Less than 10 months. First started talking about it in autumn 2005, applied for TRA in October 2005, applied for visa in February 2006, moved to Adelaide in August 2006.

First plans 1981

Arrived 2004

Better late than never! thats what i say

10 months? fair dinkum? ( i just had to get that phrase in cos i love it, love it)

Was it a roller coaster ride for 10 months or plain sailing? ...it seems that folk have to have quite a lot of patience in most cases.. when my times comes i would be prefer it nice and quick as patience isnt on the top of my virtue list!! ten months would do me

Hi HereShopping - off soon, lucky you. You must be so excited. Where are you going too?

Well I couldnt find the Aussie slang word for "fart" but I did find a phrase used for farting loudly in public - A bit more choke and you would have started

Not quite sure that has the ooooomphh required to start a thread for us over 40's

Skippy was also my first Ozzie experience, seemed so much larger than the ones I saw. Or maybe it was me being smaller back then....
My timescale: the thought in 2005, visa in Jan 2007, hoping to get there 2008/9.

Although I'm not actually living in Oz yet, the tickets are booked and I'll be there as of 30th December, just in time for the new year. I first decided that I wanted to move around April this year so all in all it will have been 8 months. I am in an extremely fortunate position of having an Australian girlfriend however so getting a visa isn't a problem.

I'm an old fart got my degree in nursing but had a slight accident so am not nursing any more.

However I'm in Oz as a dependent of the OH on a 457 sitting here watching the sun glint off the sea, and that's just in my living room

,, yeah the chokers club?? sounds like a bondage scene ..'before you croak it come over to us and choke it?'...god thats terrible , LOL

ooooooohhhh Asher is that as good as it sounds

Hows this for a plan.
First talked about moving to Oz with our son in 2000 we didn't qualify so I decided to go to Uni. At the time IT professionals were very much in demand.

2000-2001 did uni entrance course in IT
2001-2004 went to uni, did BSc hons degree in Computing
2003 10 days before 2nd year 1st semester finals gave birth to second son then sat and passed exams
2004 graduated
2004-2005 went to another uni did Post Grad Cert Ed
2005 -2006 worked for 1 year as a newly qualified teacher
2006 moved to Oz.
Meanwhile hubby discovered that he only needed to do an NVQ 4 to meet the criteria for permanent residency which he did. So after all that we didn't even come in on my qualifications.

It was a really hard 5 years but no regrets though I love my job and I love my life

Visa timeline below.

HI Ace.. that avatar is soooo funny love it..

After all that hard work did it get you a fab job in Oz?.. that is a llloooonnngg term plan, what kept you going when times got tough?

It was pretty much plain sailing. Both my husband and I are fairly even keel types. We're not fazed by much so it wasn't like an obsession with either of us until near the end. Even then it was more a sense of wanting to get things done on our very strict schedule. (we had to fly before our daughter's 12th birthday in order to save money on flights) We got our visa on our son's 10th birthday and flew out 16 hours before your daughter's 12th birthday.

PMSL

Im sure there are a few posters that would join