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Newcastle is WINDY. Just putting it out there.
Wollongong is depressing & has a creepy vibe... back in the day (90's) 8 / 10 chance you'll end your days sliced up in a wheelie bin...
Newy is the firm winner here.... love Warner's Bay...
Wollongong is absolutely unbearable in the summer with the humidity.
The mountains on the west keep it all in making nights absolute sweat fests.
Winter is alright though, not too cold and just lovely
I’ve lived in both.. I loved wollongong for its urban can do culture .. highlights are honk, Illawarra folk festival, Coledale markets some beautiful permaculture folks and great community circuses but I ended up working in Sydney and commuting which was not ideal.. at the time I’d say there just not enough humans to sustain the kind of work I do and well the pay Sydney was always better…
We moved to Newcastle 7 years ago fell in love with Tina (‘this is not art) it’s got a decent arts scene with a lot of diversity , culture changes and it’s easer here to work remotely . It’s a little more independent of Sydney though some folks still commute but to be honest it’s the regional areas near newy that really shine for me. Maitland, lake Mac Cessnock .. there’s a big region with lots to explore .
I live and have always lived in Newcastle unfortunately. Tied here due to businesses. Everything about Wollongong is better, you should live there. Beautiful place and much closer to Sydney
the Gong is wet. The escarpment means it rains a lot there. More so a Bulli than say Shell Harbour. But it rains much more.
And the water temperature is significantly colder. It seems to drop a lot from Port Hacking south.
Wollongong is not more or less Sydney, unless you’re the NSW Government during COVID-19 deciding where to put the lockdown border.
I’ve heard it’s newy
Wollongong is not that hot in summer with the ocean breeze it rarely gets uncomfortable. Once the sun goes over the escarpment it cools down even more
Haha, yeah fair call.
The central coast and Wollongong aren't Sydney exactly but 1000's make the fairly easy commute to the city for work every day.
Newcastle is a different beast all together.
But the gong goes hard too. U can tell which penguins been sliding around the Arctic
Gong has a lot less glass cigarette users on the streets these days, probably all gone into hiding
Hello! We are a young family from Tasmania who hope to be moving to NSW next year (and we're so excited!).
Can I ask, is moving to a 'high flood zone' something to avoid or is it subjective to what we see on the internet? Are places like Wollongong/the Southern suburbs safe?
Thank you so much, we really appreciate your input! With two little ones and limited travel experience, we're feeling a little out of our depth with the research!
Most councils offer flood mapping on their websites. Check there first.
IMO I wouldn't move to a flood prone area or significant bushfire zone as you may not be able to get any kind of insurance.
Bushfire zones in nsw are really hard to rebuild/renovate in too because you have to meet newer BAL regulations which can be costly. Best to avoid if you can.
You may have problems getting flood insurance.
Pick the address of a house you like the look of. Punch the details into an online insurance quote form. See what you get out. That’ll get you an idea of whether it’s a big deal or not.
wollongong here. depends on what street and part of it really. some places are prone to flooding... probably easy to google up that info. Most of the gong is just fine.
It depends are you buying or renting.
Most of the damage and insurance hassles with a flood are the building not really the contents.
Places in a flood zone will be cheaper, but it is a gamble.
Also how young is young family (i.e teenagers are going to be easy to evacuate in a flood - where as toddlers will be much more work).
Should be fine. We have had several 1 in 100 year floods in the past 2 years.
Plenty of places around Wollongong flood. Easy to google potential suburbs to work out where and when
NSW has a planning portal which you can search addresses to understand planning overlays that exist specific to locations.
Do not rely on general information for suburbs and towns. Bushfire and more especially flood can come down to a particular address. With flood and rainwater runoff it is all about how the water runs over the land, how it escapes, where it goes, how fast, any build ups of the water and subsequent damage, for starters. Councils have flood maps that show historic floods and may show what they consider to be at risk locations. They may have the same for bushfires. If you see a house you like the look of, get an insurance quote with a reputable insurer who will let you know if you are in a high risk area for any of all of these things. Some insurers will let you opt out of the flood cover, but then if it does flood, you are on your own. Yous can always consider high excesses as well.
