The Aus/NZ Roll Call

Xavi6

Basically just wondering how many boardsies are actually in the region. Simply post your country and location. No replies necessary, one post per person and we can get an idea of what the numbers are like. I'll start -

Country: Australia
City: Perth
Arrived: January 2007
Intending To Stay: Til the recession dies! :pac: (Probably til early 2010)

ifumust82

Country: Australia
City: Sydney
Arrived: August 2006

Rabies

New Zealand
Auckland
Oct 2006

watna

oooh, good idea!

Country: NZ
Where: Wellington
Arrived: May 2008
Intending to stay: for about two years ish and then back to Ireland to "settle down"!

One Cold Hand

Country: Aus
City Melbourne
Arrived: March '08

Mahatma coat

Country : Australia
Live in : Brisbane & Northern NSW
Arrived : March 2003

hussey

Country: Oz
City: Sydney
Arrived: Dec 2005

Crumble Froo

Country: New Zealand
City: Christchurch
Arrived: December 2007
Intending to Stay: As long as possible.

The Sweeper

Country: Australia
City: 60kms north of Melbourne in rural Victoria
Arrived: April 2007
Intending to stay: For eva evah.

the dee

Country: Australia
City: Melbourne
Arrived: In Australia March 2008, in Melbourne July 2008
Planning to stay: Perhaps forever......

tallaght01

Australia

Brisbane

Here since february '08

Work contract is up in january, so we'll see what happens then. I'm undecided whether I'm going to renew.

Coileach dearg

Country: Australia
City: Sydney
Arrived: March 2006

SquirrelOnCrack

Country: Australia

City: Melbourne

Arrived: September 07

Intending to stay: For good

Skittlebrau

Country: Australia
City: Melbourne
Arrived: Feb 06
Intending To Stay: Indefinitely.

WhiteWashMan

hehehehe, boards beer, here we come

BraziliaNZ

seems to me from hearing accents in Melbourne and seeing The GAA Cup related clothes and jeans/black shoes scenarios, especially in St Kilda, that's there are enough Irish people here to start a city of maybe 50,000 people

Skittlebrau

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

seems to me from hearing accents in Melbourne and seeing The GAA Cup related clothes and jeans/black shoes scenarios, especially in St Kilda, that's there are enough Irish people here to start a city of maybe 50,000 people

Yep. One of the main reasons I avoid St. Kilda as much as possible.

Jumpy

Im gonna throw into this one, but Im going to be slightly different.
Can we adjust the sticky to mention those Aussies in Ireland as well?

Country: Ireland
City: Limerick
Arrived: 2001

Born: Sydney Australia.

BraziliaNZ

Skittlebrau wrote: »

Yep. One of the main reasons I avoid St. Kilda as much as possible.

Why, are you ashamed of us? Not good enough for you now?

watna

Jumpy wrote: »

Im gonna throw into this one, but Im going to be slightly different.
Can we adjust the sticky to mention those Aussies in Ireland as well?

Country: Ireland
City: Limerick
Arrived: 2001

Born: Sydney Australia.

Aww, an opposite person. Welcome!

Teg Veece

County: Australia
City: Sydney
Arrived: Feb 2008
Intending to Stay: Hopefully at least until I finish my Masters or PhD.

Seems that a lot of the people who are intending to stay for quite awhile have only just recently arrived. I wonder how much of an impact the economy back in Ireland is having / will have on this.

b3t4

County: New Zealand
City: Wellington
Arrived: August 2007 (had my anniversary there last week)
Intending to Stay: Feb 2009, would of stayed longer but a little thing called love is dragging me back to the Northern Hemisphere

A.

Lazer Smart

County: Australia
City: Perth
Arrived: June 2008
Leaving: Not too sure:)

Xavi6

^^^ A fellow Westerner! When BraziliaNZ gets here next week that'll be three boardsies in Perth.

One Cold Hand

Meh.
As a wise man once said: 'To hell or to Perth'

Cmol

Jumpy wrote: »

Im gonna throw into this one, but Im going to be slightly different.
Can we adjust the sticky to mention those Aussies in Ireland as well?

Country: Ireland
City: Limerick
Arrived: 2001

Born: Sydney Australia.

+1, reading this forum makes me so homesick!

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin
Arrived: June 2007
Born: Wellington

Intending to stay as long as im happy!!

Diamondmaker

Country: Australia
City: Brisbane
Arrived: Jan 08
Status: Sponsored in great emloyment and applying for full skilled mgrant status
Longterm Plan: Sending the kids to the folks for holidays and Uni in Ireland !:)

AOR

Country: Australia
City: Adelaide
Arrived: July 2008

JustaJourno

Country: New Zealand
City: Hamilton
Arrived: July 2008
Intending To Stay: July 2009

One Cold Hand

JustaJourno wrote: »

Country: New Zealand
City: Hamilton
Arrived: July 2008
Intending To Stay: July 2009

God, Hamilton. I'm sorry for your troubles. What awful set of circumstances brought you there?

mrDuke

Country: Australia
City: Gold Coast (near brisbane)
Arrived: March 08
Intending to stay here for another 6 weeks, then do little more back packing and 6 weeks in melbourne.

Rabies

One Cold Hand wrote: »

God, Hamilton. I'm sorry for your troubles. What awful set of circumstances brought you there?

I was thinking the same thing. Was there once, got out very fast. Boring town.

JustaJourno

One Cold Hand wrote: »

God, Hamilton. I'm sorry for your troubles. What awful set of circumstances brought you there?

Haha, yeah know what you mean! Im here training/working for about a year with one month break back home in February. Dont know how Ill survive!

Does anyone know if its possible to watch the GAA over here at all?

Also, any good recommendations for places to go/see, things to do etc?

paxo

Brisbane
since 1987
staying for the rest of my natural

daveg

Country: Australia
City: Melbourne (Langwarrin)
Arrived: Dec 2007
Intending to stay: For good or at least till we start feeling homesick

Daithio

Australia, Sydney, arrived January '07 for a three week holiday :pac:. Intend to stay here as long as possible, applying for skilled migration status when my masters finishes in November.

pucan

Country: Australia
City: Sydney
Arrived: June 2006
Intending To Stay: For the foreseeable future.

slipss

Country: Australia
City: Perth
Arrived: About 12 hours ago (and here I am on boards. ahh well)
Intending to stay: A year or ten, it's winter (I think, could be) and its better than any Irish summer I can remember .