There’s a phenomenon we all face in the path towards a big life event: the unhelpful know-it-all. It doesn’t matter what it is: weddings, babies, a new job, a new house, disease, death, baking sponge cake. Everyone has an opinion, and they all want to share it with you, asked for or not, useful or not.
If you listened to everyone, you would sit in the house with a Coles reusable green bag over your head, not eating, moving or breathing. So don’t. That’s what I’ve decided to do. Here’s my top three 'My Two Cents' gems on the subject of moving to Melbourne. These are the commonest pieces of advice, and they mostly come from people who have:
a) never lived anywhere but Perth;
b) never even visited Melbourne; or
c) both of the above.
Mmm, relevant your opinions are...
It’ll be cold there!
Yes, I am aware that Melbourne has a different climate. I’ll wear a coat and buy a heater. I actually hate the heat in Perth and visit the beach about once a year. Plus, did you know Melbourne is actually in the middle of heatwave and drought anyway?
The rental market is really tough over there, I hope you’re ready.
It’s been twenty years since you last rented a property in Perth, isn’t it? The recent mining boom means the rental market in Perth is now one of the tightest in the country, and my partner and I found a place here just six months ago. Sure, it was difficult, but not impossible. I’m not expecting miracles, just a roof.
Gee, the job market is really tight, you might just have to take what you can get.
Thanks for your confidence in my abilities. If I wanted to ‘take what I could get’, I would have stayed in the eyeball-stabbingly-boring government agency job. Plus, I got made redundant smack-bang in the worst part of Australia’s economic dip in the GFC and found a job within weeks. Good jobs are rare, but I'm not about to give up looking because you think I should.
If you listened to everyone, you would sit in the house with a Coles reusable green bag over your head, not eating, moving or breathing. So don’t. That’s what I’ve decided to do. Here’s my top three 'My Two Cents' gems on the subject of moving to Melbourne. These are the commonest pieces of advice, and they mostly come from people who have:
a) never lived anywhere but Perth;
b) never even visited Melbourne; or
c) both of the above.
Mmm, relevant your opinions are...
It’ll be cold there!
Yes, I am aware that Melbourne has a different climate. I’ll wear a coat and buy a heater. I actually hate the heat in Perth and visit the beach about once a year. Plus, did you know Melbourne is actually in the middle of heatwave and drought anyway?
The rental market is really tough over there, I hope you’re ready.
It’s been twenty years since you last rented a property in Perth, isn’t it? The recent mining boom means the rental market in Perth is now one of the tightest in the country, and my partner and I found a place here just six months ago. Sure, it was difficult, but not impossible. I’m not expecting miracles, just a roof.
Gee, the job market is really tight, you might just have to take what you can get.
Thanks for your confidence in my abilities. If I wanted to ‘take what I could get’, I would have stayed in the eyeball-stabbingly-boring government agency job. Plus, I got made redundant smack-bang in the worst part of Australia’s economic dip in the GFC and found a job within weeks. Good jobs are rare, but I'm not about to give up looking because you think I should.
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