For those Thinking about going home or have left. Did you visit Aus Before you emigrated ?

[ghost]

I did, for 3 weeks , loved it , couldnt wait to move out to live.

[Quoll]

Yes, went on a working holiday for 3 months and had no qualms about going there to live ..... for a while.

[twinsmom65]

Nope had never been to Australia, until the day we landed when we emigrated. Once we got used to driving on the opposite side of the road, came to really enjoy our time there.

I would love to go back for an extended holiday and see the east coast and FNQ and New Zealand.... perhaps when I retire, and I have more time !!

Cheers

Karen

[Guest62757]

Yes we came out on a holiday in 2005 for hubby to show me around. Sadly I knew I didn't "love" Australia, it's all in the eye of the beholder I guess!

[Lancashire Lass]

No we had never been here before we arrived to live. I think if I had come over here on holiday I would have still emigrated here. It's only when you are living and working in a place for any length of time that you see it in it's true light.

[Desprado]

No never been to Oz before hand. Had return tickets as it was to be a holiday. Until OH was offered a job then everything was up and onwards. Too fast for me.

[fourcorners]

Came on a three week field trip to Perth, Southwest and Kalgoorlie. That got my OH an interview in Kal and we didn't really think about other options apart from that. Stayed there for 18 months. Then a Phd opportunity came up for OH and we left, probably a bit too soon looking back, but you have to take these things as they come. Phd didn't work out so we went back to the UK at the start of the GFC. Could never quite make it work in the UK jobwise (loved living there) as a couple, so ended up coming back out to Kal to earn some dough.

Had I not gone on the field trip (I know in years since they have gone to Namibia instead....) I think we would still have ended up in Oz, maybe Kal, maybe not. I'm glad we both had a little bit of a taster before coming out to live, but I don't think it would have been the end of the world if we hadn't. Plus I don't think the fact that we visited previously had any bearing on us leaving - we would have gone anyway given the same opportunities.

[Legal angel]

Yes, I had lived in Perth and Melbourne on and off for 20 years - went back to Ireland for 16 years - back in Perth for 10 mths by the time we leave and heading back to Ireland.

[Endless Winter]

Had two holidays here first. Loved the first one - The Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Melbourne. Was exciting to be in my partner's country and to see where she'd spent so much time growing up. Knew straight away that I never wanted to live here though.

Second holiday was largely a meet and greet tour as we tried to keep her parents and all her friends happy to the extent that we came home feeling exhausted. It was also tarnished by her F+F making a series of jibes about the UK to which I responded in kind about Australia. I landed back at Heathrow thinking that if I never saw Australia again then it wouldn't be a bad thing!

[guest36187]

Hubby and I had never been here. He did heaps of research. Me......none! My theory was if I had no expectations then I couldn't be disappointed.