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Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Townhouse or nice unit easily done in Sydney for UKP196,000. There's one in my block in Lane Cove, 2 bed, completely renovated, LUG for $400k. 'Out West' would get you a house but who the hell wants to live in Dodge City?
You'd get a townhouse in Hillsong land but you'd have to put up with God botherers, Daily Mail types and mind numbing boredom in a cultural wasteland. Rest of the report is pure fiction. (well apart from the bread. Bread is free where I live 'cos the wife works for GWF :D ) You're right, I should have qualified that: where can I get a house (or an apartment) in a place I might consider living in? ;) |
Re: Moving back from Australia
in a place I might consider living in? Me I'm pretty lucky, if I was going to stay in Oz I wouldn't mind living in a nice, top floor unit or townhouse, because in 18yrs here I've only ever lived in units. But I like to live in a nice suburb (nice is different for everybody, but for us it means vibrant, cultural, close to work, lower nth shore etc). I've never been a house type person, and luckily neither has my wife (nearly everyone in Korea lives in an apartment). I guess if you've had a house it'd be pretty hard to go back, but we've never had one (I hate gardening), so we don't miss it. The right surroundings are more important to us than sq mtrs, but then again we don't have kids (and not likely to). We just save save save and then will decide where to take the cash. Somerset if I had my way, ;) Canada if the wife has hers :rolleyes: :D |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by ShozInOz
A lot of truth in this post. Culturally, the British are and have long been very self critical. This is best displayed in British humour. Australia is culturally quite the reverse. Comedy is developing to buck this trend, e.g. Kath and Kim, Australian of the Year award. But for Average Joe, the insularity and parochialism remains in epic proportions. There are two types of pride, and for me, too often, Australia's pride dips into the deadly sin variety, i.e. utterly self-centred. This leads to the huge blind spot and attribution error to which you refer, which prevents Australians from seeing Australia as it really is, and attributing its problems to "non-Australian" sources.
The exposition of Australia in the media is simply a joke. I remember an article on BBC website that would have been utterly hillarious if it were any more ludicrous. Before you set off to work in your $400 glass bottomed boat via the great barrier reef and under the harbour bridge, oh and via Uluru somehow, drinking a 25cent bottle of wine and a 50cent lobster for breakfast, have a laugh at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4160570.stm. The Australian Tourism Protection Board must have caughed up a pretty penny, I mean cent, for this one. |
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we seem to make the largesr contribution..... by going back home again. |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Ah yeah well, that's different ;)
Me I'm pretty lucky, if I was going to stay in Oz I wouldn't mind living in a nice, top floor unit or townhouse, because in 18yrs here I've only ever lived in units. But I like to live in a nice suburb (nice is different for everybody, but for us it means vibrant, cultural, close to work, lower nth shore etc). I've never been a house type person, and luckily neither has my wife (nearly everyone in Korea lives in an apartment). I guess if you've had a house it'd be pretty hard to go back, but we've never had one (I hate gardening), so we don't miss it. The right surroundings are more important to us than sq mtrs, but then again we don't have kids (and not likely to). We just save save save and then will decide where to take the cash. Somerset if I had my way, ;) Canada if the wife has hers :rolleyes: :D |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by by the sea side
What a load of old rubbish! I don't know why they want to invite the British to oz anyway, we seem to make the largesr contribution..... by going back home again. :D
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Somerset? FPM, me too! But I would like a house. (actually my all time place to live would be in or around Dorchester, mucho grande $$ though :( ) |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Really? I was born and bred in Wells (nr Glastobury) If I went to Somerset I'd probably like a house, but not a big one. Not too much call for modern apartments in Wurzel country :D
(actually my all time place to live would be in or around Dorchester, mucho grande $$ though :( ) I am from Wiltshire originally, I be a Devizes moonraker. |
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You are kidding! Dorchester! Between me and you my parents have just done a fact finding holiday to Dorchester for me. Thought Cerne Abbas, love that giant. I am from Wiltshire originally, I be a Devizes moonraker. |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Nice :) So you 'planning' something then? ;)
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Oh man I'm jealous. However we have had a mini breakthough today. Wifey mailed me today. She works for a food company that is owned by a British company. They sent a guy out from London for two years secondment. He's been here 6mths and said there's no way he's staying after his term is up and is heading back to London. Now he's filling her head with how multicultural London is and she's discovered there's a Korean community at Maldon (New Maldon?). So she seems excited.
When we were there I was offered a good job in Aldershot. My wife had a terrible time with being sick, neck pain, eye infection and had to transfer to distance study at uni. All of this didn't help her settle. Now London wouldn't be ideal, but she is studying to be a CPA so who knows in the future. ;) I don't think she realised how truly depressed I was at the thought of coming back here, she does now, but we work through it :) I shall adopt the softly softly approach :D |
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Originally Posted by Rosie Cheeks
I didn't wait to be invited, I just turned up clutching my very expensive visa's. I would like to contribute to Australia by going home please.
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Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Oh man I'm jealous. However we have had a mini breakthough today. Wifey mailed me today. She works for a food company that is owned by a British company. They sent a guy out from London for two years secondment. He's been here 6mths and said there's no way he's staying after his term is up and is heading back to London. Now he's filling her head with how multicultural London is and she's discovered there's a Korean community at Maldon (New Maldon?). So she seems excited.
When we were there I was offered a good job in Aldershot. My wife had a terrible time with being sick, neck pain, eye infection and had to transfer to distance study at uni. All of this didn't help her settle. Now London wouldn't be ideal, but she is studying to be a CPA so who knows in the future. ;) I don't think she realised how truly depressed I was at the thought of coming back here, she does now, but we work through it :) I shall adopt the softly softly approach :D |
Re: Moving back from Australia
Originally Posted by FPM
Oh man I'm jealous. However we have had a mini breakthough today. Wifey mailed me today. She works for a food company that is owned by a British company. They sent a guy out from London for two years secondment. He's been here 6mths and said there's no way he's staying after his term is up and is heading back to London. Now he's filling her head with how multicultural London is and she's discovered there's a Korean community at Maldon (New Maldon?). So she seems excited.
When we were there I was offered a good job in Aldershot. My wife had a terrible time with being sick, neck pain, eye infection and had to transfer to distance study at uni. All of this didn't help her settle. Now London wouldn't be ideal, but she is studying to be a CPA so who knows in the future. ;) I don't think she realised how truly depressed I was at the thought of coming back here, she does now, but we work through it :) I shall adopt the softly softly approach :D |
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I admire your coping skills. Thanks It hasn't been easy. I had a very expensive (still paying) divorce, my wife has beem married before, we both went through our divorces with no family here at all (we didn't now each other then). I've had a couple of operations and a motorcycle accident here. Yoosun has had her own troubles. But we muddle on I hated seeing her unhappy in the UK and she hates seeing me unhappy here. Which is why I thought he UK would be good, having a family around. I think we went about it wrong, I got offered a job after 5wks, but obviously had to turn it down, as the damage in Yoosun's mind was done then :( I think at worst we'll have to stay until her degree is finished (2-3 yrs) but I reckon if we could secure good jobs and with the large deposit we've saved we could do it smarter next time, and the distance uni thing wouldn't seem as bad. As it was I think we had too many hurdles to jump. I don't think she gave it long enough but i know when she's unhappy, and if you can't do it for your spouse who can you do it for. I know it's not for ever here and so does she. That gets us through. I love her to bits, and I love my country but England comes second in this contest (just ;) :D :D ) |
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