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TerraHertz:
"Lambington" Oh God.

I just want to state, for anyone wondering, that those Indian skits are totally bullshit. Funny but.

Hey, person whose name is a face, you mentioned wanting to see the night sky from the outback. (Which is indeed wonderful.) Does this mean you like wilderness, or are an amateur astronomer?

Anyway, another good thing about Sydney is the wide variety of beautiful landscapes within easy traveling distance from the city. To the East there's the coast, with fine beaches both in Sydney and up and down the coast. Royal National Park to the Sth is quick to get to and has some great day walks. To the West over the mountains there's the Kanangra-Boyd wilderness, and further South the Budawang National Park, then the Snowy Mountains - Kosciuszko National Park. Lots of other great parks around too.
Even if you don't have a car, you can join a bushwalking club and go on trips they organize.

I do a few trips out each year. Once you are here and settled in, if you want to see some sights out of Sydney let me know.
Or, some links:
http://www.subw.org.au/          Sydney University Bushwalking Club
http://www.bushwalking.org.au/   The Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs NSW
http://www.gerkinpress.com/Bushwalking
http://bushwalk.com/forum/
http://www.david-noble.net/
http://www.bankstownbushwalkingclub.org.au/   Bankstown Bushwalkers

dave_k:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 03, 2017, 04:56:57 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on August 03, 2017, 03:00:17 am ---If you just type "Sydney" into Google maps, you'll see just how large an area the Sydney basin is. It extends over 70 kilometers west past Springwood in the Blue Mountains, 58km north-west to Richmond, as far north as Palm Beach and south-west to Camden/Campbelltown.

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I've lost count of the number of people who say they are stopping over in Sydney for a day and want to drop by the lab and meet me. Err, not really practical!

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.. and it's at least a $14 round-trip in tolls  :-DD

Brumby:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 03, 2017, 04:56:57 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on August 03, 2017, 03:00:17 am ---If you just type "Sydney" into Google maps, you'll see just how large an area the Sydney basin is. It extends over 70 kilometers west past Springwood in the Blue Mountains, 58km north-west to Richmond, as far north as Palm Beach and south-west to Camden/Campbelltown.

--- End quote ---

I've lost count of the number of people who say they are stopping over in Sydney for a day and want to drop by the lab and meet me. Err, not really practical!

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Just to give you an idea of scale.  Outline is the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area:

GK:
I've rubbed shoulders with yokels and have eaten in more remote outback pubs than most, and I can assure you that all this ocker Aussie lingo guff is mostly fantasy and just plain bullshit, though we do like to romanticise otherwise for some strange reason. If you walked into a pub dressed like Crocodile Dundee you'd be the biggest tool ever. You'd blend in far less conspicuously over here talking the Queen's English.

tszaboo:
Expat here. Dont take books, seriously, use the weight for something useful. Have a laptop all the time. Lab stuff can stay home, it is cheap to replace it. Expect to spend a LOT of money in the first months. When moving here, I was spending more money in the first 3 months, than now in a year. Well, not exactly, but close.
Also, it will get lonely and hard sometimes. You need a thick skin, and keep pushing, no matter what.  I had a lot easier task, than you had. Though I was moving alone, I had a job here waiting for me.

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