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Re: Cold Feet?
Dear Dicko
Didn't they have a hit single??? Yellow??? Best wishes etc.. Bruce |
Dear Bruce,
Yellow Submarine? Yellow Brick Road? Or do you mean the group Yello? Your musical knowledge is about as relevant and up-to-date as your contribution to this thread. Best wishes etc.. |
Re: my view
Well playing Devil's advocate certainly worked. It got me all fired up. I agree you do have to be level headed about migrating. My husband who is English is desperate to go back. He is now at the point that he can see no wrong with Australia and everything wrong with England. I have to always remind him about the things he found annoying when we lived there. I am really worried he will be sorely disappointed when it comes to actually living there. For me it is just going home where everything feels right and I can cope with all the negatives because it is just normal to me. I think though that in the long run we can see that the long term positives outweigh the negatives and look forward to going. Now we are just waiting to hear back from AHC re his visa. The suspense is terrible!!!
Originally posted by badgersmount Actually, personally, I think the system is fine. I am just recognising the perfectly valid view of some on this forum that it is not the best, when I was playing the devil's advocate. Amongst others, people also say that there is less on in the supermarkets etc but I don't let these things bother me. Badge :D |
wow Pollyanna what a compliment!! I'm touched.
For me, although Sydney and Melborne are as expensive, I get a 'leg up' due to the FX rate. I leapfrog. Although I feel it is a tad immoral. On the day to day basis, it is 'same sh*t, different country' but I get to do what I enjoy in Aussie. You are right : I could move to other parts of the UK, but after my time in Australia, I realise I am spirutually and emotionally an Australian so might as well live there. Its not so much Australia - the country - it is the Aussie attitude, mates and family I miss above all. it's funny I am a confident, reasonably lucky bloke, but at the same time, I have a 'stuff this' , battler attitude which I find is so common in Australia - over here I hate all the middle class 'smug' professional/ working class attitudes, and the 'repression'. Which i never really noticed until my eyes were opened by Australia. Badge |
I know what you mean about having an Australian attitude Pollyanna, I think this is what truly seperates a 'successful', fully integrated migrant from one who will never really fit in.
My ex gf liked to say I was a Aussie trapped in a "pommie body". For what its worth, Polly, you seem to have it to. Badge :D |
Gee fanks Badgers, this is turning into a mutual admiration society!!!
Hope your plans are all on track for Oz - look forward to sharing a beer or 20 with you and Mrs B-to-be when you get here :cool: |
Originally posted by Pollyana Gee fanks Badgers, this is turning into a mutual admiration society!!! Hope your plans are all on track for Oz - look forward to sharing a beer or 20 with you and Mrs B-to-be when you get here :cool: |
I took me one and a half hours to drive the 6 miles from work to home last night, most of which was spent in total gridlock, engines off, out of the car, talking to other drivers just half a mile from our house.
Personally, I can't wait to be out in the middle of nowhere in good old Nundle, NSW where a traffic jam is when two cars are on the same street at the same time. I know what you mean though - the UK has its moments, but for us, the benefits of living in Oz far outweigh any to be had living here in Blighty. |
Originally posted by badgersmount My ex gf liked to say I was a Aussie trapped in a "pommie body". Badge :D |
Originally posted by badgersmount I suppose it does look like I am doing that. I do see the dilemmas, but for me, I am lucky, as I don't have a young family and don't want to advance my career in to management in the UK (I want to go sideways) I don't see or indeed, *have* the dilemmas. But, the very reasons why some of you are having second thoughts, are the reasons why I want to leave. In other words, financial security, the home you have is pulling you back to the Uk, where I have nothing to lose and everything to gain, infact. also Australia for me is 'home' pure and simple. I just happened to be born here. Also a lot of you are moving for lifestyle changes, you've already got the job, house, family, whereas us younger migrants haven't got a hope in this country now. We won't miss it as we never had it. If I have problems in Australia, then I'd rather have probs there than here. Why? I would say for me, it is cheaper, and I don't have to spend money to have a basic lifestyle. The 12 month thing is a good idea. Essentially I did this and saw Australia warts and all. Badge |
Originally posted by bundy Freaky, this what others have said about me. It's cheesey to say it, but the first time I landed in Oz, I honestly felt like I'd come home. Currently searching the family archives for a whisper of aussie blood....must have been the milkman. I first went to Australia under protest. I landed in Cairns with the intention of saving enough money to leave immediately and knew that the whole place was just going to be like a whole episode of Skippy. I was in the country for one hour and knew it was home. After a year I returned to the UK and changed careers to get the points to get back out! |
Originally posted by CHnJ Bundy - you are so right. I first went to Australia under protest. I landed in Cairns with the intention of saving enough money to leave immediately and knew that the whole place was just going to be like a whole episode of Skippy. I was in the country for one hour and knew it was home. After a year I returned to the UK and changed careers to get the points to get back out! Which is what makes me think that there's aussie blood flowing in those veins somewhere. As far as I know though, there isn't. The nearest any of my family have got to Oz is my great grandfather who used to be in the merchant navy and spent a lot of time sailing the aussie coastline... I've never got on with the UK and I'm totally unpatriotic. I'll call myself British if pushed (I've got a Jersey passport) but never English. Like Badge says, some people are just born in the wrong place. |
Originally posted by stotty Dear Bruce, Yellow Submarine? Yellow Brick Road? Or do you mean the group Yello? Your musical knowledge is about as relevant and up-to-date as your contribution to this thread. Best wishes etc.. Now... Cold Feet...Cold Play Cold Feet...Lack of Courage Lack of Courage...Yellow Cold Play...Yellow Anyway, who said I had to contribute? |
Bundy
it took me 36 hrs to realise I'd come home. A great feeling. Then I worried all year how I could 'stay'. Bundy I do have a twin - a brother though. (forum says "oh no there's 2 of them!") Badge |
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