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(06-05-2017 08:12 AM)Easy_C Wrote:  

If you want quick acceptance in that community, I would also HIGHLY recommend getting involved in some kind of local fraternal organization. I'm personally leery of masons because of their ties to everything else going on, but there any number of others (e.g. knights of Columbus, vets organizations if you are one) that will help get you plugged in socially. Also you can join anywhere then transfer membership.

In Australia, there may still a few Rotary or Lions Club organisations in country areas that are designed for this kind of networking.

There's also the Country Women's Association. Most Australian states have them. The wife might at least learn to bake a decent scone there, though the community connection and gossip is the prime draw. One quick Google indicates a leftie academic paper written by a sad-looking female shorthair in 2014 which says:

"As a politically conservative women’s association, the CWA retains an uncomfortable place in modern narratives of feminist progress. The group’s promotion of a model of womanhood based on a conservative notion of domestic femininity combined with a strong dose of civic-mindedness has had less feminist appeal than that promoted by her more radical sisters. Compounding this lack of feminist attraction has been the group’s historical motto of “Honour to God, Loyalty to the Throne, Service to the Country, Through Country Women” – an awkward reminder of white (conservative and radical) women’s complicity in the colonising process in this country."

Can't get a much more ringing endorsement than that.