Vash the Stampede

Well, jad n rich are still there. So it can't be terribly bad.

Nomore

great stuff...my daughter will love it by the sounds of it...and me

Del Boy

AS you know, both coasts have very transient populations. Almost everyone you meet is Victorian or from NSW. I suspect lots om immigrants (both interstate and International) try these areas, because of their obvious appeal to Poms or Vics, but struggle and move, either back or on.

I've been here for 18 years :scared: , but not much longer......

BadgeIsBack

One of the things is common is that people move around alot chasing family or jobs.

I like VIC because people seem to rate it to live, even if it means they retire to QLD.

Other destinations really seem like resorts and as you say, transient.

JaneandJim

I can honestly say that I haven't encountered any anti-pom sentiment in the 3 years we've been here in Brisbane. We live in the affluent western suburbs so perhaps that has something to do with it, lots of nice families here, although we've been to lots (and lots ) of suburbs now looking for landscaping supplies etc. and always find people friendly and helpful.

Jad, we are just coming up to 3 years and aren't going back, so we'll be middling people too.

Jane

hedgehog-girl

I never want to be considered an aussie, I'm english and always will be and I never get paranoid or hung up on the fact that I am called a pommie...no big deal unless you want it to be.

I feel that this is home whether being an aussie or not and feel in place. You obviously feel very unsettled and maybe you need to think about where you would like to be in 5 years time.

jad n rich

Not concerned about what I am called, have both passports not an issue, its more the 'feeling' thing of not really being anything anymore.

As for discussing it try not to in a house of 5 people who have never agreed where they all want to be, a day of not discussing it would be nice. Today its 3/2 for, the day we get to 5/0 on either side I will be one happy beanie.

Exile

We're usually 1/3/1 or 1/2/2, for England, Australia, Japan, respectively. It ain't easy, is it?

hedgehog-girl

Ah, well thats different when some people whom you live with are not sure where they want to be. Its quite amazing how that feeling can breed into everyone else.

Hard to suggest what to do apart from maybe moving to a place where its a little busier, but then that always comes with its own problems. We were very lucky to move to Manly and have met probably too many friends that sometimes we have to say no to going out! Also, here, there is a large UK proportion of people as well as lots of other nationalities so it probably feels less australian than where you are.

chels

I've met a mixture of new arrivals, couple of year-ers, and five years and beyond. Some of the people I first met when we arrived have now left, the majority are still here. But most of them are on temporary 457 visas, so when their four years are up, who knows what they will do. Hopefully stick around otherwise I might be a bit lonely!

jad n rich

Well we occasionally do 2/2/1 by adding in move back to Victoria, and occasionally R comes home with the community chest card and suggests moving to a place in far north qld or worse the WA desert for more monopoly money, however your japanese versions takes the biscuit so far.