Look around. Check the neighbouring houses. There may be reasons that lovely house with the new kitchen, bathroom and paint work is so cheap. Have a casual chat at the local shop, pub, club, supermarket. Gossip is gold in these circumstances.
I'm in Wollongong. Only some small isolated areas/streets flood. We have a few creeks running from the escarpment to the see, and these are usually the areas to avoid - particularly if they are low-lying.
If you need a buyers agent to help you in your search message me, my friend is one, and she would be a great help to great to narrow down places to live and possible houses.
Oo I didn't know that about the flood mapping, thank you! And absolutely, thank you - that really helps!
Okay! Thank you!
That's awesome advice! Thank you so much! We've saved all of these comments, we really appreciate it
Thank you so much! This helps more than I can say, we had our hearts set on Wollongong, so this is nice to know! (We have family from there and loved it)
We're renting with a toddler and a 5-year-old. But that's really helpful to know about the insurance. I'm thinking I'll cross reference some of the houses on offer with the flood mapping previously mentioned and see what we can work out. Our insurance down here is quite low at the moment, so we're expecting a jump no matter what. Honestly, thank you for the help - I really appreciate it!
Sounds like a plan! We were doing research on the South as a whole, where I think our problem was too macro - we need to do individual research on the suburbs. That's really helpful, thanks!
That's perfect, thank you! Combined with the flood mapping, I think we might just be able to not feel so blind going into this move...Thank you!!
This is perfect, thank you so, so much! This is exactly what kind of advice we were hoping for - everyone on this sub has been so helpful!
We were thinking of going up a few times before moving to do this, just to get a feel for what's going on and even have casual chats with the people. There's so much community down here in the Huon Valley... so knowing that this is something that's an option, really helps! I know it sounds silly, but living in a place for a while you forget that everywhere has some type of community in one way or another!
All of this is amazing, we'll make sure to do all of this.
Really appreciate it, thanks again! :) :)
That's beyond helpful to know, thank you! And really interesting too, when we go to sus out places, I'll keep a lookout for these areas
And we'll do that- that is a lovely offer!! Thank you! :) :) We're renting at the moment, but this sub has been so wonderful - one day we would love to buy in the area.
Maybe we'll be neighbours
That would be really lovely!!
Excellent. This is a great place, and so many people don't even know it's there.
Good luck to them finding one single echidna, even a white one. They’re not exactly common to see, even in the bush.
Pls delete this so that crazies don't go hunting for it.
I reckon we'll see lil buddy in the USA in a few months.
Why post it? Even the person who took the photo should have kept it to themselves. What is wrong with people?!
Always have a masterball on hand, just in case
A white one would be much easier to spot even so.
Shouldn't be a problem. They even kept the echidna's real name out of the story for its protection.
That's right. We should always censor ourselves out of fear of what some selfish psychopaths and arseholes might do down the line. What a great way to live.
It’s too cold to come out and play.
Can't you just take pleasure in seeing something, without having to post it for internet likes? Are internet likes more important than the life of a unique monotreme?
No i dont take much pleasure in seeing an unusual animal given this country's overall treatment of our wildlife nor do i think a 'unique' echidna's life is any more important than that of any other echidna.
I found the story interesting and felt like sharing it for other like minded folk to appreciate, internet likes be damned. That's it. For all i know the story might draw more wildlife experts to the area to keep an eye out for the critter.
But please feel free to attempt to shame me all you like to meet your daily outrage quota i guess. Meanwhile i'll just keep sharing stories i reckon others with a genuine concern for our wildlife might like to see thanks.
What are some transferrable skills in your career or field that you think all high schoolers should be taught in school?
Just got a government job, and I just found out the misso is pregnant. In NSW you have to have been working for 40 weeks before the expected date of the baby to qualify for parental leave, and it looks like I'll have been working for 38... What are my chances?
Congratulations! The hospital will likely recommend an induction if the pregnancy goes more than one week past the due date, and even more strongly as it approaches two weeks overdue.
