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%
Voters: 109. You may not vote on this poll
Would you do it all again?
May 5th 2011 | 8:33 pm
#106
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
Re: Would you do it all again?
Surely his daytime tv however is just like being in Qld
May 5th 2011 | 8:36 pm
#108
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
May 5th 2011 | 8:44 pm
#110
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
May 5th 2011 | 8:47 pm
#111
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 7,642
From: Birkdale QLD
Re: Would you do it all again?
Yes, but that doesn't preclude me from having a right old whinge about how redneck this place is.
JTL
May 5th 2011 | 8:51 pm
#113
Thread Starter
Home and Happy
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 94,307
From: Keep true friends and puppets close, trust no-one else...
Its beautiful there at the moment - well it was when I left three days ago! 
May 5th 2011 | 8:52 pm
#114
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
Re: Would you do it all again?
all my JR's had them and were dumb enough to put the phots from their "black ops", mobiles on 
May 6th 2011 | 2:24 am
#116
Shiny Arse Know All
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 14,180
From: Adelaide, somewhere
Re: Would you do it all again?
May 6th 2011 | 8:45 am
#117
Decreased member
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,381
From: Pere Lachaise Cemetary, plot 666
Re: Would you do it all again?
Loved reading this thread - I dont usually read 8 pages of replies as I have a very short attention span
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.
May 6th 2011 | 8:51 am
#118
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 8,390
From: Canberra
Re: Would you do it all again?
Coo, twice this year huh! I dont get to escape until early September for my FIRST trip this year (got to remember the good behaviour thing and stop bashing the warders quite so much!) but we are going for 8 weeks thank goodness
May 6th 2011 | 1:33 pm
#119
Banned
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 22,348
Re: Would you do it all again?
Loved reading this thread - I dont usually read 8 pages of replies as I have a very short attention span
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.
I think the vote is subjective to where you are at the moment, had I voted 4 years ago it would have been no but now with us settled happily in a lucrative business, a nice home in an area we are happy with, kids settled in good school and university, a much better social life and friends than we ever had in UK my vote is yes.
May 6th 2011 | 2:40 pm
#120
Not allowed opinions.
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 4,565
From: Sydney
Re: Would you do it all again?
Too right. It's one wicked see-saw. My underlying and long held belief is we've done the right thing to move here. But translating the dream into a liveable reality seems nearly impossible - especially when a lot is going wrong. Sometimes it's tempting to chuck the towel in and go back. But go back to what exactly? <shudder>
In my opinion we are living beyond our means and have done so for many years.
Re the OP question – I would have done it sooner, differently, and had better values. I’m old enough now to look back on it and ask “what was it all for, and what difference did I makeâ€.
The answer is pretty well none.
I would have changed that.
