Hey there I'm a pomme who moved over with her parents n bro 7 years ago and still suffer really bad homesickness :-( ESP when I get bck from being bck home for a visit. I live on the gold coast and have found it really fake and stuck up here so meeting decent people has been a challenge to say the least! Joint here today to meet some gd ol pommes to do wat we do best and whinge haha, no make friends and meet new people :-)
So if anyone else feels the same seNd me a message :-)

Hi Donna
Welcome to BE.
Can't help with getting together I'm afraid but just wanted to say hi.

Hopefully there will be some Gold Coast 'locals' along soon to help you out.

Jilliebee xx

Not sure what or who you find stuck up and fake, but I guess there are shedloads of people like that all over the world. You don't give your age but I'm assuming you're either late teens or early 20s? What do you do? School, uni, work????? You've been here 7 years, you must have built up a network of friends and they can't all be fake surely?

How often do you go back? It can be quite disruptive, each time you go back you're on holiday, your friends and family give you a brilliant time, then you come back to real life. If it's really bad, is there any option of you moving back, living with friends or rellies whilst you get on your feet?

Yeah....the Gold coast is like that

No it's not.

Oh yes it is...

Sorry, forgot you'd moved down here and had become a great deal younger.

Donna, give us a bit more info about yourself, there aren't that many under 30 from the Goldie on here but there are some kids of posters, hopefully find someone for you.

Hey money penny, I am 26. Yea I have made a few amazing friends but it's been really hard work, lucky to have them in my life. I work as a nurse and the people their are amazing, mixture of age groups. I miss silly things back home like proper pubs and food etc as well as my family and friends of course. Yea your right about things being amazing when your back as everyone makes the effort to see you. I can't go back at the moment as have few ties one being I got two dogs, but we shall see what the future holds :-)

Hi

Gees iv been here 3 months and hoping it would end some time soon.

Some days I feel so homesick it takes me an hour to get out of bed, I still well up saying I love you and ending a call to Mom in the UK and found a lot of Aussie men and women to be arrogant right wing narrow minded cheesy American influenced non-denominational (not in the religious way) and soulless BUT we have those in the UK too.

I tell myself that is because I am new here I don't know many people here my attention to what I see and hear is hyper sensitive. Id say go to the UK for a few years, find a job do things the UK way and like me you might just appreciate more what you left behind and think have a two year Holiday and go home OR you might realise your in the best situation already and return to OZ.

Hope I haven't confused.

Alex

Hey,

Just recently moved to the Gold Coast with the wife, kid and dog! (well he gets here from Quarantine on the 19th!) Always up for meeting more people!! I will get the Laura on here (we are 26 and 27 btw) and we could always meet for a dog walk or a coffee....

Where abouts on the GC are you?

Cheers
Richard

. oh Grayling, we can always rely on you.

hey yea that sounds good! I live in Carrara but actually go to the botanical dog garden park on the weekends. How long have you been here and who did you ship ya dog back with? Was it expensive as i got a quote for 4,500!! lol :-S eeekk. Well hope to hear back soon. have a good day

We have been here about 2 months now....although does feel more.

Yeah it isnt the cheapest to fly the dog over, we used a small company in Dunfermline, Scotland. Who arranged everything for us, well they where meant to but missed a vaccination on his card so he was left in kennels in London for a few days. Thankfully it was sorted and he made it over.

Couldnt have imagined leaving the dog, only would have considered it if family or a close friend could have taken him, but nobody said they could!! He is only 3 so hopefully plenty of life still in him!!

Where about is the botanical dog park? Not having the dog here yet we are still learning the best places to take him!

Botanical gardens is in benowa off ashore roAd. They can also go to the spit which is a dog beach :-) look on the council website and tells you where all the off leash areas are :-)

been here for 3 months with wife and 2 kids, living down the road in Mermaid Waters. Get in touch.