Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
Feb 24th 2008, 11:46 am
#91
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Feb 24th 2008, 1:26 pm
#92
......in the sand !
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Feb 24th 2008, 2:39 pm
#93
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
Nice in theory, not necessarily the easiest thing to do in practice. You may have been on a reccie, or not depending on finances. You may love the place and choose the suburb on a reccie, get over here permanent and feel you'd actually hate living there. Everyone's different and some people just can't handle the stress of finding an area they do like so find it easier to get back to their comfort zone. No one knows until they've actually done it.
Feb 24th 2008, 3:22 pm
#94
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
Next you'll be telling us that you are missing Tescos
Feb 24th 2008, 4:09 pm
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
...I'm still stunned and in shock by the bloke who went home 'cause he couldn't earn 200,000 dollars!!!! I don't know too many people on 80,000 dollars! ... So back on track with the thread. Wifey and I moved out to Brisbane 10 years ago.. Went wrong from the start. Could not secure a decent job! (well...any actually). House full of redbacks, garden full of eastern browns and small child constantly in tears hating school.) Ran out of money and came back home after 7 months.
Anyway, knowing we would go back down under (ping pong) as it was 'unfinished business' and something we wanted to do. We took a deep breath, worked BLOODY HARD! to recoup money (and some) Moved out here 10 month ago... and life is absolutly fantastic! Its just that initially I guess it was not at the right time in our lives 10 years ago!
Anyway, knowing we would go back down under (ping pong) as it was 'unfinished business' and something we wanted to do. We took a deep breath, worked BLOODY HARD! to recoup money (and some) Moved out here 10 month ago... and life is absolutly fantastic! Its just that initially I guess it was not at the right time in our lives 10 years ago!
Feb 24th 2008, 7:21 pm
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
if i had had my way then i would have gone home after 3 weeks i hated it missed my friends ,my home ,my life.i have never been so lonely
dh was at work the week after we arrived so had no one to talk to the kids played up so i was really unhappy that i was going to book tickets for the flight home dh said give it time and see how you feel ........................
4 months on.............
live in house that is ok not the one that i would buy
all my stuff arrived from uk and nothing was damaged or broken
oldest child started kindy
i am the president of the local primary school p&c
i am i happy oh yes
am i glad that i stayed ???? yes
do i want to go back to the uk now ??? no
dh was at work the week after we arrived so had no one to talk to the kids played up so i was really unhappy that i was going to book tickets for the flight home dh said give it time and see how you feel ........................
4 months on.............
live in house that is ok not the one that i would buy
all my stuff arrived from uk and nothing was damaged or broken
oldest child started kindy
i am the president of the local primary school p&c
i am i happy oh yes
am i glad that i stayed ???? yes
do i want to go back to the uk now ??? no
Feb 24th 2008, 7:29 pm
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Feb 26th 2008, 10:51 am
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Feb 26th 2008, 11:00 am
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
Unless you are the driver of course.
Feb 26th 2008, 11:40 am
#101
you lucky, lucky b'stard!
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
But once we got into civilization, she settled.
six months on, there is NO WAY we are going back to live in Scotland.
The wife is currently back in Scotland evicting the tenants out of our house. At the time when she walked into our house they had wiped £120k off the value. Now it has been emptied, disinfected and cleaned, our property value has risen again. I just have some major repairs to do when I go back in April.
She has been there 6 days, hates the cold, the freezing rain, darkness and she has the cold too.
I feel sorry for the folks that emigrate as it seems like a good thing to do, but with out thoroughly thinking and planning it is bound to go pear shaped.
Feb 26th 2008, 12:15 pm
#102
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Feb 26th 2008, 12:19 pm
#103
Enjoying the good life!
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
went on a reccie trip to Melbourne (oh brother lives ther and thats where we intended to settle when we had our visa granted) as the plane touched down on the runway the rain was lashing down....I made the desicion there and then that we would NOT live in Melbourne...I spent 5 days ther looking around and getting a feel for the areas we thought we would like, I didnt feel right.
We ended up moving to Brisbane where we didnt know anybody, we love it here and feel completely at home and have no desires to go back to the UK.
Things might have been so different if we had of migrated to Melbourne...
We ended up moving to Brisbane where we didnt know anybody, we love it here and feel completely at home and have no desires to go back to the UK.
Things might have been so different if we had of migrated to Melbourne...
Feb 26th 2008, 1:49 pm
#104
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
went on a reccie trip to Melbourne (oh brother lives ther and thats where we intended to settle when we had our visa granted) as the plane touched down on the runway the rain was lashing down....I made the desicion there and then that we would NOT live in Melbourne...I spent 5 days ther looking around and getting a feel for the areas we thought we would like, I didnt feel right.
We ended up moving to Brisbane where we didnt know anybody, we love it here and feel completely at home and have no desires to go back to the UK.
Things might have been so different if we had of migrated to Melbourne...
We ended up moving to Brisbane where we didnt know anybody, we love it here and feel completely at home and have no desires to go back to the UK.
Things might have been so different if we had of migrated to Melbourne...
Feb 26th 2008, 2:51 pm
#105
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Re: Going home after 10 days, can anyone beat that ?
I find it amazing that people can change their mind on such a major decision, after just a month or two !!!
Do they also get divorced after two weeks because they find out that they don't really like their partners? Do they sell up their brand new houses after 3 weeks because they "don't like the feel of it" ?!!
Each to his own I guess !
Do they also get divorced after two weeks because they find out that they don't really like their partners? Do they sell up their brand new houses after 3 weeks because they "don't like the feel of it" ?!!
Each to his own I guess !
