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The way we see it we dont expect to be as well off financially when we first get to Australia, but we know we will have a better quality of life for us and our children, hubbie is a site manager over here but will have to go back on the tools over there and work his way up like he has here. All i can say money isnt everything i know it helps but it will be just like starting out again and i`m ready for the adventure.
Sam. x
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London Cabbie: fantastic post, shared sentiments with most of the country! I live in a small town, but a stranger in my own town. We have had mass, uncontrolled immigration and its not PC to say that enough is enough. We cannot sustain any more. I work in the NHS, it is completely overstretched. I find that the immigrants who've come to our town very hard-working, polite people, but there are loads and loads of criminals, drug traffickers, paedos, murderers who are just waltzing into our country, taking advantage of the non-existent immigration control. I am afraid of what is happening to the UK. I have to stop now, as feeling very angry and I have to be careful what I write. But should I have to be careful???
Em&M: don't give up your dream. Please talk to an agent, most I know will give you FREE advice. There are other options: sponsorship, student, don't go down without a fight!
Some great posts listing what has driven us all to want to leave our home country.
I'm under no illusion that Australia is the land of milk and honey and that everything will be perfect. It's going to be hard adjusting to a new way of life, finding a new home, a new job and making new friends. However I believe thats what the difference is with us here - we are willing to try and adjust. We are not going to Oz demanding that everything is the same as it is in our home country, but without the bits we dont like.
To me the most important thing is my family, their health and their happiness! Both my husband and I work full time and often long hours just so we can live in a nice house in a reasonable area (which is going down hill rapidly). I want my son to see more of us and enjoy growing up, not to feel that his parents aren't there for him and spend his time stuck indoors in front of a computer or television. If he can have half the childhood I had then I will be a very happy mum. I want him to play outside, without me having to go with him. For him to be surrounded by people who value their family and respect the adults around them. Surely this is not too much to ask!
I work hard to try and teach my son right from wrong and respect other people and their property - I dont want this undone by him getting caught up with other children who's parents dont seem to have the same values.
It's sad that we are all so desperate to get away from this once great country that we have called home. There are aspects of Britain that I will miss terribly but unfortunately there is a growing number that I wont. :(
Good luck to us all in our new lives in Oz - here's to family happiness and health!
Jamie (AKA London Cabbie).. Thanks for that great post and to everyone who has contributed. You are all so right and have hit some nerves regarding what a pushover this country is.. Also the part about letting our kids out and I too will be sick to my stomach if we stayed here and my son wanted to go out. One of my younger brothers got beaten up a few years ago whilst trying to protect his friend who was picked on by some other guys who thought he was on his own.. Sickening and such violence around..
I have also been having the same doubts - I am not sure you would be normal if you didn't, however over the last week I have
>Had to tell my son we can't go bike riding as it will be dark soon
>Taken my kids to an activity land costing over £10 for 2 hours, it was absolutely heaving and not one of the three people I asked would give up one chair for me and when we went outside it rained.
>Went to watch my son play football and froze my a**e off.
>Paid £1 to park at a local lake, paid £3 for my daughter and husband to go on a 5 minute train and paid £7 for my son to do a rope climb which he loved but then cried coming back to the car because his hands were so cold.
>My husband took kids to a farm costing £15 plus food, it rained.
>Came out of my house the same time as my neighbours opposite and not once did they acknowledge me.
>Walked the kids to school in the rain - again
So for me, as time goes by all those fears slowly start fading away and I think about what is really important and although not perfect by any stretch of the imagination - I think it is migrating to Australia!
Hello tahe 49 :)
It's not called Rip-off Britain for nothing is it! I moan about being inside so much during the winter months, but at least my kids are grown up and now well-used to slouching in front of the t.v. and computer for winter.... have forgotten how tough it is with little kids who have so much energy.
Lucky us, we'll be in Perth for hols, 2 weeks and 3 days time, where we will be absolutely spoilt for choice for things to do which won't cost much and in lots of cases, will cost nothing. We'll be running and cycling on the purpose built tracks, swimming in the ocean and trying to spot other people on the beach, taking the ferry down the Swan River, people- watching in Perth city whilst have an iced coffee, going to numerous exhibitions and museums, which are mostly free, or just ask for a silver dollar coin, parking at the numerous beaches all day for FREE, yes FREE unlike when we go to Skegness (nearest beach to Boston) and have to pay £10 to park on a bit of wasteland. We'll ride the free CAT buses in Perth, yes you can just get on and off when you like, you don't pay a cent. You can drive through the city - it isn't congested and no, you don't pay to enter Perth city!!
Oh dear, could go on and on and on...............
No wonder we all want to leave. Will there be any skilled workers left in the UK soon?
Wow London Cabbie
just wanted to say what a brilliant posting - brought a tear to my eye!!
But really reading it probably like everybody else it makes me realise those original reasons we said we wanted to get out a few years ago - just been umming and aarghing about it but we've said this is the year - either we'll be lucky and make it but if not at least we've tried.
A wise friend of mine once said - make sure you can always regret things you've done rather than things you never did.....
