Q: Why are you moving to Australia?
A: Good question…let me know if you come up with a good answer.
Q: What will you do there?
A: Kevin has gotten a job doing whatever it is that he does…enterprise software consulting or some such smack…his new company sponsored a four-year work visa for him, which also gives me permission to work in Australia. There is a growing bio-tech sector centered in the area where Kevin’s company is located, and there are heaps of interesting job prospects for me.
Q: How long will you be gone?
A: What am I, psychic?
Q: What are you doing with your house, your stuff, and your cat?
A: Our friends, Robert and Holly, have recently abandoned the horrors of Simi Valley for the pleasures of Northern California and will be caretaking pets and property while they get established. This is a tremendous comfort, as the prospect of renting our house to a hill-billy family with five kids and eight dogs was unappealing at best. The stuff will stay in the house, and the cat will get her daily beatings, my absence unfolding without notice unless her food dish should fall empty.
Q: Is it true Australians drink a lot of Foster’s Beer?
A: No.
Q: Where will you live?
A: We will be moving to Sydney, more specifically to the northern suburb of North Ryde or Chatswood. We have two paid weeks in a hotel to find a furnished apartment and buy a car (though we’re not quite sure how to handle the whole money/currency/banking situation yet – check back for updates). We hope to live and work proximal to each other and to public transportation, so that we may indulge cosmopolitan fantasies of riding trains to concerts in public gardens and weekend artisan markets.
Q: What, they don’t drink Foster’s? Well, you can still eat shrimp on the barbie…
A: Another myth…I cannot express my disappointment in learning that an Australian BBQ is what we in America would call a griddle. I don’t quite see the point…
A: Good question…let me know if you come up with a good answer.
Q: What will you do there?
A: Kevin has gotten a job doing whatever it is that he does…enterprise software consulting or some such smack…his new company sponsored a four-year work visa for him, which also gives me permission to work in Australia. There is a growing bio-tech sector centered in the area where Kevin’s company is located, and there are heaps of interesting job prospects for me.
Q: How long will you be gone?
A: What am I, psychic?
Q: What are you doing with your house, your stuff, and your cat?
A: Our friends, Robert and Holly, have recently abandoned the horrors of Simi Valley for the pleasures of Northern California and will be caretaking pets and property while they get established. This is a tremendous comfort, as the prospect of renting our house to a hill-billy family with five kids and eight dogs was unappealing at best. The stuff will stay in the house, and the cat will get her daily beatings, my absence unfolding without notice unless her food dish should fall empty.
Q: Is it true Australians drink a lot of Foster’s Beer?
A: No.
Q: Where will you live?
A: We will be moving to Sydney, more specifically to the northern suburb of North Ryde or Chatswood. We have two paid weeks in a hotel to find a furnished apartment and buy a car (though we’re not quite sure how to handle the whole money/currency/banking situation yet – check back for updates). We hope to live and work proximal to each other and to public transportation, so that we may indulge cosmopolitan fantasies of riding trains to concerts in public gardens and weekend artisan markets.
Q: What, they don’t drink Foster’s? Well, you can still eat shrimp on the barbie…
A: Another myth…I cannot express my disappointment in learning that an Australian BBQ is what we in America would call a griddle. I don’t quite see the point…
1 comment:
Thank you for this FAQ Audra. I may be reading it two years too late, but soon enough to understand the WHY/WHAT/WHEN. Nice to know that you have about a year to come back. 8)
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