Huge Congratulations. It's amazing.
With the public service, there's no grey zone. You either have or haven't been working for 40 weeks.
The biggest issue will be when completing your forms. They'll want documentation, and your due date is going to be 38 weeks. So they're going to say it doesn't count. Then if for some reason you do run over 2 weeks, you'll have to do the application and paperwork then. That will be a massive pain in the arse while you're still reeling from just becoming responsible for another person's life and wondering how you'll ever do anything for yourself ever again.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Decent. First kid is often late.
Put a plug in her. I think i was 2 weeks overdue.
I hope so. They go off the "expected date" of birth, which has to be after 40 weeks of your start date, so I dunno, maybe I'll have to sweet-talk the doctor...
All of these people should be assigned a caseworker to find them appropriate new accommodation, with the price of moving and that case worker's time billed to Feros Care directors. The "not-for-profit" received $100mil from the government last year, and spent $20mil on brokerage services? What did they broker if the residents don't have adequate places to go? Why were they continuing to accept new residents? Why do they have $45mil in term deposits and $16mil cash if they need to shut this one down?
Private residential care is such a rort, we're paying bankers to sit on a board and write their bills off as a charity expense.
This is terrible!
its very distressing for the poor people having to get out of their home , australia has gone down the toilet!
Pretty sure George would be rolling in his grave.what a disgrace.I hope for all the best,don’t give up
can’t they just… grab the old people and put them at the other centre?
Are this number seriously accurate? That’s so messed up. I knew aged care was a brutal business model but this is madness.
Lol - put them where?
We have record low rental availability. The old cunts voted liberal for 20 years, and now reap what they have sown
I took them all from their own financial report. The government has done a really good job in creating some transparency around charities.
[Feros Care Documents on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission site] (https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/b5f9587c-38af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/documents/)
A friend of mine worked for NPWS for a long time, based in KNP. He started in the late 90s, back when the management was proactive and in-house.
Some weeks his job was just to go bush with the gun. It wasn’t particularly pretty, he didn’t go into it like “fuck yeah, let’s annihilate these cunts”, but he could appreciate how necessary it is to protect the park as a whole. It was well planned, well accounted for, and he was well supported internally (and by the local community).
He recalls that sentiment about the horses really started to change around 2013, 14 and in the beginning it was mostly online or “in town” as he calls it (city/parliament/head office). It took a couple of years before they started to see activists coming into the park to take photos, challenge the official counts etc. He said you’d get a couple of people a month who would actually say anything to the rangers, and most of them were reasonably respectful about it, just asking about count methods, trapping numbers etc.
He resigned in early 2022 because it had just gotten out of hand. They’d get dozens of people show up on weekends, to the depot or just approaching rangers in the middle of fucking nowhere in the bush. He says brumby supporters are some of the most disgusting people he’s ever met. Violent bullies, in person and online. They had so many incidents. Here’s a man who carries a gun at work, who doesn’t feel safe because of the level of vitriol and violence. That’s not ok. People should be able to go to work and not be concerned that someone is going to hurt them just for doing their job.
Sounds like it's time for a feral people control program
Not many people relish the idea of taking something else’s life but the horses, (and deer)are absolutely out of control in the mountains. It’s a completely unique environment up there, we don’t have a spare one to replace it with. The whole Banjo Paterson daydream that seems to be at the root of not culling more horses is just stupid. Let it go.
>It wasn’t particularly pretty, he didn’t go into it like “fuck yeah, let’s annihilate these cunts”, but he could appreciate how necessary it is to protect the park as a whole.
I don't see why this is frowned upon? My family and I own horses. We also own cats. Both do not belong in the wild.
Pests should be eliminated.
they've got local vigilante groups for that now in QLD I see
Well maybe if we could send them on holidays to shoot a few horses we could solve 2 problems at once.

