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Sounds like a nice place.

Would you say Brisbane is the best city in Australia or just the nearest large city to the town you grew up in?

I've never understood those advice about realocating for dating purposes, it's something so ungaranteed to move for.
Unless this guy is officially your boyfriend/fiancee/husband then yeah....but otherwise it's silly.

There are much more important guaranteed reasons for moving.

Last year I went around to every capital city in Australia following my footy team. Melbourne comes a bit close and Perth is awesome too but Brisbane will always be my number one. Sydney (where aforementioned love interest nicked off to) is one of my least favourite cities in the country.

And I get wary of any girl hinting of wanting to take the plane from her country to here just to see me or even of the girl who suggests to me to take a plane to see her O_o.

For some reason, Moroccan and Filipina girls show a particular interest in me; they are good looking but they are very known to have interest in marrying foreigners to live abroad. Most Morrocans are francophones (but many speak in an Arabic dialect incomprehensible to the Levantines, espically the Berber of them), and so many Filipinas too, which makes communication easy for them.

Well, it's probably nicer than Adelaide. I have no attachment to the city itself, I only stay here from friends and family.

Our roads aren't properly maintained and our public transport is a joke.

On the other hand they've started a pretty nifty aspie employment plan here and I also like how here the sun sits over the sea instead of over the land.

In NYC, the roads suck, too!

Is that because they're poorly maintained or just because you can't find a free parking spot?

Yeah, weird for a country was ruled by atheists - but not surprised; I am familair with this s**t - it seems that Russia, like the Arab world, is cursed by two sides of extremism; secular and religious alike. After all Lebanon was ruled by the Syrian marxist-Baath for over 29 years; and now ultra-religious parties are stronger than ever.

I think Australia is one of the most eden-like places when it comes to peace and conflicts - looking at their map, they're entirely far from most of the rest of the world- and the nearby countries cause no threat to them at all: New Guiena? New Zealand? Much weaker countries than them.
The only possible threat is the the islamic-extremists from Indonesia ; the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation; fortunately it's not an Islamic state ruled by Islamic law- the indonesians I know are fairly liberals - there's a huge sea distance anyway. The worst Australia's enemy is probably its climate.

It's much better than the Middle-East for instance, where every country/community/tribe/clan is an enemy/rival to the other. 5000 years of nonstop wars and will never stop.

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A little bit of both.

Where I live, in "outer Queens," parking's not really a problem, though the highways need maintenance.

In Manhattan, the roads suck, and one cannot find parking unless one to circle a five-block radius for about an hour. Then, if you're lucky, you'll pay about five bucks for two-hour parking.

Public transportation is actually decent--unless you have to depend upon the buses in "outer Queens." If you live near the subway, public transportation is actually quite convenient.

My baby sister is an aspie in SA (looooooooooooong story). Apparently Autism SA have done some amazing work down there.

Is your self-pity really helping you?

Is having vague pie-in-the-sky dreams really helping you?

I know you are hurting and unfulfilled but you are 26 and it is time to start maturing.

Set achievable goals and start making them happen.

No one is going to come rescue you, you will need to build your own life.

When and how will you begin?

My dream isn't vague or pie-in-the-sky thank you! I WILL be a great writer!

Autism SA have done some good and bad work. Sometimes I find them to be very patronizing, towards both children and adults. They run these adult life skill workshops where they state the obvious while leaving out the subtleties.

This thing I'm in is a collaboration between HP and Specialistere and Autism SA handled some of the recruitment. They've been anything but patronizing .Funny story, some of the younger participants brought their parents to the orientation seminar, one of the mothers said she wanted feedback reports and the guy running it said since her son was 18, all feedback would be given to him, not his mother

Anyway this is a pretty cool program. I feel lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. I mean, to have an aspie employment project that actually focuses on getting aspies full wage jobs, unlike the last thing I was in, where they took in aspies and people with other types of disabilities and paid them a tiny fraction of a full wage and also listed themselves as a non-profit organization so they'd pay less taxes.

I didn't like how they kept on telling me off for coming to work in shabby clothes when they didn't pay me enough to afford nicer clothes. They said "this is a real job so you have to look professional". Well if it was a real job why didn't they pay me a real wage? They wanted to give me real responsibilities without real privileges.

And their wage assessment test, with which they calculate what tiny fraction of minimum wage their employees will be paid is heavily rigged (on purpose I believe). First they test how fast you work, for example, if you work at 75% normal speed, you get $12 per hour instead of $16. Then they give you difficult health and safety exam in which which has little to do with your own safety and more to do with ensuring everyone else's safety. During the exam, they expect you to be like a safety officer but during the job supported employees are not given safety officer type duties. You have answer their questions on the spot without a chance to do any research first. If you fail the safety portion (and most do), you're wages are reduced by 75% ($12 per hour becomes $3 per hour). This is what I found out through my own research, their scoring system is not explained to supported employees either before or after taking the test. Anyway, for workers with no safety officer type duties they say failing the safety officer test means you're work is worth only a quarter as much as it would otherwise be.

Clearly they designed their test to have one portion which is nearly impossible and then base 75% of the grade on that one portion so they could pay people a fraction of the minimum wage. This is nothing less than exploitation and then they act like they're doing you a favour by giving you a job (just before I quit there was this new girl there who said she was so glad she had found a job that would be accepting of aspies like her, I really feel sorry for her).

Sounds like a cool job. What do you plan to write?

www.chucklesandgigglesthestory.blogspot.com.au is my current project. Hopefully will be able to sign up for Adsense soon and hopefully pull in a bit of money.

But the eventual plan is to see the story picked up by a major studio who turns it into a blockbuster movie If Grumpycat, Justin Beiber and Annoying Orange can do it, so can I!! !! !!