Originally Posted by Jox_co (Post 5236168)

Hi all,

Good to hear such a positive story, hope all goes as well for everyone else.

We are going out to Perth May-Aug 08, depending on house sale etc.

Not sure where we want to be but have friends in Duncraig, so will probably land somewhere in that area. Have girls 11 and 9 and so schools priority.

Any suggestions from peeps????? All seem quite good, not had any bad reports at all. My kids are both sporty especially gymnastics, does anyone know of any clubs? or schools that are geared up for sport really well??

Any info useful

Thanks

Jayne

Originally Posted by eddie007 (Post 5197324)

reassuered by your post because in 9 days time that will be us... how is the jet lag?

Originally Posted by SJFothe (Post 5195174)

Hi everyone
We are Sarah (teacher) and Jason (HGV)
Perth is FANTASTIC, we are totally loving it here.
We arrived at midnight on 25th July, feeling very tired and emotional, immigration and quarantine were a bit daunting but it was good to see its taken seriously here not like Uk, who will let anyone in.
We only had 4 suitcases and 2 hand luggage between us and no we did not ship anything over. We had booked a hire car from Hertz and when we went to pick it up we got upgraded for no extra cost, which was really cool as we were planning to sleep in the car until the morning and now we had a more comfortable nights sleep. The next morning we drove around until it was time to check into the caravan park. We were amazed at how clean and tidy everywhere was. The caravan park we stayed in was in Hazelmere, Midland, a bit to close to the airport but it was cheap and suited us fine.
We spent the first week sorting out Medicare and tax codes, and looking at areas we wanted to live in. Jason started emailing companies straight away and I started to sort out my paperwork to be able to teach in Wa.

By Friday Jason had already had 2 interviews, by Monday he had been offered a job, we couldnt believe it we had only been here 10 days!! He started work the following Monday, so we only had a week to find somewhere more permanent to live. We spent ages on the internet and lookking in the paper, but there was just to much choicce - thats right loads of rentals so don't believe other posters there is not a shortage. We only looked at 1 property and fell in love with it. But we were told we would struggle because we had no references because we had not rented before. So we contacted 2 of our old landlords who said they would provide us with references. we gave there details to the rental agent who emailed them at 1pm Oz time so 7am UK time - thank fully they both responded straight away with brill refs. We got the house within 2 hours of handing in the application. Again we couldnt believe our luck. We moved in at the weekend and the furniture arrived Monday + Tuesday and because we did not ship anything we have brought everything brand new its like Xmas opening so many packages. Everything we have brought here has cost far less than in Uk, even the car a 3 yr old Toyota Corolla about 6500 pounds we would not have been able to buy that in the Uk. We are so much better off here in OZ and loving it. For anyone who has doubts YOU DONT NEED TO Oz is all you expect and far more.
If we can help anyone with there move in any way please dont hesitate to ask, we used a lot of the advice off here so about time we gave some back I think. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: