Bluey

Our only requirement is within walking distance of a Beach. We've been looking around Christies Beach, Noarlunga, Sellicks Beach down the peninsula. The closest place we've found to the city itself was at West Beach, the house looks fantastic, but from what we could find it looks suspiciously close to the Airport! Is this a feature of West Beach? Does anyone have an opinion on the coast south of Adelaide (as far down as Maslin Beach)?

ADELAIDE BOUND

Hi Theresa
Thanks for the info. Are you using an agent?.
We hope everything goes alright for you both and we all meet up in that sunny place next year.
Its good that you have got family over there already. It probably wont feel so daunting when you arrive.
Cheers keep in touch.
Tom Donna & Kids

mikenvonny

Hi adelaide bound,
Like yourself we also hope to be in Adelaide Mar/April 2004.
We originally chose Brisbane, because of the high proportion of racing teams out there( i am currently a technician within a british based race team) but after visiting in april this year to look around and introduce myself to various teams, i was disapointed with the salaries on offer.
last month we were competing again in Perth and i was fortunate to be able to travel to Melbourne and Adelaide where i had more interviews. The interview in Adelaide went well(offer of job subject to medical) and although not in Motorsport it is a good salary(with overtime, unheard of in motorsport)and the opportunity to still travel worldwide and they are prepared to hold the position for me.
Anyway i digress, although adelaide was not my first choice i loved the place, finding it not to dissimilar to Perth in its city with a small town feel.
And after spending two days driving round suburbs with a video camera velcroed to the dashboard for the benifit of my family back home(misses and two girls 15 and 13) i found anything eastern/hills or south(blackwood etc) to be nice with blackwood taking me approx 25mins to city centre, 15 mins to glenelg, in reasonably busy traffic.
Anyway good luck with visa application, we went for skilled independant as south Australia wqas not our choice when we originally applied, TRA was a nightmare for us as my job does not fall into blinkered tra criteria for a mechanic but we finally convinced them.
Once again good luck with application.

podgypossum

Hi Everyone,

I am a complete novice on this board. This is my first post. I am a pom currently living in Auckland NZ. I am married to a kiwi psych nurse, who has been offered a ob in Adelaide. This has all come about very fast and we shall be there in about 8 weeks time (providing we sell the house)
I am desperately trying to find the Adelaide Brits site, as i would like to get to know people already there. I have already made the move from London to NZ. Settling in a new country is hard work and can be very lovely at first.

Heres hoping someone can post a link to it!!

ADELAIDE BOUND

Hi PP
The link you are looking for is as below.

http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/adelaidebrits/

Good Luck
Cheers

colinnsam

Bluey,
Maslin is the nudist beach. West beach is near to the airport, we live in Dover Gardens which is 15 minutes walk from Brighton Beach (very nice). From Maslin going towards the city you have, Moana,Seaford, Pt Noarlunga, Christies Beach,Seacliff,Brighton,Glenelg. All of these are lovely beaches, the first 4 are more affordable and are about 45 minutes drive from the city, the last 3 are more expensive. All have good facilities. Hope this helps.

Colin

podgypossum

Thankyou AB!! I have been reading through this thread. I am interested in the various views on best place to live in Adelaide. When my husband had his job interview by phone from Auckland, the woman who interviewed him said that traffic was horrendous there, so not good ot live too far out of town. I have to say that several people i have spoken to, have said that is not so. We were considering the Flagstaff Hill/ Coromandel areas...whats it like there..anyone know??

colinnsam

Hi Podgypossum,

From the areas you mention it would take about 20 minutes to drive into the city. Both are nice.
It makes me laugh when people say that the traffic is bad here, we lived just outside London, It just does'nt compare, the traffic reports there consisted of tail backs, crashes and diversions, here it consists of kangaroos, koalas, horses and crashes.

Colin

podgypossum

HAHAHA..i see what you mean Colin. I am also from just outside London, place called Pinner...how about you? I also owned a taxi company for a while. I am still in Auckland at the moment and it makes me laugh when they moan about the traffic here. I remember being on the M25 stuck in a 18miles tailback...now THATS bad traffic!!! I am sure my husband wont complain about 20min drive to work.

SteveBannister

Hi Adelaidebound,

We are also going to Adelaide and will be using the governments meet and greet service for 3 months to find our feet and look at the different areas. I've finally got myself a copy of the Adelaide street guide, so I can see exactly where all the estate agents are talking about. (Invaluable!)

Do you and your family want to come to our Essex meeting on Oct 5th? It's near lakeside, not too far for you. A2, M25 to lakeside. We meet every 2 months and there are quite few going to Adelaide. It's an excellent chance to ask questions and share information. You're more than welcome, just send me you're email address and I'll send you the details. That goes for anyone else who doesn't know about it yet.

We are looking at the area from Seacliff to Henley Beach, but I'll be honest, most of it looks OK.

Hopefully see you soon,

Steve and Eve

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...&pagenumber=11

ADELAIDE BOUND

Hi Steve & Eve
We would love to come to your meeting on October 5th.
Cheers.

SteveBannister

Send me your email address, then, and I'll send you the details.

Steve

PJK

Hi All

This is to everyone comtemplating an initial visit to Aus before they settle full time and something to be aware of before you book your inspection/initial visit flights.

My family, wife and three girls (13, 11 & 5) got our STNI sponsored visas from SA in May this year after getting the nod from our agent. Just before they came through we booked flights to go out to Adelaide this x-mas to have a look. However our visas said we had to travel to Aus to get the visa 'evidenced' by 7th July 2003. We never did find out why we had such a short time period but hastily booked flights to where we could get in Aus in the short time available and hoped to get a cheapie to Adelaide once there with Virgin Blue. We travelled to Cairns hoping to get the internals to SA but arrived during a holiday period and couldn't get the connection in time back to Cairns for our return to England so not having seen Adelaide and SA are off again next Feb having spent a lot of money already and lost deposits on flights this Christmas.

So in summary please do not book your flights until you know when you have to get the Australian entry stamp in your passport visa.

Anyway now we are the wiser we plan to go properly in September 2004 and are from Bristol.

Good luck all

PJK

ADELAIDE BOUND

PJ
That is shocking.
We thought that once you received your PR visas you had about 9 months minimum to validate your Visa.

What did your agent advise you?

It just sounds like a clerical error to me.

We intended to go once only when the PR visa comes through, that means selling the house and clearing the bank account out.
We do not want to go for a holiday and validation stamp.

Anybody else had this problem.

Thanks for letting us know.
Cheers.

Nicstids

To the best of my knowledge you have 12 months to validate from the date of your police checks or medicals, whichever is the earlier in time. This is why some agents do not recommend front loading your application as you can end up in a situation where you have to re-do your medicals and/ or police checks. (Bit expensive where medicals concerned!)