{"id":21,"date":"2011-02-12T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-02-12T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T11:00:25","slug":"so-why-the-hell-did-we-move-to-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/so-why-the-hell-did-we-move-to-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"So why the hell did we move to Brisbane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first considered migrating from the balmy shores of North Europe, we did a sensible, objective, logical analysis of what we wanted. This came down to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warm<\/li>\n<li>Politically stable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A remarkably small number of countries tick these two seemingly-simple criteria. Botswana is one. Parts of Australia are another. I think Antigua is the third. Botswana was out due to a terrible allergy to rhinoceroses. Antigua was out because of the whole feral dog thing. That left Australia. Eleven thousand dollars later, we had our visas, and headed for Sydney.  We&#8217;d lived in Melbourne, and loved it &#8211; except for two things. The weather.  In the winter, it gets dark at 3.30 in the afternoon. And the weather. Did I already mention that? Melbourne seems to be the planet&#8217;s testing ground for whole new concepts in weather, and it feels overbooked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0930: Bitterly cold, calm<\/li>\n<li>0945: Howling gale, pissing down<\/li>\n<li>1000: Bright sun and snow<\/li>\n<li>1015: 45 degrees, fog<\/li>\n<li>1030: FIRESTORM!<\/li>\n<li>1030: Thunderstorm, cool change, tornadoes<\/li>\n<li>(&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So: Three years in Sydney in a flat with no aircon, heating or double glazing. Yeah. Had a good harbour view, so it&#8217;s not all turnips in the stew.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at painfully detailed climatic maps of Australia, and then look at the places where jobs other than &#8220;Bush tucker finder, third grade&#8221; are available, you end up in Perth or Brisbane.  Since I work for a company with a head office in Brisbane, and no presence in Perth, I&#8217;m afraid that Western Australia didn&#8217;t get a fair look. So, here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first considered migrating from the balmy shores of North Europe, we did a sensible, objective, logical analysis of what we wanted. This came down to: Warm Politically stable A remarkably small number of countries tick these two seemingly-simple &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/so-why-the-hell-did-we-move-to-brisbane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brisbane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}