Originally Posted by Weasy

Hi Stu,

I wondered if you'd see this. We expect to be there by the end of August. House is on the market, first open yesterday, four people expected to offer (two came back through today). Visas apparantly only take 2-4 weeks. All very scary - I too never thought I'd be leaving Oz but we can't turn this job opportunity down.

How's things with you?

Lou
xx

Originally Posted by Weasy

For those of you that remember us..... Well, after 17 months here I am sorry to announce that we are moving on. Hubby has been offered a great job that we would be crazy to turn down and it’s in Salt Lake City, USA.

We must be amongst the luckiest migrants alive. Chaz landed his job 2 weeks after arrival, we loved the place from the start, got the best exchange rate in the last few years, bought a lovely home, made great friends – many of whom we’ll remain friends with. However, we feel that this is the path we are meant to take. If we hadn’t come to Adelaide then Chaz wouldn’t have got this job and the company wouldn’t have then offered him a big promotion and relocation package.

I am very sad to leave, I love living in the Adelaide Hills. We are aware, however, that Chaz is at the top of his field in Adelaide so we can’t turn this down. We do have 3 1/2 years left on our PR visas to come back if it doesn’t work out though so all is not lost for us and Australia.

We have had a very full life here. Lots of lovely barbies, camping in Aldinga and then the Flinders Ranges (where we also did 4 wheel driving) – never camped in the UK. Took up body boarding, got a dog (she’s going too – not sure how happy she’ll be about snow! She’s only got little legs). Had trips to Sydney and Melbourne. Seen whales, cuddled koalas, had our own koalas in our garden, watched the amazing bird life in our garden. We’ve had the best social life we’ve had since having kids.

I’ll miss friends firstly, the beach, the birds, the views as I drive ‘down the hill’ the eucalyptus smells and just the whole community here in the Hills. I have just loved it and this is why I don’t like it when posters are very negative about the place. I understand that this is their experience but I always want to let potential migrants know that the move can be amazing. I’m not saying we’ve had no problems along the way, we have, but nothing that couldn’t have happened anywhere. The only thing I will concede to the negative lot is that Adelaide may not be the place to be for a great career path, depending on your area of work.

On the plus side is that there are whole new adventures ahead of us and the States are nearer to the UK so it will be cheaper to visit (too much snow though). The UK is definitely off the radar for us (at the moment, never say never) but I do hope to come back to Oz eventually (visas allowing).

I will, of course, not be able to resist still checking in on here though I guess that will fade after a while if we settle there as much as we have here.

So it's bye for now guys and I wish you all well on your journeys.

Originally Posted by Weasy

For those of you that remember us..... Well, after 17 months here I am sorry to announce that we are moving on. Hubby has been offered a great job that we would be crazy to turn down and it’s in Salt Lake City, USA.

We must be amongst the luckiest migrants alive. Chaz landed his job 2 weeks after arrival, we loved the place from the start, got the best exchange rate in the last few years, bought a lovely home, made great friends – many of whom we’ll remain friends with. However, we feel that this is the path we are meant to take. If we hadn’t come to Adelaide then Chaz wouldn’t have got this job and the company wouldn’t have then offered him a big promotion and relocation package.

I am very sad to leave, I love living in the Adelaide Hills. We are aware, however, that Chaz is at the top of his field in Adelaide so we can’t turn this down. We do have 3 1/2 years left on our PR visas to come back if it doesn’t work out though so all is not lost for us and Australia.

We have had a very full life here. Lots of lovely barbies, camping in Aldinga and then the Flinders Ranges (where we also did 4 wheel driving) – never camped in the UK. Took up body boarding, got a dog (she’s going too – not sure how happy she’ll be about snow! She’s only got little legs). Had trips to Sydney and Melbourne. Seen whales, cuddled koalas, had our own koalas in our garden, watched the amazing bird life in our garden. We’ve had the best social life we’ve had since having kids.

I’ll miss friends firstly, the beach, the birds, the views as I drive ‘down the hill’ the eucalyptus smells and just the whole community here in the Hills. I have just loved it and this is why I don’t like it when posters are very negative about the place. I understand that this is their experience but I always want to let potential migrants know that the move can be amazing. I’m not saying we’ve had no problems along the way, we have, but nothing that couldn’t have happened anywhere. The only thing I will concede to the negative lot is that Adelaide may not be the place to be for a great career path, depending on your area of work.

On the plus side is that there are whole new adventures ahead of us and the States are nearer to the UK so it will be cheaper to visit (too much snow though). The UK is definitely off the radar for us (at the moment, never say never) but I do hope to come back to Oz eventually (visas allowing).

I will, of course, not be able to resist still checking in on here though I guess that will fade after a while if we settle there as much as we have here.

So it's bye for now guys and I wish you all well on your journeys.