Spooky_uk

Just wondering if there are many people on here from Yorkshire ?
Either planning to go or used to live in these parts and have already made the move...

I think I have seen posts from a couple of people in the area already...

g and l

i'm a Yorkshire ex-pat...moved to the other side of the world ..Northumberland!!!

scutterUK

me to, but i've only been here a few years.

Olive101

I'm ex-Yorkshire, now Essex and soon to be (???) an ex-pat in Adelaide....

bonza69

Hi there Spooky ,
were from yorkshire,we r flying out of Perth on the 3rd June,we applied last June,and cant bloody wait now.Where you heading to?
We have 2 children and applied under skilled migration.
Mick and Natasha

mick n cheryl

Hi Spooky,

Me Mick, my wife Cheryl and 3 kids are from Wakefield W/Yorks. Emigrated last June to Sunshine coast Queensland and moved on to Mackay Central Queensland in November!!

bonza69

Hi Mick and Cherryl
how weird is that i come from wakefield too !!!!!!!!!
Living in Dewsbury now .Hope fully not for much longer though!!!:scared: Cant wait to go,hope you are aving a great time ,is it everything u expected ?

Spooky_uk

hello to all the fellow yorkshire forumites out there (as well as still here!)

To be honest we have not started the ball rolling yet. Will probably be a couple of years at least until we get there. G/F is Oz citizen so no wrries there, have decided on a defacto spouse visa and hopefully get the app sent off some point this year. then take it as it comes.
I have set a final deadline of Jan/Feb 2007 to be def out there, but hopefully much sooner.

No kids (Yet - or before we arrive anyway!) so not a problem there. I have relatives in Bowraville, G/F's mum and partner have a couple of house in NZ but are living/working in Jakarta at the mometn. so we have a few people out there in the neighborhood (as well as you guys of course!)

As to where to go - no idea. Would like to be somewhere east coast between brisbane and sydney (a lot of ground I know!) or maybe Perth.
Depends where the jobs are when the time comes though - G/F is a dental technician and I am in IT Managment (although IT is in a bad way out there too - I have several years on the managment side as well as the tech side so hopefully hold me in good stead over there)

We are planning a trip over there in Jan/Feb next year and will be using the time to do a lot of research..

bonza69

Hi Spooky ,
We were the same as u dint no where to go ,we have however (after much research decied on Perth)Do u know how long the process takes???????A Bloody long time So the sooner u deceide the better!I.T is not that bad ,have u looked at the employment agencies in au ,take a look at different areas,this should help,then go from there>Good luck.
natasha

Spooky_uk

bonza69 - where in dews ? we get across there a lot as G/F's family was originally from there before she went to OZ/NZ. We visit her Nan quite regular ...

small world

koala_mac

Hi there - thought it was worth mentioning that for a de facto spouse visa the process is a lot quicker. Estimate from DIMIA is 4 months - lots of people get it much faster than that.

'Fraid I'm not Yorkshire though - sorry for earwigging on your thread

SuzeM

We're from South Yorkshire, now in sunny Sydney

dazandreb

Hi there Spooks,
We are from Bradford west yorkshire and for my sins still here and anybody knowing Bradford will understand why i cant wait to get back to perth where i spent my later chilhood years .I am an Australian citizen so hopefully by this time next year i hope to be on the other side of the globe again.

Spooky_uk

sounds like a very similar situation to us.....

good luck! where abouts in brad r u ?

dazandreb

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