Any recommendations on places to live? Thoughts on the entrepreneurship culture?
There are Open Coffee events, Drinks every fridays, some events every now and then (not enough in my opinion)
Lots of world-class startups were born in Australia (Remember the milk and 99designs come to my mind), you might be the next one :)
Places to live: Coogee, Manly or Bondi! (beach lifestyle, 25 to 45 minutes from the center of Sydney)
If someone else from Sydney is on HN, please say hello :)
The other groups to keep an eye on are programming groups (SyPy, FP-Syd and the Google events). I really should attend some of the Silicon Beach functions - I've yet to go but am really tempted =]
[1] Atlassian - http://www.atlassian.com/ [2] NCSS - http://www.ncss.edu.au/
Thanks for the link. The forum seems surprisingly active.
I just moved back to Sydney at the beginning of the year from Bristol in the UK and I have to say the Sydney community doesn't seem to have hit the same level of activity that the UK had which is a bit of a bugger.
If you live in Sydney you pretty much are obligated to have something to do with the harbour: sailing, surfing, living near it, watching the sunset over it from the Opera Bar. I live in Mosman so I get to travel to work in the city by ferry every day - I can certainly recommend it as a lovely way of starting and ending your day!
You live in Mosman? I just started renting a place in Cremorne (border of Neutral Bay), and work in North Sydney. Seems like a cool place. Will check out the meetup, thanks.
I'm on the lower north shore. In steerpike's words i'm "living near it", the views are great.