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Bolton2Brisbane · 17-05-2008, 05:20 PM

Hi,

Just read your post and needed to reply. We moved to Brisbane end of Feb and i only lasted 8 weeks and arrived back in Bolton 1 week ago. I was having such a bad time in Brisbane, crying daily and as you said when the honeymoon period was over thought "what have i done". My partner and i got very good jobs with Queensland Governement, bought a new car and furniture, shiped 3 cats across all the usual expense.

Then sold eveything shipped ourselves and the cats back, we have wasted around $50k. This is no word of a lie, we have had to place our 3 cats in Quarentine for 6 months, we lost $10k on the car we bought (only had it 4 weeks) didnt even do 1000km, lost the bond on the house. I wont bore you with the details needless to say that i'm writing this in a rainy Bolton living with my parents!!

What i'm trying to say is that as soon as we landed in Manchester looked at my partner and said "what the f**k have i done", in all honesty this is one of my greatest regrets in life, have not even been back 6 days and i'm missing everything about Australia.

I thought i was missing family & friends, but i'm sorry to say that i'm not. It was such a big move to sell up and move to OZ, only for us to do the same thing again 8 weeks later and move back to the UK. I could go on and on but i wont, i only wish to god that i had come back on holiday as i would have seen why i wanted to go in the first place.

Better save up and get back some of the pennies which we spent.........

Good luck what ever you decide.

17-05-2008, 05:20 PM	#8 (permalink)
Bolton2Brisbane Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 29	Hi, Just read your post and needed to reply. We moved to Brisbane end of Feb and i only lasted 8 weeks and arrived back in Bolton 1 week ago. I was having such a bad time in Brisbane, crying daily and as you said when the honeymoon period was over thought "what have i done". My partner and i got very good jobs with Queensland Governement, bought a new car and furniture, shiped 3 cats across all the usual expense. Then sold eveything shipped ourselves and the cats back, we have wasted around $50k. This is no word of a lie, we have had to place our 3 cats in Quarentine for 6 months, we lost $10k on the car we bought (only had it 4 weeks) didnt even do 1000km, lost the bond on the house. I wont bore you with the details needless to say that i'm writing this in a rainy Bolton living with my parents!! What i'm trying to say is that as soon as we landed in Manchester looked at my partner and said "what the f**k have i done", in all honesty this is one of my greatest regrets in life, have not even been back 6 days and i'm missing everything about Australia. I thought i was missing family & friends, but i'm sorry to say that i'm not. It was such a big move to sell up and move to OZ, only for us to do the same thing again 8 weeks later and move back to the UK. I could go on and on but i wont, i only wish to god that i had come back on holiday as i would have seen why i wanted to go in the first place. Better save up and get back some of the pennies which we spent......... Good luck what ever you decide.