Newcastle is WINDY. Just putting it out there.

Wollongong is depressing & has a creepy vibe... back in the day (90's) 8 / 10 chance you'll end your days sliced up in a wheelie bin...

Newy is the firm winner here.... love Warner's Bay...

Wollongong is absolutely unbearable in the summer with the humidity.

The mountains on the west keep it all in making nights absolute sweat fests.

Winter is alright though, not too cold and just lovely

I’ve lived in both.. I loved wollongong for its urban can do culture .. highlights are honk, Illawarra folk festival, Coledale markets some beautiful permaculture folks and great community circuses but I ended up working in Sydney and commuting which was not ideal.. at the time I’d say there just not enough humans to sustain the kind of work I do and well the pay Sydney was always better…

We moved to Newcastle 7 years ago fell in love with Tina (‘this is not art) it’s got a decent arts scene with a lot of diversity , culture changes and it’s easer here to work remotely . It’s a little more independent of Sydney though some folks still commute but to be honest it’s the regional areas near newy that really shine for me. Maitland, lake Mac Cessnock .. there’s a big region with lots to explore .

I live and have always lived in Newcastle unfortunately. Tied here due to businesses. Everything about Wollongong is better, you should live there. Beautiful place and much closer to Sydney

the Gong is wet. The escarpment means it rains a lot there. More so a Bulli than say Shell Harbour. But it rains much more.

And the water temperature is significantly colder. It seems to drop a lot from Port Hacking south.

Wollongong is not more or less Sydney, unless you’re the NSW Government during COVID-19 deciding where to put the lockdown border.

I’ve heard it’s newy

Wollongong is not that hot in summer with the ocean breeze it rarely gets uncomfortable. Once the sun goes over the escarpment it cools down even more

Haha, yeah fair call.

The central coast and Wollongong aren't Sydney exactly but 1000's make the fairly easy commute to the city for work every day.

Newcastle is a different beast all together.

But the gong goes hard too. U can tell which penguins been sliding around the Arctic

Gong has a lot less glass cigarette users on the streets these days, probably all gone into hiding

Hello! We are a young family from Tasmania who hope to be moving to NSW next year (and we're so excited!).

Can I ask, is moving to a 'high flood zone' something to avoid or is it subjective to what we see on the internet? Are places like Wollongong/the Southern suburbs safe?

Thank you so much, we really appreciate your input! With two little ones and limited travel experience, we're feeling a little out of our depth with the research!

Most councils offer flood mapping on their websites. Check there first.

IMO I wouldn't move to a flood prone area or significant bushfire zone as you may not be able to get any kind of insurance.

Bushfire zones in nsw are really hard to rebuild/renovate in too because you have to meet newer BAL regulations which can be costly. Best to avoid if you can.

You *may* have problems getting flood insurance.

Pick the address of a house you like the look of. Punch the details into an online insurance quote form. See what you get out. That’ll get you an idea of whether it’s a big deal or not.

wollongong here. depends on what street and part of it really. some places are prone to flooding... probably easy to google up that info. Most of the gong is just fine.

It depends are you buying or renting.

Most of the damage and insurance hassles with a flood are the building not really the contents.

Places in a flood zone will be cheaper, but it is a gamble.

Also how young is young family (i.e teenagers are going to be easy to evacuate in a flood - where as toddlers will be much more work).

Should be fine. We have had several 1 in 100 year floods in the past 2 years.

Plenty of places around Wollongong flood. Easy to google potential suburbs to work out where and when

NSW has a planning portal which you can search addresses to understand planning overlays that exist specific to locations.

Do not rely on general information for suburbs and towns. Bushfire and more especially flood can come down to a particular address. With flood and rainwater runoff it is all about how the water runs over the land, how it escapes, where it goes, how fast, any build ups of the water and subsequent damage, for starters. Councils have flood maps that show historic floods and may show what they consider to be at risk locations. They may have the same for bushfires. If you see a house you like the look of, get an insurance quote with a reputable insurer who will let you know if you are in a high risk area for any of all of these things. Some insurers will let you opt out of the flood cover, but then if it does flood, you are on your own. Yous can always consider high excesses as well.

