sueduffy

Been back a few months now and really scared at the current job prospects.

Hubby is in the motortrade,apparently vacancies for Panelbeaters are few and far between,according to personal contacts and several recruitment agencies.

In addition in law there have been numerous redundancies here in Manchester.

WE sold house in Oz for a lot less than we anticipated and what we can afford here is not good.Hubby thinks me and daughter should return as there are jobs for him in Oz at least.

Daughter still has health issues and i just dont know what to do for best.No jobs,no house,Worried sick.

Any advice?

Sue

dunroving

If your daughter has health issues, wouldn't the UK be a better place for now?

quoll

Have you tried other places for job vacancies? Maybe Manchester is not the place to be at the moment. http://www.indeed.co.uk/Panel-Beater-jobs

sueduffy

Dunroving-i thought that would have been the case but after several trips to A&E since i have been here,not too impressed.In addition daughter had an emergency appt to see paeditrician in Oct,recd an appt for Jan,not very happy then, though and behold received a letter last week saying that it has now been cancelled until mid April.The service she received in Adelaide to see specialists was much quicker than this.So worried about this aspect.

My mum has had at least five or six impt hospital appts cancelled since i arrived.She had a knee replacement last yr which did not go well and she has had to wait 10 months for a referral back to a specialist.Things have deteriorated timescale wise for sure.In addition since returning her vitamin d has once again slumped,as it did last time we returned to uk.The problem is that she is now on medication which can cause osteoporosis so vitamin d deficiency as well, could be a real problem.

In addition,since we came she has had one bout after another of bronchitis and her asthma is definitely worse, dr says cold climate might not be suiting her system.

She is struggling coming back in 4th yr ,as she is due to sit some exams in March which count for 25% of GCSEs,causing her big worries.

Quoll,there are jobs in other parts of country,but housing is also more expensive and family and friends are not there to provide support we need.

All the fears of returning are here ten fold.

Sue

dunroving

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, waiting times to see specialists can be long in the NHS, but I've found once you get there, the treatment can be fine (and free at point of service too, of course). I was thinking more about the cost than anything (prescriptions cost next to nothing too, of course).

If only we could take the best parts of those places we like and put them all in one country, we'd be set for life. Unfortunately, we end up having to weigh our options and make difficult decisions that mess with our heads and hearts big-time.

Sirbla

i would be looking at going to adelaide, ridiculously cheap housing if compared to the other large capitals. also is the best state economically at the moment. expecting a continued boom due to its mineral resources in the north. im not sure how the jobs for panelbeaters are but i heard that unemployment here is low and job oppurtunities were good for me.

jonfrank123

We've found the job market great in Oxfordshire. My wife is in Bookeeping and offered 3 jobs within 2 weeks. I'm in marketing and things really seem to be picking up, usually this is one of the first indicators of the economy getting better. Perhaps look at moving to another part of the country would be cheaper than going back to Oz. Worth a look at least.

Beedubya

These are my thoughts exactly, do consider moving to another part of the UK before going back to Oz.

I know you won't have quite the family support in another part of the UK like you do in Manchester but it will be better than the family support you will have in Oz, which will be none (unless of course you do have family there).

My family live in Cheshire, I am in Somerset. But still a lot nearer than Wollongong, NSW if I need somebody's help............

brits1

I thought the best state was officially West Australia for economy...mainly due to the resource's in the North of the State....usually house prices that are low are low for a reason so I would do my homework first on why...and you also have to consider that the boom is usually due to having to work away from home....my OH has not been out of work and is earning a very high salary at a cost....all sounds great but we have do have friends who do not work away and have either lost their employment or are on reduced hours for some it has not changed...but with the boom comes the higher cost of living and in all our years here in West Australia it has become an expensive place to live...I would adivse to really do as much homework as possible before deciding to move anywhere...even in the U.K if the area etc is not working for you then look at other area's.....also you have to way up the pro's and con's of personnel reasons.....education, health etc....good luck and take time to think things over.....

FluffyTheCampfireSlayer2

Can totally relate to the job situation. I am a truck driver. In OZ - loads of opportunities. Here in the UK - non existent!!! Heading back to OZ end of year

hereandthere

I agree with many of your posts but you are deluded if you think the economy is picking up. Just today the yields on British gilts went up to higher than Spain's and Italy's, and we all know how close these countries are to collapse. Also you might have noticed that the British Government recently invented £800 billion and all it bought was a 0.1% expansion. In other news, Britain hit another milestone yesterday: it is now £900 billion in debt and has one of the worst deficits in the world at 13% of GDP.

Interest rates are going to go up and up and up to meet this challenge, and on top of that you have a Conservative emergency budget within 50 days of their election and that baby is going to be severe. I have pleaded with people to understand the savagery of the imminent tax rises and spending cuts but still people will not see.

I lived in Oxfordshire for a lot of my life, and Oxford city too, so I know the area well. Half the people there are employed by the universities and the other half work at Honda or BMW. Given that the universities just had all their fundng torn out from under them and are about to have 15,000 academics made redundant, that brand new car sales are the first thing down the pan in a serious crash, and that OX houses are pretty much the most over-valued in the country I would argue that the area will be hit, but of course not as much as provincial areas.

All this happened because Britain is a poor, over-populated state with no natural resources, yet it was trying to keep up with countries liek Australia and Canada. Now, for a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s it looked like it was working as the living standards of the countries got closer together. But now the disparity is slowly growing again to back where it was in the 1970s and 1980s when life in the new world was discernibly superior to that of life in Britain.

wingandapray

No teaching in Australia-ignored actually due to UK experience even though my wife is Australian-figure that? Useless here-VERY depressing....no point,no inspiration, no support, no community therefore no life......we cant do any worse.

jonfrank123

The fact is nobody really knows what is going to happen, it's totally unpredictable. There could be a spectacular double dip "crash" or a huge quick recovery. Chances are it will be somewhere in between these two extremes. Don't count on the Conservatives getting in either, I think it will be a repeat of '92, I reckon there are a lot of people embarassed to admit they will still vote labour.

However I'm not basing my feeling of economic recovery on some dubious government statistics that are already 6 months out of date. My business went through an awful time from Oct 08 to Sep 09. I have a diverse range of customers locally and nationally, it was very hard prospecting for business on their behalf. Suddenly in November, there was an avalanche of enquiries, my cynical self thinking it was a false dawn and it would burn itself out over Chritmas. Well it didn't, I've gone from strength to strength. Not only am I taking on new customers left,right and centre but it's become much easier to achieve results for them. Ohh and I'm getting paid a lot quicker.

It's not just me, I have a large network and everyone else seems to be steaming ahead too, almost accross the board. Many of these are the same people that were moaning and groaning about the recession last year, very vocally. I've been prospecting manufacturing company's in the Midlands, even they aren't using the downturn as an excuse not to spend money anymore.

As for Oxfordshire you are leaving out one very important component, think about Milton Park, Rutherford Appleton ie loads of New Tech industries. In terms of the bigger economic picture, we have a deficit because of massive government spending over the last 13 years. Contrary to the media reports not all of it has been piddled up the wall. Much of it has been spent on Roads, Rail, new hospitals, Schools etc. Canada doesn't have a deficit, because it hasn't spent anything. In Quebec where I used to live the roads are quite literally collapsing, rivers are full of sewage, hospitals are in crisis. They will have to lay out that money at some point!!

wingandapray

Hear hear