No matter where I go, Roos are always a spying on Bretrick

Tish said:
It's very much the same over here.
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Good lord...I just asked AI how far it was between you and @Bretrick ... I wasn't prepared for the answer.. over 3000 miles,..wow ! I know Australia is big, but to put into context the distance between you 2 in Oz from each other .. is the same distance beween London and NYC...

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hollydolly said:
Good lord...I just asked AI how far it was between you and @Bretrick ... I wasn't prepared for the answer.. over 3000 miles,..wow ! I know Australia is big, but to put into context the distance between you 2 in Oz from each other .. is the same distance beween London and NYC...

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Yep, we are a massive country.
31 times bigger than England. So seeing wildlife is a little hit and miss.
Though Kangaroos, estimated population of 50 million, are readily seen, if one travels to the outskirts of cities and the outback.
 
Bretrick said:
Yep, we are a massive country.
31 times bigger than England. So seeing wildlife is a little hit and miss.
Though Kangaroos, estimated population of 50 million, are readily seen, if one travels to the outskirts of cities and the outback.
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just think about that... for a second..lol.. we are 31 times smaller than you, yet we have almost 4 times the population.. Aus= 26 million . UK..= not including Ireland approx 70 million ..that we know of, and probably 2 million that we don't...
 
hollydolly said:
just think about that... for a second..lol.. we are 31 times smaller than you, yet we have almost 4 times the population.. Aus= 26 million . UK..= not including Ireland approx 70 million ..that we know of, and probably 2 million that we don't...
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Huge difference in people per sq mile.
England - 740 people/sq mile
Australia - 9 people/ sq mile
 
Bretrick said:
Are you sure you can not retire here?
Retiring to Australia | unbiased.co.uk
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yes absolutely sure. they closed their doors to seniors, and now you can only apply if you have realtives there...

I friend of mine at work was earning a good salary.. she was widowed and her only son and his family moved to Australia, she applied to move to be with them , them as her sponsors, and was turned down... she applied several times , nope they wouldn't let her , so she lived very basically, so she could save to have 2 trips a year to visit her son and grandchildren..it broke her heart she couldn't move there.

As for NZ..I researched it a couple of years ago, and they want anyone whose a pensioner who want to move from outside to have a minimim of 600k in their bank acocunt which isn't earmarked for anything else..like a house or car..
 
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Warrigal said:
Well, yeah. Australia is not called The Wide Brown Land for no reason.
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Is it ?..I didn't know that . Like I say I'm not ignorant as to the enormity of the country, ( we're all aware of the size of Rusia, & Canada, and the US but 3000 miles is a vast distance between fellow countrymen...)...I looked it up and learned as you already likely know, that Australia is the 6th largest country in the world... and the only one to take up a whole continent

Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. At 7 688 287km2, it accounts for just five percent of the world's land area of 149 450 000 km2, and although it is the smallest continental land mass,
 
hollydolly said:
Is it ?..I didn't know that . Like I say I'm not ignorant as to the enormity of the country, ( we're all aware of the size of Rusia, & Canada, and the US but 3000 miles is a vast distance between fellow countrymen...)...I looked it up and learned as you already likely know, that Australia is the 6th largest country in the world... and the only one to take up a whole continent

Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. At 7 688 287km2, it accounts for just five percent of the world's land area of 149 450 000 km2, and although it is the smallest continental land mass,
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The 'wide brown land" is a reference to Dorothea MacKellar's poem "My Country".

As a young expat, she wrote it in England while homesick for Australia.

The second verse -

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

All verses here : My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
 

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