#melburnian

[emergingghost]

this haunts me so much i'm actually still dying from 8 year old fomo [cute interview she did for this]

[noticethings]

[frauenfootball]

[astillnight]

So just wondering basically whatever you can think would be good advice or insight or tips for someone wanting to move to Melbourne from the UK

Doesn't have to be limited to the likes below;

healthcare, prescriptions (I have a few chronic illnesses; nothing too serious, but I do need different medications etc), Visas, nominations, what sort of yearly wage/income would I need to be comfortable, taxes/insurance, bills, education (I don't have a family; but say I wanted to do a uni course, could ?); rent or buy, is a car needed, should I look into city living or suburb living, is it safe for a single female to move there & live on her own... and yeah just anything else you or anyone else can think of, l've never moved abroad before

I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer all of these as I don't have all the right info or experience you're after, but I'll give you what I can and provide some links to some useful sites 🥰

Healthcare here in general is pretty good-- we have bulk billed doctors services, so for just a check up appointment, you'll be paying around $20AUD. For the bulk billing, you will require an Australian Medicare card.

I get a three monthly prescription for my medication from one appointment. My medicine is significantly reduced in cost with the Medicare card/bulk billing.

Here's some info about UK travelers and Australian visas.

https://uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/Visas_and_Migration.html

Income to be comfortable varies wildly. Some people suggest no less than $100,000AUD after tax, some much less, others more-- it's really too variable to suggest one specific tax bracket.

I can say that Australia has very high tax rates, so be prepared for that.

Our universities take in a lot of overseas and immigrant students, so you should be good there!

Here's some more info on student loans for non Australian citizens:

https://www.studyassist.gov.au/loan-eligibility/non-australian-citizens

The city has a decent train line and buses are also available.

Melbourne is also a very walkable city.

I personally don't drive atm and can still get around okay.

I live about 45 minutes by train from the CBD-- if you are planning on working inner city, you may want to move closer so you have less of a commute, but it's dependent on how long you personally are willing to travel.

I personally prefer outer suburbs for the quieter, greener living.

Rent or buy is really a personal choice! I'm looking to buy in the next 10 years as I want my own space, but it's super dependent on what you want!

I would say yes, Melbourne is in general a safe city and you should be okay living here alone. I have single friends who have lived in the inner city alone and found it to be fine.

Here's some more info I found that I hope helps!!

https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/enrolling-medicare?context=60092

[butchrupertgiles]

going to the club only to find lace on every surface and dishes of dolmades and baklava out.

[mirrorofliterature]

do I fundamentally believe in DNI lists? no... but hm, thoughts

DNI if, in varying levels of seriousness:

you disagreeing with annabeth chase's casting in PJO [leah's excellent, fight me]

you think sydney is better than melbourne [FIGHT me]

you drink coffee [why?]

you support pauline hanson [don't even LOOK at me]

you victim-blame either hector or imelda [there's a MURDERER right there, FFS]

you don't support the 'woman, life, freedom' protests in Iran [do you hate women? yes]

you think neoliberalism is a good thing [no]

you think dogs are superior to cats [my cats vehemently disagree]

you think that percy weasley is a traitor [fight. me]

some I'm completely serious on, some I'm joking around with! the serious ones are not... particularly subtle tbh. let me know if you breach any of them! warning: supporting one nation WILL get you blocked bleh racists

[thefabelmans2022]

myki inspectors as a whole deserve the lowest circles of hell unfortunately.

[anguilliforme]

Dulcie why are you wearing all black in darwin

[thatsnotbuddies]

[oscarcito]

Learning to race Webber, the former Formula 1 driver who is now Piastri’s manager, has long spoken of the Melburnian’s composure behind the wheel. That was innate, according to Sera, but Piastri had to learn to handle the attention he received from his rivals. “He was composed from day one,” Sera says. “Just a very calm, quiet and composed kid, and he’s still exactly like that right now. If 90 per cent of race car drivers had his composure, they’d be a lot better off. “[But] he just got muscled around a bit because he was fast and everyone knew he was fast. He’d qualify well, and then he’d slip back in the races because he’d get pushed around by drivers who knew if he got in front, he’d win. But he’d always fight back.”

