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What one tip would you give someone heading to OZ?
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13-02-2012 1:34pm#1
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massdebater wrote: »Buy a watermelon as soon as you land, they're unreal over here.
Same goes for avacados!
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woolymammoth wrote: »remove your phone from your pocket before running like en eejit into the ocean.
haha, wasn't an I-Phone or something along those lines was it?0 -
ahh.. no! just an old nokia. Still, quickly went frommarkymark21 wrote: »haha, wasn't an I-Phone or something along those lines was it?
to , then 
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Charlie Haughy wrote: »Also, in my opinion, stay in a hostel until you have full time work IN CASE you dont get work after a month or 2 of trying. Keep moving from hostel A to Hostel B and back to A etc. if you have to, dont commit to a 6 - 12 month apartment before you have work just in case. The bond will take a MASSIVE chunk of your savings.
True, but a lease is not legally binding. If you sign a 12 month lease and then after 3 months you decide to leave, as long as you give the appropriate notice by law then the landlord must return your bond. Make sure to get your bond lodged with the RTBA if you dont trust the landlord.
Also if you are in a rooming house, i.e. 4 or more people live in the house and are renting a room each, then you only need to give 2 days notice to leave! I fu*ked some former dodgey landlords over by using that golden piece of legislation 0 -
Lot of laughs reading this.
My advice is more of a serious nature. And would like to stress that this is purely my opinion and down to my experiences here over the last 3 years.
1)Don't be picky about work
I'm going to be honest - things are slowing down. A big Australian construction company let 500 staff go in Sydney last week. Also feedback from my friends tell me temp work in Sydney and Melbourne has slowed down.
As long as you want to work and are not too picky - you should find work.
It is getting harder for people just arriving on working holiday visas as they are competing with people here a few years who may be sponsored etc and have Australian employer references.
Don't expect to have a job the day you land. Sometimes it works like that, for me it did - but that was 3 years ago. In the past few months, I have seen people waiting 2 months to get a job and also someone who got a job the 2nd week of looking.
CHANGE your resume to the Australian format. There's a big difference!
2) Don't have unrealistic expectations about the money you will make. Yes we have all heard of so an so working in the mines making $$$$$$'s who doesn't have the time to spend the money he's making/ is buying a house at home outright etc.
Realistically - I know one or two people, at the top of their trade with years of experience who are actually doing this. Most people are the same. And they do 12 hour shifts 7 days a week in the middle of nowhere to earn this kind of money.
I'm so sick of hearing - "i'm going to go to Perth, that's where the big money is" - truth is, anyone I personally know who has landed in perth in the last 3 or 4 months has really struggled to get work and especially a rental property. Seems to be a lack of both for the demand. And my tradesman friends are making the same money in Sydney/Melbourne as the ones in Perth.
Reality is - I make a decent living and have a great lifestyle. Some weeks I haven't a bean - but that's mostly down to me having too good a time. Count yourself lucky to have a chance of working and maintain a decent social life.
When home last August I heard a girl tell me about her friend who was going to move to Australia with her boyfriend and 3 kids on working holiday visas, she was going to stay at home to mind the kids - he was making x amount of Euros as an electrician in Ireland (which was going to automatically double in Australia coz thats what can be made according to this one!) and they were all going to live off of half his wages and send home half to save - so they'd save about 50 grand a year and come home after 5 years and buy a house outright.
I just sat there and nodded. Do people really have this unrealistic view of Australia?
3)Be prepared to pay for living in some of the biggest and best cities in the world!
I live in the Eastern suburbs in Sydney. Its expensive. Especially if you are single and want your own room. But remember where you are. Unless you lived centrally in Dublin in the good times, you will probably have a heart attack when you get here and see what the going rate for decent accomodation is. But even though my rent is expensive, I still have a good chunk of my wages left to play with every week after rent and bills are paid. Pay is good, rent is expensive. That's just how it goes. I wake up every day and can see the ocean from my bedroom. Worth every cent.
4)When you land - you have 12 months on your visa - don't wait until the last few weeks to decide you don't want to go home!
Visas take time and preparation. If possible, do your regional work first so you have the 2nd year option available straight away. Good regional work is getting harder to find with the crazy weather we are getting the past couple of years.
5)Applying for a rental property is no walk in the park
My friend who landed in January thought you could just look at a property online, ring the estate agents and say "i'll take it!"
Its a soul destroying process - you'll show up for a viewing which could be in the middle of the day on a week day so you'll usually need to get off work. There'll be lots of people there who all want it. Many will have their application forms and deposits in hand.
Application forms want years of rental and employment references aswell as 100 points of identity - which is hard to gather up, usually want Australian utility bills in your name etc. Try and get as much as you can together from home - letters from landlords, rent receipts etc.
Just as a guide - moving into our last place, over 2 months we viewed about 30 properties, applied for 6, eventually got 1 but ended up having to live on a friend's floor for a few days in between. It's tough!
That's my main advice for people just coming. Hope it helps! 0 -
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Also if you are in a rooming house, i.e. 4 or more people live in the house and are renting a room each, then you only need to give 2 days notice to leave! I fu*ked some former dodgey landlords over by using that golden piece of legislation
This is a beauty. I plan on moving out next week. Do you know where I can find some official documents on this?0 -
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Just a word of warning here. This may not be true. Just tread carefully if they want to break a lease. A lease is a contract at the end of the day which has legal apsects to it.
DYOR.
http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/Tenants_and_home_owners/Renting_a_home/Ending_a_tenancy/Breaking_a_lease_early.html
Always remember that renting is a two way process. Good tenants are just as hard to find as good landlords.
Yeh you may be right actually. If it's a fixed term lease then you can't just go and break a lease easily like that. But if it's a periodic lease then it is easy.
http://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/~/media/files/forms/housing-and-accommodation/renting/notice-to-vacate-to-tenants-of-rented-premises.pdf
However if you want to get out of a fixed term lease my advice would be to scour the Residential Tenancy Act to find something that the landlord has done illegally, and then use this as blackmail to get out of the lease. Examples include:
1) Landlord not lodging your bond with the RTBA.
2) Landlord not giving you a condition report at the start of your lease
If you notice that they have done something illegal then you can basically point that out to them and threaten to report them if they don't let you leave the lease early. 0 -
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Forget Ireland. Aus is nothing like it
Also forget how you drive / park / behave ... laws are enforced and the police don't listen to excuses. If in doubt, ask an Aussie mate ... then check again.
I asked a mate if I could park in a certain zone in Melbourne - he said yes. I got a parking fine. His response? "Ah look, you can park there mate, I wouldn't"0 -
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