fireeater

Exactly the same for us.

Aus has so many things going for it, and I'm too hungover to list them, sorry.

No rose tinted glasses, but things that I consider important like attitude and friendliness are a good start. Whenever I go into a pub in England, I always seem to end up talking to Aussies....says it all.

Carl

zx10r_aus

I am an Australian living Glasgow, I am in the process of appling for a spouse visa for my girlfriend. I just wanted to wish everyone the best of luck in there new lifes in oz. Try not to get to worried about jobs or houses, everything will fall into place eventually, you just have to patient.

Jim

lynne & steve

I was born in Adelaide but my paretns moved back here when I was 6 months old.Never been back over there.
Now I am married with 2 wonderful children we want a better life for them. The time just seems right. This country is going down the pan - there just doesn't seem to be anything here for us.
The weather is also a factor and like everyone to live the dream with no regrets.
Also to be able to afford to buy our own house.
For the kids to discover the wildlife instead of only seeing it on the telly.
There's probably lots more but that is all that comes to mind.
Oh yeah one more - to send our noisy neighbours a postcard with " Glad you are not here" on it!!!
Good luck everyone
Lynne

Ian12

We never see the neighbours either and we are in Australia

zx10r_aus

I miss my neigbours back in Australia. The bugger ows me a beer or 2.

Brissiegirl

hopefully our new neighbours in Australia will be nicer than our ones here... (

midge04

I totally agree, my kids love being outside, as do we, but here in the UK if we go to the park all the bits are wet so they get wet bums, then they moan, then they get a cold, then theyre stuck ondoors watching sky, or playstation, or PC. Already dreading half-term next week.

pusky123

Being able to afford a house and start a family! An ordinary enough aspiration that seems to have been put beyond the reach of most first time buyers in England. And if I cant afford to buy here what chance would any of my(future) children have? Not that i'm bitter or anything

ub40fan

For us it is that we will be improving the quality or our life as a family.

No more 12 hour days for my husband cos he has to commute into London, or Oxford every day. This will mean we can do more as a family as he won't be too tired all the time. The kids won't have to amuse themselves by playing computer games cos it is too cold and wet to go outside to play. I won't have to ferry them everywhere cos we live in a small village in the middle of nowhere and public transport is non existent. No more queueing up for the bathroom cos we only have one between 5 of us (and the teenager spends more time in there than anyone else at the minute!). With the beach hopefully on our doorstep we can go more than once a year, here we live as far from the sea as you can possibly get! As the houses are bigger if the kids want friends over they can use the family room without disturbing all the members of the family.

Also I love that the Perth people are so much more laid back than people over here who seem to live to work rather than work to live and enjoy their leisure time. We all want to chill out more and that is why we want to move.

Oh nearly forgot I also like the idea of having a pool in your backyard and being able to use it more than once a year.

markeh

UB40Fan,
I hope you were watching C4, Perth looks nice !

I think I'll hav eto visit & make my mind up.

Bye
Mark

ub40fan

Hey markeh

I certainly was. Surprise surprise They didn't buy one!!! Do they ever? Is it just a free trip abroad for them?

I would recommend a trip out there. We have been twice and absolutely love it. My sister in law and family have been there for 6 years and now would not want to be anywhere else. They have been back for a visit and that just reinforced it.

We are in the really early stages, hubby just gathering stuff to apply to ACS for skill matching, but are all so eager to go we want it to be now now now!