Bali, why do Australians go there?

[ufo_investigations]

I heard on the news another 2 Australians died in Bali. Why do Australians go there? We have better places to holiday at right here at home! 

We have great food, fantastic beaches and many beautiful places to go to so why do Aussies feel the need to go to third world countries when we have everything here? 

We are fortunate to have the best of everything why risk it all in a country with standards far below ours.

If I were given free flights + free cash to go to Bali I would decline! No way would I go there under any circumstances.

Support Australian jobs.

Support our economy.

Spend your money here.

Holiday our wonderful country.

How many more Australians have to die over there before people wake up?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

I know Crikey 

there is also shell fish poisoning

The toxins responsible for most shellfish poisonings are water-insoluble, heat and acid-stable, and ordinary cooking methods do not eliminate the toxins. The principal toxin responsible for PSP issaxitoxin. Some shellfish can store this toxin for several weeks after a harmful algal bloom passes, but others, such as butter clams, are known to store the toxin for up to two years. Additional toxins are found, such as neosaxiton and gonyautoxins I to IV. All of them act primarily on the nervous system.

PSP can be fatal in extreme cases, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. Children are more susceptible. PSP affects those who come into contact with the affected shellfish by ingestion.[1] Symptoms can appear ten to 30 minutes after ingestion, and include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, tingling or burning lips, gums, tongue, face, neck, arms, legs, and toes.[1] Shortness of breath, dry mouth, a choking feeling, confused or slurred speech, and loss of coordination are also possible.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralytic_shellfish_poisoning

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but not fatal, eh?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@icyfroth wrote:

much the same happened to the Gold Coast QLD

They'd have to pay me to go on hols there, now, too.

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sheesh, I holiday on the gold coast a few times a year!

LOLOLOL

[*crikey*mate*]

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@punch*drunk wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

much the same happened to the Gold Coast QLD

They'd have to pay me to go on hols there, now, too.

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I wasnt very impressed with the Gold Coast when I went 6 months ago. Would hate to live there.

I just booked my flights and accomodation for Thailand, lets hope I dont get sick over there, next purchase travel insurance.

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nah, it rocks

[cherry*135]

What is good about it crikey?  I wouldn't want to live there either.

[*crikey*mate*]

umm, everything we need is here within 15 or 20 minutes max, work, schools (and a large selection) most of the doctors

I live 5klm from a huge shopping centre, but on acerage just a coupe hundred metres from the motorway which gets you anywhere

airport is 20 minutes away

still easy to drive around and find things etc, it's no where near like brisbane yet, I can be there in 40 minutes if I want?

roads are good, people are great, heaps of work

the beaches

but I can now go a few weeks withiout using my car as everything I need is like in a 5k radius, so I can walk most places. really only have to leave this little oasis when I head to the North uni.

I personally hate the heat - I'd move to tassy in a heart beat if the OH would follow (found the town and everything! on the way from Hobart to Port Arthur - had a building there either the oldest police station or jail or something like that, right next to a pie shop...
either there or Illuka in NSW, but OH loves his surf and beach and the lifestyle here.

and our health system mostly sucks here though, you really do have to have private insurance though (but then you pay between $200 and $500 to go through A&E just to get admitted, and that part isn't covered by your health fund.we just got a new public hospital, so maybe it's better now?

but what we do have is heaps of bulk bill doctors and a service called Medcall - FREE afterhours house visits... that's been a blessing if a kid was sick at night etc, didn't have to sit for 8 and 10 hours at the A&E to be told it was just a tummy bug iykwim, could keep em in bed till the doc told ya they needed hospital... and they'd be there in an hiour or two of your call (no appointments) and they used to do visits for us to change canulas and stuff so the kids could come home early from hospital if they were still on a drip... the service is like a mobile GP - it's brilliant, they've done stitches, given injections, so much over the years

and a lot of our public schools here suck too, if you live here, if it's at all possible, you really do want to get your kids into private. Most of the schools are zoned, so have 2000 kids per high school and another 2000 for primary so that's HUGE, but there are smaller ones if you go inland to the country towns kinda thing (15 minutes inland is the mountains LOL)

PLUS, we seem to get most of the prize homes here, sio ya don't have to travel very far to insopect them if you want to see them off the pamphlet LOL

and the theme parks, most have annual passes sdo the kids just go whenever they want, siorta thing, it's not like it has to be a whole day trip...

my kids get to go to schoolies and I know theyre safe, cos I drove him in on the days he wanted to go, etc, picked him up at night time (cos I'd never let my kid do schoolies any other wayy)

could just keep going on - everything ya want is just here

can get the jet skis down the broadwater in 10 minutes\\

we don't have to pay to go to the dump.

and ther4e is always something to do, somewhere to go, something to see.

there ya go, that's a start

LOL

[cherry*135]

Tattoo parlours, skyscrapers, tourists, schoolies, violence (bikie gangs), traffic jams.. enough to make anyone runaway.

We have a 3 floor limit on buildings here ( NSW coastal area). No one wants another Gold Coast.

[joz*garage]

livin' in the gold coast... everyday be like a hoilday wouldnt it? ha ha

something i miss about QLD, theres was always somewhere interesting to go

and i did enjoy the gold coast too as a kid

[cherry*135]

The Dr service that comes to your home is good though. My niece uses that. As her OH does shiftwork, she can be the only adult home,especially in the evening or night, when you wouldn't want to take 3 small kids out to hosp, if one was sick.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

Tattoo parlours, skyscrapers, tourists, schoolies, violence (bikie gangs), traffic jams.. enough to make anyone runaway.

We have a 3 floor limit on buildings here ( NSW coastal area). No one wants another Gold Coast.

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that's just in surfers, we don't have any of that here...  and well we love the tourists, they keep us employed! and they're not in the towns, the towns are just normal suburbia

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

The Dr service that comes to your home is good though. My niece uses that. As her OH does shiftwork, she can be the only adult home,especially in the evening or night, when you wouldn't want to take 3 small kids out to hosp, if one was sick.

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yeah, that is truly brilliant, and I am very, very grateful for that (and I think it was a labor initive too! LOL)

My OH is semi retired now, but when he was working 2 jobs, or in lockdown at the hotel, I was on my own a lot, (he's in hospitality, but just does contract work at the hotel now if a VIP requests him - after 20 years there, a lot kinda do - He's been doing Jimmy Barnes for example since the tin lids were babies!) now he mostly just works for me if I need a hand and goes fishing LOL

but a lot of years, I was like a single mum almost, and with 3 small kids getting to A&E at night was horrendous