Scots in Australia
 

I hold my hands up to hanging around the MBTTUK fourm, but it seems like a helluva lot of scots are returning to bonnie scotland, not only on BE but i also have met 3 scottish couples since being here (18 months), one couple gone back and 2 planning thier return,


perhaps its me:ohmy:


So are there any scots out there staying:blink:

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My oh is staying he better :D I know three other couples and they are all staying too.

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Yep we're staying. Having just spent 2 weeks back in Glasgow wild horses could not drag me back.

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Hi well we spent June back in Scotland & I think it allowed me to accept we miss folk not the place. No plans to return at present.

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love it here. 16 months now and it just gets better!
miss friends and family and have the odd hankering for good black pud etc, which is sad, but other than that our quality of life has soared, we both earn more and the wildlife warms my heart. everything we'd hoped and more.

never did a reccie, never been before but from day one i have viewed mbttuk to see what hacked people off, and found this invaluable.

hope everybody staying or going, finds their nirvana

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I don't think there's a higher percentage of Scots returning. I think it's the same as getting a new car after hardly ever seeing that model on the road and suddenly you see stacks. They stick out more (if you get my drift :lol:).

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Well Im staying in Oz Margaret:)!! If I ever do go back to UK it definately won`t be to Scotland - I visited my hometown just before we moved out here (had been in South of England for last 10 years) I definately don`t belong there anymore, everyone I knew has moved on & so have I to be honest:huh:

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We both love the lifestyle here, no way we would go back to Glasgow!!

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Hi Deb,
I remember meeting you in that crappy pub in Edinburgh who did not like people who did not want to eat a full meal/ or had kids!

How are things going?
We are still waiting for the house to sell!
HKA
x

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hey! there are no crap pubs in Edinburgh! unless it was one of the aussie ones;)

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Loving it here, we do more at the weekends and it makes such a difference to wake up to blue skies!! At first it is hard but once you start working and meeting folk it makes you feel more settled!:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Hope you get a buyer for the house soon.

Debbie

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thanks for the reassuring replies, i was hoping my train of thought was a bit like moneypen described.

Deb , how long you been in oz??, i must admit i was ok for about 3 months, 4 months well...............there are things i love (especially the weather), and things that drive me mad (mostly financial, educational and health), i defo can see why people luv melbourne its fantastic, but for it to be fantastic FOR LIFE, FOR ME, well am not too sure!!

but am glad there a few scots staying:) looks like we will be here for the foreseeable future, cant say am too happy about it though, but am tough ole bird , i'll put me best foot forward,

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sorry you are not settled pet. know how it is to feel like that, we moved within scotland and had a lot of the feelings i see vocalised on mbttuk by people all over. difficult to lift yourself out of it, but you're a scot so you will manage:)

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Hi,

Sorry for being thick.. DUH!! But what does mbttuk mean??

Rgds,

Tony.

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We're staying Margaret. Been here over a year now and loving the way of life. Only plan on going back for a holiday at some point (if we can save enough that is).

Ann :)

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another forum on the site where people moving back to the uk can chat about stuff

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Meeeeeee:thumbsup:

Cheers

Ginny

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Thanx,

DUH!!

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i don't want to go back, primarily because leaving my mum was so shit:thumbdown:

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that's the downside eh? Same when the folks come out here for a holiday. Dread that day having to take them to the airport. Makes you feel sad thinking about it and they're not even here yet

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noooooooooooo dont go there, only joking!!! , naaah it makes you feel you are quite sane to think the thing you think:huh:

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the one fly in the ointment for both my wife and i. my outlaws are coming for 3 months next month, and my wife is already stressed about them going!

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Me, but then again I only got here 11 days ago!!!!
I will miss friends, family, Scotland as a nation, not the way it is turning though!

Viva Australia

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I think i badly need a trip back to scotland so i can make up my mind once and for all, the rest of family are settled here, but l long to see (the few, family i have in scotland) including my mum, bros, fav aunt and uncle, just long to go back to scotland,

think it'll kill me or cure me,


but now everyone is busy with their lives here its getting more and more diffiuclt to plan to go back, my daughters would love a trip back and so would i, but they want it when they are not doing this or that here , OH doesnt wan to go back at all:blink:

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talk to me in 12 months babe:) i dont mean to sound cruel, but emigrating is a process and we've all been at your stage,


does anyone have that link to 'the emigration process', polly usually posts at, to i check wot stage am at.

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Margaret

We have been here nearly 6 months and to be honest the first 3 months on several occassions I though WTF have we done!! Until last week my OH had no intention on going back to Scotland ever again but we found out on Thursday that we have a wee nephew so Jeff would like to go back to see him at some point!! Hope it works out for you Mags, maybe a wee trip to Scotland in the freezing winter will make you realise how good things are here!!

Debbie

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Dorothy, nice to know your watching:)

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Been here almost 16 months and already been back to Bonnie Aberdeen for 6 weeks.

(Hubby and son very homesick and wanted to return.)

With 2 daughters still in Aberdeen, settling here has been more difficult.

I like it here, although I miss things and people from Scotland.

Our eldest daughter is coming over in 3 weeks time and I'm already dreading her going back. This will be our first visitor...... Mixed feelings, although very excited.

Watch this space!

Jan

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jan i will be watching:)


had reservations starting this thread, expecting the usual crap (am sure it will still come), but so far, so good, a genuine thanks for the input:):)

but am just a person trying to get 'on with it here' i can see the good and the bad, and i dont want to 'ping-pong', i truly wanna settle , am too old to not settle, so i truly think a wee trip back to bonnie scotland will help me decide, (although with my life this will take ages to organise)!!!!!,lol

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To be honest Margaret - I didn't want to go back this year as I thought it was "too soon".

Reluctantly agreed to the holiday and surprised myself by loving my trip back to UK. Loved seeing family, friends and local haunts. Loved the food and the shopping. Felt "at home" with friends like I've not done here yet.

Surprised myself even more by crying on the flight back to Aus. I remember thinking "no matter how nice the house, pool sunshine etc - none of it is important without the people who matter in your life".

Settled back in here again nicely though.

Still in limbo land with my men...

As Charles Darwin once said:

"It's not necessarily the strongest of species that survive, it's those most adaptable to change."

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I'm in the process of my visa application and just to remind everyone out there of how Scotland is, it's wet & cold! Don't get me wrong, when we do get the weather and you manage to break the habbit of watching the telly, it is a beautiful country. It's just that we usually don't and we spend 95% of our time indoors. I stayed 2 summers in Spain and loved waking up and going for a coffee outside to start your day. Going to Oz on my own and can't wait. It's a big move but you got to live your life and after seeing the other half, I want it!