Did you migrate without visiting first?
#1
Did you migrate without visiting first?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people move to Australia without first having visited the place.
Did you visit first?
If not... do you think it was rational behaviour?
Did you visit first?
If not... do you think it was rational behaviour?
#2
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
It took us 4 visits (1999, 2000, 2003, 2006) and 10 years from deciding to finally making the move in 2009
#3
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Why would it amaze you? Do you think my grandparents visited Canada before moving there 90 years ago? Or that the early settlers in Australia visited before moving 150 years ago? What's irrational about it? Is it more "rational" to go somewhere on holidays and decide you want to live there?
#4
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
We moved to 3 countries without visiting first. We must be completely irrational!
#5
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Sold the house/made arrangements/passed the medicals/sorted flights/turned the gas off here we all are.
Crazy cats that we are
Crazy cats that we are
#6
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Both of us had lived in foreign countries before now so knew that they do things differently in foreign lands.
Pre-determined that we would try and stick it out for at least 2 years and then if we didn't like it we would come back. If there was something seriously wrong we could come back sooner. Using the money not spent on the reccie trip.
We had no plans or desire to move back to where we were living when we left.
We would use the money saved from not doing a reccie to pay for the return trip. If no return trip then we would spend the money otherwise.
Reccies are just holidays and don't give enough of an impression of living somewhere to be useful.
Planned and budgeted for at least 3 months to set up. For us this was better than doing it as part of a reccie trip.
For us it was definitely the best decision. A reccie would have been a waste of time and money. I found the internet thing to be very handy.
Obviously each to their own. Different people different requirements and rationality.
Last edited by Rambi; May 28th 2011 at 1:16 am.
#7
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
I came without having been before. Yes it was rational.
Both of us had lived in foreign countries before now so knew that they do things differently in foreign lands.
Pre-determined that we would try and stick it out for at least 2 years and then if we didn't like it we would come back. If there was something seriously wrong we could come back sooner. Using the money not spent on the reccie trip.
We had no plans or desire to move back to where we were living when we left.
We would use the money saved from not doing a reccie to pay for the return trip. If no return trip then we would spend the money otherwise.
Reccies are just holidays and don't give enough of an impression of living somewhere to be useful.
Planned and budgeted for at least 3 months to set up. For us this was better than doing it as part of a reccie trip.
For us it was definitely the best decision. A reccie would have been a waste of time and money. I found the internet thing to be very handy.
Obviously each to their own. Different people different requirements and rationality.
Both of us had lived in foreign countries before now so knew that they do things differently in foreign lands.
Pre-determined that we would try and stick it out for at least 2 years and then if we didn't like it we would come back. If there was something seriously wrong we could come back sooner. Using the money not spent on the reccie trip.
We had no plans or desire to move back to where we were living when we left.
We would use the money saved from not doing a reccie to pay for the return trip. If no return trip then we would spend the money otherwise.
Reccies are just holidays and don't give enough of an impression of living somewhere to be useful.
Planned and budgeted for at least 3 months to set up. For us this was better than doing it as part of a reccie trip.
For us it was definitely the best decision. A reccie would have been a waste of time and money. I found the internet thing to be very handy.
Obviously each to their own. Different people different requirements and rationality.
#8
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Nah - just decided to migrate to a place we'd never been, sorted everything out, sold the house, booked the flights, packed up & shipped out, got on a plane and voila.
#10
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Looks like we were the only crazy and irrational ones...
#11
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 23,400
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
I had been to QLD twice and Adelaide but never to WA. We got State sponsorship for WA and just moved without having been here and havent looked back.
I can not imagine living anywhere else to be honest, best decision we ever made.
I can not imagine living anywhere else to be honest, best decision we ever made.
#12
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Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 681
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
If a holiday would give a person a reality check of what living in a new country was like there wouldnt be as many returning to their homeland after weeks, months or years.
#13
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Joined: May 2011
Location: sydney, Australia
Posts: 1
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Homesickness has set in and its a daily battle to not buy the return tickets home
Visiting first would have been more like a holiday and not reality.
#14
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Visited Perth with a view to moving about 26 years ago. Hated it with a passion. Decided to move to GC on the spur of the moment and love it.
#15
Re: Did you migrate without visiting first?
Nope we visited first, that way we could decide where we wanted to live.