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Forum: USA
Sep 25th 2013, 7:15 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 2,663
Posted By mikewest

Re: Currecy Fair

I use currencyfair on a monthly basis to transfer money from the US to Ireland. I find them very good and so far no problems. Decent rate and very low fees
Forum: Australia
Jul 1st 2010, 12:39 pm
Replies: 22
Views: 15,083
Posted By mikewest

Re: Has anyone transported IKEA "Billy" bookcases?

May I humbly suggest http://www.ebay.com.au/. It's amazing the amount of "completely unavailable mate, can't buy those anymore, nobody ever wants 'em, stopped making 'em years ago mate" bits you can...
Forum: Australia
Jun 12th 2010, 11:17 pm
Replies: 530
Views: 52,510
Posted By mikewest

Re: OZ BOOM is over?...house prices falling & rates might drop

Can I make a observation as an interested outsider. The title of this thread is misleading and the content deja vu.

I don't feel the OZ boom is over and won't be for 50 to 100 years to come but...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 12th 2010, 10:53 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 9,415
Posted By mikewest

Re: Withdrawal of citizenship application

Does your home country have to know? Can their dictat be ignored. I qualify for dual citizenship (neither including Australia) and one of my "home" countries had for many years a law stating that you...
Forum: Australia
Jun 9th 2010, 11:45 am
Replies: 30
Views: 21,784
Posted By mikewest

Re: Fostering in Australia

To the op. Do you foster at the moment or have you done in the past? You almost never get a child in foster care that doesn't have problems. They need a huge amount of work and can impact negatively...
Forum: Australia
Jun 2nd 2010, 9:34 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,744
Posted By mikewest

Re: Always running out of hot water

Ask you OH and they may explain the shower before bed:wub:

but you work colleagues may appreciate a morning shower even if it is cold or maybe if it is cold :o
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 2nd 2010, 10:07 am
Replies: 25
Views: 7,349
Posted By mikewest

Re: One-way flight tickets on a tourist visa

My guess is that you could do it without any difficulties if for instance you had a one way ticket onwards to NZ or Thailand or somewhere else to show them if you are questioned. This is all...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 30th 2010, 8:26 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 6,085
Posted By mikewest

Re: help with advice - 457 visa and I've lost my job - Baby due next week.

Not wanting to repeat the advice offered by others but get your butt into an agents office ASAP or before. You have very little time and they probably know of some exception/compasionate...
Forum: Australia
May 28th 2010, 11:51 pm
Replies: 2,577
Views: 335,953
Posted By mikewest

Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

Aye Weatherspons, after all these years they still can't do a decent egg and chips. They manage cheap decent beer though so they ain't all bad.

Wait until after the budget to see a weak pound...
Forum: The Barbie
May 28th 2010, 11:06 pm
Replies: 160
Views: 9,205
Posted By mikewest

Re: If you could live anywhere in world where would it be?

Bernie yer quare craic hi, but will ye feic off outa it and let the thread get back on topic.

Personally I would like to live in either south Devon or north Britanny either side of the Channel...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 28th 2010, 10:43 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 6,085
Posted By mikewest

Re: help with advice - 457 visa and I've lost my job - Baby due next week.

Sorry to cut across you guys but I think the the situation is bigbaz and sandra are a couple living in Australia on bigbaz's 457 and bigbaz junior is making an appearance at an akward moment in its...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
May 28th 2010, 1:29 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 5,491
Posted By mikewest

Re: Going bankrupt in Australia

Never say this, always hold it as what it should be, a refuge of last resort.

I have managed to get this far in life with only claiming dole for 3 weeks in total. The country that I was in had a...
Forum: Australia
May 18th 2010, 9:20 am
Replies: 530
Views: 52,510
Posted By mikewest

Re: OZ BOOM is over?...house prices falling & rates might drop

Excellent synopsis of the Irish bubble and burst Steve. On a more local scale to Australia who do all the multiple property owners think will want their properties when most FTBs finally buy their...
Forum: The Welcome Inn
May 12th 2010, 8:19 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 543
Posted By mikewest

Re: Ireland to Oz ... maybe

Where I was looking at gets cooooooooold in the winter. BC would be nice and temperate but the money wasn't in it for my skills


humidity :thumbdown: flies and bugs :unsure: 1000 SPF suncream :D...
Forum: The Welcome Inn
May 12th 2010, 6:56 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 543
Posted By mikewest

Re: Ireland to Oz ... maybe

Thanks folks. I lurked around here in the past when considering a job in Canada but I let that one past as I am not a great fan of the cold. I can handle heat no problem but not cold.

As far as...
Forum: Republic of Ireland
May 11th 2010, 9:41 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 2,810
Posted By mikewest

Re: UK Expat moving to Ireland - swapping a foreign licence?!

Get that UK licence and use it in Ireland which you are allowed to do under EU rules (whatever the local plod may try to tell you). It carries the benefit of not accumulating penalty points in...
Forum: The Welcome Inn
May 11th 2010, 9:33 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 543
Posted By mikewest

Ireland to Oz ... maybe

Hi all. I have begun investigating the possibility of a move to the back of beyond in Western Australia where there are more than a few open jobs in my area. Most of the jobs would suit single guys...
Forum: Australia
May 11th 2010, 3:22 pm
Replies: 119
Views: 15,871
Posted By mikewest

Re: expensive groceries

General question which may be best posted in this thread. Do the online shopping prices for Coles and Woolworths match the instore prices? also is there much regional variation between the prices in...
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