Can it be that it was all so simple then
or has time rewritten every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
tell me would we? Could we?

As Barbra Streisand says, if you could do it all again......would you? Emigrate that is........

NO!!

YES !!! ( but I'd like it to have been 10 years ago, not 3.)

Totally stuffed my working life and any career potential, but yes I would.

Got to admit that the Two Main Jobs I've had in my 30 years here have set us up fine.... Gas Meter Reading and Postal Worker. Although the Wifes Nursing has probably helped a lot.

I doubt if we would have been any better off in the UK whatever had happened.

I reckon I've got a far healthier attitude to other people now.... I attibute that to the Egalitarian nature of Australian society.

+1

But probably about five years ago for me. Would have still moved to England for the experience.

It would have been better for our kids (now teens) to have arrive in Oz at a younger age.

Poll, this should be a Poll.

No. I think in hindsight we should have had our midlife crises in less expensive ways.

Yes. Wish I'd come sooner.

But feel lucky to have come when I did. Points were something like 100. About $2.50 to the pound. House prices still high in the UK. Aus house prices still cheaper than the UK (relatively speaking). Cheaper cost of living.

Couple of things I would do better. I should have relied on myself rather than professionals to transfer pension and set up superfund. I should have done the first year tax return myself rather than using a professional.

yes,
wish we had got in the first time we tried in 1991, but didn't have enough points. Had to wait to 2006, but well worth it.

ps. 5 years here as of yesterday

Yes to the country and the job and lifestyle for me and the son but no to the rest. Had I been aware of all factors before i emmigrated I'd have stayed at home with supportive family and friends. Personally, I find a lot of the people you meet here or just not of the calibre of the ones you left behind. But, as i'd gave up a good job in UK that I can't return to and sold a house I would never get back at the price I paid for it, I'm stuck here making the most of it so just as well it's a nice country with plenty of things to do.

Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. Although saying that we would have ensured we got PR in Canada at the time and then we wouldn't have to have left Nova Scotia.

us too.

No. Absolutely not.

Yes but very much wish we had done it 5 years earlier.

No , lost to much