I found this site by accident as we were going to live in Dubai (May 07) after our visit back to the U.K....I came back to Perth and found this site while looking at info for Dubai and it's been a lifesaver....wish it was around when I first came to Perth a long time ago it seems now....when I think...that's it get me the yellow van etc.....I come on here to save my sanity....so a big hello to an e-mail version of One flew over the Cookoes Nest!!!! worse thing is I use to work in Psychiatrics!!!!! now thats a worry.
Jackie

Jackie, me too!!! I found this site by accident. I was pining away for home (Scotland) and found BE after looking around for info to ship my pets back home and trying to sort out the logistics of moving back home. BE is very, very addictive. Glad I found it, or I might have ended up in the little yellow bus!!!

I to found this by accident doing the same as you...looking for shippers etc etc....have to say its like counselling for me! Helps to know you are not alone.

And, it doesn't cost anything either; can't get better than that!

It's great, I have just come on this morning as my Dad had just text me to say he has landed back home fine and his flight was excellent (he flys with Emirates)...so I just really fed up knowing he was back home and that my brother met him at the airport and his life goes on!!!!! so here I am again back on this wonderful site...just to "let it all out" so to speak!!!! Its great to know you are facing a day in somewhere you don't want to be and you are now "not alone"....it does help my husband and two sons are wanting to go home just as much as me but for years we thought we were the only people who felt like this as everyone we knew/know either don't mind it here or just put up with it!!!!
Are you going back home? we are planning on no later than June 08, we have to sell our home before we go......and before we can book dates etc...but at least it's this year....we have just been told our sons will fit into their school/college the want to attend...one son will start A level's our youngest will start his GCSE's...which is fantastic news for us!!!!
Anyway back to the grindstone....I have a pile of ironing to get through after my dads visit...I did not want to waste a second of my time with hime hence the pile!!!...thats my excuse!!!
Jackie

Luck you, goodluck with the house sale etc etc....loads of planning that will make time fly. All the best and keep us left behind ones posted!

Cheers!!....it just that we want be there "yesterday" now though. I am having a few valuations on our home this week/early next, we did not want he house on the market whilst my dad was on holiday (he's nearly 80) and not over Christmas....plus appart from the ironing pile that has just turned into a mountain!!!!! we are having our nephew over from England in Feb/March he is getting married here (it's his first visit) so again we were not sure when to put the house on the market but now it will go on asap...and hope all goes well!!!!!
Take Care
Jackie

Yes, my plan right now is to be back in Scotland by this summer. Maybe we will bump into each other at the airport in June. It's great to finally know that it won't be long. You must feel wonderful that you are planning on going back at last. Roll on summer

Ironing can always wait, relatives can't. Glad that you spent so much valuable time with your father when he visited. I'm sure he couldn't have cared less about the ironing either, right

No he certainly could not and just text me again to say he had a wonderful holiday and that although he loves Aus he can understand why we want to return home which is just lovely, he has been here 11 times in 9 years but can see how we have "done all we can" to make a "good go" of it here..but it's just not home.

Ah thats lovely, My inlaws came out last year, didn't say an awful lot about the place when here. Then whe I mentioned I was feeling homesick etc and wanted to come home, they told me it was the land of opportunity and why would I want to come home. As someone else mentioned on this site, people who live there say they hate it but have never had the balls to leave and try something new, so everywhere else is amazing. They don't know any different so how can they pass judgment. I am pleased for you that your father understands even though he loves Oz...as you say its just not home! Goodluck to you.

I always remember that wherever we have been on holiday (outside of Aus) I have always said "oh I would live to live here"...from Gibraltar...Spain...Greece etc...even Dubai last year but when you live and work in these places it is sooooooooooooo different.....my family don't have to live here....they do not know what it's like to have all your faimly 1000's of miles away...when sometimes all you want to do it call in for a cup of tea..etc...loads of other things we took for granted......it may be the land of oppurtunity to some but I think if you want to make it you can do it anywhere....all our family back home are doing VERY well....through hard work etc.....

Well quite.....if you are prepared to work for it!!! We owned our own home, had private medical insurance through hubbys work, 2 cars etc etc. Everything the same as here I guess, but we can't afford to buy here, its so expensive, so why put a noose around our necks. I am pleased we haven't under the circumstances. NO ONE can possibly know what we are going through until they have done it themselves, its very hard emotionally!

think i might just hang out here for a while- seems i fit in nicely!!

Good for you....haven't felt more at home in ages!!! The real thing to come...I hope!