View Poll Results: I offer you a lump sum in Australian Dollars!
$200,000.00
7
24.14%
$400,000.00
1
3.45%
$600,000.00
2
6.90%
$800,000.00
0
0%
$1,000,000.00
7
24.14%
$1,200,000.00
3
10.34%
$1,300,000.00
0
0%
$1,400,000.00
9
31.03%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll
How much would it take to get you to go home?
Aug 28th 2011, 2:02 am
#16
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Posts: 93,816
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
Not having a very portable skill I'd want enough cash to keep me going for a year, should be able to get some kind of job in that time. Queensland Government were offering the equivalent of redundancy packages recently so I worked it out - $80,000 after tax and I'd have gone. Unfortunately their offer wasn't that big 
Aug 28th 2011, 3:23 am
#17
Officially Bewildered
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW
Posts: 5,523
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I am home.
You can give me loads of money anyway though?
You can give me loads of money anyway though?
Aug 28th 2011, 4:21 am
#18
Mostly Harmless
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
Posts: 15,109
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I can walk home from the centre of Sydney in about 45 minutes. 
Wouldn't do it at night, as I'd have to walk through Redfern, but I could. 
(The nearest pub is actually downstairs, in the same building as our apartment.)
Money wouldn't get me back to the UK (which is not "home" and has not been since 2002) but family circumstances may well get me back there one day - which I've always known - although I'd be off back to wherever home currently was as soon as I could.
Wouldn't do it at night, as I'd have to walk through Redfern, but I could. (The nearest pub is actually downstairs, in the same building as our apartment.)Money wouldn't get me back to the UK (which is not "home" and has not been since 2002) but family circumstances may well get me back there one day - which I've always known - although I'd be off back to wherever home currently was as soon as I could.
Aug 28th 2011, 8:39 am
#19
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I'm home. My last home stopped being home when I got on the plane over here. It took a car to get me home this afternoon though, if that helps.
Aug 28th 2011, 8:48 am
#20
Joined: May 2006
Location: in the Sydney asylum
Posts: 20,690
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
200,000 will do me nicely still have the UK house and buying here looks like a mugs game, with my kids in the UK it wouldn't take a lot to persuade me!
Aug 28th 2011, 8:51 am
#21
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Sep 2004
Location: London - but only until I can afford to move back to Sydney
Posts: 938
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I had no idea that Qantas were charging so much these days.
Aug 28th 2011, 9:13 am
#22
Possum. Amiculum. Latrina
Joined: Jan 2011
Location: Footloose
Posts: 3,427
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
The yacht is my home but I'll sell it to you or anyone for $275,000 and then sod off home to buy another.
Aug 28th 2011, 10:03 am
#23
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Mar 2008
Location: Sydney, NSW
Posts: 7,580
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I'd go for the cost of the airfare, to see my dad before he dies, as long as I could come back. If I had to leave permanently, then I'd want at least $5 million. Most of that would be eaten up in care home fees.
Aug 28th 2011, 10:04 am
#24
Truth is the safest lie.
Joined: Jul 2008
Location: @ the beach.
Posts: 7,243
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
$664,361.27 or enough to buy a an apartment in Spain to live in (27p) and to buy an OK gaff in the UK 
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Aug 28th 2011, 10:05 am
#25
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Nov 2005
Location: Yorkshire - Queensland - NSW
Posts: 843
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I would go home at this point if someone said i did not have to pay morgage/rent anymore as i just want to be with my friends and some family 
(and just so people can understand me )
(and just so people can understand me )
Last edited by LINZI; Aug 28th 2011 at 10:08 am.
Aug 28th 2011, 2:09 pm
#26
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Canberra
Posts: 8,378
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
I'd go for nothing. However I suspect you wouldnt be able to offer my DH enough for him to want to move. I'd almost be prepared to pay for the privilege to leave, never to return!
Aug 28th 2011, 2:33 pm
#27
Banned
Thread Starter
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 61
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
Not having a very portable skill I'd want enough cash to keep me going for a year, should be able to get some kind of job in that time. Queensland Government were offering the equivalent of redundancy packages recently so I worked it out - $80,000 after tax and I'd have gone. Unfortunately their offer wasn't that big
Aug 28th 2011, 2:35 pm
#28
Banned
Thread Starter
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 61
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
$275,000 seems cheap for an abode to live permanently on?
Aug 28th 2011, 2:58 pm
#29
Forum Regular
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 60
Re: How much would it take to get you to go home?
only received notification that my visa was about to be granted on Friday.......but 200k would do it.
Aug 28th 2011, 3:50 pm
#30
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Location: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Posts: 93,816
