How did you all afford to move?
 

Cheeky question but i'm just curious as to how some of you get your cash!! So house sale, retirement, lottery win?!

We will just have to save pure and simple..small amount of savings..house to sell but shared ownership so prob wont make anything..other than that nowt..eek will i be 60 before i can afford it all?

Thanks

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Sold the house and made a massive profit. Wish i had rented it out now:(

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On a shoe string budget. We didn't have a house to sell and no savings. The credit card took a battering and we slowly got back on our feet. We were very lucky that we both got jobs within a week of arriving and we only have grown up children. It would have been extremely hard to do without those things in our favour.

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my dad was ronnie biggs

Re: How did you all afford to move?
 

bit of savings and a loan, 2nd time round for us so not much dosh,& no jobs as yet, :( have to make it work this time.

Bluekipper

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Worked hard, saved up the money and threw my tax return at it for good measure.

:thumbup:

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Ah ok mixed replys! So there is a chance we can do it then?!..i thought of the credit card route spellbound but tbh we have never used one and dont really want to start now..its not the fact that we can't pay it back as we could now but if we got there with no jobs hmm disaster strikes!
Thanks

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I am 39 and so have just got savings accumulated over the years really. I have worked hard to get a comfortable lifestyle, I wouldn't move if it meant just getting by., so having a decent amount behind me is important factor for me.

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Depends on how big your family is and where you are going to...it is a very expensive move especially if you decide you want to go back to the UK after a couple of years or even sooner...have you done or plan to do a reccie first? I would advise everyone to do this if possible because living and working in Oz is a million miles away from a holiday (even a working holiday) and please do not believe the hype and go withan open mind.
Good luck,

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Hi thanks for the replys.
Neil52 there is me, dh and dd and 2 cats!
We have no idea where we want to go apart from not being in the middle of nowhere. The main concern is that dh needs a job (or me but im not trained in what i do there)..so we are open to suggestions. I know you said dont go with an open mind but it's hard when we wont have the money to do a trip over first.
We have a friend in brisbane other than that no one so the job is the factroing point i guess..all very hard

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We have ping-ponged between South Africa and the UK twice now, and it's very expensive sending your whole household each way, but somehow we afford it. Money should be no object when you're having fun. :)

"Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die, than never to have known it.
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee..."

Losing It - Neil Peart (Rush)

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Thats a lovely way to put it, the money seems to come somehow! even if like us most of it from a bank loan lol

bluekipper

Re: How did you all afford to move?
 

It was a lovely way of putting it.

But cripes, there is no way I would fund my day to day living costs with a bank loan. I would not move if I needed a bank loan to do it either. :eek:

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Hi Gabyjane. Glad to see you joined here :thumbsup:

We rent so no house to sell & have bugger all savings. Mother-in-law has paid for our flights & we need to scrap it together to ship our stuff but I'm sure we'll manage one way or another. We both know that we're going to have to take what ever jobs we can get to start with & just go from there.

Alison x

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All the luck in the world to you.