Look around. Check the neighbouring houses. There may be reasons that lovely house with the new kitchen, bathroom and paint work is so cheap. Have a casual chat at the local shop, pub, club, supermarket. Gossip is gold in these circumstances.

I'm in Wollongong. Only some small isolated areas/streets flood. We have a few creeks running from the escarpment to the see, and these are usually the areas to avoid - particularly if they are low-lying.

If you need a buyers agent to help you in your search message me, my friend is one, and she would be a great help to great to narrow down places to live and possible houses.

Oo I didn't know that about the flood mapping, thank you! And absolutely, thank you - that really helps!

Okay! Thank you!

That's awesome advice! Thank you so much! We've saved all of these comments, we really appreciate it

Thank you so much! This helps more than I can say, we had our hearts set on Wollongong, so this is nice to know! (We have family from there and loved it)

We're renting with a toddler and a 5-year-old. But that's really helpful to know about the insurance. I'm thinking I'll cross reference some of the houses on offer with the flood mapping previously mentioned and see what we can work out. Our insurance down here is quite low at the moment, so we're expecting a jump no matter what. Honestly, thank you for the help - I really appreciate it!

Sounds like a plan! We were doing research on the South as a whole, where I think our problem was too macro - we need to do individual research on the suburbs. That's really helpful, thanks!

That's perfect, thank you! Combined with the flood mapping, I think we might just be able to not feel so blind going into this move...Thank you!!

This is perfect, thank you so, so much! This is exactly what kind of advice we were hoping for - everyone on this sub has been so helpful!

We were thinking of going up a few times before moving to do this, just to get a feel for what's going on and even have casual chats with the people. There's so much community down here in the Huon Valley... so knowing that this is something that's an option, really helps! I know it sounds silly, but living in a place for a while you forget that everywhere has some type of community in one way or another!

All of this is amazing, we'll make sure to do all of this.

Really appreciate it, thanks again! :) :)

That's beyond helpful to know, thank you! And really interesting too, when we go to sus out places, I'll keep a lookout for these areas

And we'll do that- that is a lovely offer!! Thank you! :) :) We're renting at the moment, but this sub has been so wonderful - one day we would love to buy in the area.

Maybe we'll be neighbours

That would be really lovely!!

Excellent. This is a great place, and so many people don't even know it's there.

Good luck to them finding one single echidna, even a white one. They’re not exactly common to see, even in the bush.

Pls delete this so that crazies don't go hunting for it.

I reckon we'll see lil buddy in the USA in a few months.

Why post it? Even the person who took the photo should have kept it to themselves. What is wrong with people?!

Always have a masterball on hand, just in case

A white one would be much easier to spot even so.

Shouldn't be a problem. They even kept the echidna's real name out of the story for its protection.

That's right. We should always censor ourselves out of fear of what some selfish psychopaths and arseholes might do down the line. What a great way to live.

It’s too cold to come out and play.

Can't you just take pleasure in seeing something, without having to post it for internet likes? Are internet likes more important than the life of a unique monotreme?

No i dont take much pleasure in seeing an unusual animal given this country's overall treatment of our wildlife nor do i think a 'unique' echidna's life is any more important than that of any other echidna.

I found the story interesting and felt like sharing it for other like minded folk to appreciate, internet likes be damned. That's it. For all i know the story might draw more wildlife experts to the area to keep an eye out for the critter.

But please feel free to attempt to shame me all you like to meet your daily outrage quota i guess. Meanwhile i'll just keep sharing stories i reckon others with a genuine concern for our wildlife might like to see thanks.

What are some transferrable skills in your career or field that you think all high schoolers should be taught in school?

Just got a government job, and I just found out the misso is pregnant. In NSW you have to have been working for 40 weeks before the expected date of the baby to qualify for parental leave, and it looks like I'll have been working for 38... What are my chances?

