WelcomeIf you are new to Poms In Oz and migrating to Australia or currently living in Australia feel free to say hi to all the other either in or moving to Oz.
Thanks for that and there is that option but we have said we would never come back but move state if we felt like we couldn't settle. I think it is just the nerves and the thought of such a huge move and what you have to give up but I guess what you gain is so much too. So are you living there now and if so how are you finding it??
We are not living there yet we are waiting on the sale of the house and our daughter has to take her GCSE's end of may/june so we are hoping to be there by August this year all being well we have till the 28th October to activate the visa but we are playing a waiting game and it's getting us down as we want to be there now.
Been reading your posts with interest, and don't know if i'm being thick (probably )
but how come you're emigrating at 50? Maybe you're not going on a skilled visa? Just asking cos I know you have to be under 45 for a skilled migrant visa.
Cheers,
Rachel
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Been reading your posts with interest, and don't know if i'm being thick (probably )
but how come you're emigrating at 50? Maybe you're not going on a skilled visa? Just asking cos I know you have to be under 45 for a skilled migrant visa.
Cheers,
Rachel
I think he said his wife is the one who is going on the skilled visa,mr cabbie being the "spouse"
Well here I am at work replying (hopefully not for too much longer)
Buckbuchanan. Phew, I am so pleased that you can get in and especially for your wife's sake too because bet that would have been brought up in a few conversations he he!! Fortunatly I have an Australian passport (my Mum is from Melbourne) so can sponsor my husband. Please don't curse me!
Good-luck to you all and get going quick in case they change again!!
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Buckbuchanan. Phew, I am so pleased that you can get in and especially for your wife's sake too because bet that would have been brought up in a few conversations he he!! Fortunatly I have an Australian passport (my Mum is from Melbourne) so can sponsor my husband. Please don't curse me!
Good-luck to you all and get going quick in case they change again!!
Thanks. Will find out any day now if we're in!! Good luck to you too!!
My husband came home after working back shift in October to find two drunk 17 & 18's kicking our re-cyling rubbish up our street at 1am. I very nice street in Plymouth. They then started kick wing mirrors off cars for fun. So my husband asked them to stop and tried to keep hold of the one damaging cars - his BMW is his pride and joy and has worked hard for it. A fight follows were my husband ends up with a broken hand.
Neighbours come out and help stop the fight. It turn out that one of the lads mother lives in our road - nice eh... Talk about ****ting on your own door step. Whilst my man is recovering on a wall - after the mother is screaming at everyone her son is a nice boy really. He punches my husband so hard in the back of the head that he is knocked unconcience and scars his face down the wall he was recovering on - this is after his hand was broken.
The police never got an ambulance, even though they knew he was knocked out. Made him give a statement at 2am. Didn't wake me up to tell me he had a head injury.
As a result we spend the whole day the next day in hospital getting his bites, breaks and cuts dealt with. After a police investigation it was deemed that both lads would only get a caution...... This country stinks.
My husband was off work for 9 weeks and couldn't hold our baby daughter for two months.....
I have put in a police complaint - because if your hard, working, law abiding you mean nothing in this country. My husband did right by stopping them and gets nothing but greif. They didn't even give me a victim of crime leaflet. If we hadn't already decided to leave it would have tipped the balance.
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- because if your hard, working, law abiding you mean nothing in this country. My husband did right by stopping them and gets nothing but greif. They didn't even give me a victim of crime leaflet. If we hadn't already decided to leave it would have tipped the balance.
sorry to hear about your hubby,but that just about sums up this country at the present time.
When we were over last yr,down the rd where we were stayibf,some youths were getting a bit "lairy",10 minutes later a huge police cruiser turns,the officers then proceded to read the riot act to the youths,(and iirc thier parents as well)
Hi windsor,
Theres been some great posts on here plenty of food for thought,
I really do think thou at the end of the day only the experience of being here yourself can properly answer your question, anybody who is hopeing to migrate to oz cannot possibly say how anyone would feel once you begin your life here. It is different to being in the uk and it is hard leaving family & friends behind,but i guess how people feel varies as some peolpe are stronger emotion wise. As far as work ,money and great lifestyle it is what each and everyone of us make it, weather wise - it can be very ****ty weather here lots of rain,storms,massive hail stones (that reck your car) but of course theres the great weather too - Australia & England neither country is all roses & perfection -
Hi London Cabbie (aka Jamie),
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