Interesting Question...Please Answer
Mar 24th 2004 | 11:37 pm
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Interesting Question...Please Answer
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
Mar 24th 2004 | 11:45 pm
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Moving
We have never been to Australia before!!! But we look at it s a new life and an adventure - in for a penny!
We are going via STNI route to Adelaide and have been advised by our agent (Go-Matilda) that we could have our Visa's by July this year! Yipeeeee. 2 summers on the trot.
Austen
We are going via STNI route to Adelaide and have been advised by our agent (Go-Matilda) that we could have our Visa's by July this year! Yipeeeee. 2 summers on the trot.
Austen
Mar 24th 2004 | 11:53 pm
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We have never been to Oz before and after all this waiting hope it`s going to be worth it still waiting for med request had acc July 2003.
Mar 25th 2004 | 1:02 am
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Hi,
Weve never been ether but the same as others want a new life.
Fed up with weather, hubby not happy with work here and the goverment !! town where we live is nice
Hubby has family there in brisbane and his mother was bought up there and shes says would be mad not to go and wished she had now.
thinking if we should go first, i was going to ask the same Q, interesting to know now many of us.
katherine
Weve never been ether but the same as others want a new life.
Fed up with weather, hubby not happy with work here and the goverment !! town where we live is nice
Hubby has family there in brisbane and his mother was bought up there and shes says would be mad not to go and wished she had now.
thinking if we should go first, i was going to ask the same Q, interesting to know now many of us.
katherine
Mar 25th 2004 | 1:14 am
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From: Adelaide, Sth Australia
Re: Interesting Question...Please Answer
Originally posted by Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
Although I was born in Adelaide I have lived in the Uk since 1971 and have never been back. Hubby and children have never been.
We are due to fly out at the end of April. Just going to go for it. If it doesn't work out we can always come back!!!
Sally
Mar 25th 2004 | 4:12 am
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From: Brisbane and loving it!!!!
Hi
Us too have never been there.I have lived in the USA and despite
having visited it wasn't anything like when you live in a place.
I am luckily that work are paying for me to go to a conference in
Sydney in August and then hopefully the family and I will validate
in Easter next year before moving out in June.
Nikki x
Us too have never been there.I have lived in the USA and despite
having visited it wasn't anything like when you live in a place.
I am luckily that work are paying for me to go to a conference in
Sydney in August and then hopefully the family and I will validate
in Easter next year before moving out in June.
Nikki x
Mar 25th 2004 | 4:18 am
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From: Brisbane
Me too - never been to Oz. Have family on the Gold Coast, they've been there 34 years and love it.
It's a new life and who cares, can't be worse than here !
August and were gone........................
It's a new life and who cares, can't be worse than here !
August and were gone........................
Mar 25th 2004 | 4:22 am
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Why dont you make this a `poll` then you will get a good idea of the numbers
Mar 25th 2004 | 4:55 am
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Originally posted by sj oldfield
Why dont you make this a `poll` then you will get a good idea of the numbers
Why dont you make this a `poll` then you will get a good idea of the numbers
I think it is ripe for for another one. Will be interesting if the %s have changed
Mar 25th 2004 | 6:48 am
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Re: Interesting Question...Please Answer
Myself, hubby and daughter, never been but decided we dont want to live in the uk anymore, lots of reasons really, want to make a go of a new life down under
best wishes to you
rach, mark and chanelle x
best wishes to you
rach, mark and chanelle x
Mar 25th 2004 | 7:12 am
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From: Melbourne, Victoria
Like all the other responses above, we have never been to Oz, just sounds great from what we have heard and read. Also fed up with how things are working out here and hope for a better life for our three children when we get there.
Just waiting on police checks then off goes the visa application (sponsored by hubbies new job, in Melbourne). Lets hope everythings quick then we can start enjoying our new life and adventure soon.
Just waiting on police checks then off goes the visa application (sponsored by hubbies new job, in Melbourne). Lets hope everythings quick then we can start enjoying our new life and adventure soon.
Mar 25th 2004 | 7:13 am
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Re: Interesting Question...Please Answer
[QUOTE]Originally posted by nosuchluck
Hi
We've never been to OZ.
Seems that the more you try to improve your way of life here, theres always someone willing to kick you in the b****cks and take it away again.
Can't be much worse if at all can it ??
SMC
Hi
We've never been to OZ.
Seems that the more you try to improve your way of life here, theres always someone willing to kick you in the b****cks and take it away again.
Can't be much worse if at all can it ??
SMC
Mar 25th 2004 | 8:34 am
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Hi there, Three Legs,
Just wanted to say that me and my hubbie have gone through the whole process (and what a long winded process it was too!) and finally got our visas in January - we are off on a one-way ticket on 4th July - have never been to Oz before, so it's a bit of an adventure ... we're looking forward to it, but have realistic expections (especially after reading a lot of the treads on this website:scared: )
We lived in the US for 3 years and coped with the homesickness and adjusting to a new culture, so hopefully we can do it all again! Have friends who emigrated 3 years ago and have had ups and downs, but still love it.. So here goes nothing!
Good luck to you, best wishes, Suzi
Just wanted to say that me and my hubbie have gone through the whole process (and what a long winded process it was too!) and finally got our visas in January - we are off on a one-way ticket on 4th July - have never been to Oz before, so it's a bit of an adventure ... we're looking forward to it, but have realistic expections (especially after reading a lot of the treads on this website:scared: )
We lived in the US for 3 years and coped with the homesickness and adjusting to a new culture, so hopefully we can do it all again! Have friends who emigrated 3 years ago and have had ups and downs, but still love it.. So here goes nothing!
Good luck to you, best wishes, Suzi
Mar 27th 2004 | 2:51 am
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Re: Interesting Question...Please Answer
Originally posted by Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
We have never been and will be jumping in the deep end too.
Mar 27th 2004 | 2:59 am
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Re: Interesting Question...Please Answer
Originally posted by Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
We are using the validation trip next year as a scouting trip to see whether we actually like the place.
I'd like to know how many people on here have gone through the whole application process without actually visiting Oz.
Answers on a postcard please.
Three Legs
We were going to go next year to have a reccy, but if we are successful then we may well have our visas by then.
The money spent on a holiday/fact finding tour would be better spent when we get out there for good.
Graham
