Leaving NZ to return to UK
 

Hi all,

Have any of you gone back?
We have been here 6 years and may well return later in 2010. This kind of feels like a bigger decision than to come here in the first place.

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Hi, we left NZ after 5 years in 2005 and now are thinking of going back over there as there are lots of things we are missing. Where abouts are you? and why are you thinking of coming home?
Helen

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Hello Helen,

We are in Dunedin, which is a super town.
We are looking to return for work reasons and we are from the North of England originally.

We are looking return to the South West of England.

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I live in Halifax in West Yorkshire and at the moment I am watching the snow come down again, we've had snow everyday since the 17th February.

When we lived over there we lived in Wanganui (my mum still lives there) and was there for 5 years. We came back in 2005 but for the past year or so we have regretted it and now have to make the decision as to whether to move back over there. We have started saving but it will take a while as we have 2 children, dog, cat and furniture. Its difficult to know what to do for the best.

What is making you leave, you say jobs? Is there just you or do you have family?
Helen

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Five of us and a cat

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Helen !

My best friend lives in the halifax area - he assures me it has NOT been snowing everyday sincs last Febuary (lol)
All the best
John

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We, like you seem to be, are looking at returning later on this year.
And I would certainly agree that this feels like a far larger decision than coming out here.

To come out here was more a 'if we don't try it we will never know' fly by the seat of our pants decision.
3.5 years later there is a lot more weighing up and annalysing and arguing over the move back.
It is far more stressful, and that is saying somehting considering when we sold our house in UK whilst I was pregnant with DD3 (and the other two were 2 and 3.5) and moved out to NZ with a brand new (5 week) baby.

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Yes we sold up to and our son was 7 weeks when we flew.
Where are you and where are you heading to?

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We are in canterbury at the moment, and heading back to rural scotland - where we came from.

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Good on yer mate

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Hi there

We are in CHC and I can't wait to get out of here. Had 3 years of it and am desperate to move back to the UK.

We came from Glossop in Derbyshire it was a bad move really, but I had to give it a try.

I miss open countryside access, pretty crappy here unless you want a long drive. (Lifestyle property for sale)

Good luck to you all.

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Right back at you Mcuddy.

We came as I am originally a kiwi - so it was a case of try the other side.
But I hate it - OH likes it - so back we go at some stage.

But what it has given me, this time across here, is a great appreciation for what was on offer back in teh UK.
There was something for everyone and a variety to choose from - and that was just within driving distance from where we lived.

For some, they will say the same about here.
But when I was little growing up here, I dreamed of biking like the Famous Five (lashings of ginger beer and all that - Enid Blyton has a lot to answer for).
I want to take my young children to the 100 aker wood as I dreamed of going when I was little
I love a winter christmas.
The list could go on and on.

And I have now come to realise that what I had back in the UK was certainly never going to be matched, for me, here in NZ.

So onwards and upwards.

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My husband is a kiwi born and raised in Wanganui and he feels pretty much the same as you. He cannot bare the prospect of living the rest of his life in NZ. Luckily for me he has a real love affair with the UK. Since we came back in April i can see the change in him. Although we were living in Syndey prior to coming back, he has told me this is it!! We are not going anywhere else. LOL And i am very happy to hear him say that.

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I think that my OH will tell me that - as a threat.
Bring it on.
I have no desire to stay here, and seeing as we made the decision to raise the kids as Scottish - why the beep beep beep aren't we doing it in Scotland - so that they get the true understanding of their culture.
Not the wishy washy thing that is NZ.

But I guess my OH has a side which many UK people have thinking that the grass is greener, and it could be argued that I must have had that to move there in the first place.

So, once we are back, I am crossing 'living in NZ' off the list, hopefully for a very very very long time and can settle into living - even, shock horror with a little money in the bank accounts after the end of the month.

Acutally - Living in NZ was never on my bucket list - I had already done that through my childhood and uni days.:rofl:

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We leave 3 weeks today after 16 months in windy Wellington we are heading back to Cornwall like other posters have said we had to try it and we did not appreciate what we had till we didn't have it
we miss the history, real news the ability to travel the freedom of our dog to roam, the countryside and a decent pub not that we are drinkers but the image of a drink after a walk by an open fire is one I miss, Christmas in the northern hemisphere there is nothing like it, it feels so artifical with xmas trees up in the bright sunshine

things I will miss here Food, cafe culture thats all certainly not the wind,

we are a family of 3 returning with a dog would of gone sooner had the dog not had to have a rabies jab etc