We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Sep 22nd 2012, 9:33 pm
#1
Forum Regular
Thread Starter
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Whangarei New Zealand
Posts: 90
We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
And moving to OZ! 
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
Sep 22nd 2012, 9:46 pm
#2
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: In the middle of the continent
Posts: 2,405
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Good luck on OZ!! We will be moving to Europe soon!
Sep 22nd 2012, 9:47 pm
#3
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,787
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
And moving to OZ!
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
Sep 22nd 2012, 10:00 pm
#4
Banned
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 1,010
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
And moving to OZ!
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
After being here for six months and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman, I have recieved a job offer paying nearly 80% more than i earn here, also excellent prospects!
So looks like we are about to embark on the whole visa and packing ordeal again!
and better prospects! congratulations.Yeah there's lots of Kiwi culture over here, and the visa and packing processes are an ordeal, but well worth it.
Where are you headed for?
Sep 22nd 2012, 10:37 pm
#5
Forum Regular
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 115
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
...and nearly 50% of people we have met are moving over the tasman
Does that mean 2 out of 5? 9 out of 20? Does it validate the "rightness" of the move for you?
Anyway, best of luck.
Does that mean 2 out of 5? 9 out of 20? Does it validate the "rightness" of the move for you?
Anyway, best of luck.
Sep 22nd 2012, 10:59 pm
#6
Forum Regular
Thread Starter
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Whangarei New Zealand
Posts: 90
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Looks like we will be heading for Perth, although have had offers to move to gladstone, brisbane and sydney too. but the perth deal is a very good one.
The company are paying for our flights, shipping, visa's, accomodation for an initial period so should take a lot of pressure off the organising!
Hopefully this time its for a few years though, we have had enough of packing and moving to last a lifetime!
The company are paying for our flights, shipping, visa's, accomodation for an initial period so should take a lot of pressure off the organising!
Hopefully this time its for a few years though, we have had enough of packing and moving to last a lifetime!
Sep 22nd 2012, 11:06 pm
#7
Account Closed
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 0
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Many congratulations to you, it all sounds very exciting 
Sep 22nd 2012, 11:24 pm
#8
Banned
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 1,010
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Looks like we will be heading for Perth, although have had offers to move to gladstone, brisbane and sydney too. but the perth deal is a very good one.
The company are paying for our flights, shipping, visa's, accomodation for an initial period so should take a lot of pressure off the organising!
Hopefully this time its for a few years though, we have had enough of packing and moving to last a lifetime!
The company are paying for our flights, shipping, visa's, accomodation for an initial period so should take a lot of pressure off the organising!
Hopefully this time its for a few years though, we have had enough of packing and moving to last a lifetime!
Perth is a superb city and you should have a great time there. I was watching Tony Robinson's Time Walks last night and he was in neighbouring Freemantle, I was impressed with how gorgeous it looked, I really need to get over there for a long weekend and suss out the place properly.
Exciting times ahead for you all!
Sep 23rd 2012, 1:28 am
#9
HAPPY AS...
Joined: May 2006
Location: Taupo
Posts: 1,068
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Cool!
I watched one of them relocation programmes the other day. Apparently Perth is Australia's windiest city. Average 16kmh/day.
Best of luck with the move
I watched one of them relocation programmes the other day. Apparently Perth is Australia's windiest city. Average 16kmh/day.
Best of luck with the move
Sep 23rd 2012, 2:05 am
#10
Forum Regular
Thread Starter
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Whangarei New Zealand
Posts: 90
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Yes i am hoping to pop over there for a long weekend before we completely upsticks, my wife has briefly visited before and I have a few friends who live/have lived there.
We shall see what the future holds, all i ever hear is how expensive the cost of living is there, but we have been looking at property and its slightly higher than here but only slightly, also have done a mock weeks shopping on a aussie supermarkets website and again its pretty much like for like with here. Also been looking at most costs etc So hopefully we should be in a better position.
We shall see what the future holds, all i ever hear is how expensive the cost of living is there, but we have been looking at property and its slightly higher than here but only slightly, also have done a mock weeks shopping on a aussie supermarkets website and again its pretty much like for like with here. Also been looking at most costs etc So hopefully we should be in a better position.
Sep 23rd 2012, 4:31 am
#11
.
Joined: Jun 2010
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Posts: 2,744
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Excellent news Ben. Glad you've got so much support re: packing and moving not least the cost of it all ! Just when you thought you were trying to settle you upsticks all over again. I can relate to that. We arrived in NZ in Feb last year. Spent 3 weeks in Auckland. Then three and a half months in Christchurch. Then two months in a rental in a town near Wellington before buying our house in the same town. By my calculation we moved our furniture 3 times in 8 months ! (That's not counting all the temporary arrangements we used to fill the gaps around formal rental arrangements) I stood in our house a few days after we purchased it and moved in and actually asked of myself, 'where the fluck am I now ?'.
Sep 23rd 2012, 5:34 am
#12
Banned
Joined: Jul 2010
Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 1,010
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
If the winds in Perth are like they are here this time of year they'll be warm and quite pleasant. Very welcome when it's hot, even when it's only 27ºC like today.
There's a thread about it here http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550609
There's a thread about it here http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550609
Sep 23rd 2012, 7:25 pm
#13
Forum Regular
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 103
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
That'll be the "Freemantle Doctor " then !
Sep 23rd 2012, 9:00 pm
#14
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Apr 2012
Location: Auckland
Posts: 536
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
I lived in Perth for about 8/9 months over summer and winter.....it can be windy - but its not a bad wind - its lovely and you need it there. Summers are very hot and dry so the wind is great. Winters are mild and warm so again - the wind isn't a problem.
Perth is a good city - but very isolated so I would be interested to know how you find it, out of all Ozzie cities I would say its the most NZ like.
Perth is a good city - but very isolated so I would be interested to know how you find it, out of all Ozzie cities I would say its the most NZ like.
Sep 24th 2012, 8:07 am
#15
Forum Regular
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 103
Re: We are really taking up the kiwi culture!
Caz, Perth sounds great I've got a few friends that have moved there, and all my kids have visited there. In my ignorance I thought Adelaide was the most NZ like city! 