After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
Jul 9th 2010, 1:55 am
#17
Mostly Harmless
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Location: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
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Jul 10th 2010, 6:57 am
#19
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Location: Canberra
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Re: After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
You're probably just desensitized. It seems like that feeling of relief once you have made the decision to move on is quite typical and it allows you to feel more positive about all the things that bug the heck out of you here but once you get to where you are going you will realize why you made the move.
Jul 10th 2010, 9:47 am
#20
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Re: After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
I have made a conscious decision never to refer to the UK as "home", I'm forever correcting people but it matters to me 
Q: "Do you miss home?"
A: "Nah, I'll be there in 3 hours"
etc,etc
It's laugh a minute in Vimsville.
I also cannot spell "conscious" without the aid of a spill chucker.
Q: "Do you miss home?"
A: "Nah, I'll be there in 3 hours"
etc,etc
It's laugh a minute in Vimsville.
I also cannot spell "conscious" without the aid of a spill chucker.
Home is where 'we' are living. We were briefly homeless on the way over. That was odd. Never been without a set of keys before, felt very strange
Jul 11th 2010, 12:25 am
#21
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Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
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Re: After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
If I talk about home (UK) then it would be in terms of the family home. A physical thing.
But not home for me.
But not home for me.
Jul 11th 2010, 8:56 am
#22
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Posts: 65
Re: After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
We lived in oz for 5 yrs and we were settled to a point but something was missing, not too sure what it was but we did decide to move back to the uk. Been here now for 7months and the yearning of wanting to go back to oz is really bad, we all feel it. But the kids have settled into school now, (my 12 yr old will be in yr 8 this time, my 10yr old will be in her last yr of primary and i have a further 2 kids 5.5yrs and 2.5yrs) and now we are struggling when the time is right to go back over. There is never gonna be a right time. We like it here and its not all bad but we've had a taste of what we have had and to be honest we know where we'd rather be. Australia!!!!!
Jul 11th 2010, 11:27 am
#23
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Re: After five years, Australia is starting to grow on me...
I have lived in Oz for five years and have pretty much had an on-off thing about living here. Every year, I decide that we will leave the following year, but don't follow through.
Finally my wife and I are really planning to leave in 2012 and we are even doing up our garden to make it easier for the place to sell. My wife and I joke that once the gardnen is done it might be so nice we won't want to leave!
The funny thing is, now that we have put a time frame on leaving, I have started to enjoy being here and finally after 5 years, Australia is growing on me.
Has it taken anyone else over five years for Australia to finally grow on you?
Or has it started growing on you when you have the clear prospect of leaving?
Finally my wife and I are really planning to leave in 2012 and we are even doing up our garden to make it easier for the place to sell. My wife and I joke that once the gardnen is done it might be so nice we won't want to leave!
The funny thing is, now that we have put a time frame on leaving, I have started to enjoy being here and finally after 5 years, Australia is growing on me.
Has it taken anyone else over five years for Australia to finally grow on you?
Or has it started growing on you when you have the clear prospect of leaving?
