Cost to go?

[Mr B & Miss D]

I know everyone's circumstance's are different, but what would be the rough cost to actually get out there for a family of 3? I dont plan to use an agent as of yet and would require TRA. What I mean is application costs, flights,insurance etc. I have a figure to take over to see us through maybe a year or so if things are tight to start and to maybe buy a car, but how much to get the process done? Any help/idea's would be great thanks. p.s We will not be shipping anything out either

[Life on easy street]

It is possible to arrive in Australia with only a few hundred dollars but if you do that you will find it a strugle.

This question has been asked before check this thread.

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/welcome/27239-how-much-do-you-realistically-have-take-you.html

[TheBrowningFamily]

Originally Posted by Mr B & Miss D

I know everyone's circumstance's are different, but what would be the rough cost to actually get out there for a family of 3? I dont plan to use an agent as of yet and would require TRA. What I mean is application costs, flights,insurance etc. I have a figure to take over to see us through maybe a year or so if things are tight to start and to maybe buy a car, but how much to get the process done? Any help/idea's would be great thanks. p.s We will not be shipping anything out either

Hi, it has cost us just shy of £10,000 altogether, roughly broken down as follows:
£850 - TRA assesment through agent inc fee
£800 Visa assesment fee
£1500 Agent fee for Visa application
£500 med for 4
£100 x-rays for 2
£2,600 Removals (half a 20ft container inc insurance)
£2,000 flights (2a 2c)
£500 car hire (1 week uk, 2 weeks Oz)
£140 Hotel 2 nights Brissy
£360 holiday accomodation in Caloundra for 2 weeks while we check out the area
£50 for copies of our medical records to take with us (Surgery's can charge upto £50 per person)
£94 Kinsure insurance (will fly us home in emergency)
Also have not purchased holiday insurance yet to cover our luggage until we get a house!

We had budgeted to save approx £12,000 thinking it would cost us about £6-7,000 to get there (how niave were we!) leaving us about £5,000 to get us started over there. Luckily hubby got a pay rise so we were able to pay the above and stll save about £20,000 we also managed to sell our house ourselfs (no agent fees) for £25,000 above valuation!

Altogether we are taking about £170,000, so are in an excellent position (kind of makes up for 8 people living in a 3 bed house - my mums - for 3 months!)

Obviously go through this and see what you may take out (agent fees, removals etc) Hope this helps

Lisa

[Em & Rich]

Hi
We have just had our application accepted, got the ok on Christmas Eve! We did all the application work ourselves including TRA and saved ourselves a fair amount in not having to pay an agent. My one big tip would be to ring around 4 to 5 different doctors when going for your medicals as the price does vary, we saved approx £100 each by shopping around. Just in the process of getting packers in to quote.

[Mr B & Miss D]

Thanks for that figure. If I look at the figures you gave then without using an agent and not shipping I will have some change. I'm gonna need the change for a recce which we defo need to do. Cheers.

[Mr B & Miss D]

Good Luck to you both!!!:)

[ali]

Don't forget though that if you don't ship anything - you'll have to buy everything here, I think mrs Braveheart said she managed to furnish for about $12,000 (could have been a bit more)

Ali