brendarover

OK,

I have been reading these forums, this forum since the back end of 2006, i joined in 2008, the beginning of 2008. To start with i was reluctant to join for a number of personal reasons. There is easily enough information available on here to help you get your visa, and make the move, without posting/joining.


I joined, i don't know why i joined. I always thought people who have time to sit and post on here, like some do, must be either very boring individuals, or have boring lives. Especially if they are now living in Australia, if you are posting on a regular basis, then is Australia that bad? I know its not, i know Australia has strengths and also weaknesses like anywahere else on this planet.

How many people on here who arrived between early 2007 and early 2009 are either thinking of returing to the UK or have made the decision to return to the UK, and why?


I think this will give some un-biased feedback as to what life is like for new arrivals, a valuable thread for people looking to make the move. As i feel some of the regular posters, the expats who have been in Australia for some time. The expats with good jobs, house with little or no mortgage, the expats with a couple of investment properties, the expats who have a great life in Australia because their timing was far better engineered by luck or by planned timing will have had it alot easier than the current flock making the move?

Mr Rover.

bigAPE

I'm not going to talk to you until you get rid of the silly avatar

alipally

Are you a journalist that can't be bothered to trail through all the other threads to find answers to that question?

rebnatoli

I arrived here in that time frame so read the thread only to find out you don't require a response from us happy peeps!

I can't see how a response to your question can be anything but biased! If people want to hear from people who are thinking of or who are moving back to the UK they can surely read the moving back to the uk forum. Some people come here and struggle but stay, others come loaded and leave.

If you don't have a financial cushion then now probably isn't the best time to come over unless you are sure there is a demand for your work. The only true way to find out if you will make it out here is to come and try it for yourself!

nephilim

I suppose im still a newbie I have been here 4+ years but joined the forum in 2007,I dont post often,I dont have investment properties,I did own my house outright in Adelaide,sold and moved state to Qld as I didnt settle ,moved to Samford 2008 went into a rental with family decided to rent to see how we feel,my husband has a secure job,which is good but goes away alot,which in our family is a big compromise.We just feel we have gone backwards not finacially,but just in everyday things,we are going back to the uk to begin living again,nothing to do with how much money you have or houses you own as if you really want to go back to the uk you would. z

ABCDiamond

Another question might be, how many of the 303,107 permanent migrants that arrived here in 2007 and 2008 are returning to their homes ?

And how many of the 644,380 that also arrived in those 2 years, on long term visitor visa's such as the 457's, are returning to their homes ?

How many come on the forums, and how many never bother...

Vash the Stampede

I think this is a good idea for a thread, and I'll be interested to read the replies.

Dolly

We arrived in February 2008, love it here and could not imagine moving back to UK (where I am from) or Ireland where OH is from.

asher

We arrived on a 457 we will be going back instead of doing PR due to me having an accident and not being able to pass the medical for PR now.

I also find it hard to cope with the very blatant discrimination against deaf people in my locality on day to day basis

Funky Monkey

Hi there.

I am going back to the U.K for a visit soon and we will see how we feel, we have not been here that long though. We are pretty level headed and will hopefully not get caught up in it all. My Mrs really likes it here and I do like it but I feel my life is much worse here but there are others to consider.

I am in construction and have been busy since I got here although it was a little patchy at the start but I was new. I have been flat out since and I work like a twat just to earn a wage, I have worked for some other firms and it is the same. I think it's timing, if we came a few years ago we would be here with a paltry morgtage so I would not need to work as hard to pay rent here (we still have our U.K house) so that would solve the problem, life is full of "what if's" so thats life.

I have virtually no time for anything other than work and as a family we do less here so I think what's the point of being here.I also miss my family and friends as we are both from big close families and have no one here. Not always but the people who seem to settle the best usually have family here and I think that makes a big difference.



I am not bitter and sorry if I sound down I am just saying how it is for me and we are all in different situations

moneypenny20

Sorry to hear that Asher. Hope you're ok.

Cheetah7

We arrived in March 08 with very little savings and no equity.

We both have jobs now, have a large mortgage and some good friends.

There are things I dislike about Perth but you learn to accept these things just as you would anywhere.

It's not the UK in the sun, it doesnt have the history, it doesnt have the same shops.

The country is different, the people are different and the whole lifestyle is different - same as any country really.

We have no plans to return to the UK, in fact the thought makes me feel quite uncomfortable.

Perth is our home now, but it took a while to get there.

Funky Monkey

Thats a very good feel good post and touches on what someone said on earlier about how money does not always matter.

dinner-dash

i wondered where my mother got to

jsvk

I totally agree with this post! How can someone who has decided to return to the uk ( because they are unhappy in aus) give an unbiased opinion of aus?