Well it might after a bit more than a couple of weeks


...but having said that, we have been here five years and his view hasn't changed in that time.

Happened to us and our kids even after the total negativity from First Born. She was adamant she was heading back as soon as she was 16. She turned 18 last year and not a mention of even a holiday, too much to do here. A friend of hers who has family in Ireland and friends in Belgium is heading over for part of her gap year, asked if First Born would like to join her, got turned down.

A friend's son had no intention of being here past 16, he's 18 soon and recently told his parents he was staying here, wouldn't mind heading back for a holiday but that he didn't want to live there.

Kids are fickle things.

five years of my son moaning ..oohh the thought

thats put my hopes up ..i live in hope

I know that sounds like a typical Badgism but it's actually quite a well-known African proverb.

Means everyone in a child's life has an impact - not just parents. Hillary Clinton wrote a book with the same title.

I don't care who said it, its daft. Children can be raised just as easily in cities as in villages.

It isn't really about where they're raised - the proverb means that more than just the immediate family contributes to a child's upbringing and that 'society' if you like, is also a big factor in how that child will turn out.

I moved here in 2006 at the tender age of 25, and I gotta tell ya - I still have moments. Took me probably the better part of 4 years to actually 'get over' moving - was depressed, anxiety, had to see a shrink, etc.

I love Perth more now (except the summer heat, I miss the cold, and the season changes) and I love my DH (he's why I moved here) but I still "suffer" occasionally. You can take the girl out of home but you can't take the home out of the girl?

And it's painful not having my family here. More so than I can probably express. Holidays, Birthdays - the phone and internet are just NOT enough. I've got DH's family sure, but it's really not the same - I want -my- family (but they're too cheap to come out for just a visit even!) Goodness, even typing this is making my eyes water, lol.