The outback is boring.

My folks did the hire-a-motorhome thing a few years back and drove the outback. Forget which route they took? They loved it mind!

Then again my mum is obbessed with Australia and never stops going on about it lol.
 
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Outside of major cities, I found them pretty dire. By the time the car had tuned into a local station, it began to tune out again. I was constantly hitting the seek button.

I agree with the OP though, I found driving pretty boring. The only fun part was stopping in a lay-by for a rest, then mashing the throttle when pulling away, or waiting for an overtaking lane on the Pacific Highway and blasting past all the stupid locals driving 20kph below the speed limit.
 
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I've installed some crap into Chrome that advertises stuff it thinks I want, maybe it could sugget I should put something on the barby I'm about to buy :p
 
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Outside of major cities, I found them pretty dire. By the time the car had tuned into a local station, it began to tune out again. I was constantly hitting the seek button.

I agree with the OP though, I found driving pretty boring. The only fun part was stopping in a lay-by for a rest, then mashing the throttle when pulling away, or waiting for an overtaking lane on the Pacific Highway and blasting past all the stupid locals driving 20kph below the speed limit.
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People on L, red or green P plates are speed restricted to 80, 90 or 100.

OFC some people do dither around, but mostly people out here seem to do the speed limit. There are the same kind of people in the UK, who do 100, then when it changes to have two lanes speed up to 120.... :mad:

I just end up getting sunburnt or bitten to death by the local insect population, not much fun.

I try to drive within 5% of the speed limit, as the penalties for being caught are very high, even if police are infrequent, they can laser you going away or towards them with cameras mounted on the car. Random breath testing in place in most towns pulling people in too, no requirement for "suspicion" to pull you over as in the UK, need to carry your license with you at all times as well.
 
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These roads are what active radar cruise control and lane assist are made for! Switch it on, set your alarm, put your feet up and and have an hour snooze :p
 
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People on L, red or green P plates are speed restricted to 80, 90 or 100.

OFC some people do dither around, but mostly people out here seem to do the speed limit. There are the same kind of people in the UK, who do 100, then when it changes to have two lanes speed up to 120.... :mad:

I just end up getting sunburnt or bitten to death by the local insect population, not much fun.

I try to drive within 5% of the speed limit, as the penalties for being caught are very high, even if police are infrequent, they can laser you going away or towards them with cameras mounted on the car. Random breath testing in place in most towns pulling people in too, no requirement for "suspicion" to pull you over as in the UK, need to carry your license with you at all times as well.
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Fair enough for L and P platers driving slower, (Which is a ridiculous idea IMO) but most of the time it was just some idiot holding everyone up. The only people I regularly noticed driving at the speed limit were truck drivers.

I found the general standard of driving pretty shocking too. I had someone tailgating me in the rain with less than 20m visibility, and even had some nutcase in the Blue Mountains try and get the car door open because I didn't give way to him on a roundabout...when he was joining from my left. :confused:

RBT's are a good idea, I was stopped 3 times. I very much doubt drive through bottleshops have zero influence on drink driving though.
 
Massive amounts of negativity in this post - are you not enjoying your stint over here?

We moved over November 2010 and decided to travel around before we settled down. We drove the whole of the west coast and south coast including the Nullabor and I enjoyed it all. I can't imagine that doing it every day would be a hugely rewarding experience, but it's better than sitting on the motorway for the whole day in the UK! Maybe I'm just missing my car as since we moved to Sydney 10 weeks ago, my car hasn't moved!

The speeding fines are nuts here, I got a $154 fine for 57 in a 50 :(
 
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Massive amounts of negativity in this post - are you not enjoying your stint over here?

We moved over November 2010 and decided to travel around before we settled down. We drove the whole of the west coast and south coast including the Nullabor and I enjoyed it all. I can't imagine that doing it every day would be a hugely rewarding experience, but it's better than sitting on the motorway for the whole day in the UK! Maybe I'm just missing my car as since we moved to Sydney 10 weeks ago, my car hasn't moved!

The speeding fines are nuts here, I got a $154 fine for 57 in a 50 :(
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I've been over to Sydney a few times, but not much, spent some time in the city in October, nice place but like London, need to earn good money to enjoy it, not sure I would trade off. I'm making decent money while having a nice relaxed lifestyle in the country!

It's miles better than the UK was, had a difficult few months at first getting setup etc, but should be easy going from now on!

Id be tempted to see how long I can keep my foot flat on the boards.
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Probably not that long, although it doesn't look it, the surface isn't very flat and you would get bounced off the road in anything low/stiff! I would imagine over 100-120mph it would get a bit hairy.
 
Berger said:
I've been over to Sydney a few times, but not much, spent some time in the city in October, nice place but like London, need to earn good money to enjoy it, not sure I would trade off. I'm making decent money while having a nice relaxed lifestyle in the country!

It's miles better than the UK was, had a difficult few months at first getting setup etc, but should be easy going from now on!
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I had the same opinion as you when I started working, thought just about the end game of going home with loads of money but then I changed my mind.
Originally, we were both working in regional Victoria, earning absolutely fantastic money and traded it all in for Sydney. The way I looked at it, life > money; I wanted to look back at my mid-late 20s and say that I had a great time rather than earned loads of money. In Victoria, I was saving 80% of what I was earning but social life for us was pretty much non-existant.
Sydney has changed that. I haven't found a job I want yet and obviously I miss getting paid but at the same time, I'm having a genuinely brilliant time. I did have to give up on the plan of buying an FG XR6T though :(

Then again, everyone is different and if you're looking at it as a saving exercise then you're doing it right. Give me a shout next time you head over if you like, always good to talk to an ex-pat :)
 
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