Those among us that would like to go home

Stuju · 04-04-2008, 03:10 AM

Ok seeing as we are not allowed

to join Essex to aus thread here is one of our own QUOLL where are you ??

I will start by saying .................
been in oz almost 2 years (ok still a shortish time) but would jump on the big white bird tomorrow if i could.
Why - i cant explain that its too hard to put into words but theres so much about England that i miss & long for - aussie life is so very very different and not what i expected at all.

My heart got left behind in England and i need to go back to get it - but at the mo i cant, circumstances and committments keep me in oz along with a daughter & hubby who dont even wanna go back in a wooden box !!!

Lets hear it from you guys who would like to go home (where ever that may be as i guess we not all from England) but for some reason cant at this moment in time.

(one day i will post a thread on here "gizmo's going home"

cheers
gizmo x

Quoll · 04-04-2008, 03:22 AM

Way to go Giz!!!!

I am feeling all rejected and dejected

Perhaps we should set up a forum Tatts group so we can have the $$$ to do as we like when we want to.

Aus is a funny place and my heart aint here either - I was waxing lyrical on another board today about why it isnt so for me so have had my big vent for the day. Suffice it to say, I dont belong, never have and despite all attempts to the contrary, doubt that I ever will.

I will watch out with interest for the "Gizmo is going home" thread!

pjw · 04-04-2008, 04:09 AM

hey gizmo, been here 10 yrs, but, hand on heart it took 5yrs to settle. Going back to uk in june first time in 8 yrs, i am a little concerned it will "stir" me up!! x

Stuju · 04-04-2008, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by pjw

hey gizmo, been here 10 yrs, but, hand on heart it took 5yrs to settle. Going back to uk in june first time in 8 yrs, i am a little concerned it will "stir" me up!! x

Ooohhhh pjw, please do let us know how you go, hope you have a fab time & at the end of it you feel how you wanna feel,
good luck
gizmo x

pjw · 04-04-2008, 04:22 AM

thanks gizmo....it will be interesting to see what happens, i imagine lots of things are different.......... my dad, (who comes here for sixmonths every year...god willing!) is always saying how bad everything is...... paula x

ali · 04-04-2008, 10:43 AM

I thnk you have a great deal of strength and an obvious love for your families to stay ... I do admire that in you all.

Ali

Andrea Bridge · 04-04-2008, 11:17 AM

I tihnk you have a great deal of strength and an obvious love for your families to stay ... I do admire that in you all.

Ali

Well said, Ali! Me too. It takes alot to be that unselfish, so hats off to all who are managing to keep their families together in Oz.

Maybe in time you will get your reward, eh.... and either get to come back to the UK, or genuinely fall in love with Oz and feel you do belong there.

Take care of yourselves,

Andrea x

shaza · 04-04-2008, 12:51 PM

Hi Gizmo. You say you've been there 2 years but honestly England has changed so so much in that short time. Without offending anyone (please no-one have a moan, im just voicing my opinion), you can barely go anywhere without hearing everyone speaking another language, even in schools. I live in London so maybe worse than rest of country I dont know but I say what I see. Work can be very hard to find for tradesman because the polish are working for less too. Dont get me wrong I love England and am proud to be English but its not where I want my kids to be teenagers, it scares me to death the thought of them being out on the street, crime is rife. Do you know ive been woken every morning this week with the london news on and every morning they tell you how someone else was shot or stabbed the day before. Crazy place. I know I don't know what its like in Oz but surely it cant be worse than here!! Hope I havent offended anyone with this post.

Gollywobbler · 04-04-2008, 01:11 PM

Hi Gizmo

I suspect that things will seem much better once your Parents can be nearby. Who knows? You might even be able to persuade your daughter to join you at some stage.

(Or she might marry an Ozzie from The Wrong Place - ie Perth!) When I was under a bit of pressure to move to Oz 20 years ago, it was obvious that for the sake of my career Sydney CBD would be the only viable option because of my City of London professional background. But my sister had settled in Perth....

Also, on a personal level I have always found Sydney completely bewitching. Perth feels remote and isolated to me which is illogical because the distance from Sydney to San Fransisco (the place Sydney reminds me of most) is probably about the same as Perth to Cape Town. I doubt that there is really anything in it geographically. So my own reactions to the two places are clearly emotional rather than rational.

However, the rational side of me did take a look at the plane fares! It was cheaper to get a return ticket from London to Perth than from Sydney to Perth. I had no great craving to leave the UK. I loved working in the City of London and I loved living there in the 10 years that I did so. Plus Mum & Dad were in the UK and I did not feel that I could desert them.

Now that I no longer have a choice on the visa front, people say helpfully, "You could always marry an Ozzie...." I think to myself, "And knowing my luck this Ozzie would hie from some part of Australia that engenders a three week trek to get to Perth to visit my mother & sister....!"

Anyway all the antipodeans I know in the UK are yotties and when I ask brightly, "Which part of Oz are you from?" they generally say tersely, "New Zealand."

Hey ho!

Cheers

Gill

grilla & flo · 04-04-2008, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by shaza

Hi Gizmo. You say you've been there 2 years but honestly England has changed so so much in that short time. Without offending anyone (please no-one have a moan, im just voicing my opinion), you can barely go anywhere without hearing everyone speaking another language, even in schools. I live in London so maybe worse than rest of country I dont know but I say what I see. Work can be very hard to find for tradesman because the polish are working for less too. Dont get me wrong I love England and am proud to be English but its not where I want my kids to be teenagers, it scares me to death the thought of them being out on the street, crime is rife. Do you know ive been woken every morning this week with the london news on and every morning they tell you how someone else was shot or stabbed the day before. Crazy place. I know I don't know what its like in Oz but surely it cant be worse than here!! Hope I havent offended anyone with this post.

i'm in the process of being made redundant,

there are jobs available for me as a welder fabricator with twenty years experience but they don't have the pay that i need to enjoy life. i'm not in loads of debt BUT working just to pay bills is not any fun. i've looked at requirements for oz and one is "do you speak english" how come this is not the same in uk? we've had polish working for our company recently and half could not speak any english so had their collegues translate for them!!!! in a work place NOT GOOD.

we're now thinking of moving to oz. we know it will be hard leaving three "adult" children behind. (18,20,21) but we need to live life not just survive it..

sorry for the ramble.