Anyone here live in Australia?

[OhThisGuy]

I'm strongly considering transferring to a University in Australia, I go to school here in the US.
Any tips on certain areas/schools I should look at?

[spycaper51]

You are an American and you are going to live in Australia?

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Bad idea.

[OhThisGuy]

At 6/20/08 03:48 AM, spycaper51 wrote: You are an American and you are going to live in Australia?

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Bad idea.

Why's that?

[emochild]

Is this something to do with Aussie taking over the fattest country position?

[Necromantical]

Stay away from South Australia. The people there are weird.

Queenslanders are also slightly odd.

Tasmanians have two heads.

[RocketMan08]

At 6/20/08 03:49 AM, OhThisGuy wrote:

At 6/20/08 03:48 AM, spycaper51 wrote: You are an American and you are going to live in Australia?

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Bad idea.

Why's that?

Stay away from the aboriginals, i'm not saying all but some of them can be quite violent, most of the ones in the city are civilized, if your coming to Australia then stay to the east side.

[Curlyboy8]

I live in Australia, as a student.
Rocketman, that was racist.

[hopelesswonder]

I never lived there, but when I was in the Navy I hit port there... it was a pretty fun place bra.

[CrUiZ3R]

At 6/20/08 03:57 AM, Necromantical wrote: Stay away from South Australia. The people there are weird.

Yes that's true

Queenslanders are also slightly odd.

They're completed fuckiheads in other words

Tasmanians have two heads.

Compare them with your southerners sorta.

Its good to hear aomeone is coming from the US to study here. We don't get many of them.

I wonder why?

BTW you should read up on some Aussie slang cuz you might get lost with some words.

[Ssilver7]

I go to the University of Melbourne, it's pretty good.

The two best Universities in Australia are the UoM (Melbourne) and the UoS (Sydney). Of course when I say best the view may be slightly biased and various Unis perform better in different areas but overall this is the general consensus.

[CrUiZ3R]

At 6/20/08 05:19 AM, Ssilver7 wrote: I go to the University of Melbourne, it's pretty good.

The two best Universities in Australia are the UoM (Melbourne) and the UoS (Sydney).

Its actually UNSW/ES (University of New South Wales / Eastern Sydney campus)

and its actually very good.

[Eggy]

Yep I'm Aussie in western australia, (ATM im on a holiday in darwin tho)

[dreaming-loudly]

do yourself a favor and come to south Australia ;)
stay away from victoria though , bloody vics. Yeah Australia is p awesome

[metalstorm]

At 6/20/08 05:19 AM, Ssilver7 wrote: I go to the University of Melbourne, it's pretty good.

The two best Universities in Australia are the UoM (Melbourne) and the UoS (Sydney). Of course when I say best the view may be slightly biased and various Unis perform better in different areas but overall this is the general consensus.

Actually ANU is widely regarded to be the best uni in Australia followed by Melbourne then Sydney.

[metalstorm]

At 6/20/08 05:58 AM, LastSpartan wrote: Might I recommend you not consider the University of Newcastle to study at.

Not that the University itself is bad or anything; they have a fucking Subway right in the middle of it. Nah, it's just that Newcastle is a shithole. You'd be hard-pressed to have a good time here.

That, and the women here are dog-ugly.

Don't study at RMIT either. The only thing its got going for it is that its right in the middle of the city and it's really easy to get to. But apart from that it's a terrible uni with almost nothing in the way of facilities. It also has a non existent social scene.

My best mate and I both went to RMIT straight of school. I dropped out after 6 months, he dropped out after 12.

[Enoll]

It's a nice enough place, I just don't like the general public here.

[evillouis]

Tasmanians have two heads.

wtf tasmanias are fuckin awesome

[metalstorm]

At 6/20/08 06:15 AM, LastSpartan wrote:

At 6/20/08 06:12 AM, metalstorm wrote: My best mate and I both went to RMIT straight of school. I dropped out after 6 months, he dropped out after 12.

Well, besides being one of the best Universities to learn medicine from, its also 5 minutes away from my house. Which caters for both my needs for accomodation and education.

Win/Win situation for me.

I'm confused. How can you be so familiar with the University of Newcastle yet live 5 minutes from RMIT? Also, I'm fairly certain that you can't do medicine at RMIT and even if you can it would still be behind Melbourne, Monash and Deakin.

[metalstorm]

At 6/20/08 06:41 AM, LastSpartan wrote:

At 6/20/08 06:23 AM, metalstorm wrote: I'm confused. How can you be so familiar with the University of Newcastle yet live 5 minutes from RMIT?

I live in Newcastle. Isn't RMIT in Melbourne?

OK that makes a lot more sense now but if you look at this post it seems as if you're talking about RMIT and not the University of Newcastle as you made no mention of it.

At 6/20/08 06:15 AM, LastSpartan wrote:

At 6/20/08 06:12 AM, metalstorm wrote: My best mate and I both went to RMIT straight of school. I dropped out after 6 months, he dropped out after 12.

Well, besides being one of the best Universities to learn medicine from, its also 5 minutes away from my house. Which caters for both my needs for accomodation and education.

Win/Win situation for me.

[Haoie]

I'm from NZ. Ever consider studying here?

[carbonwater]

Go to my school.

We can hang.

[dooseyboy]

DO NOT go to uni in the west coast because WA is a shit-hole do not come here@!!!!!!!!!
please take heed of my warning do not come here.
go to a uni in victoria they have the best places.
anyway yeah my life has been not very good since i moved from melbourne.
actually i'll dig up a link to when i first said i was moving to perth give me a minute

[Ssilver7]

At 6/20/08 05:55 AM, metalstorm wrote: Actually ANU is widely regarded to be the best uni in Australia followed by Melbourne then Sydney.

Shows how much I pay attention to these sorts of things. Though being an engineer we don't really care about the comparisons.

I had a quick look though, your claim seems to be correct in the overall sense and Melbourne is apparently the best in regards to Engineering which is weird because there are so many lecturers and tutors that should not be allowed to teach. I had a maths tutor who pronounced eigenvectors as ancient vexstors.

[dreaming-loudly]

At 6/20/08 06:20 AM, evillouis wrote:

Tasmanians have two heads.

wtf tasmanias are fuckin awesome

don't let it get to you he's probably just some conceited Victorian :P . But yeah Tasmania looks like an awesome place to go visit

[dooseyboy]

hwere it is!
here it are!

[killerhatch]

At 6/20/08 03:56 AM, emochild wrote: Is this something to do with Aussie taking over the fattest country position?

WE WHAT?!!?

Oh, nvm that makes sense...

[Magyar]

Monash isn't too bad.

[Eazybreez]

What are ya studying/thinking of studying?

[subzerov]

Haha im an australian going 2 live in america

[killerhatch]

At 6/20/08 08:37 AM, subzerov wrote: Haha im an australian going 2 live in america

Zomg... Betray much?

JK.