aston

a good friend of mine has just gone back to ireland to cash in on the euro thing and buy a house cash...

whilst talking to the removalist he asked if he was busy,expecting the answer to be,slow....as he was a bricky and its certainly a bit slow for us...(but dont get the wrong end of the stick,i still dont know anyone not working)..flat out was the answer...

any way the removalist told him that a couple of years ago he was flat out doing 350 removals a week,300 of them being poms coming to perth,,,now he said there were 300 hundred a week going back..

true or false i dont know?

any comment?

chris955

I have heard other people say similar things on different forums. There does seem to be a fairly large number heading back. Lets face it really, this country isnt Utopia, it is getting very expensive and many people are realising they aren't any better off apart from the weather... maybe.

aston

i agree mate,it is very expensive..but i like to way up some of the good the bad and come up with the same answer as most....

its sunnier and the kids have a far better life....

Fried Rice

Its a great time to head back now, the exchange rate, falling property costs back home, feeling real poor in Oz......................Make's sense, the Oz dream has had its day for anyone with a family back home?

Good look to all heading back!

Wendy

Good luck to them I say.

Personally, I wouldn't go back for all the money in the world. (But then I don't live in Perth )

Grayling

Indeed....let's face it you can't really 'cash in' on houses in Adelaide

Wendy

I don't even own a house G.

I left it with my ex. Money isn't always everything, happiness is way more important...to me anyway

Grayling

That's why so many go back to the UK

Wendy

Yes, I know a few people who went back.

And some that even came back here again

chris955

Yes I think you are right, also why many Aussies leave paradise to live permanently in the UK as well. Horses for courses I guess.

deb68

We know a family who love it here, but are going back to blighty next month because the hubby can't get any decent paying work and she works at coles just to help them survive. The expense and worry has tipped the balance and they are reluctantly going back to Britain
Hes a twenty year brick layer and can't get anything steady or well paid up here lately, he said it's getting worse every week and most of his mates in the game are out doing grass cutting and or rubbish removal work on the side to help make ends meet.
What makes us so sad is that they love it here and are so happy with Australia, but economics as made them go somewhere they really don't want to be.

Weebie

With thousands of British and Irish tradies coming on on the WHV visa and the government agressively recruiting them well then the country doesn't need to go out of it's way to recruit skilled labour now.

chris955

I'm not sure where all these tradesmen are going to find work in the present economy. I was speaking to a carpet layer a couple of weeks ago and he had to get a job in a warehouse because there was so little carpet laying work.

aston

its not just the economic side of things here with the bricklaying..there are so many alternatives here to the bricks..plus facing brick is not fashionable here..nobody wants it....apart from a few oldies up the hills....

Pomster

well from the other side of the coin ( we returned to the UK for 18 months linked to a variety of dull and complex factors) I can honestly say things are not too rosy here.

I took redundancy from my long term employer in December. Took me til August to find a role, which shocked and surprised me as my skills are pretty good and there seemed to be lots of roles. It seems that these advertised roles are just agency fodder.
We asked an electrician to do some work for us- couple of years ago you had to book him a month in advance, now a day/two was sufficient. He said it was the worst he has seen it in 30 years of employment

Also wages are not great, but bills are rocketing. Not sure how much more can be squeezed from people.

So UK is certainly not an easy ride at the moment....