[skopostheorie]

Today a cyclist was in the way of a tram door trying to open and the tram driver instantly got out of the tram and yelled at the bloke to fucking move. It is in this moment it became clear to me why Vienna took the most liveable city title from us Melburnians. Public transport workers are allowed to yell at people

[grahamkennedy]

THE NEWSREADER WON BEST DRAMA. This is for the gays and the Melburnians.

[ratnurse]

"Average melburnian sends one fax a day" factoid actually just statistical error. Average melburnian sends 0 faxes per day. Medical receptionist melburnian, who lives in medical centre and sends over 10,000 faxes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[frauenfootball]

As a California Bay Area resident, i grew up with the world using the wrong nicknames for San Francisco, but JFC you’d think the USWNT personally threw up on the face of every Australian with the reaction it’s getting lol

Most of those people responding on Twitter are just having a laugh and probably already low key rooting for Sweden. That USWNT tweet and the Sweden FA admin's follow-up response just made them high key root for Sweden. I will admit there are previously true neutrals before who are now rooting for Sweden now because of those tweets.

As someone who didn't grow up in Melbourne but have lived here for a few years, I thought the overreaction was understandable but hilarious. It's harmless banter so I'm just laughing.

[zahri-melitor]

A few random reads:

Black Mask: Year of the Villain

This is from Black Mask: Year of the Villain, which among other things actually contains Kate Kane and Renee Montoya dating and solving mysteries together (cute! Love that they've had a bit of time on page actually dating again since the end of Batwoman 2016) but also ends with this scene.

Which is, I’m sorry, hilarious from Tom Taylor. You absolute stereotypical Melburnian.

That is, I am pretty damn certain, supposed to be Tom Taylor himself. I am not going to inquire too closely into why he has placed himself inside the News Limited building (I mean News Unlimited of course), given what I know of Taylor’s views - I cannot believe that he has a positive view of the Murdoch press - but it does track extremely well in terms of ‘locations an Australian would like to decide an evil villain wants to infiltrate’.

Jinny Hex Special #1:

This is fine, I guess? It's written by Magdalene Visaggio, which I sort of wish I hadn't noticed before reading it, because reading it knowing that made a bunch of her hang-ups and opinions pop out of the text. But it does exactly what it says on the tin and gives more depth to Jinny's backstory.

Legend of the Swamp Thing Halloween Spectacular #1:

Gosh I really do love Swamp Thing as a property. It, like Flash, is best when it's just really leaning into the weird. Ram V and Vita Ayala have the standout stories in the set, but there's not really a dud in here.

Punchline #1 2020:

I have a soft spot for the way comics as a property often tend to trail what's currently popular. This is DC leaning in to the rise of true crime podcast started by Serial in 2014; using the concept for a story 6 years later, when they've become omnipresent big business makes sense. Yes it's also very 'please like our new character' in tone, but conceptually using this more civilian-side storytelling with Leslie Thompkins and the Row siblings makes sense, and I do have a fondness for the way they've demarcated out a bit of space for Harper and Cullen as Leslie-adjacent, rather than needing to try and fit them into bigger storytelling. The downside of course is a little Alexis goes a long way and this is about her thought patterns as a criminal.

Conceptually I think it's a very smart pitch: true crime stories are one of the biggest demographics of media for adult women (and honestly have been for years, if you add the prominence of things like the Law & Order and NCIS franchises with their tendency to rip from the headlines), and so trying out a book about the mentality of someone drawn into being a villain makes sense, in terms of attempting to grow the comics-reading market. I'm not sure the story pulls it off, but I can see what they're trying to do.

[diabetesnscoliosis]

I love how melburnians who live on one side of the city have no fckn clue where anything else is on the other side

"Truganina? Where's that" bro you like in Berwick and I know where that is despite never being East side. Grow up