Lived in Asia, too many people
Lived on the continent - too many people with bad attitudes
Lived England, Scotland and NI - crappy weather and too many people
Worked with Americans - too many people who think they are the best
Canada is too cold for me to consider
NZ - hmm too many sheep (i don't like lamb)

That leaves OZ - space, relaxed attitude, better prospects for the kids, outdoor lifestyle and the list goes on

and NO lies or exaggerations in that! It's how we ALL see it! Even my 15yr old daughter who can see negatives in EVERYTHING me and her mum do at the mo ...lol, well even she knows it's right! ...

Can't wait to return now, but have a fair bit to sort out before inc sell a house ... :scared:

Still, once sold we'll be gone within 2 months! ...

and on ........ and on .......... and on! ...

Yup, certainly does.

Glad to hear you had a good time all of you. Plans going full steam ahead then?

thanks. yeah gettin the 2nd valuation on the house (1st was good) on Wed and will get another b4 we decide who to go with. We've had dealings with the prev one, and the one coming on Wed so it'll prob be one or the other.

Once we sell, we go full steam! ...... can't do a lot till the house is sold, which I appreciate might be harder than I'm hoping, but once it's sold the rest will be straight forward! (he says!! )

Fingers and other stuff crossed for you, not eyes though cos that hurts.

Would you rather be walking through a snow blizzard in -10c degrees to your local frozen over lake for a game of ice hockey or ice fishing in Canada or walking down to your local beach in OZ on a nice warm sunny 30 c degrees day with clear blue sky.

awww go on! .... just for a quick second ...

Thanks ...

OR ?!?! ..... more to the point, an Oz beach in the height of Winter! (check all those nasty clouds! ....lol)

Took myself no longer than 2 weeks ago! ... FACT!



Can it REALLY get any better there ?!

Yes, thats in sunny Queensland, l'd freeze to death if l went swimming at the beach in Victoria now.

True, but isn't it so that a few hours from Melbourne (I think it is) you can be skiing at the right time of the year ?

Always remember when I heard you could ski in Oz ...lol, but that was when I thought ALL of Oz was sunny for 365 days a year! ...lol

How wrong, but in general Oz DOES do very well for the sun ...

Family and friends in Oz. Never really thought about anywhere else.

Cheers

Well with Family & Friends being the number one thing people miss, you are a very lucky person ...

Good luck! ...

ALways wanted to move to Australia.........but have had a look at Canada too but Australia came out on top. Didn't fancy the exceptionally cold winter in Canada.
Amanda

I took redundancy a couple of years ago and we went to Singapore, NZ, Aus (and would have done Hong Kong but for SARS). It was only meant to be a holiday and I was intent on travelling the world. But my wife decided she wanted to go to Aus almost immediately we were there. It took her a while to convince me, though.

Before we went I would have said NZ would have been my clear preference but what we saw (South Island only) was way too quiet.

There were slight possibilities of going to Canada and the USA with work a few years ago. I quite fancied Canada but it was French-speaking Montreal and the cold also put me off. America scares the living daylights out of me (mentally not physically) so wouldn't have fancied that.

I like Singapore, Spain and Germany but the language is a factor. Didn't much care for Italy or France (too many Italians and French live there ).

I just wish Australia was only a 2 hour flight away!