Dorothy

That is the biggest cost right there.

neil248

If you want to be completely realistic you should be including things such as the estate agents and solicitors fees if you are selling your house in order to emigrate. Loss of wages for the period you are not working. the loss on cars that you would not otherwise be selling is likely to be heavy. Losses on anything else you do not take with you.

Not sure about the mental/emotional cost though, surely it is a big adventure and something to be relished!

Dorothy

Agree with this. If we factored in those things our migration would have cost much more
Not for everyone, it's not.

neil248

Maybe your last comment is right. I have met some pommie immigrants and wonder what the hell they are doing here or why they bothered.

Embrace Australia or don't bother coming

Bermudashorts

There is an emotional cost even for a happy immigrant. There are some things that a price canot be put on; like we have young nieces and nephews that hardly know us now. It is a cost, one we chose and we could change if we wanted to, but it is still a cost.

4500 Times

Yes I did read everything you listed and for a start it comes about $13000 short of $50000.

And again I say, with a car we were well, well short of $50k !!!

Grayling

Estimate it cost me the best part of 60000 pounds including parent visas

Dorothy

Dorothy

Alright then, add in 9 months of unemployment for the main wage earner in our family and the cost of an interstate move and that = well over the $50k I originally quoted.

Either way, some can get by on 200 GBP & the skin on their teeth. Others it costs $50k or more.

skinnygeorge

Family of 4-Visas,Flights,Container= approx 10,000 pound
Lost wages ie til employed in Australia approx 10,000 pound
Lost money on cars and bad time to sell a house. But after 3+ years with the exchange rate now if we sold the house here and returned to UK we`d be about where we started.

eddie007

I'm a "happy" immigrant....

But it cost me my soul, my best mate and my professional career


I have no way to go back.. If I could it would be without my husband and four children... So I contiue to be "happy" here

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Yeah, I'd go with that. I came on a 457, so the visa itself didn't add up to much, but everything else seemed to be emptying my pockets at a Hell of a rate.

neil248

Given that people are considering the emotional cost of coming over there are also the emotional/cost/contentious issues of private health cover and private schools. Neither of which your average working family would be considering in the UK. We certainly did not.

before I am shot down a significant percentage of kids are in private schools

around 35% in Australia against 6.5% in the UK although those figures are not really comparable as the Australian versions are more affordable to average people.

I wonder why the 35% and growing number of parents choose to pay. After you have been here a while you might start to get the idea. Part of Australia's charm is that it is a bogan country, it is after all the land of the Ute,hoon, outside entertainment area and sod the neighbours and the behaviour of some of the politicians is on occasions hilarious. It's just that you don't want some of the negative aspects of this affecting your own child too much if they actually want to be educated. Bottom line is private schools are able to kick the rubbish out and deal with issues in ways that the head of a state school can not. There are good state schools of course if you are in the catchment area, good luck if you manage that.

Private health cover is another contentious issue, certainly don't like paying it
but fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it has saved us a whole load of grief. Hopefully we won't need to claim again too soon but it will be a long time before our premiums match what we have received.

Australia is a great country but getting the version of it that you want may be slightly more tricky and costly than you think.

empty

Are you happy now having taken the plunge, or you wish you could reverse it?

Annemarie24

I think you should do your research before making silly comments like these first. You know NOTHING about our circumstances