Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

So, today we mainly swept up rat !!!!. Thats gotta be a posh alert right?

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

It only takes what it uses, IYSWIM (just like how you can watch your meter go faster when you turn stuff on)

Think of it like a stretch of flowing water in a pipe. What is going in is also what is going out. So measuring at any part will be the same "flow"
All the cables are part of the same flow.

Ah, yes that made sense... it was the bit about watching a meter that made it all go CLUUUNK.

Cheers

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Edit: one thing I have noticed from these relocating down under shows is that costs seem to be approaching our levels so it seems to need a lot of thinking about if a person relocates (this will be old hat to gen, but I can never get my head round the costs and benefits).

I've watched that carefully too.... my take on it is:

1] If you own a house here, or have equity in it - and your house is not in a cheap area, then you can just about hope to buy the Aussie lifestyle out there.
2] If you rent here, you are most unlikely to be able to afford a house over there.
3] Most jobs of the people that the programme attracts pay less than working in the UK.
4] Food is more expensive, but they measure the Brit food cost here against the Brit food over there. Maybe steak costs more there, but everybody eats Skippy and that's a 1/10th of the price.

The main benefit seems to be that there is hot, sunny weather, all day almost every day - and so you can guarantee most days to be able to get up early and go out (early morning run, walk to the beach) and go straight outside for activities in the evening. No planning required, it'll be hot, sunny and lovely.

A lot also seem to need to retrain over there, so their qualification here's useless and they feel they'd be starting again so don't want to go.

If costs work out OK, the main reasons they don't go are:

A] Missing family and friends.
B] Fear of spiders/snakes.

Overall, looking at costs it's not really the reason to go or not. So long as you will be able to afford the same lifestyle you have here and buy a house you like the look of .... it's all that dry hot weather that makes the difference.

Here it's always so unpredictable, cold, grey, rainy, windy and miserable... so you just end up going to work and back and shutting the curtains. Even in the summer here by the time you get home from work it's cooler and will be dark soon.

I watched a programme about the orbit of the Earth around the sun the other day - and I suspect they get better/longer evenings too, or something.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

So, today we mainly swept up rat !!!!. Thats gotta be a posh alert right?

Awww... you need to find an animal that kills rats. What'd do that? A tiger?

PasturesNew

It seems that most animals will have a go at rats... birds of prey, foxes, and more.

http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-rats

lostinrates

Terrier would be best.

We have put poison down for a while, so any animal eating them would suffer.


We having a MASSIVE hailstorn now.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Terrier would be best.

Ours has fur which covers his eyes a bit and he chases birds and squirrels who then inexplicably escape into the unseen third dimension.:mad:

They're supposed to be good ratters. They 're fearless but TBH, also clueless. Ours "protects" us from dire threats such as neighbourhood cats, letters coming into our letterbox and foxes in neighbouring gardens.;)

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Ours has fur which covers his eyes a bit and he chases birds and squirrels who then inexplicably escape into the unseen third dimension.:mad:

They're supposed to be good ratters. They 're fearless but TBH, also clueless. Ours "protects" us from dire threats such as neighbourhood cats, letters coming into our letterbox and foxes in neighbouring gardens.;)

Working terriers are wel trained and formidable. The fearlessness is less useful..gets them into a lot of trouble.

CKhalvashi

Hey guys,

Been lurking everywhere this week, and it’s safe to say I’m back.

How are we all?

CK

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Working terriers are wel trained and formidable. The fearlessness is less useful..gets them into a lot of trouble.

I don’t do dogs after having my finger half eaten in a recording studio last week. :mad:

My bunnies are perfect :cool: