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 5th 2011 | 8:46 am
#93
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From: London - but only until I can afford to move back to Sydney
Re: Would you do it all again?
Difficult to say. For leisure time I prefer Australia hands down but for work the UK. Having spent the last 10 years in investment banking IT 5 in London then 5 in Australia the UK way of working wins hands down. There is a much higher level of competence and shorter working weeks in the City.
May 5th 2011 | 8:48 am
#94
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From: London - but only until I can afford to move back to Sydney
May 5th 2011 | 11:07 am
#95
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,199
From: Mt Martha, Melbourne
Re: Would you do it all again?
Mmmmm...!
Probably not if I could have seen into the crystal ball. Things have changed so much out here, house prices, cost of living etc, awful pound to dollar rate that all the plans we had of taking it a bit easier and seeing a bit of Oz have all gone out the window at the moment. Worse off and working harder than ever before! To qualify, that it is because of being self-employed and getting a new business off the ground but it could have been a whole lot easier if we had got the 2.48 to the pound when we moved out instead of 1.80 when we finally sold up in the UK and decided to buy here - and now we feel lucky to have got that!
Had I known it was going to be a lot harder financially, I think we would have thought twice, done what we are doing now in the UK and then gone travelling during the winter. I just get a bit frustrated that we've moved all this way and rarely get out of the house let alone circumnavigate Australia, there is a whole country waiting to be photographed!
I do miss people, the folks are getting older and all the problems that will bring one day, friends don't visit because it's too far and say they don't have the time (we used to come for 2 weeks so that's no excuse in my book!) to do a big trip plus of course Oz is now flipping expensive to visit. With the time difference it's hard to just pick up the phone when you have a few spare minutes as it's the middle of the night there or vice versa.
I guess things just haven't turned out as I planned and dreamed all those years ago sitting doing my 9 to 5 and has just have taken the shine of it all. So I would say to those coming out, don't plan too much and be open minded!
I know things are not great in the UK and I wish I could view the alternative life to see what would have happened to us if we'd stayed. One other plan was to have worked a few more years and then taken early retirement to Spain, but then that would have backfired too with the pound plummeting. We always just seem to miss the boat!
Having said all that, I guess without the big move things would have just trundled on so it has stretched us and got us out of our comfort zone so I try and say that it's all good characted building! Mr KK has settled fine and is quite happy, I have struggled at times with the situation and being sent to Melbourne rather than Sydney (long story). However, I think maybe some of this affects us girls more than the guys. There was a lot going on in the UK when we left so there was all this stuff that didn't really help me settle at first. Anyway, we now have our own house, two new shiney pussy cats and slowly, slowly I'm getting there.
Probably not if I could have seen into the crystal ball. Things have changed so much out here, house prices, cost of living etc, awful pound to dollar rate that all the plans we had of taking it a bit easier and seeing a bit of Oz have all gone out the window at the moment. Worse off and working harder than ever before! To qualify, that it is because of being self-employed and getting a new business off the ground but it could have been a whole lot easier if we had got the 2.48 to the pound when we moved out instead of 1.80 when we finally sold up in the UK and decided to buy here - and now we feel lucky to have got that!
Had I known it was going to be a lot harder financially, I think we would have thought twice, done what we are doing now in the UK and then gone travelling during the winter. I just get a bit frustrated that we've moved all this way and rarely get out of the house let alone circumnavigate Australia, there is a whole country waiting to be photographed!
I do miss people, the folks are getting older and all the problems that will bring one day, friends don't visit because it's too far and say they don't have the time (we used to come for 2 weeks so that's no excuse in my book!) to do a big trip plus of course Oz is now flipping expensive to visit. With the time difference it's hard to just pick up the phone when you have a few spare minutes as it's the middle of the night there or vice versa.
I guess things just haven't turned out as I planned and dreamed all those years ago sitting doing my 9 to 5 and has just have taken the shine of it all. So I would say to those coming out, don't plan too much and be open minded!
I know things are not great in the UK and I wish I could view the alternative life to see what would have happened to us if we'd stayed. One other plan was to have worked a few more years and then taken early retirement to Spain, but then that would have backfired too with the pound plummeting. We always just seem to miss the boat!
Having said all that, I guess without the big move things would have just trundled on so it has stretched us and got us out of our comfort zone so I try and say that it's all good characted building! Mr KK has settled fine and is quite happy, I have struggled at times with the situation and being sent to Melbourne rather than Sydney (long story). However, I think maybe some of this affects us girls more than the guys. There was a lot going on in the UK when we left so there was all this stuff that didn't really help me settle at first. Anyway, we now have our own house, two new shiney pussy cats and slowly, slowly I'm getting there.
May 5th 2011 | 11:20 am
#96
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,375
Re: Would you do it all again?
Totally totally different country now. I can still remember buying land for 50k and roast lamb for $3 a kilo
, land round here now 350k and lamb in coles yesterday $14 a kilo thats price increases of around an average 6x in 10 years. 
10 years doesnt sound long, but I guess it is, I mean my cute blondie 3 year old then is now 6' 2
Time move on
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May 5th 2011 | 3:07 pm
#97
Possum. Amiculum. Latrina
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 3,427
From: Footloose
Re: Would you do it all again?
I think there is a two to three year honeymoon period when you arrive in Oz -beaches, weather, wildlife. At the end of this period the urge to contact Dignitas kicks in.
May 5th 2011 | 3:59 pm
#98
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Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 94,305
From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Re: Would you do it all again?
May 5th 2011 | 7:28 pm
#100
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Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 94,305
From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
May 5th 2011 | 8:01 pm
#102
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
May 5th 2011 | 8:18 pm
#104
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
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