Emmigration costs to date
Nov 15th 2007 | 7:43 pm
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Emmigration costs to date
For anyone interested in just how much the whole process migh cost I have kept a fairly accurate record of our expenses to date. It is not exhaustive and does not include things like selling house or the costs after our first 2 weeks there as we don't know what these will be yet. It is quite scary when you realise just how much it all costs and that is just the hard cash and not the emotional cost!!!
I have probably missed some minor bits off and for this I appologise - things like all the photocopying and if you have to pay to have your documents verified - luckily we didn't. We also did not use a migration agent which kept the costs down and we found the whole thing very easy and straight forward to do ourselves anyway.
Hope it is usefull for someone
Ali
I have probably missed some minor bits off and for this I appologise - things like all the photocopying and if you have to pay to have your documents verified - luckily we didn't. We also did not use a migration agent which kept the costs down and we found the whole thing very easy and straight forward to do ourselves anyway.
Hope it is usefull for someone
Ali
Nov 15th 2007 | 7:59 pm
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
What a good post, definitely interesting to people in the process of applying for their visas. We never kept a check of what we spent but blimey it is a lot when you see it in balck and white.
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Nov 15th 2007 | 8:12 pm
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
Good post.
I decided somewhere along the line that it wasn't bad compared to a 2 weeks all expenses paid holiday in the Caribbean.
Good luck with everything.
I decided somewhere along the line that it wasn't bad compared to a 2 weeks all expenses paid holiday in the Caribbean.
Good luck with everything.
Nov 15th 2007 | 10:19 pm
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
The biggest expense for us was being off the property market for 18 months.
£50,000??? £70,000???
Buzzy
£50,000??? £70,000???
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Nov 15th 2007 | 11:03 pm
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
London might be a different matter.
And in theory you've probably made a few bob (calculated in £s) with the exchange rate.
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Nov 16th 2007 | 8:33 am
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
In Melbourne you wouldn't have lost that much in the last 18 months. The market's only just started taking off again. It's been pretty quite over the last 3 years.
London might be a different matter.
And in theory you've probably made a few bob (calculated in £s) with the exchange rate.
London might be a different matter.
And in theory you've probably made a few bob (calculated in £s) with the exchange rate.
And you're right, this has been partly offset by interest on house sale money and liquidity, therefore enabling us to exchange at $2.54/£1.
OK so I was wrong, the biggest cost for us has actually been errr lettuce
Buzzy
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Nov 16th 2007 | 8:41 am
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
Yeh what I meant mate was that from the date we sold our house to the date we bought land in Melbourne, the asking price of the house we sold (or local equivalent) had gone up by £70,000.
And you're right, this has been partly offset by interest on house sale money and liquidity, therefore enabling us to exchange at $2.54/£1.
OK so I was wrong, the biggest cost for us has actually been errr lettuce
Buzzy
And you're right, this has been partly offset by interest on house sale money and liquidity, therefore enabling us to exchange at $2.54/£1.
OK so I was wrong, the biggest cost for us has actually been errr lettuce
Buzzy
£70,000 Ouch that must have hurt
lettuce, you slug you
Nov 16th 2007 | 9:08 am
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Re: Emmigration costs to date
Yeh what I meant mate was that from the date we sold our house to the date we bought land in Melbourne, the asking price of the house we sold (or local equivalent) had gone up by £70,000.
And you're right, this has been partly offset by interest on house sale money and liquidity, therefore enabling us to exchange at $2.54/£1.
OK so I was wrong, the biggest cost for us has actually been errr lettuce
Buzzy
And you're right, this has been partly offset by interest on house sale money and liquidity, therefore enabling us to exchange at $2.54/£1.
OK so I was wrong, the biggest cost for us has actually been errr lettuce
Buzzy
