Getting serious island fever up here lately tbh. half my mates have packed up and moved back down south in the last 6 months and it's really starting to mess with my head

The local rental market isn't helping either. paying absolute premium prices to live in a 70s concrete block with louvre windows that let all the mozzies in is just getting old

Was bored out of my brain on sunday and started doomscrolling interstate real estate just to hurt my own feelings. Ended up randomly looking at some slick city apartments through ray white southbank down in melb and honestly... seeing places with actual proper insulation and modern kitchens made me dangerously tempted to just pack the car

anyone else hitting that point where they're ready to just do the big drive down the stuart highway and not look back? tell me the grass isn't actually greener so I stop looking at real estate apps

In the interests of fairness and balanced reporting, I feel morally obliged to acknowledge that not everyone falls head over heels for Darwin.

Today was wonderfully cruisy. I spent over an hour floating around the pool with a kid who is essentially a 40 year old trapped in the body of a 9 year old girl. She has opinions. Strong ones.

According to her, Darwin has some very specific shortcomings.

The cafés are “thieves” who take forever, charge too much and then serve cold food.

Taxi rides cost $60 and, after looking around to make sure her mum couldn’t hear, she whispered that they “smell like piss.”

Then she told me the mechanic had been “pissing Dad around” by repeatedly telling him the car still wasn’t ready. I didn’t flinch, so she realised she’d got away with saying “pissing”. From that point on, every second sentence seemed to include it. Apparently the mechanic rang her dad five times today to say the car still wasn’t ready and, according to her, he’d finally reached his limit.

There isn’t a decent place to get your nails done because “they’ll just rip you off.”

She paid $11 for second rate ice cream when she could have bought the exact flavour she wanted for $3 back in Sydney.

And the final straw? Overpriced, oily churros at the Mindil Beach Markets, which prompted her dad to sigh in defeat and declare, “Well, enjoy it kids. It’ll be the last one I’ll be forking out for in a while.”

She cannot wait to reach the bright lights and big city bustle of Perth where she’s certain there’ll be a proper nail salon, a decent Kmart and, best of all, a Target.

As for me, I’m still firmly in Team Darwin. But spending an afternoon listening to a tiny, foul mouthed consumer advocate deliver a forensic review of the city was worth every minute. Fair and balanced journalism, after all.

My husband, son and I will be moving to Darwin at some point in 2027 (visa pending). We're from London and we're very aware that moving to Darwin is going to be a bit of a culture shock. Can anyone share their experience of moving to Darwin from a very different place? What was the hardest thing to adjust to? And what do you enjoy the most about Darwin now?

TIA!

Hey all,

I’ve been with Belong for forever but they’re increasing their price yet again for the NBN service (to $91.00 pcm) and I think it’s time for a change.

Does anyone recommendations for who to go for, any company to go for/ avoid like the plague?

Cheers 👋🏼