do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
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do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
Hi, Just new to the site, has anyone decided to migrate to Australia without visiting and just gone on there gut feeling?
Would love to hear your views.
Would love to hear your views.
#2
Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
Hi there Welcome.Some do do a reccie before they come some save the money and just take the pkunge and move there.Id like to do a reccie my oh said no save the money to go out there with.It depends i think its about 50/50 do a search type in reccie and it'll throw up lots of threads regarding the matter, hope this helps.
Rachx
Rachx
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Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
Hi/Welcome
We originally planned to move straight over, but failure to sell the house meant we had to do a recce and validate.
The visit was really worth while, we had a great holiday and also spent many afternoons researching areas to live. It has also made Kerry (Other Half) more excited about going, and made the whole thing seem more real.
If you do visit, make sure you don't do 100% holidaying, and remember that when you move for good you will have to work and do all the day to day things you do in the UK!!!!
Good Luck
Mark and Kerry
We originally planned to move straight over, but failure to sell the house meant we had to do a recce and validate.
The visit was really worth while, we had a great holiday and also spent many afternoons researching areas to live. It has also made Kerry (Other Half) more excited about going, and made the whole thing seem more real.
If you do visit, make sure you don't do 100% holidaying, and remember that when you move for good you will have to work and do all the day to day things you do in the UK!!!!
Good Luck
Mark and Kerry
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Welcome to BE
We have currently got the house on the market and are awaiting for the thumbs or or thumbs down (visa), hopefully thumbs up, then it will be real !!!
We have decided that we will go straight away, we have never been before but thought 'what the hell'!!
Looking at the housing market at the minute though, depending on what answer we get, we may have to validate, can't see us shifting our house that quickly, although it is at first time buyers price level.
Although we are planing to go straight away, you can NEVER be too informed, there will always be something that crops up that you haven't looked into fully etc etc.
Roll on the visa !!!!!!!!
Donna.
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Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
Hi and welcome to the forum,
We did a reccie in may 2007 and have to say it was really helpful............we did the east coast from sydney to Bundy over 3 weeks.
We were originally heading to Brisbane or there abouts but when we went to brisbane we really didn't like it!
Having looked around we reckon we will settle in / around Bundy, bu we seen several other areas we really like as well if Bundy doesn't work out.
I think it's a big big risk going to somewhere you have never been before.......it will be a big move anyway so if you go and realise you don't like the area you originally emigrated to it would put greater strain on the emigration process.
Definately we would advise a reccie of the area/s you are thinking on moving to and if you don't like it look elsewhere so at least you have a few areas where you could see yourself settling.
This, of course, is only our opinion and i'm sure plenty of other people will give you thiers as well
Good luck whatever way you choose
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Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
Hi we did go over to Perth last year and i would recommend that you go before just so that you know what you are moving to was a bit different to what we had imagined and had to see how it would be for the kids well worth it and it lets you see a few areas before you make up your mind
hope all goes well and what ever you decide it will all work out kate
hope all goes well and what ever you decide it will all work out kate
#7
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I think if you have the money, and if you make it a proper reccie trip rather than a holiday, then it has got to be worthwhile - anything that gives you more information will allow you to make better choices.
Doesn't mean everything will go smoothly though! Or that you will find an area you love. It might just give you more questions to think about!
On the flip side, a trip is expensive, and so is moving, so a lot of people choose to save their pennies and just move, on the basis that a holiday won't show what it is like to live there anyway.
I never visited. Did plan to, it just wasn't practical so we just moved - it's all been fine though! Ups and downs like anyone, but no regrets about not visiting first.
Doesn't mean everything will go smoothly though! Or that you will find an area you love. It might just give you more questions to think about!
On the flip side, a trip is expensive, and so is moving, so a lot of people choose to save their pennies and just move, on the basis that a holiday won't show what it is like to live there anyway.
I never visited. Did plan to, it just wasn't practical so we just moved - it's all been fine though! Ups and downs like anyone, but no regrets about not visiting first.
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Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
well we didnt really plan on doing a rekkie, but as the house hasnt sold yet and we have to validate by the 20.0608 we are on a tight deadline, so we will do a rekkie if we have to but we would much prefer to just go. I have been to oz before but the OH hasnt.
it is a big gamble but its one we are willing to make
good luck with your decision
bec
it is a big gamble but its one we are willing to make
good luck with your decision
bec
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Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
well we didnt really plan on doing a rekkie, but as the house hasnt sold yet and we have to validate by the 20.0608 we are on a tight deadline, so we will do a rekkie if we have to but we would much prefer to just go. I have been to oz before but the OH hasnt.
it is a big gamble but its one we are willing to make
good luck with your decision
bec
it is a big gamble but its one we are willing to make
good luck with your decision
bec
thanks again,
#10
Re: do you think it is wise to visit before deciding to migrate to Australia?
If you really dont have a clue what is out here then, yes, definitely come and see what you are letting yourself in for. Remember that it will be different when you are on holiday so approach it as if you were going to live here. You could find that you hate the heat (or the cold) or the city areas are not for you and you fancy the country.
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We just applied for a visa and moved here. Nothing like diving in feet first!
#12
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Probably due to limited holidays from work as much as anything else, well that and the cost of a reccie.
We just figured go for it and give it our all.
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Are plenty of people who have just hopped off to Aus and settled and plenty who haven't. Is a lovely place to be, but does have problems and economic conditions have changed greatly over the last 2 decades, cost housing, food etc has and in many cases wages haven't kept up. Least if you'd visited you have an idea of what's in store, research everything whilst there and see if it's actually for you before making final decision
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Hi, we decided to come on holiday first and see what we thought before we applied for the visa. Neil would have happily not bothered and just waited but I could not consider leaving everything I had at home and moving to somewhere I had never been before. I guess it is a personal issue, we are all different.
Donna
Donna
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Others, myself included, didn't feel the need to see first, and I personally feel that it wouldn't have helped me at all to have had a reccie as I wouldn't have experienced life, but rather seen somewhere on holiday mode. So I went in at the deep end and have loved every minute of it