Do you love Tasmania ???

[Colin R]

Hi Nemo,
What sort of printing is your OH in. There a number of printing companies over here. Printing Aurhority Tasmanai www.pat.tas.gov.au . there is pml www.pml.com.au . www.sprintaprint.com.au Even in Kingston we have 3 printing companies.There is another one www.monotone.com.au . www.labelpress.net.au to name a few. these are all in and around Hobart. And of caurse we have The Mercury newspaper.
Drop Joanna an email she has her address on Joanna123 . I am sure that she and the team can help you with any information too.
best wishes
Sally
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[Colin R]

sorry Nemo . Joanna's email is joanna.jacobs@development.tas.gov.au
Sally
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[nemo]

Thank you for that Sally, you're a big help! I'll check out the websites. OH is a gravure printer, which it seems is not that common, but I think he could also do flexographic as he has friends who have switched to that pretty easily. I'll email Joanna too, is it the job side of things that she can help with? I hope she doesn't mind complete strangers bugging her!

Once again, thank you for your help. At last something positive! We have really set our hearts on Tassie as it looks so beautiful and after reading a bit about schools I reckon it would be a great place for our three kids. However, shouldn't jump the gun, don't know if we would qualify yet! Have had some positive online assessments but I'm not sure how accurate they are. Our issue would be with qualifications as OH has years of experience but nothing much on paper. He's thinking of doing City and Guilds level 3 but we have to check it out with an agent to see if it's worth it. He has an NVQ 2 in Business Improvement Techniques but don't suppose that's any good!

Anyway, I'll stop rambling on now, and go and do some housework!

Nemo x (I'm also a Sally!)

[Colin R]

Hi Sally
I am sure Joanna wont mind . She works at the department of economic development which looks after migrants wanting to and coming to Tassie. She posts on here too but in her own right and not as a member of the team. They are very helpful and worth having a chat with them. We do have a friend who is a immigration agent Charles Camidge he is through www.inbib.com and he in fact was our agent and arranged our visa. He lives over here and may be worth having a word with him too. Although we came over on a business visa he does work with skilled visas There are many migration agent s and I have to say Allen Collett at Go Matilda sounds from his posts to be someone of good , honest and straightforward person who is full of knowledge. I hope everything works out OK, There is also a website called www.tchange.com.au it gives you quite a bit of information about Tasmania. I am sure that if you contact Joanna she will send an information pack out about it over here . If we can be of any help then do let us know
Sally
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[nemo]

Hello Sally,

Thank you for the recommendations. We have previously had contact with Go Matilda and they were very helpful. This was when we were waiting to see what happened with pathway D. Perhaps it's worth contacting them again now the new MAP is being set up. Checked out your friends website too, very interesting. Got looking at businesses for sale, not that we've ever done that kind of thing before! There were a couple of delivery businesses and now I'm thinking maybe I should go on a business management course or something! Never mind the fact that we'd have no money left to buy a house! OK, now I'll come down from cloud cukcoo land.

Anyhoo, hope I haven't ended this thread. Please Sally and everyone, continue to give us dreamers the pros and cons of living in Tassie.

Sally x

[em&paul]

Hi

Vanessa - when are you planning on going to Tassie?? We haven't had our medicals done yet but hopefully in the next month or so. We would like to be there early part of next year if possible just depeneds on the visa!!

Nemo - We've never been to Tassie but think it looks stunning too. We're using Visa Bureau and they've been very good. Joanna is very helpfull.

On Tuesday I met up with a a friend of a friend who lives in Tassie. Originally she came from near Melbourne but moved to Tassie to go to uni in 2001. She has been working and travelling over here for the last 2 years but is going back on the 10th August. She loves Tassie and owns a house in Snug and now can't wait to get back.

Emma

[tasormelb]

Hi All
Emma - we lodged 175 visa online 25th May. Looking at peoples timelime I'm hoping to get visa in January especially as I am on MODL. We were hoping to get to Tasmania so our son could start year 8 in high school with everyone else but having problems selling house due to credit crunch. I notice you have sold you lucky thing! any tips? Medicals are booked for 13th August. I am quite nervous about them - meant to loose some weight before but never got round to starting diet (Ha Ha). Also had part of my tounge removed 2yrs ago due to pre cancerous cells, have letter from consultant saying all clear and should not have any future problems but can't help worrying. So we will fly as soon as visa here and house sells, hopefully as near to Feb as possible. Keep me posted with your progress.
Vanessa

[em&paul]

Hi,

Vanessa - Our 175 was recieved in Oz in Feb but paper based. Timelines seem to be 9-12 months so maybe by end of year!! We were really lucky with selling our house and so glad its gone and now ready to go, don't give up it will sell, we did reduce our price and that definatly triggered the viewers. We hope to go 2 months after our visa is issued to give our stuff a chance to get on its way. Even if not heard about medicals/police checks will probably front load in September.

Does anyone know what the areas of Huonville and Frankiln are like? We can't decide if we want to go rural or coastal!! Also been looking at high schools in tassie and it seems that they only go up to grade 10 and then they have to go into Hobart if they want to do further education. Is this normal?

Emma

[Colin R]

Hi Emma,
It does seem that most of the youngsters go on to do years 11&12 at college. and as you say they are in Hobart.
Huonville is a good place and Franklin is lovely we quite reguarly go to both. Huonville has certainly grown over the last while and the property prices have increased . Franklin is still alittle behind but there is very little there. there area few shops and cafes but not too much else. Huonville is main town in the Huon Valley and has most of the facilities that go with this.
Rural properties are lovely but they are not the same as living in a rural setting in the UK. They are usually on tank water and everything that you want to do is not near by and more importantly the children can be a liittle cut off. We thought about going out into the country more , but our son works in Hobart and travelling backwards and forwards everyday and on roads that are a bit how should I say little more than farm tracks in some cases. Although the road to Huon and Franklin is very good. We thought that we would get him settled and us get to know the area and the pitfalls. Maybe its me but the Channel doesnt seem as far out nor as isolated as some areas in and around the Huon. Snug, Kettering, Woodbridge, Margate, have the best of both worlds it seems Coastal and in many bit around them rural. Leslie Vale is rural but not too far out its fairly flat to so good pasture. Sorry gone on a bit.
Sally

[em&paul]

Hi Sally,

Thank you for your post.

We've had a look at Snug, Kettering, Margate and Woodbridge and they all look really lovely, prices seem reasonable and closer to the sea too. Its so hard picking an area and with so much choice where do you begin!!

I know we can move when we get there but would like to get the kids settled into school as soon as possible and not keep uprooting them.

Emma