Originally Posted by yanchep

My ex-hubby was a CNC machinist. My current hubby is a Overhead Linesman, he works with live electricity and has to climb the poles to get to the overhead power cables, dont know how he will cope working outside in oz with all his overalls, hats etc when it is really really hot, we only managed 2 hours on the beach xmas day in our swimsuits cos it was soooooo hot. I dont work, but I do shop and lunch

Originally Posted by yanchep

Yeah I saw that one. Just been over to Poms in Perth site, nowt exciting going on there. My next step now is to get some removal quotes so I know how much it is going to cost to ship all our stuff over. We have been told by people who have moved over to oz to bring everything you can possibly fit into the container.

Originally Posted by yanchep

will look them removal people up in a minute. Just type in Poms in Perth and it will come up, its worth a look, lot of people that have already moved over give a lot of useful information out and its good to hear about other peoples journeys over there.

Originally Posted by Nic938

Last week we were told that we have to leave our rental in 2 months!!! The person we were renting from is the property manager for the actual rental agency and she was setting up down south. Told us we could live here for 5-7 years and now the venture has went tits up and she wants her house back! I just feel like we get one thing sorted and another thing comes up. She even said that we could not break our rental agreement without paying $945 for admin fees and advertising fees. When I then asked her why I would have to advertise it when she would be moving back in and she said that was the rules. What a rip off! I just feel like I am in limbo as I can't find another rental yet as they arell ready to move in now and don't want to leave it too late as there is no way on earth I am going back to that caravan!!

Originally Posted by Nic938

Hi everyone

Thought it was about time I gave an update now that some time has passed!

First off, hubby has now found work with a good firm. Money still not good but the work is consistent so he is going to stick with it as long as they want him and in between start to buy some kit and hopefully in 4-6 months he will go on his own once his confidence is up abit.

The a******e he worked for before screwed him over for $700 and as he is built very big "both ways", I have said to Marc to just let it go. There is no way we are going to get kicked out of the country for a shit like that. I am a great believer in karma and something will come back and bite his arse for revenge and hopefully it is soon.

My 4 year old is still finding things tough. I thought we had a break through a couple of weeks ago and he was behaving much better and being civil to me but as soon as he had to go back to Kindy after the holidays it started back up again. He has a speech problem and from what I can gather from him and another mum who told me that her son told her, that he is getting teased about it. I went and spoke to the teacher and in a very polite way told her to find out who it was and stop them or I will go to the principal and hope that this works. On Monday I dragged him into the car shouting and screaming and strapped him in, only for him to take off his seat belt while I was driving and start hitting me round the head and screaming that he wasn't going. I just turned round and went home but today I persevered and hauled him in there and left crying buckets along with him, it is breaking my heart.

Last week we were told that we have to leave our rental in 2 months!!! The person we were renting from is the property manager for the actual rental agency and she was setting up down south. Told us we could live here for 5-7 years and now the venture has went tits up and she wants her house back! I just feel like we get one thing sorted and another thing comes up. She even said that we could not break our rental agreement without paying $945 for admin fees and advertising fees. When I then asked her why I would have to advertise it when she would be moving back in and she said that was the rules. What a rip off! I just feel like I am in limbo as I can't find another rental yet as they arell ready to move in now and don't want to leave it too late as there is no way on earth I am going back to that caravan!!

Anyway, still determined and 100% sure it was the right move to come here. Hopefully in another month (thank you to everyone who pm'd me and the ones who were interested enough to want an update) things will have improved again and that will be a happy ending to the story.

Take care everyone

Nic

Originally Posted by Nic938

Well, I am not even sure if I am going to post this as not even sure what to say to be honest so I will speak from the heart, and please, everyone this is just my opinion so nobody be offended.....

Got here as the above says on the 7th Jan and had a great trip with a stopover in Singapore which was wonderful. We were one of the mad ones that had never been to Australia before nor had any family or friends out here and it was a case of one day sitting at the computer and saying to the hubby "let's just get out of this place" ie. England and hubby asking where to and I said Australia and that was it. It snowballed from there......

