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Forum: Australia
Jul 27th 2016, 9:48 am
Replies: 54
Views: 8,002
Posted By munch

Re: Moving to Australia - Cost of relocating?

Yes you would be charged in Vic. Just Queensland & Tasmania that you wouldn't be.
Forum: Australia
Jul 27th 2016, 3:36 am
Replies: 54
Views: 8,002
Posted By munch

Re: Moving to Australia - Cost of relocating?

We have relocated twice to Australia so have had a lot of experience with relocation costs unfortunately :rofl:
On our most recent return I will give you a rough idea of what we had to allow for (I...
Forum: Back Home
Apr 13th 2016, 2:53 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 19,825
Posted By munch

Re: Back In UK A Year From Aus - Choppy Waters!

I really don't think anyone would move back to the UK without carrying out research and carefully considering all their options.
You are very lucky that things have worked out so well for you it...
Forum: Back Home
Apr 12th 2016, 4:01 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 19,825
Posted By munch

Re: Back In UK A Year From Aus - Choppy Waters!

I can relate to so much of your story. We too lived in Australia and felt the pull of returning to be closer to family.
We gave up a good secure life and took the kids away from all that they had...
Forum: Australia
Oct 18th 2015, 12:27 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,241
Posted By munch

Re: International Movers and storage costs

Hi,
Not sure if this will help but we used John Masons for our move back to the UK from Perth though not Sydney, like you we had used them originally.
It cost £4875 to send a 20ft container plus...
Forum: Australia
Mar 29th 2015, 10:43 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,143
Posted By munch

Re: Hairdresser NOR Perth?

Hi, I have tried many, many hairdressers in Perth and after too many disasters I finally found a great one in Jindalee...Panache just across from DB Dental.
They are mainly all from the UK and not...
Mar 9th 2015, 10:38 pm
Replies: 33
Views: 5,041
Posted By munch

Re: Advice Moving back to the North West

I can relate to your situation so much, we moved back to the UK at Christmas after 6 years living in Australia and for all the same reasons as you.
We grew up in Leyland and wanted to live within...
Forum: Australia
Sep 9th 2014, 2:47 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,175
Posted By munch

Re: Old Documentary (Mids 2000 I think) about people emigrating to OZ

It may be A New Life Down Under, remember watching that years ago in the UK before we moved here. Must be 9/10 years ago at least.
Always remember the Skeggs family in Perth, he was a brickie she...
Apr 9th 2014, 2:02 am
Replies: 56
Views: 6,256
Posted By munch

Re: Thee Question to ask about returning to the UK.

It is one of the reasons we are moving back, I could not imagine either of us being all alone on the other side of the world in old age. I can't see our children staying here once they are older...
Forum: Australia
Dec 22nd 2013, 6:59 am
Replies: 2
Views: 868
Posted By munch

Re: Driving instructors NOR

Thank you, will give them a call :thumbsup:
Forum: Australia
Dec 21st 2013, 10:53 am
Replies: 2
Views: 868
Posted By munch

Driving instructors NOR

Could anybody recommend a good driving instructor in the Northern suburbs... Joondalup area.
Thanks..
Dec 21st 2013, 10:48 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,429
Posted By munch

Re: Anyone else had a funny reaction when telling friends they are going back?

Drives me mad when people screw their face up at you if you tell them you are thinking of moving back, tell you your mad for even thinking about it but then they are the ones that spend all their...
Oct 18th 2013, 8:39 am
Replies: 1,841
Views: 131,246
Posted By munch

Re: Is the situation in the UK really that bad?

Hey, no worries. Just read some of the more recent posts and get what you mean. Can become a bit of a kids playground at times :rofl:
Oct 18th 2013, 6:04 am
Replies: 1,841
Views: 131,246
Posted By munch

Re: Is the situation in the UK really that bad?

Did it??? No, I didn't realise or even read that but then again it wouldn't have been relevant to my opinion or experiences I was sharing because I wasn't trying to defend crime falling in the UK..I...
Oct 18th 2013, 5:12 am
Replies: 1,841
Views: 131,246
Posted By munch

Re: Is the situation in the UK really that bad?

Our plans are to return one day but for for lots of reasons. Crime is a problem here but it wouldn't make us move back to the UK Asap, it's the same there. Like I say...my point was that problems are...
Oct 18th 2013, 3:20 am
Replies: 1,841
Views: 131,246
Posted By munch

Re: Is the situation in the UK really that bad?

I have seen so much more crime in Perth than I did in the 36 years of living in the UK;
3 burglaries over the past 18 months on the street with live.
Shoplifting, one incident was very nasty with...
Forum: Australia
Oct 16th 2013, 1:45 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 999
Posted By munch

Re: Post From England

We have just received some mail that was posted to us from the UK in July! It has been very poor recently most things taking a lot longer than they used to. If I send a card to the UK it can be there...
Forum: Australia
Oct 16th 2013, 1:23 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,936
Posted By munch

Re: School meals in WA schools

Most kids take a packed lunch, school canteens offer a choice of pies, burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches etc. but are very expensive so we only use the service on special occasions. It would cost us $70...
Aug 12th 2013, 2:45 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,181
Posted By munch

Re: Kid needs new UK passport....Visa is in the old one?

Same thing happened to us with out youngest son, called immigration when we had renewed his passport and they said they don't insert the labels anymore because it is all electronic...makes sense....
Jul 30th 2013, 2:59 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 6,190
Posted By munch

Re: School age children moving back from Aus to UK

We are also thinking of moving back at the end of 2014 for lots of different reasons but one of which is education...I totally agree that there is lack of focus especially when they hit year 10/11...
Forum: Australia
Jul 14th 2013, 4:25 pm
Replies: 95
Views: 9,901
Posted By munch

Re: Perth - The most expensive city in Australia

There needs to be more competition in Perth, huge monopolies in the supermarket chains and utilities here. They get away with charging what they like and get away with providing very poor customer...
Jul 12th 2013, 2:57 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 3,125
Posted By munch

Re: What is the first thing you will do when you return?

The first thing I will do is stop worrying so much about being so far away from my family...we are so very far away from everybody we love and to be within minutes of them all again would be...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 10th 2013, 4:31 am
Replies: 77
Views: 5,426
Posted By munch

Re: Missing things from home

Warburtons bread and a good bakery that sells sausage rolls (pork not beef), steak pies and danish pastries/cream cakes. A good selection of yoghurts would be great..very limited choice here and...
Forum: Australia
May 5th 2013, 8:33 am
Replies: 86
Views: 9,938
Posted By munch

Re: Have not been back to Uk for 10 years has it changed?

COLOR="Red"]Petrol is a lot more expensive there I agree. Works out very good value here with the supermarket discounts.[/COLOR]
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