View Poll Results: WOuld you do it all again? (emigrate that is)
Yes
63
57.80%
Jury is still out on that one
9
8.26%
I'll let you know when I've done it for the first time!
3
2.75%
Yes but to somewhere other than Australia
7
6.42%
No
16
14.68%
You having a giraffe? I'd rather crawl round the desert with a mouthful of rocks
11
10.09%
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Would you do it all again?
May 3rd 2011 | 12:15 pm
#61
Chan eil aon chà nan gu le
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 22,437
From: On the ning nang nong
- some of the 'locals' being super hostile human beings.
May 3rd 2011 | 12:28 pm
#62
Possum. Amiculum. Latrina
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 3,427
From: Footloose
Re: Would you do it all again?
Exactly. Had my husband caved in to my constant pining for home in my first hellish year, we would certainly have been straight on that plane to square 1. I'm actually glad he didn't because we basically had nothing left to go home to. I just wish we had researched Canada a bit more, because we did consider it, but ended up here. 
I still maintain that the kids are better off here for now, finishing their school years.
I still maintain that the kids are better off here for now, finishing their school years.
May 3rd 2011 | 1:32 pm
#64
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 2,969
From: In an ice box
Re: Would you do it all again?
Fancy a challenge? Take a TAFE course in aged or disability care. You will almost certainly be able to find part time work that will fit in around your kids schooling.
Tough work for generally rubbish pay but can be hugely rewarding in other ways. My wife did exactly that.
Tough work for generally rubbish pay but can be hugely rewarding in other ways. My wife did exactly that.
Thanks for the suggestion.
May 3rd 2011 | 2:04 pm
#65
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Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 2,969
From: In an ice box
Re: Would you do it all again?
Quite a lot of folk appear to experience a similar experience sadly. Takes me back some years when a young fellow in Australia and recalling my mother's depiration at times to what i later learned was accute lonliness.
It was what took us to England.
Still today many feel the isolation and i know it can be difficult to connect,something i feel more here than other places i've lived or is it just a greater awareness of the potential of it being so with the experience of those early years?
Really do hope it improves for you and where you are now is surely needs not for the long haul?
It was what took us to England.
Still today many feel the isolation and i know it can be difficult to connect,something i feel more here than other places i've lived or is it just a greater awareness of the potential of it being so with the experience of those early years?
Really do hope it improves for you and where you are now is surely needs not for the long haul?
May 3rd 2011 | 3:22 pm
#66
Officially Bewildered
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 5,523
From: Blue Mountains, NSW
Re: Would you do it all again?
I've got another year to stick it out in Oz to get PR so we come away with something tangible. I've had a great time sailing around the country and long driving outback holidays but it's not for me - at least not now. I'm in Sri Lanka now (trying to sell my visa!) and add that to the trip to Borneo last week I now realise that I need somewhere with more life, vibrancy and (dare I say it? depth?)
May 3rd 2011 | 3:28 pm
#67
Possum. Amiculum. Latrina
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 3,427
From: Footloose
Re: Would you do it all again?
I've seen you mention before that you want to hang on for your PR - does that mean you want to come back before the visa expires? Would it not work out better for you to wait the extra couple of years and get citizenship instead, so at least you can come back at your leisure?
May 3rd 2011 | 3:37 pm
#69
Officially Bewildered
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 5,523
From: Blue Mountains, NSW
Re: Would you do it all again?
May 3rd 2011 | 3:45 pm
#72
Officially Bewildered
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 5,523
From: Blue Mountains, NSW
Re: Would you do it all again?
May 3rd 2011 | 3:50 pm
#73
Possum. Amiculum. Latrina
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 3,427
From: Footloose
Re: Would you do it all again?
Yes. On a 457 then a year tourist visa and then a student visa before moving to a 475 SS.
May 3rd 2011 | 3:51 pm
#74
Officially Bewildered
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 5,523
From: Blue Mountains, NSW
Re: Would you do it all again?
If so, you may only have to do 12 months on a PR visa before being eligible for citizenship - would that make it more attractive?
May 3rd 2011 | 7:45 pm
#75
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 14,284
From: UK
Re: Would you do it all again?
I would very much agree with Dreamy, to get complete security, try to do a year on the PR visa and if you have been here for three years before then on other visas you should be able to get citizenship.
