How has your typical day changed or has it changed at all from what it was in the UK now that you are in Australia? It would be interesting to know how things have panned out especially once the 'HOLIDAY' feeling has passed into the 'REALITY'.

Have any of your habits changed? Do you do anything ie sports, activities etc that you never done or thought about in the UK?

What are the 'BIG' differences?

LoneRanger

UK - Get up at 5.45 am and shower. In car by 6.15 for drive to office - 13 miles took about 45 minutes. Sit in office all day and process legal files etc etc. Drive home about 4.30 to try to miss the traffic - sometimes did and got home quickly othertimes could take 1 and a half hours. Home and cooked dinner, washing, tidying up. Hubbie in about 7.00 and dinner about 7.30. Chated and watched TV. Bed by 10.30

Australia - Wake up about 6.45 and have a cup of tea with hubbie in bed. Get up about 8.00 - do some washing etc and then get to the gym for about 9.00. Spend all morning in the gym or out running and then coffee with the girls. Come home and have a shower and then meet friends for lunch or do housework, shopping etc. Cook dinner or go out and meet hubbie for dinner. Most evenings we are in, we get into the hot tub and chat and then maybe watch a bit of tv.

Have you stopped working or have you only recently arrived in Oz?

Been here 13 months - hubbie has said it is about time I got myself a job - I have got one working for a relocation company but no work in as yet. that's the type of work I like

Hi
My routine is much same as UK,3 days at work,kids in kindy,where as in the UK they did a day with each grandparent & just 1 day at nursery. No breaks for me, can't just drop them off at mums to go shopping, on my own,really missing that.
As we no longer work Saturdays, hubby has taken up mountain biking & goes off into the forrests or up Mt Nebo or Mt Glorious for a few hours on a Sat/Sund morning. He's lost 2 stone since we came in Feb & he's loving the outdoor lifestyle. He's home from work at 4.30, an hour earlier than UK, so he goes out for a run most days. Having said that, he does set off to work at 7 as opposed to 8 in the UK, but everyone's up a lot earlier here anyway.
We do more picnics/parks & family stuff than we could in the UK, so the kids are loving it too.
Roll on September when we get into our house & we have a pool, summer is coming & I can't wait !!

yea came to brisbane 3 years ago had my own company in uk thought i could work for someone had 4 jobs in 9mnths so set up a company out here work hard play hard but would never go back

I've been here 18 months and still feel like it's a holiday

Things aren't that much different on a daily basis...go to work all day, come home, pay bills etc.

But I do spend much more of my free time outside than I used to, whether it be checking out the countryside, going to cafe's and peoplewatching, walking along beaches or just sitting in a park. Any excuse to be outside whenever I can and am willing to make the effort to do it. Something that maybe wasn't there in the UK

In the UK I had a job I loved that meant I had to get up to leave the house at 6:15 am to miss the traffic. It burnt me out, so I changed to a job I had to leave at 8am, but I hated the job with a passion!

Here I leave about 7:30, walk to work through the park, have a job I love! We go out more in the evenings, just to walk around town or whatever. We also do a lot more on the weekends, as in the UK we always seemed to have to be somewhere seeing someone. Here it's nice to just spend time together.

I've taken up running seriously - something I used to do a bit of in the UK but never really found time for due to early mornings leaving me tired, and cr@p job leaving me depressed. Hubby has bought himself his dream guitar and is pracitising hard - something again that he never seemed to get round to in the UK.

Generally it's easier to be outdoors here, which I love!

Never had the holiday period, I was straight into job hunting. I know have much the same as in the UK - at work for 8, leave about 5.30, work through lunch. Main difference was in the UK I left the work at work, here I end up working at the weekend as well more often than not. Also go out and socialise far less here, and cos the Bloke has "seen it, done it" with the beach, I don't remember the last time I saw the sea, except from an aircraft

Hiya,

Are you doing the Queen of the Lake next sunday?

Vanessa

Seen it/done it? Well he needs to get off his backside and help you see it too.

C'mon bloke... you can't impose your restrictions on other people... that's not right!

Uk

Monday to Friday
Awake 4am
Work 5 to 7am
7am 10 mins with daughter before leaving for work
Arrive work 9am
Leave work 7pm
Arrive home 9pm
10pm Sleep

Saturday
Awake 6am
Work to 12noon
Lunch
1pm to 5pm Take daughter out for Daughter/Daddy time
5pm to 7pm Family
7pm to 10pm Work

Sunday rest day until 7pm

Oz

Monday to Friday work 9 to 5, Rest of time with wife and daughter
Saturday and Sunday Wife and Daughter time - visiting parks and doing things outside or in softplay areas if too wet.

Hey there I think life is much better

In UK -

6:30am - out of bed with toddler
7:30am - in car to nursery
8am - start work
5pm - back in car to nursery
6pm - home
7:30pm - toddler in bed
10:00pm - adults in bed

Oz

6:30am - out of bed with toddler
Spend all day together, we can afford here for me to take time out and be a wife and mother, my husband is a chef and doesn't earn a packet but earns enough to support us both and give me back the time I missed as a mum with little one - she has been in childcare since 6 months old

His days off, we spend outside, in park or beach, we have a far better lifestlye here so right now for us - all is good.

UK: up at 6am, get ready for work, get kids ready for school. I drive to work, Mark takes kids to school (or vice versa depending on shifts). Finish work at 3pm, drive to school, collect kids take home, put on tea, catch up with housework.

AUS: up at 6am, get ready for work, get kids ready for school. I drive to work, Mark takes kids to school (or vice versa depending on shifts). Finish work at 3pm, drive to school, collect kids take home, put on tea, catch up with housework.

Ummmm, no difference really!

To be honest... If people find themselves "doing" more in Auz than they ever did in the UK, its thier fault. Your ability to excercise, socialise etc is NOT solely influenced by your environment.

Want to use the work excuse? Fact is... the average working week in australia is 4 to 5 hours longer than the average working week in the UK. As a generalisation, employers in Aus expect more of you than in the UK.

My life in general is the same as it was in the UK. I still go fishing (although here i have a boat... but i the same light... here i dont have as much time to use it), i still play cricket and tennis... still go camping and rock climbing. The big change for myself is that i am now self employed as opposed to being a paid worker, which means i now have far less spare time. The other thing which has changed is that i now live in a rural environment, which is quieter, less congested etc etc. Disadvantage is that fruit and veg are more seasonal, stuff is normally a little more expensive and i have far less choice in well... everything than what i was used to in the UK.

Lifestyle as a rule shouldnt change much when you move from the UK to Aus. If it does (and its not influenced by retiring, working less etc) then you weren't living your UK life to its full potential.

The UK is a great place to live, as is Australia. Just dont expect too many differences between the two