I just keep squeezing my head and asking 'why am I doing this?'
It's an impossible question to answer, it's akin to asking should we buy to let, will we make a sh*t load of money in a couple of years if we did. But I keep thinking it HAS to be easier to answer. It's just another country FFS. WHY is it going to be the answer to all our prayers? All I keep reading is the weathers fab, the beaches are great, we all live outside eh? THIS country isn't THAT bad surely that the sunshine elsewhere makes it much much better to live. I have the feeling we will continue because the opportunity exists but my heart isnt in it if I am honest. Then I read the returning to the UK forums and that strengthens what I believe anyway...this country isn't that bad after all. I am not usually pesemistic.......honest.! Maybe it's because I have PMT LOL!!!!!
I just keep squeezing my head and asking 'why am I doing this?'
It's an impossible question to answer, it's akin to asking should we buy to let, will we make a sh*t load of money in a couple of years if we did. But I keep thinking it HAS to be easier to answer. It's just another country FFS. WHY is it going to be the answer to all our prayers? All I keep reading is the weathers fab, the beaches are great, we all live outside eh? THIS country isn't THAT bad surely that the sunshine elsewhere makes it much much better to live. I have the feeling we will continue because the opportunity exists but my heart isnt in it if I am honest. Then I read the returning to the UK forums and that strengthens what I believe anyway...this country isn't that bad after all. I am not usually pesemistic.......honest.!
If it's PMT Pam... You had better make your decision next week then when your hormones are back to normal!!! lol
I think you should go and stay at my friend Jo's house in Brissy, so you can have a taster of OZ life before you take the plunge.... im sure she wont mind !!!!
All jokes one side, I hope you can sort it all out and go for it with more excitment!!!
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What your feeling sounds normal (well it was to me anyway!), I think the best thing you can do at the moment is just take your time.......... I have gone through a whole roller coaster of emotions, but the longer I have this idea of moving to Oz the more I feel sure that its the right choice for me and my family.
At first, my mind was racing ten to the dozen - I felt like I was going to explode and would quite often burst into tears just thinking about migrating, but now I feel calmer about it and can think moe rationally, I still have my doubts of course but I don't feel a sense of panic anymore.
I hope this makes sense - sometimes I have trouble getting my point across....:redface:
hi jonseywife,
so, apart from all that........is hastings a nice place?...lol.
No wonder you are ready for OZ but i think that these kind of things go on all over the country. And its only gonna get worse. i think we are better off out of here! So, keep your chin up and just look forward to an exciting, new beginning.
I personally can't wait for that visa to drop through the door
Sorry Jonseyswife, didn't mean to hijack your thread, It made me ask the question 'just how bad is the UK and is it really so awful that we have to move 10000 miles away?'
And thanks (you should never start a sentence with AND should you? ;o).....to the poster who said what I was feeling was normal, your point came across fine and was reassuring. As I said, we will carry on and I will try to be more enthusiastic I promise.
Ok, so it's Jo I need to contact to book a month long recci? how's the diary looking for November Jo?
If you have doubts about moving to oz or if you question your motives(like we have many times) just keep reading the newspapers and watching the news, just keep looking at the gangs of youths hanging about bored out of their brains,just keep looking at your weekly bills,just keep looking at the hours you have to spend working to maintain this existance and thats all it is an existance,there is no quality of life im afraid.I talk to people that get in my cab and without exeption everybody says the same and if you dont make a positive move to do something about it you will be saying the same thing in 5 years time.
You have to ask yourself do you want this for yourself and do you want this for your kids,do you really want your kids to grow up here thinking this is normal way to live and get sucked into a lifetime of high taxes, high crime and working all hours and not seeing their kids(your grandchildren!!).
Society here im afraid is crumbling we are fast becoming a lawless society protected only by cctv cameras well that wont help your son as he is being attacked or stabbed will it?
I drive about london at night and see some horrendous things i wont even go into,there is no control anymore,a kid of 15 was stabbed to death a couple of days ago by a gang lead by a 13 year old who was egged on by the cries of "kill him kill him" the poor boy who died was left flowers at the scene saying "rip a brave soldier"...soldier? these kids are at war with society and with the help of political correctness and the fact that their parents either couldnt care less or are working long hours to survive these kids are winning the war!!
So when you have a few doubts or are a bit scared of the unknown think about your kids and their kids.
To add to Jonesywife and Batman's experiences.........................
My husband and I live in a nice village in Derbyshire, nice schools, nice houses etc. We were walking home from our friends' house with our 13 year old son one Sunday evening at about 10.30 and there was a man walking slowly, ahead of us. Just before we reached our close, I saw a woman emerging from the jitty in the distance, she was pushing a pram. I said to my husband that we should watch discreetly to make sure that the woman and child got past the man safely, after all, you don't know whose about these days do you? It soon became obvious that the couple knew each other so we decided to continue home, but as we did the woman shouted out "what you f$$%^n lookin' at?". I explained that I was concerned for her and her child's safety as she seemed to be on her own in the dark but as all seemed ok we were going home. Expecting her to say "oh thanks, but i'm alright". How wrong could I be, instead, she abandoned the child in the pushchair in the middle of the road, hurled a barrage of abuse at us all, telling us to "mind or own
f%&%in business", punched my husband then started on me. My son pulled her off me and we ran for it. She proceeded to ring "the boys" up, saying we'd attacked her! We ended up hiding behind a car opposite our own house until she got fed up looking for us and left. When we were sure it was safe we ran into our house.
If this is the mentality of the ever growing chav population of this country then you can keep it. No wonder more and more people choose to turn a blind eye these days rather than step in and help. Thank god it was only her fist she launched at my OH and not a knife, anything goes these days it seems. I like to keep myself to myself but be there for others if needed but now ask myself why bother? This country is being overrun by nutters like that woman and decent people with the sense and means are getting the hell out of here. I pity those who are left behind.
Go for it folks or you may live to regret it
