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Forum: The Update Forum
Nov 30th 2019, 6:51 am
Replies: 5
Views: 5,571
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: 14 years, ping pong time

We have been back for 4 years now and I can confirm that the UK has changed dramatically for the worst. 10 years of the tories has destroyed public services, broken the education system, eroded the...
Forum: The Barbie
Nov 25th 2019, 11:29 am
Replies: 103
Views: 19,669
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Roll Call...

Good lord, this place really has died a death, hasn't it?

ironically i was dropping by to warm the account back up as we are ping-ponging back to Perth in the new year, guess I will have to make...
Forum: Australia
Jan 23rd 2019, 7:16 pm
Replies: 74
Views: 11,616
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Playing ping-pong

Some great answers, thanks, and some nonsense too. This place doesn't change much, does it?



We left to give our daughter the opportunity to know her grand parents and to have some family...
Forum: The Update Forum
Jan 17th 2019, 10:57 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 5,571
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: 14 years, ping pong time

If you could, that would be great. I can't PM you until I have 3 posts (this one makes 3....)
Forum: The Update Forum
Jan 17th 2019, 10:12 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 5,571
Posted By boom_meringue

Cool 14 years, ping pong time

We were on here as steve&clare but I don't have access to the email address I registered with, so here we are...

Moved to Perth in 2005, had our daughter in 2009 and moved back to the UK to allow...
Forum: Australia
Jan 17th 2019, 9:46 pm
Replies: 74
Views: 11,616
Posted By boom_meringue

Playing ping-pong

Background, 2005-15 in Perth, got citizenship Aussie day 2008, we've all got passports.

We've been back 3 years now, ended up buying in rural Gloucestershire to be close to where I was working at...
Forum: The Barbie
May 2nd 2018, 11:02 am
Replies: 12
Views: 2,166
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Social life, or lack of?

I have been back in the UK for 2 years after 10 years in Perth; we have found it harder to connect to people here in the UK than we ever did in Perth. You will find loads of expat get togethers where...
Forum: Australia
Nov 17th 2017, 5:49 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 6,885
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Boomeranging - how to choose between Melbourne and Sydney

Good points about Brisbane but I suspect I would find some of the same challenges work wise as Perth- very mining dependent and a lack of the breadth of industry to support a strong IT sector. We...
Forum: Australia
Nov 16th 2017, 12:01 pm
Replies: 66
Views: 6,885
Posted By boom_meringue

Boomeranging - how to choose between Melbourne and Sydney

Backstory - moved to Perth in 2005, had a baby, found it was all a bit too remote and far from elderly parents so moved back to the UK in 2015. After 10 years of being away we haven't settled well,...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Aug 27th 2015, 5:38 am
Replies: 192
Views: 14,558
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: UK Migration has to stop

"This article was amended on 12 January to clarify that local authorities were expressly forbidden from replacing social housing stock by the Thatcher government under the right-to-buy programme"
...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 14th 2015, 5:30 am
Replies: 10
Views: 6,017
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Car loans after returning to UK

Exactly. As a returning immigrant you are not deemed credit worthy if you have been out of the UK for more than 3 years. The OP is looking for people who have actually managed to land car finance,...
Forum: Australia
Jul 14th 2015, 5:29 am
Replies: 1
Views: 839
Posted By boom_meringue

Shipping stuff back to the UK from perth

Has anyone returned to the UK recently and shipped their belongings back from Perth?

I am interested in hearing experiences good and back as well as costs for the relavant companies.

we have...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 13th 2015, 12:19 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 654
Posted By boom_meringue

Shipping quotes from Perth (AUS) to UK

We are moving back to the UK and have just got an offer on the house, so are looking at quotes for a 20ft container from Perth to the UK.

Have you moved back recently or have received quotes...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jun 15th 2015, 1:02 am
Replies: 192
Views: 14,558
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: UK Migration has to stop

The housing crisis isn't because of immigration, it is because the Tories have sold off all the council housing.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jun 12th 2015, 7:43 am
Replies: 192
Views: 14,558
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: UK Migration has to stop

I can't tell whether you are a dickhead or a troll.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jun 12th 2015, 2:42 am
Replies: 192
Views: 14,558
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: UK Migration has to stop

It does make me laugh, before I left the UK in 2005, most of the doctors I ever went to in Bristol were Indian, because they had come to the UK to receive world class training whilst receiving less...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 12th 2015, 1:11 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,402
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Where to start checklist?

Kirsty, thats fantastic, thanks
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 10th 2015, 6:41 am
Replies: 48
Views: 4,247
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: South West with great beach & town

Maddie,

To be honest, your choice really comes down to how much cash you have, what you do for a living and how close you want to be to family; if you have enough money out of the sale of a...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 9th 2015, 7:03 am
Replies: 48
Views: 4,247
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: South West with great beach & town

Fair point, but how can you wax lyrical about an area which doesn't have good employment prospects and is exceptionally run down? I'm not just talking about Plymouth but also Penzance, Redruth,...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jun 9th 2015, 5:59 am
Replies: 192
Views: 14,558
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: UK Migration has to stop

Good lord, are we still seeing posts like this? I can remember in 2005 getting together with a bunch of people on here, many of whom were moving to Australia to get away from "all the immigrants"...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 9th 2015, 4:24 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,402
Posted By boom_meringue

Where to start checklist?

In a nutshell our situation is this: Both UK citizens, left for Australia 10 years ago, gained Australian citizenship, had a child, now plan to return to the UK. The midget has a UK and Australian...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jun 9th 2015, 3:51 am
Replies: 48
Views: 4,247
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: South West with great beach & town

Think very carefully about moving to the South West and read and reread what @MrMuffin has written here. having lived in Plymouth for nearly 30 years, family all from Penzance and the Mrs coming from...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 6th 2014, 2:57 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,850
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Are people still moving to Oz?

We have an office in Adelaide and everyone who has gone over to work there is amazed by how much more sensible the cost of living compares to Perth.

I don't see the value proposition for moving to...
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 6th 2014, 1:56 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,850
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Are people still moving to Oz?

Perth especially is really expensive to live now, and the mining boom has completely reversed. No jobs, high cost of living and a long way from home. The great weather doesn't always make up for that.
Forum: The Barbie
Oct 6th 2014, 1:39 am
Replies: 75
Views: 5,850
Posted By boom_meringue

Re: Are people still moving to Oz?

So do you think the numbers have dropped off?

We have been here since 2005 and are seeing loads of people going back.
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