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Yeast posted:So the Girlfriend and I are planning to move from BNE to Melbourne in the next few months, and we've been looking around at different suburbs. Trams are the bee's knees, especially after the horrible bus bullshit in Brisbane. Kensington is okay, I suppose. A friend lives there and I used to live on the outskirts of the west melbourne CBD. The low rent is just because its on the extremely unglamorous west side, has plenty of fresh housing development blocks and it's next to footscray. Dont live in footscray.
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igby posted:Also, the rail connection from Sydney to Brisbane isn't complete. You get a train to Casino, then a coach to somewhere else, then something else, then a train again. There's a complete track from Brisbane to Sydney, but not the other way. I wouldn't advise a foreigner to attempt to navigate our lovely rural infrastructure. Plus, the trip is like fourteen or fifteen hours. Pay $80 for a plane ticket and gently caress that noise. Yeah, Brisbane to gold coast via train, gold coast to casino via coach, casino to grafton via train etc...or check out tiger airlines or the virginblue specials for a sub $50 price. turn up to the airport at least 2 hours before though.
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I'm a 24 year old dude living in Fitzroy and living in Caufield sounds awful. I've got a 24 year old friend who lives in Malvern who unironically owns doilies and it's too boring for her.
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Um as far as useful advice goes though, Collingwood, Brunswick and Fitzroy are awesome and have huge student populations. You won't be alone making the commute to your campus. Fitzroy and Collingwood are cool as gently caress but can be very expensive to live in. Brunswick isn't as cool in my opinion but the medium rent reflects this. North Fitzroy(which is a different suburb to Fitzroy) is completely lovely and more affordable, as is the south part of Abbotsford, which borders on Collingwood (just stay away from Victoria street). Look on gumtree and facebook for free rooms rather than applying directly for houses or apartments through real estate agency rental lists because finding a house in Melbourne when you are young and male is hell.
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Nov 23, 2010 01:20
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of course more money is always better and return airfare paid for is smarter, but that said a lot of British friends of mine came to Melbourne with about 2-3 thousand dollars and made it stretch just fine. Work is very easy to find if you're not picky- our very high backpacker population means waiting and kitchen jobs are used to paying cash in the right areas. Call centre work is super duper easy to find. If you come to Melbourne- look up a group called "salesforce". They contract out call centres to various companies. Its not five star work but the people are cool, they aim at no experience personable backpackers, you get two weeks training and the hours are constant after that. I was living in a hostel when I first moved here for 6 months, went along to salesforce to pay a month or two's rent after spending my money on piss and swedish backpacker girls and I was the only australian in an induction group of 15 people.
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lokk posted:I did a semester abroad in Melbourne (RMIT) a few years ago, and loving fell in the love with the country. Planning on moving there with a friend on a work holiday visa (from the US), we both have $6,000...probably going to stay at a hostel and grab either retail or telemarketing jobs. Does anyone currently living in Melbourne know how the retail job market is? I'd kill to be able to work at a clothes store or something instead of making calls all day. Thanks! I'm a bit late to the party on this post, but you will have no trouble getting a call centre job. In fact, several Melbourne agencies which lease call centres (meaning companies set up a centre, organise the staff and then lease their services to whoever needs a call centre- called a "project") specifically target backpackers and people in your position. I've lived here 4 years and first lived in a hostel when I moved from Brisbane. Myself and all my new international friends, them with no tech or call centre experience, landed jobs in the second week with no problems. Look for a company called "salesforce". If you're american you probably won't believe how well paid such an unskilled job is. You'll be inbound, not calling out to sell things, the shifts are flexible but in my experience it's a reasonably mind numbing job. You shouldn't have any time landing a retail or hospitality job if you're reasonably personable and can talk to people and sell yourself but you could always just treat the salesforce job as a stepping stone. It'll pay the rent, you can both work together and use your browsing time to apply to other jobs. seek.com.au is the predominate job listing site and there are squillions of no experience office call centre jobs listed all the time. They expect high staff turnover at these places so if you quit you won't make any enemies. Also worth mentioning is that Melbourne office jobs are completely run and staffed by employment agencies. When you reply to a job listing most of the time you will be interviewed and managed by an agency, not the actual company. The advantages of this are that if they place you, it's in their interest to place you somewhere else if you leave. They can be pretty handy. If you want, I have some friends working phone support for electrical companies. It's not bad pay. I've gotten other people a job before there so shoot me a message if it sounds up your alley and I'll see what I can organise for you over the internet(I am in europe now). edit- yes, you did say you wanted a retail job, sorry. Carpet bomb clotehs stores with resumes, give them to the manager, not some casual staff. Give it to someone who wants your shifts and it goes in the bin, especially in hospitality. Dont just drop it off, say hi to the manager, shake their hand and ask if they're looking for anyone. All my backpacker mates who could look someone in the eye and make conversation got jobs in various clothes and shoe stores in a week. bitmap fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Feb 28, 2011 |
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