DrNomis_44's Gold Standard STA-1M Build.

[andrewdosborne]

Hey Doc just caught up on this thread. I hope your feeling better in yourself. It sounds like you have figured out some top priorities that need to be addressed. Step away from the music for a bit, it will always be waiting for you when your ready. Take care for now


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[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc just caught up on this thread. I hope your feeling better in yourself. It sounds like you have figured out some top priorities that need to be addressed. Step away from the music for a bit, it will always be waiting for you when your ready. Take care for now


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No worries and cheers mate.

[Tweaky]

If you have kept a log of events around that have happened around you, and have the corresponding police report numbers [not hard to get]... then get a mental health report , there would be pretty thin grounds for you NOT to be transferred.... BUT... To where?

It might be even worse at your new abode, just saying.

The fact that you are a sole occupant, puts you way down the priority scale for a transfer.....I know how this crap works.
If you were to get a transfer, it would be to another single unit affair, with probably other single units around you, most of these would be housed by the Mentally ill, or those either alcohol or drug dependent.

The fact that you are in the NT leaves you with the sad fact that you are surrounded by Kooris, who can't even get on with each other when sober, let alone alcohol or drug effected [hence the constant fighting] let alone a lone white fella.
Same stuff happens in W.A and in Sydney [Redfern - thankfully, no way as bad as you have it ATM].... personal experience, so I can relate to Dr Nomis predicament.
It's not racist, if you live among it and you tell it how it is, it's those that don't live among it in their safe little politically correct only white suburbs , that call it racism ....swap shoes for a month, then see if you still feel the same.

It's the way government try to hide the problem of what otherwise would be homelessness for the above, to the decrement of of those not suffering those ills.

[Brendan]

That's sounding pretty traumatic Dr_No - I can understand the need to move and also the contribution that it may be having to an already difficult situation. Thinking of you mate and hope it gets sorted shortly.

[DrNomis_44]

That's sounding pretty traumatic Dr_No - I can understand the need to move and also the contribution that it may be having to an already difficult situation. Thinking of you mate and hope it gets sorted shortly.

Cheers mate, I'm definitely feeling a lot better today, I decided to stop working on the Gold Strat and do some work on getting the HotRod Strat finished, it actually cheered me up a lot because I found that the Hot Rod Strat didn't actually need much work done to get it finished, I'm looking at seeing if I can get it up and running this fortnight, I'm currently making a 2mm thick piece of Rosewood that will be glued to the neck just under the Locking Nut.

[Simon Barden]

Nasty situation indeed, and so hard to get out of. Here's hoping that your move proceeds with the minimum of fuss, and that you have no hassles finishing off the Hot Rod Strat.

[DrNomis_44]

Nasty situation indeed, and so hard to get out of. Here's hoping that your move proceeds with the minimum of fuss, and that you have no hassles finishing off the Hot Rod Strat.

Cheers mate, it took me two years and six months of waiting to get into the flat I'm living in, last time I checked the waiting time was something like four years, the Housing situation in Darwin has gotten really ridiculous, there's lots of itinerants living on the streets, and at one stage to buy your own house in Darwin, it costed 400,000.

[Simon Barden]

Nobody building houses, or are their restrictions placed on the numbers built? Limitations on where you can build? Or is it just too many people converging on the same area at the same time?

We've got a large housing 'shortage' in the UK. Plenty of houses, lots empty, but most are in the north and everyone wants to move south and live around London. Commuting in from up to 100 miles/160km is fairly common. So they are slowly building more houses down south - but it's already relatively crowded and with ageing infrastructure and narrow roads - so things just get even more clogged-up. Around 20,000 new houses being build within a few miles radius of where I live over the next couple of years, and that's a lot of extra traffic. At some point I'm going to have to move somewhere quieter because it's just becoming unbearable. There's no government plans or incentives for people to develop businesses in the northern parts of the country. So people move south, which reduces the economy up north, which then results in worse services, shops that have to shut, less jobs etc. and it becomes a vicious circle as people then want to move out.

[DrNomis_44]

Nobody building houses, or are their restrictions placed on the numbers built? Limitations on where you can build? Or is it just too many people converging on the same area at the same time?

We've got a large housing 'shortage' in the UK. Plenty of houses, lots empty, but most are in the north and everyone wants to move south and live around London. Commuting in from up to 100 miles/160km is fairly common. So they are slowly building more houses down south - but it's already relatively crowded and with ageing infrastructure and narrow roads - so things just get even more clogged-up. Around 20,000 new houses being build within a few miles radius of where I live over the next couple of years, and that's a lot of extra traffic. At some point I'm going to have to move somewhere quieter because it's just becoming unbearable. There's no government plans or incentives for people to develop businesses in the northern parts of the country. So people move south, which reduces the economy up north, which then results in worse services, shops that have to shut, less jobs etc. and it becomes a vicious circle as people then want to move out.

I think it's probably a case of the Real Estate agents getting a bit greedy (i.e. profits), and wanting sell to the big spenders, and maybe something to do with the Darwin City Council, Darwin's hospital needs funding, so what do the Darwin City Council do?, they spend money on a great big olympic-sized swimming pool instead.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Just so you guys know, I'm shelving my Gold Strat project for the time-being so that i can concentrate on other things, and also so I can take my mind off it for a break, don't worry, I'm not abandoning this project completely, just taking some time-out from it.