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Don't know about you, but if I sit down and work out all my outgoings against my income I should be loaded. Never seems to work out that way though. ![Smile](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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...and ABCD, before you start, I don't want a speadsheet to show me where I'm going wrong and work out my expenditure to the last Mars Bar.
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You probably do have more rain but at least you dont have dull, grey, miserableness for 50 weeks of the year. And I am also starting to become dull, grey - one strand at a time, and miserable for it.
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Suzy, don't let the negative comments on here get you down. BE posters are only a small proportion of Brits in Aus who are making a great success of things. You come across as realistic & you can see for yourself when you do your reccie. There are many people who come over with very little & succeed.
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Suzy, don't let the negative comments on here get you down. BE posters are only a small proportion of Brits in Aus who are making a great success of things. You come across as realistic & you can see for yourself when you do your reccie. There are many people who come over with very little & succeed.
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Thanks sallyclaire I was starting to think we're destined to be skint in the sunshine, but we're remaining optimistic and you have to as long as you know there could be tough times too. Moving to Oz is an opportunity we've got that not everyone can have and we're going to take it and make the best of it. I don't want to be on a downer before we've even got there.
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Suzy, don't let the negative comments on here get you down. BE posters are only a small proportion of Brits in Aus who are making a great success of things. You come across as realistic & you can see for yourself when you do your reccie. There are many people who come over with very little & succeed.
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I have an appointment with ANZ on Friday to discuss my options. I am not banking on Mr PP being back at work at any given time and I am not going to let things get bad before I sort them out.
I would urge anyone to either have enough savings and/or get some sort of insurance for the unplanned.
Because I never thought this would happen to us, it happens to other people not us. We have fallen into life in Perth very well and we did it on a small budget.
But it is a huge gamble and thinking that unpleasant things wont happen to you is no promise that it wont.
Money does not bring happiness, it doesnt mean your life in Australia will be perfect, it certainly wont stop you being homesick.
But it at least ensures that the one thing you wont have to worry about in a crisis is losing your home.
It is probably not what many would be migrants would like to hear but it is a cold hard fact.
I dont regret doing things the way we did - far from it but it has been a learning curve and we could be in for a bumpy ride - which we will get through and learn from it.
Shit happens - in any country and even when the sun shines.
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I earn around that and manage perfectly well. (me, 2 teenagers, dog and mortgage) Just takes very clever budgeting and setting priorities. Try to stop worrying cos it wont change anything. I believe it you want something bad enough you make adjustments so you can achieve it ![Sunglasses](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/sunglasses.gif)
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