MOVING TO AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 Things Going Wrong, Our Sydney Apartment Tour & Expat Life in 2024! 🏠✨ 

Welcome to Sydney. Make sure you understand your rental rights. We're in a housing crisis at the moment so landlords/real estate agents think they can get away with a lot of stuff. Tenants' Union of NSW gives a lot of info. Make sure that your bond was registered with the Rental Bond Board and that you have a receipt!

Welcome to Oz - little tip, you don’t have to turn your washing machine taps off, but you also don’t need hot water if you choose a enzyme based powder like biozed, the hot water tap can be turned off permanently and you will save hundreds of dollars over a year on electric bills.

You’ve done so well. Congrats and welcome! 🎉🎉

Welcome! not sure if you done the windows yet. but if you get a adjustable flat mop and open the window you might be able to clean it with that!

Looks greaat! Goodluck for next adventure!!

Welcome to Our Australian 🇦🇺 Nicola Boyle 🥳 yay! I'm your new subscriber from today.

Connor was right about the dishes, you got some lovely stuff for your house

beautiful vlog, loved this ! Welcojme to Aus !

Welcome to Aussie 😊. Use a hairdryer to warm the stickers off of newly bought items (bit late now but for the future). Apartment looks great .. enjoy

If you want to pick up some home Decor at reasonable prices you should also try a few charity shops. Salvos at St Peters (Tempe) near Ikea normally has a huge range of stuff for decor. Enjoy your new home :)

welcome to sydney xxbest advice i had when living in qld is to get the ones from woolies or coles that just sit under the stove or fridge they work a treat

Welcome to our beautiful Australia x x love from Bunbury Western Australia

Only discovered your channel today. Need to go back and start at the beginning now. I hope all is going well in Sydney. I live in Tasmania. Just a bit chilly at the moment!

Your apartment looks lovely! Hope you will be very happy in Australia. We love watching your videos.❤

Do you think putting the toaster at the small corner under the cabinet, where you put your bread and oats and rice, would give you more preparation space in front of the kettle? About the spare room, instead of buying a bed in future, you could consider to buy an air mattress with electric pump. We bought ours couple of years ago from a camping shop when they were on sale. Very handy and comfortable. Just need to add a thin blanket during Winter and use the sponge method to check the hole, if it started to deflat 😄

I moved into a unit with fleas! Which I personally think is way worse than cockroaches….. I have also in the past had a cockroach infestation and I was told the house had a pest control done before I moved in which wasn’t true…. I basically then had to use the cockroach bombs which worked for a while. I’m an Australian so was use to creepy crawlies but getting attacked by fleas was horrible! 😕 good luck with your move.

Welcome to Australia! I'm also a foreigner living in Australia- but my husband is Aussie, so it wasn't as difficult for me when we got our first apartment. But just wait if you try to buy a house! If you have more issues with your landlord not living up to their end of the contract, you can contact Fair Trading NSW and file a complaint. We did it three times, and all three times the landlord did what he was required to do in the end, but we had to pay a fee to file, and it was a pain. I saw another poster who says that landlords/agents think they can get away with a lot of stuff. I completely agree.

There are also shops like target called Kmart and big w.

You don’t have to turn off (& on) the taps to the washing machine. Also, don’t replace the blinds without getting permission from the landlord via the agency. The rules are very different in Australia (and each State is different) regarding what you can and can’t do. It may be quite different to what you’ve experienced in other countries where you’ve been able to make your rental more your home.

For the stickers for future reference when you are at the supermarket get some tea tree oil will be in the medical aisle and some makeup pads will remove them straight away

Kmart stocks the dining goods you showed.... you can buy online also. Aldis is great with groceries, but woolworths are the fresh food people .Make sure you get a discount woolworths card and use it .If i fill up my car at a woolworths petrol staion and then get $10.00 of my shopping. After you ue a professional for pest make sure you wash the dishes and utensils.

What's your recording equipment? The quality of camera and audio is so good!

Welcome to Sydney. It looks like you are in a beachside suburb. I hope you enjoy it here. Are you making Australia your permanent home or is it just going to be for a few years? If you have time you should try to see as much of the country as you can. It’s a beautiful place. 😊😊

The first “chopping board “ you pulled out was a serving board. Eg. cheese, crackers, salami, dips.

Will come to Sydney

Go to either Coles or Woolworths and purchase o cedar orange oil sticky label remover $5.80.

Welcome to Australia and to Sydney. I also live in Sydney in the south West. Can i ask what suburb did you settle in? It's the most beautiful but also the most expensive city sadly. Unfortunately, it's just a fact of life right now. Wash your clothes in cold water only and yes you don't need to turn the taps on and off everytime, just leave them on but only the cold water, we don't even use the hot one. Do you have air con or a fan in the apartment? Are you near the beach? I would love to know how much it costs to set up an apartment with all the bits and pieces you need from scratch if your happy to share?

I’m with Connor on the plate set

I wouldn’t go crazy with buying heaps of furniture because the rental prices here may only have you a six months lease or year till u have to find another place.

Only one place I’ve ever rented came with a washing machine. And one came with a fridge. Normally have to bring those yourself. Dishwasher is standard in modern places.

I live near the corner of Boyle St in Sydney 😅

Welcome to Australia and all the bugs that come with it . K mart great for things . Xxx

They have no legal right to ask for bank statements. Pay slips etc are enough proof of income in NSW. Real estate agents try to get away with anything. Glad you got a place.

Target is not American Target which is a bit disappointing. And you’ve probably noticed all the shelves in Target are full of Kmart products now.

It's kmart

The tiny cockroaches are called German cockroaches. They need a bait for them .

Hello welcome ..about the cockroaches. Keep extra cockroaches..insect sprays ...just to spray occasionally ..you might see the one or two..through the weeks months ,..

The driver wasn’t being difficult, his insurance probably doesn’t cover you helping him.

It absolutely sucks to move in to a place and find cockroaches everywhere. Rental properties in Australia are unfortunately never pest controlled by the landlord/real estate agency unless of course they are having trouble finding a new tenant because of it I am guessing you had to pay for the pest control yourself?

Cockroaches are flying from outside through the open doors and windows, you might not know😮