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Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews?
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Thanks for the response. I agree about all those points.

 

With schooling I agree about the costs. I am especially irritated by the idea of the elite schools being expensive private institutions which yet still receive large amount of government funding on top of the exuberant fees. The proliferation of  elite private schools leads to an anti-egalitarian society where the rich receive institutionalised special privileges early in life. I guess this was imported from the UK and their history of class culture. 

 

The machismo and anti-intellectualism is also quite evident here, especially compared to asia and europe. The "bloke" culture values sports over smarts and academic achievement is not held with high value. A positive possibly associated with this is that there is less of a divide in incomes based on academic qualifications - a plumber and an academic can earn a similar amount. The society is also quite devoid of class and people generally don't care about titles and degrees - you can always call people by their first name and not use honorific titles. You can even call the head of the country a d*ck head to his face  Smile

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF65MnhctUQ

 

Still, in big cities like Melbourne or Sydney you can create a life around any preferences you have and find like minded people. I work in academia and it was easy to find similar people to relate to

 

 

Quote:Well ... there were a few negative bullets points. If you really like to see a couple more ... ;-)


- having kids is very expensive (but we have none anyway). e.g. Unis are free in Germany.

- foreign work experience counts almost nothing - even if you worked for big well-known multi-national companies ...

- ... because of the special Australian situation. My favorite. Nobody was able to explain what that is so far. Snakes maybe.

- Australian blokes are machismos (more of an issue for my spouse)

- people tend to have a bit of an anti-academic attitude. My spouse even tries to hide that she has a PhD in electrical engineering ...


Anyway, the list of the positive aspects do outweight the rest by far.
  


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Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by thxbb12 - 04-24-2017, 01:14 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by Klaus - 04-25-2017, 04:05 AM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by davidmanze - 04-25-2017, 08:13 AM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by Ayoh - 04-28-2017, 05:17 AM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by Klaus - 04-28-2017, 12:58 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by borisbg - 04-28-2017, 04:25 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by borisbg - 04-28-2017, 04:27 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by Guest - 04-28-2017, 07:45 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by thxbb12 - 04-28-2017, 10:08 PM
Fujinon 23 f2 and 50 f2 reviews? - by Ayoh - 04-29-2017, 04:07 AM

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