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KK is it just me or is the food starting to get expensive in on nut beer garden, the water is like 15baht for 500ml

Its super easy dont let border control or any small print you read put you off.

Just turn up there broke if u want 2 run the gauntlet I know a guy who did Asia before and turned up with $100 to his name if you want to and need to find work you will simples.

Just fill out the papers dont declare anything dodgy as it never gets checked and I have never heard of anyone actually having their funds checked either and I have a big sample size of Oz working hol friends after spending 7 months there.

Was honestly one of the best things I ever did, Live the dream

i hope to never have to do it, but it sounds like a better option than flying home to make to try and luckbox a decent job in the US right about now

I'll probably move onto Aus after SE Asia. I've got a cousin there so I'm guessing I can put her address down or something?

I'm probably gonna try and get some bar-work cos of the social element, failing that I might try and get some lower-level job in finance/investments but I don't know how my degree and experience will stack up over there.

Not really, it's mostly because nobody lives in the towns these jobs are located in, and because the pay is terrible it's not worth anyone travelling there to do it.

The reason travelers do it is because working in a regional area allows you to extend a working holiday visa for another year. If you only work in the city, you get 1 year. If you spend at least 3 months working in a regional area doing a job that is tough to find workers for (i.e. ****ty jobs) then you can get an additional year.

It's much better to try and find work in construction, mining or that sort of thing. Mining companies, unlike farmers, will pay big $ to lure people to work in remote areas. And as a result of many tradespeople chasing the big money on the mines, well paid labouring jobs are easily available in most cities.

You can completely forget about getting a job on a mine site if you are just there on a tourist visa or a 1 year working holiday visa, but it is entirely possible to get well-paid labouring work without a work visa, because people are desperate and are willing to pay cash. If you have any sort of trade qualification (e.g. plumber, electrician, chippy etc) then you can make a fortune in Australia. They don't get out of bed in Perth for less than $120k a year.

Spiv is pretty much spot on there. You wont get a job in the mine itself but its not difficult to find fly in fly out work on a 1 year working holiday visa.

If you are a skilled tradesman based in Perth you can make a killing although cost of living is super high you can easy save $1k + a week.

If anyone here is under 30 and interested here is a link.

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/417/

I dont know spiv I have a friend who is from Austria too (born there), and your statement

pretty much confirms what he said

He also said something about aborigines and racism i dont know, but its all true, I have still saved the email he sent me.


when I get below $6k, I might head over to auzzie to get a top up

Gurrr too old sob hope is all but gone lol

$20/hour means jack **** if a dingy apartment costs $1xxx and a house costs $800,000.

It seems like life in Australia is pretty expensive and $20/hour is peanuts, right?

Living on $20 an hour would be pretty tough in Perth. You wouldn't have much left over after rent, utilities and food. And since you're paying $10 for a pint of beer anywhere in Perth, your entertainment budget wouldn't stretch very far.

Cost of living in Perth is why I moved to Thailand, pretty much. My money goes 4-5x as far here as it does in Australia.

You might be too old for a WHV, but that doesn't mean you couldn't go there on a tourist visa and find cash work. I know a couple of British guys who live in Samui and do 6 months a year in Perth doing painting, tiling and interior decorating etc. That's enough for them to live working only 6 months of the year. As a bonus, it's pretty cheap to fly between Perth and Thailand. Cost me under 10k baht for a one way ticket.

Would it be possible to do 6mnth aus 3 month thai and visa run then thai again?

i was on $45+ an hour in Sydney 6 years ago and i didnt see much change living in the city.

i've not even read wats goin on tbh...pretty hammered and just seen stuff about oz and expensive

I'm pretty sure that Aus will only give you 3 months at a time after the first visa.

how does one deal with the highs of winning 25k at blackjack having loads of fun with variance then gettin 30k stolen a few hours later.....sigh asia fkers

..still annoyin teh **** outa me :/

This is not true, you may not get a job working for the Main company (I forget their name) as they dont like the holiday visa.

But there are loads of small companys that do work for them who are still paying good money. I worked for one of them myself in Dysart using my welding trade though, but my friends who are there now with no trade are working for a small company for the mines something to do with landscaping.

Also its easy to save if you get free accomadation live like a backpacker and are working all time used to get 1k week spend 1k month so save 3k each month. This was when I was doing the unskilled farm work that anyone can do. Then claim 80% or so tax back at the end its a no brainer dont anyone sit around thinking about just go and do it.

There are more jobs than people there btw finding work is a not a problem if you are not to picky gumtree.au is your friend also there a harvest hotline for farm work and you just ring them every day.

Better write something about Thailand. Seems I have burnt out the bar scene here in Jontien beach chick went crazy when I went back in and didnt want to know her. Butterfly bull sh !t really is dumb I nearly took a hook round the back of the head never turning my back on an angry bar girl again

Anyways looking forward to meeting with Ebffs and Pooter to hit walking street. Hopefull not going to have trouble getting rid of this one she has been here 2 days now and was talking of me buying some cleaning stuff so she can clean the place hmmmmm

billy when you sober up i am very interested to hear the full story

ok chat to u in cpl of days....its a pretty gross story though..as in re tarded

hahaha ok tell us the story now then

Was just alerted to this exchange rate scam, good calculator

The girl behind the desk got angry when challenged. The moral of the story is always take a closer look than you otherwise might have done.

I have a question regarding renting an apartment. I am in samui right now looking for a place. I know price is dif fir 1 month and 6 + months, but is it standard for them to ask u to pay 6 months up front?

its only standard if you wanna get scammed, its usually 1month + two months deposit. get everything stamped and receipted that you pay them to get your money back at the end.

very often it happens that u have to pay for 6 month upfront.
if u dont want pay 6 month u will have to pay bigger deposit so its better to pay upfront.

in samui, phuket people often rented house for 6 months, payed 6months rate for 2 months and then after 2 months went away.

Ok i only checked out one place and she wanted 12k a month or 65k for 6 months. It was waaay over priced either way, i guess i look like an idiot....