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Nov 12th 2010, 11:23 pm
Replies: 87
Views: 9,135
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Think long and hard, and then think again!

Everyone is different, we moved to Perth in 2005, my husband was always homesick and I wasn't. After 2 years, a baby, our wedding and missing my Grandma's funeral and my brother's wedding in the UK,...
Jan 30th 2009, 5:29 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 435
Posted By clougherty family

Certificate of Good Conduct

Hi all,

Don't know if anyone can help with this (maybe JAJ?) My husband is in the process of applying for a job in the police force and they are asking if we can get a Certificate of Good Conduct...
Forum: Australia
Aug 17th 2008, 5:11 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 453
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Speech Therapy in WA

Hi,

I'm not an expert but my niece was referred by a paediatrician and was told to go private while waiting. I think it was $60 per session and she didn't get into the state system for at least a...
Forum: Australia
Jul 11th 2008, 9:54 am
Replies: 77
Views: 6,507
Posted By clougherty family

Re: House prices and the media....

Hi, the house prices here in the UK have dropped more than 6% in the last year. Houses just aren't selling here, there are houses on the market that were on last May when we got back from Oz. The...
Jul 10th 2008, 6:17 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,025
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Forgot to menton - Important passport info for babies if born in Oz & returning t

There was stuff on here last year about this and we got our little one both passports and also a citizenship certificate because apparently the passport doesn't guarantee Australian citizenship...
Jul 1st 2008, 8:34 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 2,017
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Things to make you go WOW!

I'm happier here than I was there, let's get that straight! The thought of driving down Whitfords avenue fills me with dread! It's not perfect here but it's home.

Jo;)
Jul 1st 2008, 4:48 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 2,017
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Things to make you go WOW!

I went for a ride on my bike on Sunday night at about 8pm and rode from my house past the Thames towards Cookham and went WOW at the views either side of me of cows in fields and Clivedon in the...
Forum: Australia
Feb 29th 2008, 5:49 pm
Replies: 84
Views: 4,539
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Take away

Lived in Perth for 2 yrs and NEVER had a good take away. The Chinese is awful and so is the Indian. We had quite a nice eat in Indian at the one behind the Moon and Sixpence the week before we came...
Forum: Australia
Jan 31st 2008, 7:57 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 297,815
Posted By clougherty family

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

The bloke on the programme did say they would have to have a $400k (about $3k a month he said) mortgage to buy that house so I don't really see how that's affordable on $50k a year (about $800 a week...
Jan 30th 2008, 6:00 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 924
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Selling houses

Hi,

Depends what your house is like and location/price etc. Ours was a lovely house but on quite a busy road and took 3mths to sell. Some friends of ours sold their house which was similar to ours...
Replies: 24
Views: 2,004
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Passports for returning

Hi Tracy,

I'm sure you can just use you British passport going in and out as you are still a British citizen. You do need to get an Aussie passport at some point though otherwise because it's...
Jan 29th 2008, 1:28 pm
Replies: 324
Views: 39,166
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Too scared to live in England.

Just wanted to say that I am not generalising about the UK, I am talking about where I live. The reason it is worrying is that it is an affluent area and if it's going downhill here then I dread to...
Jan 29th 2008, 12:02 pm
Replies: 324
Views: 39,166
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Too scared to live in England.

Hi Crayfish
Reading is another place you wouldn't want to live!! I think if we do end up moving it's going to be somewhere in the sticks like Devon, can't see any other big towns being any different...
Jan 29th 2008, 11:18 am
Replies: 324
Views: 39,166
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Too scared to live in England.

Hi Crayfish,

Thanks for your advice. We have no intention of EVER returning to Australia, the point I was making is that my husband feels so strongly about the changes here that he was even...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2008, 10:55 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 297,815
Posted By clougherty family

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Hi NB

I realised that, but they were saying that they'd like to buy it and they would have to have a $400k mortgage. I just thought that was unrealistic for the wages the programme said he would...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2008, 10:47 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 297,815
Posted By clougherty family

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

I thought they seemed really nice and seemed to have the right attitude. The only slightly worrying thing I thought was when they said the mortgage on that house would be $3000 per month and earlier...
Jan 29th 2008, 7:47 am
Replies: 324
Views: 39,166
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Too scared to live in England.

Hi Tracey,

Don't want to get into all this slagging off UK/Aus. and to be honest the only reason I posted is because we're just a bit worried about the situation here. I love England and...
Jan 27th 2008, 1:07 pm
Replies: 324
Views: 39,166
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Too scared to live in England.

Hi all,

We moved back to the UK last May and have to say that we are slightly worried about bringing our boys up in this area. We live in Maidenhead in Berkshire which is a nice area but it seems...
Jan 11th 2008, 10:11 am
Replies: 3
Views: 10,240
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Taking Electrical appliances back to the UK

Fridges don't travel well apparently but we brought all other appliances back. The only thing I found a pain is things with transformer type plugs (ie. baby monitors) because you can't change the...
Jan 5th 2008, 2:31 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 5,383
Posted By clougherty family

Re: I think I want to go back.

Interesting that I find nothing here that I would miss if I were never to return!!! I hate the same-ness of the weather, the culture is barren in comparison, the history is negligible, the people...
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2008, 12:20 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 1,948
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Has anyone shipped without insurance

We used Letton Percival on the way back to the UK and it was much cheaper and the service was excellent. A couple of things got broken and they paid the money straight into our bank account. The...
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2008, 11:54 am
Replies: 2
Views: 1,130
Posted By clougherty family

Re: termites found next door

Hi,

They will all try and scare you into having treatment. You should really get the perimeter done, we had ours done last year and it was about $150 I think. The termites only get in if there is...
Dec 30th 2007, 2:56 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 904
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Any Probs With Aussies TVs In UK?

PMSL :rofl: We had the same experience with our plasma.

One of our crappy telly's that we bought in Oz worked here fine, even the sound without a set top box, but another one that we bought there...
Dec 1st 2007, 4:49 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 4,302
Posted By clougherty family

Re: shipping car back to uk

Hi,

We were thinking of shipping ours back but in the end we worked out that we would be better off selling it. Apart from the shipping cost involved, there's loads of paper work this end and it...
Forum: Australia
Nov 23rd 2007, 9:29 am
Replies: 49
Views: 4,027
Posted By clougherty family

Re: Apprehensive About Perth

I mean't no offence by the pub comment but I think that a lot of people arrive thinking it will be the same as the UK but hot. As you know, it's a totally different life. My brother in law came out...
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