I will be leaving my daughter Natalie, 21 here, (to my 1st marriage) I cannot imagine how I am going to be able to leave without her but we have to think of my other children, 12 yr old triplets, we are thinking of their lives, as there is not much for them here in this country, especially by the time they leave school.
Its nice to see that we are not on our own leaving children here.
Hey Fraggles, how long have you been in Newcastle? are you liking it? what do you both do?
We posted our big app on Monday and thinking of Newcastle as hubbie is an engineer and there seems to be plenty of jobs also its not too from Sydney which I luv..
It seems quite an arty place too wud love t o get an arty job!! plus the beaches seem nice, would be great to have some info bout the place and see some photos.
Hope you can give me a bit of inside info. -Kirstie
Hi, we have had to leave 3 of our four grown up children behind My two sons who are aged 24 and 22yrs who are financially independent of us so would have to apply in their own rite and our daughter who will be 19 in April. Fortunately our daughter was 17yrs when we applied and at college so she was able to be included in our visa application. My eldest son lives with his fiancee and is mortgaged but he is a brickie like his dad so he has a trade if he wants to come over (but fiancee isn't keen!!!). Second son and daughter currently living with grandparents and are coming over to validate daughters visa in March (Easter ) can't wait!!!. We do miss them but have regular contact re skype and daughter intends to come here for uni. But it was and remains difficult but they are at stages in establishing their own lives and we would have to cut the apron strings whether we werein the Uk or Oz.
Location: from burnley lancashire/gold coast /labrador
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hello there australia ,well was here on a working visa in 2006 and met a girl we got engaged and she came home with me to the uk for all last year ,we applied for a spouse visa for me this year as were getting married 0n feb 9th :) .yes newcastle is really nice place to live ,we live in valentine its like a big village ,and your right the beaches are great ,were staying with my partners mum n dad here ,i start a job in march in surfers paradise thats were we wanted to move ,my job is a tower crane op and leannes job is a hairdresser ,if you look on flickr and search for newcastle australia ,there is pictures of newcastle on there
Not sure if this has been done before but we all seem to know who is going......
If we get our visa, I will be leaving 3 of my children behind
Natalie who is 24
Andrew who is 23
Hollie who will be 21 this year
They are no longer dependant on us (haa haa) but they have no qualms about our potential departure.
Jimmy will be leaving his parents, brother and sister.
Gill
If we ever get started (still waiting on paperwork in the post before we can take the next step!) we would be leaving both our mums and their other halves, my dad, my sister and 3 nieces, 1 nephew, OH's sister & hubby and his neice and nephew, OH's nan, daughters godparents who are also our best mates and their children .........but we don't see them all that often anyway so I don't think it will be as hard for us as for some although we love em all! I have loads of sympathy for those leaving older children, but they will love coming over for hols hopefully and maybe even follow one day? Good luck everyone, it will be worth it!!
I left my dad on his own, but even though he was sad he also knew that it was the right thing for us to do. He visited last year and is saving up (not easy when he's only on a pension) to come and see us again this year.
Ali
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I'm sick of following my dreams, I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later
My Mum and Dad, both in their 70s. My brother and his family are already living in South Africa. My Mum stopped speaking to me about 5 months before we left the UK, all just too much for her I think. She rang us again for the first time at Christmas. Thats about 8 months she cut us out for. It's very hard on them but they seem much happier with the whole thing now.
No way could I leave kids. Too hard.
Hey Fraggles, whats Newcastle like?
) we would be leaving both our mums and their other halves, my dad, my sister and 3 nieces, 1 nephew, OH's sister & hubby and his neice and nephew, OH's nan, daughters godparents who are also our best mates and their children 
.........but we don't see them all that often anyway so I don't think it will be as hard for us as for some although we love em all! I have loads of sympathy for those leaving older children, but they will love coming over for hols hopefully and maybe even follow one day? Good luck everyone, it will be worth it!!
