Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
#1
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
Right roll call, Whos still emigrating.
With the current exchange rate, are never ending days of sun and surf still appealing or does Birmingham now look as appealing as Brisvegas.
Manchester or Melbourne, Kilburn or St Kilda.
With the current exchange rate, are never ending days of sun and surf still appealing or does Birmingham now look as appealing as Brisvegas.
Manchester or Melbourne, Kilburn or St Kilda.
#2
Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
It doesn't matter how much money you've got so long as the sun is shining, right?
#4
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Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
I never wanted the sea or sun anyway....we are moving for family reasons.
Saying that.....on exchange rates alone I have 'theoretically lost' a six figure sum
I will be very careful about where I put my money.
A further blow to us is that our pensions are paid in sterling so we will be worse off again......looks like I will have to start work again.
C'est la vie.
G
Saying that.....on exchange rates alone I have 'theoretically lost' a six figure sum
I will be very careful about where I put my money.
A further blow to us is that our pensions are paid in sterling so we will be worse off again......looks like I will have to start work again.
C'est la vie.
G
#5
Soon to be Bris!
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Location: Wigan, England
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Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
Were gonna leave the majority of our cash in a uk bank for as long as we can and hopefully things will improve, fingers cossed!
Jaime
Jaime
#6
Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
Its one reason not to take the plunge,at least for the moment.
#7
Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
*opens up another huge 'what tax am i liable for?' debate*
#8
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Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
I think that australian mortgage rates are a bigger disincentive than the exchange rate for many.
Fortunately the saving's rate will work in my favour.
G
Fortunately the saving's rate will work in my favour.
G
#13
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Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
we're not going to have much to go with anyway, so it's not making any difference to us either way.
we will just have to deal with what we get. waiting here in the UK for the exchage rate to improve is not a good enough reason to stay here in our opinion.
we will just have to deal with what we get. waiting here in the UK for the exchage rate to improve is not a good enough reason to stay here in our opinion.
#14
Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
house prices (yep that old chestnut)
Price of most other things (yep that old chestnut)
It looked just like blighty (yep that old chestnut)
#15
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Re: Has the exchange rate changed your plans to emigrate.
Actually first time I saw melbourne I thought it looked very much like UK, May, wet, grey, graffiti, and far more multi cultural than i thought it would be, dont know, well probably cause I was a fresh pommy then I thought it would be lots of fit bronzed aussies, blonde people and super clean, palm trees, sunny , the fact that it was pretty much as multi cultural ( and grubby) as brum or manchester simply surprised me, didnt mind, just wasnt what the aussies in UK had led me to believe. Mind you partners brother picked up up and had a detour through some of the less swanky suburbs, nothing at all like I had expected