My partner has just scored an opportunity to start a new career near Bundaberg. The pay is great for the region, and I can stay in my current role working remotely. We have no kids, and no real attachments here other than family - is there anything we have forgotten about in our little "cons" list so far?
- Availability of housing (though we have friends and family to stay with temporarily)
- Less convenient access to goods - e.g. can't just head over to the next suburb if your Kmart is out of stock of something
- Internet not quite as good
- Not a particularly progressive political climate
- Less choice for outings and entertainment
Pros:
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Hopefully a more relaxed lifestyle
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Virtually no commute
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Cheaper real estate (when it becomes available)
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A new experience
I realise this isn't the Bundy subreddit, but I'm hoping someone here has done the same, or the reverse, and can lend some insight to what we're in for? I grew up in the Wide Bay so I already know plenty about the area, but that was 15+ years ago and I'd say a lot has changed.
Cheers!
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
People who live in Sydney, Gold Coast, etc. cannot afford to pay rent on Centrelink. And they also don't allow you to move to a lower income area because 'there's less jobs there.' The only reason this hasn't led to a huge crisis is because most still have families to move back in with. Those who are homeless do not. So in these places Centrelink is not acting as a support system, it is their families who are.
Meanwhile people in places like Bundaberg are not only supported, they live easily off of it! The discrepancy is massive. There are entire country towns who not only live off of it, they make a little bit of profit if they are frugal. I wish I was born in one!
When I got home, they were still there.
Queenslander here. I was talking to a work mate recently about the similarities and differences between WA and QLD in regards to how we divide up internally. QLD is almost three regions. There's Brisbane, the South East, and the North. But I am not sure where "The North" begins here exactly. Personally I draw the line somewhere South of Bundaberg but it curves way in. WA seems to group QLD in with the East in the minds of Perth but for us the Southern states are our soft c*cks. What's the thoughts in Perth? I'm on a Reddit cultural exchange here. Get a forex if you can and I'll get some emu export.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
ARichTeaBiscuit started her re-election campaign by delivering a speech to a rather enthusiastic crowd inside a community centre located in her old hometown of Bundaberg, the left-wing politician having gained a rather popular following in her local community after months of consistent community outreach and campaign efforts with her fellow Australians.
"Hello there,
It is a real genuine pleasure to be here in Bundaberg today to announce the launch of my re-election campaign, today I would like to talk to you about my inspirations, namely the actions and feelings that drove me to become involved in politics in the first place and the reason that I am still fighting to earn your vote so that I may continue to represent all of you in the House of Representatives.
If you have listened to me speak on my background before then you will remember that I did not come from the most affluent family around, now that is not to say that I lived in absolute poverty, as both my parents worked incredibly long hours to ensure that we had enough money to have a relatively comfortable life once the bills were paid, however, it is ultimately this experience and the conversations I have had in community centres like this across Australia that led me to my current political line of thinking.
I do not believe that people in Australia should be forced to grind themselves down working incredibly long hours just to ensure that they don't live in poverty, especially, as it is these constant long hours and terrible commutes that contributed to the health problems that my father now serves, and I know all too well through speaking to people in Capricornia that this isn't just something that impacted my father but many Australians have suffered from health problems because they've spent so long working or stressing over paying the bills on time.
Yet, as I looked around I was simply amazed that the people that we were sending to the House of Representatives weren't interested in working to reduce poverty or even tackle other issues such as poor rural public services or the environmental pressures impacting our agricultural and tourism sector, so after years of trying to exert pressure from the outside I got rather tired of my efforts being ignored and decided to try and fix the system from the inside by running for the House of Representatives.
In a surprise to many inside the political and media establishment I was elected to the House of Representatives, although personally I w
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