General impressions of Australia:
A wonderful place - we will be coming back to visit Perth, Darwin, Adelaide and more – to revisit too! However and whatever .........
• Wonderful diversity
• Sydney – glamorous somehow, Brisbane dowdy, Melbourne not quite striking and the North side neglected – Cairns ruined by its new coast high rises, its cheap and expensive tourist streets and Saturday night drunks! (tacky).
• Lousy coffee unless you go to a coffee shop – but they are a major (exporting?) producer of coffee?
• Fascinating varied country and countryside – probably to be visited and revisited
• No way a cheap holiday destination,
• Cost of living extremely high (easily comparable to London + some more), restaurants and hotels good – in fact difficult to understand how prices have been allowed to rise to these levels in a country which can feed itself and where there are enormous quantities of natural resources to export?
• Australians extremely helpful and friendly
• We understand my nieces and nephews’ desire to work here – fully. Watch this space – Eléanor, Edward and Victoria.
• A country full of applied laws and sterile zones!
• An all White undertone still, although it was apparent that coloureds and even blacks are now being admitted to work and live.
• Belated very fashionable, trendy and slightly obsessive Green environment with understandable Kangaroo culling and return of the crocodiles (tasty) which like the second class ethnic Aborigine minority were almost hunted to extinction.
• Tourist trade highly developed and well run
• Non resident property purchases – limited and restrictive by law – picturesque sites at a high premium. Money is money after all.
• Where are all the Sheep (finally found some in Victoria!) and on the other end of the scale the renowned unique wild life?
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