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hello all,
been a long time since i posted, been busy plodding through life, etc,etc. i have just been reading through various posts on this site and i noticed, ( in particular perth ), that a lot of people are keen to meet up and socialise with other brits in their new life in oz. i suppose that is natural. i thought i would just say that i have no pommy mates, ( my aunt and uncle are poms just about & one irishman , does that count ), and i have only really met a few poms here, ( i live in the illawarra nsw ), and all my work mates are aussies. my wife knows a few poms through work. we have been here coming up a year and a half, and we had the choice of perth or here as we have relatives on both sides of the country. i know we 'might' have settled easier if we had gone to perth as there are so many english there it would be hard not to make friends, but we feel quite happy here, although if our circumstances change we would move to anywhere in oz rather than go back to the uk. it was really hard for us for the first 6 months but we feel as if we fit in with the aussies, and that we live an aussie life. we both found that the aussies were harder to get to know than the equivalent people in uk, but that could have been our frame of mind at the time.i suppose the point of my post is that you dont always have to go with the option of living where all the poms do. having family here helped a lot but we got our own full time jobs out of the paper, and have both made our own friends outside our jobs and family....thats all for now.
I understand where you are coming from, it's the old adage that if you choose to live somewhere you should fit in with that way of life and not try to live your old life in a new country.
However, for some people they do need the ''security' of being with people from their home country. Plus of course, the whole point of joining a forum like this is so that you know you have support from people who have gone through the same as you and therefore are understanding of your issues.
Good for you for fitting into the Aussie way of life and making Aussie friends though.
Whereabout are you in the Illawarra? That is where we will be heading.
Jean
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