Congratulations! The hospital will likely recommend an induction if the pregnancy goes more than one week past the due date, and even more strongly as it approaches two weeks overdue.

Huge Congratulations. It's amazing.

With the public service, there's no grey zone. You either have or haven't been working for 40 weeks.

The biggest issue will be when completing your forms. They'll want documentation, and your due date is going to be 38 weeks. So they're going to say it doesn't count. Then if for some reason you do run over 2 weeks, you'll have to do the application and paperwork then. That will be a massive pain in the arse while you're still reeling from just becoming responsible for another person's life and wondering how you'll ever do anything for yourself ever again.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Decent. First kid is often late.

Put a plug in her. I think i was 2 weeks overdue.

I hope so. They go off the "expected date" of birth, which has to be after 40 weeks of your start date, so I dunno, maybe I'll have to sweet-talk the doctor...

All of these people should be assigned a caseworker to find them appropriate new accommodation, with the price of moving and that case worker's time billed to Feros Care directors. The "not-for-profit" received $100mil from the government last year, and spent $20mil on brokerage services? What did they broker if the residents don't have adequate places to go? Why were they continuing to accept new residents? Why do they have $45mil in term deposits and $16mil cash if they need to shut this one down?

Private residential care is such a rort, we're paying bankers to sit on a board and write their bills off as a charity expense.

This is terrible!

its very distressing for the poor people having to get out of their home , australia has gone down the toilet!

Pretty sure George would be rolling in his grave.what a disgrace.I hope for all the best,don’t give up

can’t they just… grab the old people and put them at the other centre?

Are this number seriously accurate? That’s so messed up. I knew aged care was a brutal business model but this is madness.

Lol - put them where?

We have record low rental availability. The old cunts voted liberal for 20 years, and now reap what they have sown

I took them all from their own financial report. The government has done a really good job in creating some transparency around charities.

[Feros Care Documents on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission site] (https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/b5f9587c-38af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/documents/)

A friend of mine worked for NPWS for a long time, based in KNP. He started in the late 90s, back when the management was proactive and in-house.

Some weeks his job was just to go bush with the gun. It wasn’t particularly pretty, he didn’t go into it like “fuck yeah, let’s annihilate these cunts”, but he could appreciate how necessary it is to protect the park as a whole. It was well planned, well accounted for, and he was well supported internally (and by the local community).

He recalls that sentiment about the horses really started to change around 2013, 14 and in the beginning it was mostly online or “in town” as he calls it (city/parliament/head office). It took a couple of years before they started to see activists coming into the park to take photos, challenge the official counts etc. He said you’d get a couple of people a month who would actually say anything to the rangers, and most of them were reasonably respectful about it, just asking about count methods, trapping numbers etc.

He resigned in early 2022 because it had just gotten out of hand. They’d get dozens of people show up on weekends, to the depot or just approaching rangers in the middle of fucking nowhere in the bush. He says brumby supporters are some of the most disgusting people he’s ever met. Violent bullies, in person and online. They had so many incidents. Here’s a man who carries a gun at work, who doesn’t feel safe because of the level of vitriol and violence. That’s not ok. People should be able to go to work and not be concerned that someone is going to hurt them just for doing their job.

Sounds like it's time for a feral people control program

Not many people relish the idea of taking something else’s life but the horses, (and deer)are absolutely out of control in the mountains. It’s a completely unique environment up there, we don’t have a spare one to replace it with. The whole Banjo Paterson daydream that seems to be at the root of not culling more horses is just stupid. Let it go.

>It wasn’t particularly pretty, he didn’t go into it like “fuck yeah, let’s annihilate these cunts”, but he could appreciate how necessary it is to protect the park as a whole.

I don't see why this is frowned upon? My family and I own horses. We also own cats. Both do not belong in the wild.

Pests should be eliminated.

they've got local vigilante groups for that now in QLD I see

Well maybe if we could send them on holidays to shoot a few horses we could solve 2 problems at once.