Who has or is going to oz with £10k or less

[grilla & flo]

the replies to your question are very helpful, we are looking into moving probably to perth. all our money is tied up in our house. when and if it sells (credit crisis slowed down house sales) we hope to have approx £20k this will be to pay for move, flights, new rented accomadation in oz.

[kia1]

Hi when we go we are only taking £12,000 and that has got to get 6 months rent etc a bit of furniture the ever so important barbie, but we are shipping over alot of furniture, so after paying rent, car first massive shop my oh will be looking very quickly for a job lol.

[Helaine]

glad this thread was started, i will have to show my OH that not everyone takes huge pots of dosh with them, quite gutted really if we had sold the house in jan/feb we would have been taking 40k ish now it looks like about 20K if we are lucky, glad to know that less is more in our cases.

good luck to each and every one of you aiming to live the dream.

ok so scap telling the OH, he just grunted and said " well thats gona be pretty sh*t if we only have that much" arrrrrgh men whats up with them hey ??

[joelltah]

MAYBE????? It's not HOW MUCH YOU HAVE GOT it's what you do with it that counts!?!?
MY Goodness We could all do with a win on the lotto but I do think it's personal choice given your circumstances...................You may not have a lot but "just make it work for you" and that will count........................hopefully lol!

[KIRK AND CO]

the price of things in perth is very expensive housing not cheap rent if you can get one 300 - 400 dollars a week,food beer ect. Do not get me wrong it is an extreamly beutiful place & i am going back to live there next year but i will be one of the ones with money. Think very carfully if you only have a small budet. or you could just go & have the happyest time of your lives & the ones with money worry so much about not haveing any never see the real oz. go for it

[mutikonka]

At the risk of sounding like Monty Python's Three Yorkshiremen (when I am only one), we arrived in Australia with nothing except a credit card whose measly credit limit was soon used up. It's an incentive to get out there and find work! And we are still living in a shoebox int middle of t'road.

[daveintaiwan]

I have moved countries several times and it is always a challenge.
The first time I moved I was saddled with an unsecured loan of £15,000, £5,000 in student loans and a credit card with a limit of £1,500 of which I had just used £800 to buy the plane ticket (my safety net was that it was a return ticket!), and I had about £300 in cash. Ten years on and several moves later, and my finances are looking a lot healthier for my move to Australia, but having said that, money has never been the biggest challenge of moving.
My most recent move was to Taiwan, and in the area where I live, 99% of the population do not speak any English at all. In the beginning, I spoke no Mandarin either, so trying to rent a place to live, organise the utility companies, buy food and any other number of normal everyday tasks soon became a comic performance of mime and crazy scribblings on pieces of paper. I feel my move to Australia will be a little simpler!
I think the three things that make for a successful move are planning, felixibility and attitude. It is rare that a move goes exactly to plan, so be ready to compromise and even think completely 'out of the box', and if people see things as a challenge rather than setback/problem then they'll probably fare better.

[mandisfam]

Hi, thanks to you all that replied to this post of mine. Its good to know we want be the only ones going out with £10k (or thereabouts) and less.

We are simply people and long as the bills are paid and we have enough money for some good food and odd bottle of wine, plus the kids have want they need, then we are happy.

It would seem oh will earn a fairly decent wage out there being in IT (I may get away with working part time and maybe not at all), and before I get posted down, we have spoken to recruitment agencies out there and we have been told a realistic figure my oh could earn in his area of IT, so figures cross all will be well.

Good luck to all going out with "10k (or thereabouts) or less" Money isn't everything........

Mandisfam

[sadsmile23]

Originally Posted by mandisfam

Hi, I have been reading a lot of posts on here, with people saying they have got £50k, or £100k to go out to oz with, obviously from the equity of their houses. But we will be lucky to scrap together £10k to go out with. (We got on the housing ladder at the tail end of the bloom, so not made much on our house)

So I was wondering if there was anyone else going out with £10k or less???

Also, is there anyone out there who did go to oz on £10k or less and do they have any tips for starting out again, on what seems to be very little to go out with in comparison to others.

Thanks
Mandisfam

Hi,
we will probably be lucky to have around £10k to take with us too, so am reading with great interest all the replies that come through!
perhaps we could start our own club - Impoverished Poms, Poms in Poverty?!?

[luis54eed]

Hi helaine,
Could you tell tell me a little about the Gold Coast, as my family and I are longing to move out there. My sister moves out to Perth in October, and we are due to follow but I want a more sunnier climate, am I wrong in my thinking HELP???