Moving back home from NZ!!
 

WOW I remember posting a few months ago thinking we have ages to move!!!!:blink::unsure:

Now it is all systems go! House completes on the 20th Sept and that's the day I also finish work!! then we will fly the next week!

Eeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!!!

We will be sad to leave NZ but excited to return home x

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Time flies! Good luck for the final part of the return. It's been a fabulous summer here, very warm, so I hope we save some good weather for you.
Lucky you to have sold your house. We still have one in the States. There will be champagne when it sells!

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Thanks jemima55 :)

Yes please keep the weather warm as we will be doing back to back winters :huh:

Good luck with house sale :fingerscrossed:

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I hope my time here in NZ goes as quick! I'm wishing you all the best for your move back home. Bet you cannot wait. Give us an update when you get settled. :thumbsup:

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Thanks :thumbsup:

When are you going home?

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We are going home after the summer. :thumbup: we haven't been here long but already know that we can't make a good enough living here. Thought the grass was greener but it wasn't. :thumbdown: going to book our tickets after Xmas. I can't wait to go home where I belong. :D

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Will send you a message :)

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The grass is as green as my envy ! For you and NZ4Now. Good luck with it all.

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Thanks :) Your time will come :)

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Just got a job offer too! woohoo :)

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Well done that's the icing on the cake! :thumbsup::D:D

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:frown: don't let it get you down. You're time will come too. I envy NZ4Now as England is even closer now. We're still many months away. :thumbdown:

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I know thanks hun :)

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Well done.

Do a victory lap around the coffee table (unless it's already packed !)

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Haha! Thanks! At work so a lap around the desk! :thumbsup:

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+ 1...:p

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:thumb:

:drinkwine:

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Brill news and you also have bonfire, halloween and Christmas/New Year to look forward to as well and hopefully we will have a lovely Autumn as we did last year....Good luck with everything

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Nice one... I (luke) hope we can post a similar thread soon. Miss the UK too much...

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Congrats NZ4Now!

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Are you wanting to make the move back?

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See you're in Auckland too :)

How long you guys been here?

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Thanks both :)

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2 1/2 yrs it will be. I think, certainly enough time to gain experience of living abroad and definitely not seen as a move back, but a move onward...

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That's very true :thumbsup:

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Yes, that's very philosophical. I think I might take that as my, 'mantra'. For any move to the UK in the future.

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Yep....but kids ages are complicating things...also worry about getting jobs...me 44 OH 48.....Also don't want big mortgage - have had one since I was 18.....still not paid it off :thumbdown:

We thought we could get it paid off when we came here...but that's a big NO!!! everything has gone up so much in the last few years...:thumbdown:

Anyway...good luck to you & yours....Have a great trip home :thumbsup:

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8 yrs for us....way too long....gained the experience & so over it!!!!

I love your way of looking at it...."Not a move back.....but a move onward!!!!"

I always talk about it as the "next chapter" in our lives.....

Good Luck :thumbsup::starsmile:

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Hi we were about the same age, I am just about to start a Teaching Assistant course and my OH had no problem with work, our two sons had no trouble findng work around their Studies so all good.

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When you have kids it always complicates things more but depending on their ages they will be fine.
We decided 3 years ago we wanted to leave NZ, took us 3 more years due to the kids but I finally made it back in December.
We are your age, jobs etc have been fine and I'm loving being home, even though we moved somewhere we had never been before on our return, its great!
Good Luck

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:thumbsup: It's a great feeling isn't it! We've got 46 more sleeps in Canada and then we're off.....:thumbsup:

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:thumbsup: So good to hear that Spacecake! We have finally decided what to do and it's a big relief to have made the decision ....we have a daughter aged 15 who is happy to go back to the UK, but wants to finish off year 11 here - so we'll be here one more year, then we're off. I hope she is able to go to sixth form and settle back in reasonably trouble-free. In the meatime, we'll get citizensip, and hopefully save some money (the Tui ad springs to mind...yeah right) to put towards moving. The jobs/mortgage thing is a little bit (!) of a worry though, hubby is 52 so not sure how long they will give us...:eek:

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:thumbup: doesn't it feel great to make "that" decision? Wether it be stay or go... The clouds lift away :D. I'm now worrying about the journey home! (Hate flying!) :lol: I'd worry if I had nothing to worry about. :eek:

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I agree with that whole "making a decision feeling". You don't then spend all your day going over and over it all.

Once we have had the discussions and made the decision; got the wheels in motion that I will be really excited about going back.

In someway as well, I am tempted to not tell anyone, or at least keep the number of people that know to a minimum... then it comes a massive surprise when we are back... taaa daaa!

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Thanks for the post.....Where in the uk are you?

Interesting that your kids found work round their studies...that is something some folk have said is unavailable....but they hve been in NZ less than 2 years and I think are still in the honeymoon period of living here....

:starsmile:

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:goodpost: Good to hear....thanks all boosts the confidence....:starsmile:

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:rofl: :hysterical:

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it sure does! we have now figured out what we are going to do. its a huge relief. so in the mean time we will enjoy the last of our time here in NZ.

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I know what you mean about flying. I wanted to cruise but ended up flying via LA and NY which was amazing.
I actually blocked out all thoughts of the flight beforehand such is my fear. With a family history of dvt i didn't want to think about it.
When I got on the plane all my fears disappeared and I just thought its going to be fine cause I'm going home.

Good luck

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I wish I could stop worrying now the decision has been made!

Still find myself thinking about it from waking to sleeping. Curse of an over thinker with the tendency to procrastinate and worry :confused:

Will just keep reading the success stories and empting the house!