The day we arrived we were met at the airport by Ohippychick and her girls and was surrounded by flies!!!! Was not prepared for that at all and after picking up the hire car and arriving at our rental in Mandurah which was lovely I have to say, that the first thing I did was ask hubby for a cigarette (I had stopped 12 months before) and there it started this feeling of "holy crap what have we done" nothing started it off I really have no idea what happened and the feeling hasn't really left me!

We struggled to find a rental and when we did find one the agent called us up on the day we were supposed to move at 4.40pm and told us we could not move in for 7/10 days as the previous tenant had left his car in the garage and under Health & Safety laws (which do not exist anyway) we could not live in the property. I was gobsmacked, as of the Sunday morning we had nowhere to live and with 3 kids in tow I really felt like I had let them down. Off we went to a caravan site which was a joke, as this caravan did not even have wheels along with trying to fit 5 people, 10 suitcases and bits & bobs we had started to buy for the rental it was a tight squeeze and there we stayed for 10 nights until I could find another rental (told the other rental agency to take a flying jump, speak about cutting off your nose to spite your face, but it was the principal of the thing ) Anyway, someone was looking down on us from above as on the Monday we found a really nice rental with a pool in Halls Head and we could move in the following week so that was that.

Now, I think this may be where I am getting a bit down, as hubby is a brickie. We came out on the 134 permanent visa sponsored by WA Govt as shortage of brickies. Ohippychick had already warned us that work was a bit slow but hubby was not prepared for their being no work at all. Hubby phoned about 30 companies/people and they all said the same that work was a bit dry at the moment and there really wasn't much going on but that it would pick up (never said when) and so eventually through a friend of a friend hubby got a start with a brickie that took pity on him and hubby worked with him for 3 weeks to learn the ropes so to speak.

On Monday he was told that they had now run out of work and they had to let him go on Friday! On Thursday we looked through all the papers and on the internet and found 1 job for a brickie. Hubby phoned and got a start for Friday just gone, but when he came home he was so despondent. Money was crap and there was about 8 brickies there and two foremen who barked orders, he got a 15 minute break for lunch after he had started at 7.00am and finished at 4.30pm and the foremen said he would phone him on Tuesday if there was a job on Wednesday (no idea what happened to Monday!).

Since we have been here we have had two pay cheques! We unfortunately, were one of those that did not come with much money so every penny counts but the other 8 brickies on this job said that even though the wages were crap (half of what he wold earn in the UK) and that they treated you like shite that basically you had to put up with it as there was not any work going about.

Hubby is now thinking that maybe he should be a brickies labourer and try and get a foot in the door that way or to come home to the UK for 3 months and earn a bit of money again and come back out, not sure what to do but I totally understand that when you have 20 years experience and have a good reputation back home that it is pretty disheartening to go back to being a labourer, but money is money.

Two out of the three kids are loving it but my 4 year old HATES kindy and every day is asking if he can go back to live in the UK to live with his granny & granpa and this is getting me down too. I know in time he will probably settle but boy is it wearing, him going on and on at me all the time. He even told me tonight that it is all my fault as I made him come here!

We have made plenty of friends, Ohippychick has been great but the people that have been here before you already have made their lives, quite rightly, and can't drop everything just because I am unhappy but I am at my wits end. I am not at the stage of coming home and I was, and still am determined to give this 100% but with Marc not getting a start of work and everybody he speaks too saying that there is just a slow down in building houses and too many brickies out here I just can't see a light at the end of the tunnel and please believe me when I say I am usually a positive person and always try to look on the bright side of life so I am probably moaning away to all you people out there hoping that if I put it all down I will feel better as when I phone the UK or people phone here I don't want to tell them how I am feeling just incase my mum says just come home then as we all really want this to work.

Anyway, I will go now as I know this sounds like a negative post but I just needed to get this all out.

Good luck to everyone out there who are waiting to live the dream and to the ones who are already here living it.

Nic

Originally Posted by yanchep

Oh blimey, we are coming over to oz hopefully before xmas and my hubbie is an overhead linesman, so didnt want to hear they have trouble getting jobs over there, we were under the same impression as you that they are screaming out for overhead linesman