whats the 1st you will do...........
 

what will be the highest priority on your list when you finally emigrate to Australia?

i suppose mine will be:

1. find house
2. get kids in school
3. find employment

then have a BBQ!!

Re: whats the 1st you will do...........
 

I think:

Get a hotel, get a car, get a rental apartment, get the cats out of quarantine, get tax number, get medicare registered, buy house.....take the rest of my life off!!!!

Taxi
Hotel
Car rental
Mobile phone shop
Rental property
School
Tax number
Car dealership
Employers
Estate agents
BBQ

Taxi
Temporary Apartment
Car rental
BBQ
Mobile phone
Rent house
BBQ
Kids to School
Tax number
BBQ
Medicare
Employers
BBQ

:beer:

jonah66
do you like BBQ's by any chance??

Of course!! Been practising for last 9 years!!

From Tim Sorrels page

Mike.

On arrival - essential firsts!:
Get rental/loan car,

PO Box (if you are planning on having one, get it early on so you don’t have to use your temporary accommodation as an address)

Arrange long term house rental / purchase,

Register at Tax office for Tax file numbers,

Register with Medicare,

Register with Centrelink for family allowance,

Bank account – you may already have deposit account set up from UK, but savings & cheque account probably wanted. No need to go to central city branch

select Doctor/Medical Centre (you don't have to register until you use them. You can ask UK doctor for your computer printout of your records)

get Mobile phone - Vodaphone possible with $200 deposit, Telstra - no way. You can bring a UK digital phone and use an Australian SIM

Buy the drivers handbook and start learning!

Take written driving test within 3 months of being permanently resident (Practical driving test is no longer required for license holders from UK & elsewhere)

Suncream, in the summer, drink, drink and more drink.

Insulated Waterbottle & lunchboxes for children

Lottery Winners Circle card - call 131 868 to get one. Costs a few $ but they notifiy you if you win and also stores your numbers on the card, meaning to don’t have to fill out the form each week.

“Supersaver� card from garage for cheap calls to UK (5.9c per min)

Telephone account for cheap calls - recommend World Exchange

Flyby card from Kmart,Coles or Myer - register straight away so you clock up points straight away. Use the temporary card provided until plastic card arrives.

Note that Kmart sometimes have a storewide sale - 15% off all prices - absolutely everything, about 4 times a year. Watch out for it. Sometimes certain sections may have 20% or 25% off, - even 50% off say on children's clothing.

Playgroup - there's bound to be one or more in your suburb - ask around

Queensland Ambulance Cover $90 for whole family per year. Call 1 300 369 003. If you get private family medical cover, it could include ambulance cover… but medical cover could involve medicals and in the meantime you should have ambulance cover because a trip in an Ambulance following a 000 call could cost you $1500.

Insect Repellant - particulary when it's warm. Put it on before 4pm - they seem to like to get you about tea time ! (we don’t usually bother with this)

Shut screen doors as it gets dark

Weeds - get control of them straight away ! For sizeable property, Hozelink pump spray, with weedkiller. Don't wait - you'll have a much larger job later!

hire car
check in to hostel
phone shop to get aussie sim for my uk mobile
bar to watch some NRL (depending what day)

proj 1) use hire car to drive round city looking at vehicles - buy one - pay CASH!!! (bloody hell!)

proj 2) go to airfield and finish pilot's license - budget a month max


drive to melbourne via Kimberleys, Queensland, Brissy and Sydney (see family)

stopping off enroute to work on a cattle station

settle in Melborne

badgers

Tim Sorrell used to post on here - his web site is good, obviously having too much fun?

Anyway check out mobile phone deals - UK mobile phones can be bought over and just buy a local sim Communic8.com.au are not bad, pay as you go deal no deposit 24hrs max to get going. Also for those longer conversations buy an interational phone call card, eg apple - lets you phone home for less that 5c a minute. Much Much cheaper than mobiles, not good for recieing calls though!

Other than that bit to add to Tims advice.......take big breath and enjoy. There are lots of things to do but you can also take time to enjoy the differences. Maybe the ladies will understand but all those fresh feelings go so quickly like your wedding day, it is hard to look back and remember all of it. I write a diary - not day by day, just when I remember or want to write down an important bit....very interesting for the kids for later maybe?

Cheers

Also checkout Arrival Similiar info to site mentioned above.

First thing I will do is sleep. :cool:

my top 3 will be...

1. apply for that number you need so you can get a job and pay tax
2. buy mobile
3. buy a cheap second hand car.

i allready know which b&b i will be stopping at for the first 3 months at least anyway, but while im waiting for my tax number thingy i`ll have a bbq too.
dont know who with tho????

Hi,

Buy tickets with Ba as we are frequent flyers so clock up the points.
We are travelling first stopping in Fiji for a week then with his auntie in New Zealand south Island for a couple of weeks to chill out for a while.

Really looking forward to having no responsiblity, owing nobody, having no stress for a short while anyway.

getting in Oz

Another 2 weeks in a B & B in Noosa our favourite one we stayed at before.

Car hire for a week then buy

Sim card for me Uk phone

Hubby to the tra for his licence for Carpentry

Move in our rented accomodation for 6 months.

get theory book for Qld theory driving test


I shall be putting my cv's forward a couple of months before we leave so fingers crossed and checking monster.com.au

What will I do ...
 

Will travel from airport to Noosa

1. Will have a brew / beer
2. Will have a sleep
3. Will go on beach
4. Will get TFN and phone agency for Lee Jeans ( I work for Lee in the UK)
5. Will go for a drive!
6. Meet some friends I made online and have beer or three
7. Crawl to a bush
8. VOMIT
9. Forget where I am
10. End up ill for next week

No not really - first four are true though ......

Anthony

After landing in adelaide...

Fly to Mt Gambier to spend xmas with the in-laws.

When we get there, the first 3 things...

Look for a half decent car, pref a fourbie. ;)
Go fishing.
Go camping for a few days in the Grampians.


Cheers

Pete :D

Karawara 88.
Must congratulate you on your links! Top drawer, . Cheshire eh! Voted most sought after area in England in recent poll.

Still crap weather though! Keep up the good work!

Gary (Miffed Manc)....But not for long!!