompetent local governenace that promote property bubbles.

Outside of shelter, most small towns have more expensive telecoms, food, fuel, etc.. due to large scale distances seperating most places in Australia.

Post: #54

But you will earn $22 per hour in most casual jobs so as long as you can find 25 hours of work ($550) per week it is not too expensive.

Australians on casual wages have far stronger purchasing power in Australia than Americans on casual wages in America.

Post: #55

(09-11-2013 08:51 PM)Que enspastic Wrote:  But you will earn $22 per hour in most casual jobs so as long as you can find 25 hours of work ($550) per week it is not too expensive.

Australians on casual wages have far stronger purchasing power in Australia than Americans on casual wages in America.

until you have to pay sky high rent, deal with rip off travel, over priced food and 10 dollar a beers

Post: #56

actually i found a few bars with, 3.50 beers. Two in kingscross. Thats reasonable.

Post: #57

Don't want to sound like an Indian race troll or anything and this is a serious question:

What is the Australian people's perception of Indian people like? I ask this because one of my friend's uncles who lives in australia got shot in the leg and the guy starting calling him a "fucking hindu" and ran away.

I doubt it would be a big issue for me because people outside of Canada never think I'm indian anyways. Most people think i'm black when I shave my head or latin when I grow my hair out but I'm still curious.

Also, do accents make girls panties wet over there like they do over here? I know girls here love the australian accent but would the same be true for a Canadian person going to Australia?

Post: #58

I travelled India just at the same time we had the 'Indian students getting bashed' drama going on.

Firstly to give the Indians credit, they never posed the question in an aggressive manner. I know if the situations were reversed, Aussies would be going "Hey cunt!!, Aussies gettin' bashed in India hey?!?!.. cop this" and thump the hell out of them. Their media had a very good multipartisan approach to it, where Indians in Australia were quoted as 'Even though some violence like this occurs, we feel safer in Australia than India'.

It's the same view I have of the Indonesian media, for lack of a beter words, they are naive when it comes to western style sensationalism, thus you get quite a balanced (i.e. non-Rupert Murdoch) media.

What was also neglected in the reporting was that in was happeneing in two places, in Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney the violence was mainly perpertrated by Australians or immigrants of Lebanese muslim background. In Melbourne it was people of Sudanese heritage who came here as refugees.

In both cases, they are ethnic groups vastly over-represented in violent crime, and in your uncles case Jazzman the gun crime and 'fuck off Hindu' makes me prejudice it being in one of these cities and a group linked with the repsective groups I named.

Most Australian views Indians as passive, a bit desperate for status, particularly material status and hopelessly pathetic with women but overall harmless.

Australians cannot distinguish between American and Canadian accents, they'll know you're from north America but consier you American.. unless of course you have a visible red maple leaf somewhere.

The accent alone generally doesn't carry much love unless its from a black man, but all other north Americans will get a lot of forgiveness when it comes to spitting game.

Post: #59

(09-12-2013 12:42 AM)Jazzman92 Wrote:  What is the Australian people's perception of Indian people like?

Low status.

In brief they are seen as people that stack shelves, drive taxis, work at 7-11, all the while studying to be an accountant. The more privileged study at selective government schools, go to university and aspire to work as engineers.

Their level of hygiene is low. Social lives almost non-existent. Personality wise seen as very passive and uncharismatic with inability to express themselves freely or risk upsetting people. Perceived as "hypocrites" for allegations that Australia is racist when they have an entrenched caste system which Australians find mortifying. That's it.

Australians like "individualistic people" that also can be part of the "Australian community".

This does not mean they are racist per se (nothing to do with skin) but they do tend to marginalise the "new-comer". Throughout history, every new immigrant group to Australia has suffered prejudice: Irish pre-World War 1, Southern Europeans in the 1960s, Vietnamese in the 1970s, Lebanese in the 1970s-80s, Chinese in the 1980s, Lebanese in the 1990s, East Africans in the 2000s. Sadly it's almost a right of passage.

However, what you will find is that once the next generation starts speaking with Australian accents, by virtue of being born here, they are accepted. Acceptance in Australia is much more about how you fit into the community rather than your ethnicity. You don't have to shed your cultural heritage completely either, like in France, but you do have to make more of an effort to integrate than in a place like the UK.

I know two second generation Indian guys, one is a writer for an indie music magazine, the other studies Arts and goes to alternative music festivals and takes drugs with the SWPL group. Their "Indian heritage" subsequently is seen as cool and something to derive creativity and ideas from.

If you are like these guys you will be fine.

But if you hang around Indian student visa workers all night long in 7-11 or over the taxi inter-com with a softly-softly style of speaking you will be judged negatively.

Canadian accent - you will be fine too.

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Indians need status in general in oz I would say, they would have a hard time going out cold canvas picking up. Status is however not hard to get, for example when i was younger i had an indian DJ friend, played all the R&B hip hop shite he was a scrawny ugly little fucker but got more women than me, even took one of me one night (read;cut my grass). When your a bit older your status might be something else, its not hard really, we have it very easy in this country and so do immigrants, sometimes I forget this; part of the reason I love to travel... Reality check will hit next month when i hit the trenches in South America for a years worth of adventures and fun.