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Apr 12th 2014, 11:55 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 1,170
Posted By teambwr47

Re: 457 to PR and process time

Thanks, sponsor is a global corporation, approved and has done this before so hopefully it will be a faster that 6 month turn around......:fingers crossed:

Want to start looking at buying rather...
Apr 12th 2014, 8:42 am
Replies: 7
Views: 1,170
Posted By teambwr47

Re: 457 to PR and process time

Thanks for moving this to the right place....

Really i'm trying to find out if the 'stated' 6 month is most peoples experience in moving 457 visa to PR.

I remember being quoted long process...
Apr 12th 2014, 8:17 am
Replies: 7
Views: 1,170
Posted By teambwr47

457 to PR and process time

Hello all,

Not been on here for a few years but having moved from UK to NZ to Aus we've been through a lot of processes in terms of visas and Residency as the family and I have IRR status in Nz...
Forum: Australia
Jul 12th 2011, 7:24 am
Replies: 19
Views: 3,225
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Help on suburbs.....

Hi all and thanks very much indeed for the input here to date.....great pics Fish and thanks also for the input on Manly.

This will be the third new city in 4 years so in some ways we're used to...
Forum: Australia
Jul 10th 2011, 5:53 am
Replies: 34
Views: 4,016
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Moving from NZ to Australia

I think NZ will be somewhere we look to maybe come back to for holidays and maybe retirement.....:thumbup:
Forum: Australia
Jul 10th 2011, 5:38 am
Replies: 19
Views: 3,225
Posted By teambwr47

Help on suburbs.....

Well after a false start earlier this year we're on the move from Wellington, New Zealand to Brisbane.

I have a job secured that could be based in either Sydney or Brisbane and been looking...
Forum: Australia
Jul 10th 2011, 5:25 am
Replies: 34
Views: 4,016
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Moving from NZ to Australia

We moved to NZ in July 07 and have lived in Auckland and Wellington but its time to move to OZ and have chosen Brisbane.....

Reasons for going.....Wellington weather is just not good, more...
Forum: Australia
Jan 16th 2011, 5:12 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,267
Posted By teambwr47

Re: prices and exchange rates

Not got the figures but i'm sure someone will chip in.....

I wonder in % terms how much have the following snap shots of some items we all use, risen in price in 3 years in UK/AUS

1 litre of...
Forum: Australia
Jan 16th 2011, 4:56 am
Replies: 10
Views: 1,267
Posted By teambwr47

prices and exchange rates

I've been reading with interest some of the posts here about cost of living etc and wondered what the reality actually is in terms of prices.

Prices go up in every country around the world for...
Forum: Australia
Dec 22nd 2010, 7:53 am
Replies: 33
Views: 3,064
Posted By teambwr47

Forum: The Barbie
Dec 15th 2010, 9:14 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,649
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Apple TV - anyone got it?

Yep had for a long time and its great.

We stream all our music and movies to our house media system via it and rent movies from Apple on a regular basis.

You need an itunes account to rent...
Forum: Australia
Dec 15th 2010, 8:34 am
Replies: 57
Views: 8,214
Posted By teambwr47

Re: sydney rent rates.....a joke

:confused:The original post compared the costs in NZ and the UK to OZ for large well equipped homes. The rates are ludicrous in Sydney ...... Fact!

We're lucky in that we can easily afford long...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 15th 2010, 8:14 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,407
Posted By teambwr47

Re: petrol prices

Err cheaper in real terms than Wellington train tickets and you don't travel on trains that should have scrapped 20 years....

Oh and they seem to run without the daily failures and excuses that we...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 14th 2010, 5:43 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,407
Posted By teambwr47

Re: petrol prices

I assume the petrol vouchers at supermarkets exists in OZ too?
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 14th 2010, 4:44 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,407
Posted By teambwr47

petrol prices

So as petrol rockets towards NZ$2.00 and we consider a move to OZ i thought I'd check the prices there.......

Hmmm todays price for Unleaded - AU$1.22

In other words NZ$1.60.........:confused:
Forum: Australia
Dec 13th 2010, 7:52 am
Replies: 57
Views: 8,214
Posted By teambwr47

sydney rent rates.....a joke

While we consider a move to OZ its amazed us what rental charges for house are like in Sydney......

In Wellington we pay NZ$900 for a very large 5 bedroom house that belongs to a very well known...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 13th 2010, 7:19 am
Replies: 19
Views: 4,403
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Auckland or Wellington?

hmmmmm..............

We moved from UK to Auckland and really enjoyed it, living in South East Auckland countryside of Whitford. We were on the verge of bidding on 7 acres in rural Karaka when a...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 7th 2010, 5:27 am
Replies: 5
Views: 713
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Best prepaid SIM

While they had a 'few issues' with the XT network the guys who run our dealerships in the south island and get to some very remote areas say that Telecom is still the best for coverage.

They tried...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 7th 2010, 5:05 am
Replies: 28
Views: 8,969
Posted By teambwr47

Re: 'Poshest' areas to live in auckland???

I have no idea why Remuera is so popular with some.....

Way to over crammed with houses that are laughably overvalued.

According to the 'Where to live in Auckland' book, when we moved here in...
Forum: Australia
Nov 30th 2010, 7:46 am
Replies: 0
Views: 447
Posted By teambwr47

Sydney suburbs

Just after some ideas on which suburbs we should be looking to rent in as we consider a move to Sydney thats looking more and more likely....

Happy to be up to 45mins drive from central CBD or...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 30th 2010, 5:01 am
Replies: 74
Views: 11,328
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Help....New Zealand or Australia????

It seems there are always routes.....

My wife was recently told by her potential government related employer 'don't worry about your work visa's, we have a special relationship with Immigration,...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 30th 2010, 4:56 am
Replies: 18
Views: 2,734
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Is there a fear of a property-bubble in NZ?

We rent a house in Lower Hutt, Wellington thats worth probably 1.4m at least and rented a place in Auckland that was worth considerably more.

Rent on high end houses is much much cheaper than...
Forum: Australia
Nov 23rd 2010, 5:27 am
Replies: 32
Views: 3,715
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Reality on costs or not?

Well if you can move around the world with your family and earn more as you go, enjoying the new experiences, then its all good.

We certainly are moving for career advancement and more money and...
Forum: Australia
Nov 23rd 2010, 4:22 am
Replies: 32
Views: 3,715
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Reality on costs or not?

Ok, we did a $500 shop at our local Woolworths (Lower Hutt, Wellington) on Sunday and bought a wide range of stuff for the week.

Last night we logged on to Woolworths in OZ for comparison against...
Forum: New Zealand
Nov 23rd 2010, 4:05 am
Replies: 24
Views: 2,192
Posted By teambwr47

Re: Australia costs..... can it really be that good?

Err, thats not the issue for us...the roles we have here are both senior, my wifes very much so but there are jobs that exist in OZ that never will here, particularly in her field.

She has been...
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