Hello, We have been living in Alice Springs for 3 weeks now, against everybodys advice and quite a few on this site too (mostly from people who have never visited Australia, let alone Alice Springs) we are loving it. The people here are always friendly, have the time of day to talk to you, the weathers always good (who wants to live down south when the weathers like the UK?) Its been in the late 30's all week, but the humidity is so low it's no big deal.
Within our first week of being here we were invited out to 2 BBQ's and a 70's disco night!
The 'Alice' has everything any modern city has to offer and everything is within a 10 min drive. The Mac ranges have the most amazing water holes and gorges with BBQ and camping sites all the way along.
There are plenty of Aboriginal folk around town. We were told they are drunk on every street corner and give you abuse (again i believe by people who had maybe been here for a day or two) we have had no bother what so ever and feel very safe walking around town with our 2 young boys, they just do their own thing and keep themselves to themselves.
So bring on the NT and Alice Springs, if more people came here to find out for themselves rather than clambering for the 'glamour' spots then maybe the word would get around. Plus if your struggling to get into Oz then try a regional visa, it will speed up the process to 3 months from start to finish and you will experience an area of Australia that most people have't got the guts to try, including most Australians!
Myself and my young family have visited Darwin a couple of times on holiday visiting relations and we love it over there! Infact we like it so much I am in the process of applying for my visa at the moment (SIR) with the intention of moving to Darwin.
The weather, people, atmosphere infact everything about the NT just "Fits" mind you i do come from Aberdeen in the North coast of Scotland where everyone starts sunbathing if the temperature goes above 5 degrees!!
The problem i am having with my visa is that i work in the offshore oil and gas construction industry as a construction superintendent and trying to find a job in the skills in demand list that matches my present position is proving to be a bit of a headache!
Ive employed a migration agent to do the necessary for me so hopefully everything will go to plan??
Hey Neil, We are just about to start the process of trying for a visa and have looked at NT, maybe Darwin or Alice Springs - wot's a regional visa? My hubby is a builder, I'm a teaching assistant, we have two boys aged 8 and 11. Can you tell us more?
hi Boultons
the regional visa is the RSMS or regional sponsored migration scheme
this gives permenent residence after 2 years and is for areas of low population growth
darwin would be the go for building work and teachers are needed all over.
Hi Scott if you could e-mail me a contact number to foursixeights468@bigpond.com and a good time to call you i'll give you a call to discuss any thing you want to know
regards
STEVE
