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Hi all
Just thought I would introduce us. We are Paul (bricklayer), me (Nicky) general dogsbody, Amy 23, Ria 22, Danny 15 and hoping to be out there in about a year or so.
Have posted a couple of questions before and lots of kind peeps have helped us no end. We sent our TRA off to be assessed yesterday by courier. Should be there by the end of the week with any luck so fingers crossed. It has taken 6 months of hard work to compile it all because of being self-employed and a Limited Co. but now I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
We are going over to Queensland for 3 weeks on the 5th November to have a good look round. I have been reading lots of posts and really like the sound of the Bayside area.
Would like to say a big thank you to Paula (The Downies) who really helped me.
Good luck. we sent our TRA (husband is a mechanic) 2 weeks ago, I also felt like that, but now its every time the post comes I keep thinking is it there but then i quickly tell myself its too early, i think they reckon on about a month, so fingers crossed
johanmne :D
Thanks for the reply and good luck. I do worry in case we are refused and will cry and scream if they do but what can you do. I sent enough paperwork to them, a whole tree worth I reckon.
Where in Essex are you? We are in Hoddesdon, Herts. What area are you looking to go to?
Can't wait to go visit with different views on it now, as it will be a place to live etc. not just a holiday.
Thanks for the reply and good luck. I do worry in case we are refused and will cry and scream if they do but what can you do. I sent enough paperwork to them, a whole tree worth I reckon.
Where in Essex are you? We are in Hoddesdon, Herts. What area are you looking to go to?
Can't wait to go visit with different views on it now, as it will be a place to live etc. not just a holiday.
Nicky
Hi Nicky
We are also from your end of the world, most beautiful part of england of coarse, hubby from Saffron Walden Essex also Bricklayer and me from Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire, Accountant, all the luck in the world with the TRA, fingers crossed.
We are Romford, so no more, I have family in Waltham Cross, we are hoping to head to Perth, my husband is worried about the weather in Melbourne, but we have never to been to Aussie, you watch all these programmes and people dont come back are they all seem really happy with there new lives, we are going for the children i have twins boys aged 7 and a girl 18 months and the boys love the outdoor life and we dont feel that this country has anything to offer them, have you got parents :?: my mum is refusing to speak about it (only to me) she speaks about it to everbody else. I see you are going out for a holiday in November are you all going :?:
johanne
...my husband is worried about the weather in Melbourne
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Weather in Melbourne is ideal. We have seasons! Very mild winters (maybe four mronng per year with a light frost) and better and nicer summers, spings and autumns than the UK.
What's he worried about... Glad to advise. 8)
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Geelong, Victoria's second largest City
we were reading somewhere and they said you can get 4 seasons in one day, my husband is only happy when the weather is hot, also he doesnt like the cold or damp, can you advise on hoe cold it get :?: and for how many months :?:
Nicky
my reply should have read enough said about Romford, if you have ever spent a friday or saturday evening there you would know what i mean, as you can tell we would not get a skilled visa 136 on my typing skills
I suspect your husband (like lots of Poms) is getting 'nice and warm, like in Spain' mixed up with hot. It gets very hot here, maybe not so much in Melb, but still very hot. Has he ever worked, commuted (and the worse one for me) done all the Xmas running around in 40C+?
Although a lot of Poms go to Bribane, Perth. I'd say Melbourne is a good introduction the Aussie weather, it has a bit of everything rather than too much of anything.
Hi Johanne
Sounds like most people all want the same from emigration, a better way of life, sun etc. Mostly we want to be less stressed, although until all the kids leave home I doubt that will happen!! Even at their ages they are still irritating me most of the time. By the way I have been to Romford many years ago. There was a nightclub, can't remember what it was called now.
Hoddesdon is just as bad as anywhere now though, recently there has been a drive by machine gun shooting, which killed the bloke (drug related apparently!) and 2 stabbings in the last 2 weeks. It may look like a sleepy little town but I worry every time my 15yr old boy goes out now.
My husband wants the sun and heat but I do worry about being able to cope with it myself as I am fair skinned. You don't know until you try though do you.
I have got a mother but haven't spoken to her for years now and she really wouldn't care whether we went or not. My husbands mum is OK about it now but says things like 'you will miss me you know' and you may not like it. Doesn't want her baby to go!! I wish we had done it years ago now as it would have been much easier getting the girls out there.
