Steve,
So you left a freezing winter- and a not-too-unpleasant summer- to go to a bl*dy humid unpleasant summer?
I'd like to see you walk to your office from home in Sydney (between November and March)!
I mentioned in a previous post that I like a climate where the MWWI does not exceed 5 in a summer.
(MWWI = Mrs Whitfield's Whinge Index. Any day where she complains about the humidity, the index increases by one. Five days a year in Canberra indicates that the climate is bearable. It's probably 60+ in Sydney. And much higher again in Brisbane. It's semi-frivolous- but, to me, it's one way of indicating the comfort zone of a location. And yes, Canberra does get cold... but oftenm Canberra homes have better defences against cold than Sydney homes have against humidity and heat).