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Forum: Australia
Feb 22nd 2010, 4:42 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,050
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Short breaks from Perth

Personally we like Busselton or Dunsborough(We're a family with young kids), it's a great start if you've not explorered wa, it has beautiful calm beaches a few shops and is close to loads of other...
Forum: Australia
Sep 18th 2008, 4:11 am
Replies: 43
Views: 3,599
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Surviving on $68500 PA in Perth Could We??

Hi Well we get by on that and we still manage a holiday, to buy nice things every now and then and to live the dream HOWEVER I am not a massive shopper, we watch our money and I have mastered...
Forum: The Update Forum
Aug 19th 2008, 12:18 am
Replies: 86
Views: 15,214
Posted By By the Avon

Re: NOT EVEN 3 MONTHS IN AND SO HOMESICK

I think a great many of us went through a stage like this, I know I did myself and now 4 years on I still miss my family but only to the extent that i would move them all out here too if i could. I...
Forum: Australia
Apr 7th 2008, 7:29 am
Replies: 50
Views: 3,228
Posted By By the Avon

Re: What do I do with my 3.5 year old?

But when they're old enough to go to the proper kindy it only costs $50 a term (state school two school days a week). My son just started this year, and as a boy with a birthday in July I've had to...
Forum: Australia
Apr 7th 2008, 1:22 am
Replies: 50
Views: 3,228
Posted By By the Avon

Re: What do I do with my 3.5 year old?

There are playgroups over here, they're from birth virtually right through to school age, my son only went for a short while when he was only 2, so i don't know if once they are older you didn't have...
Forum: Australia
Mar 14th 2008, 5:44 am
Replies: 36
Views: 2,274
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Today.....

Congratulations!! You weren't done in midland by any chance? I was aussiefied on tuesday too! Free beer wine and nibbles, worth it just for that!!
Forum: Australia
Feb 21st 2008, 5:59 am
Replies: 48
Views: 12,597
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Banksia Grove,Butler WA, Australia

Well, we lived it Banksia Grove and on the whole it was a very nice normal suburb but it's unfinished, it's a growth area which means that you buy there now and it has a good possibility putting...
Forum: Australia
Jul 11th 2007, 1:26 am
Replies: 251
Views: 23,860
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Is the Australian 'dream' dead?

Like many have said, it depends on the dream.

Our dream was to own our own piece of australia with relative piece and a view! :). We've acheived that. We live no where near the coast, we do not...
Forum: Australia
Jun 21st 2007, 7:27 am
Replies: 5
Views: 500
Posted By By the Avon

Re: PR visa holiday query

It doesn't say but i've just noticed that it does say multiple travel. Thanks for the advice folks.:thumbsup:
Forum: Australia
Jun 21st 2007, 1:38 am
Replies: 5
Views: 500
Posted By By the Avon

PR visa holiday query

Well, we'll be leaving australia for the first time since we arrived three years ago and I'm not yet an aussie citizen(just not got round to doing it yet), still a PR. Will i need anything new to get...
Forum: Australia
May 29th 2007, 1:38 am
Replies: 46
Views: 3,111
Posted By By the Avon

Re: WHAT HEATING DO YOU HAVE?????

Just oil filled radiators for us at the moment, and we're out in bullsbrook so minus a couple of degrees for us too. Will be getting a wood burner put in as soon as we have the money, (roll on end...
Forum: Australia
May 29th 2007, 1:31 am
Replies: 29
Views: 1,922
Posted By By the Avon

Re: housing market to rise again in perth

I wouldn't say a boom, but there has been a lot of babys of late.
I suppose it depends on whether you bought wisely in a market that was still rising/yet to rise within perth, Perth is...
Forum: Australia
May 24th 2007, 12:59 am
Replies: 11
Views: 597
Posted By By the Avon

Re: City working - dress code?

The one thing I learned from my time working in the city was they have a thing about men only wearing long sleeved shirts. I found it very strange but the only people wearing short ones were...
Forum: Australia
May 24th 2007, 12:51 am
Replies: 115
Views: 6,926
Posted By By the Avon

Re: What did you think when reading negative posts about Australia

Nice!
For many people on here I would think that they just enjoy it, it's a way of keeping in touch with friends, many of which are no longer just cyber friends when after moving here. They do it to...
Forum: Australia
May 16th 2007, 6:32 am
Replies: 28
Views: 1,847
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Babies on a Plane

We're making a trip back to the UK in a few months and have booked the sky cot with emirates for our boy, he'll be 9 months old at the time, we also have a four year old who has a seat so were hoping...
Forum: Australia
May 11th 2007, 12:15 am
Replies: 8
Views: 740
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Childcare in Perth

It's not bad, very peaceful and frankly it's the only way we can afford to live the life we wanted with our own land and a view. My hubbie is a proper Victor Meldrew when it comes to neighbour...
Forum: The Barbie
May 9th 2007, 2:42 am
Replies: 170
Views: 7,818
Posted By By the Avon

Re: The View From Your Window

What a difference a rain makes, it's very exciting, it's our first autumn and our winter creeks are starting to run, it's more than making up for the cold nights! brrrrr!!!
Forum: Australia
May 9th 2007, 2:15 am
Replies: 8
Views: 740
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Childcare in Perth

Well welcome, it's a bit of a change from N-U-L hey!?! We lived there for 4 years before moving here(I'm unfortunately blessed with coming from Crewe)

Hope all is going well for you! We live out...
Forum: Australia
May 4th 2007, 2:40 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 740
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Childcare in Perth

Welcome to Australia!

Well we came here 2.5 years ago from Newcastle Under lyme thinking the same thing, needless to say I managed 6 months before decided I needed to work for my sanity and our...
Forum: Australia
May 1st 2007, 1:29 am
Replies: 9
Views: 605
Posted By By the Avon

Re: bore water tanks-rural Aus

We live rural and we have a rainwater tank, I wasn't even aware you could have a borewater tank, I thought that borewater was strictly outside use and pumped straight out of the ground.(we're very...
Forum: Australia
Apr 26th 2007, 3:57 am
Replies: 174
Views: 11,943
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Is there anyone happy in Perth?

We're very happy, we've been here coming on three years and have what we came here dreaming of(a view and peace and quiet!!)! We have a lifestyle that we could never have had in the UK. We'd still...
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2007, 8:45 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,553
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Having a mare

We like it, noone to wake you( just you watch one of our neighbours get a noisy rooster! :))
Forum: Australia
Apr 13th 2007, 7:11 am
Replies: 19
Views: 1,553
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Having a mare

This was one of the reasons we made our last move. We got a new neighbour about a year after living in our house, it was nothing special but we were very happy there. Things went downhill, driving...
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2007, 7:09 am
Replies: 10
Views: 10,438
Posted By By the Avon

Re: Get british citizen ship for baby born in Australia

We're in exactly the same position, I'm under the impression that since my hubby is an australian citizen and I'm a PR then our son is a dual citizen, he has an australian birth certificate and an...
Forum: The Barbie
Apr 11th 2007, 5:58 am
Replies: 170
Views: 7,818
Posted By By the Avon

Re: The View From Your Window

My apologies if this doesn't work, never stuck a photo on before. Here's ours!(family room and bedroom) Bring on the rain!!!!
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