When did you realise?
Jun 2nd 2003, 4:22 pm
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When did you realise?
Was there a turning point in your life that made you want to emigrate or was it cumulative?
Jun 2nd 2003, 4:27 pm
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Re: When did you realise?
Originally posted by Carmella
Was there a turning point in your life that made you want to emigrate or was it cumulative?
Was there a turning point in your life that made you want to emigrate or was it cumulative?
Had the opportunity to visit friends out in Melbourne and when they came and visited York last summer we just woke one day and said lets have a go and it has gone from there.
We are young enough and have no kids so felt it was now or never
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Jun 2nd 2003, 4:30 pm
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When the idiot Blair and Labour got voted in as PM 
Came back here and said if they vote him in again I am off. Got stuck here though because I met my wife.
Came back here and said if they vote him in again I am off. Got stuck here though because I met my wife.
Jun 2nd 2003, 4:32 pm
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Re: When did you realise?
Originally posted by Carmella
Was there a turning point in your life that made you want to emigrate or was it cumulative?
Was there a turning point in your life that made you want to emigrate or was it cumulative?
Hoping the other side of the world may be better.
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Jun 2nd 2003, 4:34 pm
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The idea of going is not a new one to us but the destination is. We've been dreaming of getting out of the UK rat race for some time and have only recently been in touch with friends who did just that last year.
Since then we've done a month travelling over there too and by the time we came back it was decided for certain.
Now we're so impatient to get out there that we're selling the house and going back out on another holiday visa before we've even been asked for medicals and police checks!
Since then we've done a month travelling over there too and by the time we came back it was decided for certain.
Now we're so impatient to get out there that we're selling the house and going back out on another holiday visa before we've even been asked for medicals and police checks!
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:06 pm
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Having only to weeks of summer last year, kids bored with nothing to do, being taxed up to the eyeballs and not seeing any benifit from it, politics............when do you want me to stop?
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:08 pm
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being kicked out of my house when i was 16 by my mother, hardly see my dad. mates all getting married with sky high mortgages. dead end job.
i just want a fresh start with new surroundings,i know it sounds depressing but there is absolutly nothing keeping me here, thats why im off by myself.
i just want a fresh start with new surroundings,i know it sounds depressing but there is absolutly nothing keeping me here, thats why im off by myself.
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:12 pm
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I want to have a four bedroom house with about 5 acres for chooks and a bit of quad biking oh and a swimming pool for the kids after school to have a splash about, and I want all of that for the price of my one bedroom flat in Islington which at present is £190000
and I am gonna get caned by PB now as a dreamer, hehe
and I am gonna get caned by PB now as a dreamer, hehe
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:17 pm
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We lived in Africa for a few years, and loved the lifestyle but knew it wasn't for us longterm.
Feel we are in a bit of a rut over here, longed for some adventure and so here we are about to go to Oz in October.
We've had a rough few years with the deaths of parents etc and so really have no ties over here anymore and just decided to give it a try as life is too short not to.
Feel we are in a bit of a rut over here, longed for some adventure and so here we are about to go to Oz in October.
We've had a rough few years with the deaths of parents etc and so really have no ties over here anymore and just decided to give it a try as life is too short not to.
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:23 pm
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Just got bored with the predictability of things. We could see ourselves doing the same things when were sixty
we have a good house, good jobs, great family and friends. But looking at it we could pretty see each stage fo our life and what we would be doing if we stay mapped out ahead of us. Alot of people talk about only getting on shot at life and we want some adventure, changes, different experiences and challenges. We see oursleves as relatively capable people so if all goes pear shaped we could probably recreate our preidctable enviroment again if we had to.
James
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we have a good house, good jobs, great family and friends. But looking at it we could pretty see each stage fo our life and what we would be doing if we stay mapped out ahead of us. Alot of people talk about only getting on shot at life and we want some adventure, changes, different experiences and challenges. We see oursleves as relatively capable people so if all goes pear shaped we could probably recreate our preidctable enviroment again if we had to.
James
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Jun 2nd 2003, 5:34 pm
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Having moved out of the UK rat race two years ago we have realised that it still isn't enough, we need a complete new start with new jobs, new location, new everything really.
... and the weather in Yorkshire is really depressing.
Regards,
... and the weather in Yorkshire is really depressing.
Regards,
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:41 pm
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Originally posted by paulf
I want to have a four bedroom house with about 5 acres for chooks and a bit of quad biking oh and a swimming pool for the kids after school to have a splash about, and I want all of that for the price of my one bedroom flat in Islington which at present is £190000
and I am gonna get caned by PB now as a dreamer, hehe
I want to have a four bedroom house with about 5 acres for chooks and a bit of quad biking oh and a swimming pool for the kids after school to have a splash about, and I want all of that for the price of my one bedroom flat in Islington which at present is £190000
and I am gonna get caned by PB now as a dreamer, hehe
;-)
Jun 2nd 2003, 5:57 pm
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I posted to the wrong thread .... the answer to when did you realise, is Saturday I suppose.
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Jun 2nd 2003, 6:07 pm
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The day we landed at Heathrow after being in Australia for a year on a WHV. That was July 2001. Gosh, that's ages ago....
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Jun 2nd 2003, 6:27 pm
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The realisation that you only live once - or twice! - and you can pretty much choose (being a bloody lucky westerner) wherever you want to live in the world provided you don't mind leaving family and friends behind. Good job it's easy enough to make new friends wherever you go and your immediate family is in with you on the adventure.
Took about 35 years to work that one out, despite having lived abroad for many years because of work/ study.
Cheers - Don
Took about 35 years to work that one out, despite having lived abroad for many years because of work/ study.
Cheers - Don