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Forum: Australia
Jan 10th 2014, 5:55 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,461
Posted By nicolac34

Re: The big move to Perth HELP

Depends what you are after really, try and be a bit more specific in the kind of area you like to live.

When we arrived on our WHV's we rented a 2 bed apartment in Subiaco opposite Kings Park -...
Forum: Australia
Nov 25th 2013, 6:29 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,734
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Help/advice about having a baby in Oz

Use this calculator
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Forum: Australia
Nov 25th 2013, 6:09 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,734
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Help/advice about having a baby in Oz

You'd get the 18 weeks statutory maternity pay - it's minimum wage $622 a week.
Forum: Australia
Nov 14th 2013, 5:43 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,101
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Can you help a student out with her dissertation about Brits emigrating to Perth?

You should post this on http://www.perthpoms.com/ you'll get heaps of responses then!
Forum: Australia
Oct 26th 2013, 12:15 am
Replies: 19
Views: 2,644
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Is it all about Location? Or am I being silly?

All very useful feedback, thank you.

If we rented our house we could probably get $450-$470 per week for it. To rent in Subi we'd probably be looking at $500-$600 per week, so a bit of a...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2013, 10:31 am
Replies: 19
Views: 2,644
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Is it all about Location? Or am I being silly?

Thanks Dorothy. Yes renting out the house and renting back in Subi is an option as well. Just seems a bit overwhelming. Going to have Christmas here and then maybe speak to a financial advisor and...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2013, 10:26 am
Replies: 19
Views: 2,644
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Is it all about Location? Or am I being silly?

Yes we have, and you are right. To be honest we still aren't "there" with children, or even convinced that we actually want them.... I think we do but they seem to change your life so dramatically...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2013, 10:24 am
Replies: 19
Views: 2,644
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Is it all about Location? Or am I being silly?

:D I know, not a major life problem, but in my more boring moments at work i do mull over these things!

We would have to seriously crunch some numbers first... We always said we didn't necessarily...
Forum: Australia
Oct 25th 2013, 8:25 am
Replies: 19
Views: 2,644
Posted By nicolac34

Is it all about Location? Or am I being silly?

Ok, I'm in a whimsical mood at the moment and pondering the merits of a move, but wondered whether I should nip it in the bud pronto.

History being that the other half an I live in Perth, have...
Forum: Australia
Sep 10th 2013, 1:18 am
Replies: 18
Views: 2,771
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Air con quote high or about right ?

We've just had the reverse-cycle ducted air con installed as we were told this was the best thing for Perth. We've been to stay with friends who have the evap and I just thought the place felt damp...
Forum: Australia
Aug 29th 2013, 1:16 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 5,165
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Perth - Job market getting serious - or is it just me ?

My anectodal experience in Perth over the last 12 months is it is very hard out there.

OH is in Corporate Governance, he was let go this time last year, unemployed for 8 months before he got a 3...
Forum: Australia
Jun 12th 2013, 7:41 am
Replies: 23
Views: 7,829
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Cheap flights via Expedia Brazil

I had a quick look and found cheap MAN-PER return flights at £540 per person. The other way around PER-MAN (which is what I'd actually need) still comes up at over $2k each.
Forum: Australia
May 9th 2013, 8:49 am
Replies: 25
Views: 9,814
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Smart TV's aren't that smart!

We brought our 'smart' Sony Blu-ray player with us - in the UK it had the BBC iplayer app on it which we used. Pluged it in over here and updated connected to the internet - iplayer app has gone.
...
Forum: Australia
May 6th 2013, 1:01 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,639
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Paralegal/legal secretary in adelaide

I'm in Perth, and although I never ended up working as a Legal Sec, I did get offered a couple of positions.

As a temp salary it's around the $30-$35 p/h rate, for a full-time perm position I...
Forum: Australia
Apr 18th 2013, 6:51 am
Replies: 16
Views: 25,466
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Bleurgh - black hairy caterpillar invasion - Perth.

Who knew!! Our unit was surrounded by these trees, no wonder we'd opent he door to the patio and see it completley covered in catterpillas - like a scence out of a horror movie! We'd just accepted...
Forum: Australia
Apr 15th 2013, 6:06 am
Replies: 16
Views: 25,466
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Bleurgh - black hairy caterpillar invasion - Perth.

We had millions of them in Subiaco - absolutly everywhere - and no butterflies to be had, just lots and lots of moths!!

Now we've moved South haven't seen any, it's great!
Forum: Australia
Apr 15th 2013, 6:04 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,152
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Perth Property Shortage.

We've just bought in Perth.

Originally looking NOR but found too much competition in the suburbs we could afford (looking sub $500k), so many people at home opens you could barely have a look...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 14th 2013, 6:30 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,176
Posted By nicolac34

Re: BVB Granted before WHV Expires?

Ours was different as it was an RSMS Employer sponsored visa, we didn't recieve any notification from them that we had a BVA - I'd asked the question of the mirgration agent (because I was on a WHV...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 14th 2013, 3:51 am
Replies: 25
Views: 2,176
Posted By nicolac34

Re: BVB Granted before WHV Expires?

Yes I'd be careful, we were granted a BVA when we submitted a visa application - which was 4 months before our WHV expired (although, like you it seems, we didn't know this was the case!). Not sure...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2013, 3:40 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,677
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Partner Struggling to find work...

It's not just 457 holders that are struggling! We have PR and my OH has been looking 7 months now.

He's applied for hundreds of jobs, changed his CV countless times and written so many Covering...
Forum: Australia
Jan 24th 2013, 7:16 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,143
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Moving to Perth.. Any advice?

We mainly used www.seek.com.au seems to be the website where everything is advertised.

Like I said, it's quite slow at the moment, with it being January and Australia Day just around the corner,...
Forum: Australia
Jan 24th 2013, 6:40 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,143
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Moving to Perth.. Any advice?

My husband and I did something similar in June 2011, we're still here in Perth and now have PR and about to buy our first house! (Hopefully....)

What did you do in a bank? Find it surprising that...
Forum: Australia
Oct 11th 2012, 8:36 am
Replies: 51
Views: 4,413
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Jobless rate falls to 5.1%

It amuses you that people are unemployed and struggling? Well you have a kind of sick sense of humour then :thumbdown:
Forum: Australia
Oct 11th 2012, 7:02 am
Replies: 51
Views: 4,413
Posted By nicolac34

Re: Jobless rate falls to 5.1%

Agree with this. My OH was let go at the end of August because of 'financial constraints' and hasn't managed to get anything yet. He's been told by the agents that employers that are recruiting are...
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