Does anyone love living in australia?

**JK2510** · 30-03-2009, 10:05 AM

Hi
Ive just read on a thread about the top 5 things about why they are leaving australia or thinking about leaving.
OMG i now have panic alarms going off in my head whether were doing the right thing by emigrating. Does anyone love living in australia?

Jodie.

**Guruju** · 30-03-2009, 10:11 AM

Hi Jodie

If you search the posts through the search facility you will find an amazing amount of posts on what people love about Australia.

I came out here in 1994 as a backpacker aged 30 and have never left. Yes, that's right, I have never got on the plane back to visit my native UK and I love the UK. My life is just so fulfilling here and my relatives keep visiting so there's no need to go back.

I love lots of things - the weather, the people, the can do attitude, the lack of social class structure keeping people down, better balance of life/work, materially I am better off and it is a fantastic country to explore so I go camping, 4WD trekking, boating and hiking - just love it.

I am happy to be more specific if you want clarification on any aspect but as I said search through the posts there are both pos and neg views.

Cheers

Julia

**calNgary** · 30-03-2009, 10:14 AM

Dont panic , its the same as anything, some love it, some hate it, we are all different, we all want different things and we all see things in a different way.
For us Australia is great and has definately been the best move we have made. Dont get me wrong it is hard work and can sometimes test you but if you put your all into and dont give up at the first road block you have as a good chance as anyone to make it work.
We spend more time together as a family over here, mainly because we both choose not to work full time, we aren't loaded and we do now have to save up to buy things but for us this was what made us happy, in the UK we both worked full time and had plenty of money but we found we never had quality time together, once you find the balance that suits your family you can start to relax a little and enjoy what this country has to offer. We enjoy the outdoor lifestyle and of course the weather, we find the majority of Australians to be helpful and friendly and the kids dont do too bad at school.
So dont give up ,lol, moving here works out for lots of us ,,honest,lol
Cal x

**whiskeyonesix** · 30-03-2009, 10:18 AM

I thinks its perfectly normal to get panicky! After all, its a pretty life-changing experience...

With regards people emigrating then returning home, maybe some people approach emigration with rose-tinted glasses on?
I've found Oz very much like home, you still have to work, still the same bills to pay, rent money to find, car to run, family to deal with etc,

Maybe people expect things to be absolutely wonderful, and are gutted when they're not?

What gets me are the people who come out for only a few weeks then give up and go back - i'm not saying that Oz is for everyone, but at least give it a year or so!
Emigration isnt an easy thing to do, but like everything else you have to work at it to make it work for you...

Tom.

JoanneHattersley · 30-03-2009, 10:18 AM

I love living here. We always said we would give it two years (love it or hate it!) and after 2 weeks we knew we were home.

**TheArmChairDetective** · 30-03-2009, 10:19 AM

Well, I'm in the UK but all of my family loves living in Victoria and would not dream of coming back to the U.K.

I also know that all of my friends in Australia feel the same way.

I know Australia is not for a lot of people, I have been there loads of times and it is where I would be if I could get there at this time.

As guruju suggests, search the site, weigh up the pro's and con's of others and your own and you will draw your own conclusions as to if it's what you want or need to do.
good luck.

**Jackboots** · 30-03-2009, 10:34 AM

we have been here 4 weeks and have been researching for 3 years , we have family here which prob helps .. but we LOVE it , and the only thing that will get us on the plane back to the uk is work, and thats our problem right now , our job fell through , wel S*** happens , and were trying all routes , oh's job skill has hit the swan since before we prob came out here , i honestly have no idea how we got a visa on his trade anyway, but hey ho .. we have six months without work and then its well prob go back , i still don't think half the research would have compared to the reality , thers good and bad anywhere , we like the uk too, so its a lifestyle change for us , and you have to work and pay the mortgage anywhere , so its really if you can go for it and do it and have no regrets for if it doesn't work for you then sign it up to a chapter in your book ... life ... all the very best !!

**gpo1971** · 30-03-2009, 10:37 AM

We love it.
We have been here 7 months and I knew after 5 mins I would never go home. It is easier for us, most of my gf's family moved here prior to us. So, I had to say goodbye to my family and friends but they were glad I was making a go of things. I speak to them every week on Skype (free) so I'm not really missing out on anything.
Some things are similar to back home, some are very different. Where things are different, we have tried to adapt; we are dead set against creating our little bit of the UK over here, we want to live the Australian life.
I am struggling to get a job at the moment, and it is frustrating, but it won't be like that forever. The job I had in the UK has been made obsolete now, so I would've been on the dole anyway.
Putting my current job situation aside, nothing would drag me back to the UK now. We live in Northern Perth and, apart from one or two days, it was 30-odd degrees from early Dec to about 2 weeks ago. Even now its 25+ every day, OK, bit cloudy today but, so what?
Life is just better here. The living part I mean, not work, not telly, not sitting in on a Saturday afternoon coz its lashing down outside. And, if you have kids, this must be a dream compared to the UK, they can do ANYTHING here.
We will never leave Australia to go on holiday either; it's all here. We have been to Northern WA and down South and both are fantastic. You can see a bit of any country in the World in WA. Next time we will visit another state, then another. Can't wait.
Best thing we ever did!
What are the reasons people want to go back? I bet its things like the shops, telly, 'lack of culture' (whatever that means), M&S etc. I think that tells you more about those people than about Australia. Since being here I've noticed how very negative and dour British people are. Of course, people miss their family, you can't argue with that.
To summarise, Australia rules, you can keep the UK thanks.

**JK2510** · 30-03-2009, 10:44 AM

Hi. well thanks for all of that. Were hoping to get to perth sept 2010. But with this whole 175 saga who knows. I havent been to perth since i was 11 and i cant honestly see why we would not like it. We hate it in the uk. We just want a better quality of life for all of us. The job side of things is probably the scariest.
Thanks

Jodie