kellyjamie

Evening all, im hoping someone can help please before i employ an agent. My son is the UK and has recently turned 18.He has now decided he wants to move out here and i have no idea how he can come out? heres some info....... He is working full time We get citizenship in Jan He has no trade Any info would be great Thankyou Kelly

Thanks Tina, are the japanese gardens worth visiting??

Hey everyone, sincere apologies, my stupid email is not updating to let me know i have received replies!!!!!!! so i do apologise. Thanks Tina for all the info, were heading up this weekend to have a good look around. We love the idea of the tranquility aspect up there, the fact we can get 1/2 acre for the same price we get 400sqm here northside, daughter would love a pony lol! Id love a view not just a patchwork of colourbond roofs. The weather doesnt bother us and were not massive beach goers. But the distance does concern us if im honest, which we will only be able to decide once we come up and check for ourselves. Thanks Jacaranda, the trip back was exactly what i needed. It made me realise that for the forseeable future Australia is defo the best place for us and the girls. It was absolutely the best thing i could have done x

Hi to all in toowoomba, were looking to come down/up to Toowoomba over the weekend to spend the day and i was looking for any good recommendations for places to eat please? Thanks Kelly

Hey guys we are just at dakabin, we have 2 girls altho their only 8 and 4mths :-)

is this in the park?

Hi Guys, we will try and come along if thats ok? Theres me hubby and 2 kids. Been here (northside) 2 years but struggling with making friends kelly

Yes we are thinking of melbourne going down in July. Im just back frm the uk which was my "do i wanna go back" trip and i can safely say im no longer homesick so now its about working out where we will feel most settled. Toowoomba came about ourely because hubby was contacted for a job out there.......

cheers bob

Hi folks Just looking for some info and opinions on Toowoomba please? Were currently in North Lakes and hubby has been contacted about a job in Toowoomba???

Hi guys thats a tough one. Can i give u a view from the other side? Weve just had our 2nd baby girl 10 weeks ago here in oz. My parents especially my mum are desperate to be out here to see her. And i didnt honestly think id feel as bad as i do without my mum around. These are months i can't get back that they have missed out on. Im going hime with bubs for 3 weeks soon and my mum is over the moon. My vote would be go back and be there but others may say its ur life now, tough one x

Hi everyone and thankyou for your input and support. hubby and have been chatting the past couple of days and i feel that it will be inevitable we will return to scotland orobably within the next 2 years. We get our citizenship in jan next year and we would not go before we had that. Hubby has a young half brother back home, hes 7 and we lost hubbys dad 6 weeks after his little bro was born. Hubby really has a strong pull that he wants to be there for him growing up, he wants to be the one to take him to football games etc as their dads not here. i miss my parents terribly even more so now baby has been born. I am an only child and i know 100% the day i get the call to say one of my parents is in hospital gravely ill, i will absolutely have to go home to care for them. I thought i could be selfish and not do that but i cant and 2 amd a bit yrs on and i know id never live with myself if i wasnt there for them when that time comes. I honestly honestly 100% assure use we have tried to make friends here. We are very social and the type of folk to always organise get togethers or nights out etc, but trying to get people here to do that is impossible. We were burnt badly by a group of expats we thought were friends when we moved here only to turn out they weren't. Long story. And now im just over it. I also genuinely cant stand the awful heat up here in Qld. If heat were just the problem we would go to melbourne tomorrow as we have old friends from back home down there who would welcome us with open arms, but ive realised its more than that. My 18yr old son is back home with his dad, he has had a rocky 6mths back on track now but it broke my heart not being there. My eldest daughter misses my folks terribly aswell. And a materialistic thing as i said before is xmas. we just can not get into here at all. This xmas (our 2nd here) was the first time i really seen hubby homesick. I absolutely agree sometimes u need to leave to appreciate what u had. We love Australia we really do its a beautiful country, thats afforded us a great job and new career for my husband and afforded us to have another child, its got great sunshine beautiful beaches and interesting wildlife, but its just not home amd we dont feel it ever will be.

Hi everyone well i never ever ever thought id be typing this post 7 yrs after joining the group and 4 yrs of hard work to get here but after 2 yrs here in brissy we both miss Scotland more than we thought and mainly our family and friends. we have just had our 2nd baby girl 10weeks ago and i think it has bought it home to us what weve left behind. We have very very few friends here and believe me we have tried hard. We are defo financially better off here but we also find it very expensive to live and to travel. So all our plans of travelling this side of the world arent really happnin as its fairly costly to fly anywhere. Im going home with the baby next week for 3 weeks see how i feel hubby would go home tomorrow. The thing is we do love it here we are not at that point of despising everything and anything far from it. Its just that we actually miss home. I dread the thought of having to have another ridiculously hot xmas that feels nothing like xmas. I hate that when my eldest daughter goes out to play she comes in crying after another flippin huge ant bite, the summer in qld this year has been unbearable its lasted over 6mths now and is not enjoyable. We find everything very expensive, what id guve for a quick weekly shop round asda! We miss the support of friends n family. We miss the social life we had back home which just does not exist here. I can't stand the heat, amd we kind if feel like were just living day to day here??im not sure if ul understand what i mean by that. Ive always said life isnt any better here its just different. Im trying to not feel like weve failed and fell flat on our faces but it feels a little like that. Anyhow thankfully we can air our feelings in this little secret corner of the forum amd know we wont be lynched lol x

Been here 2 years, seen 3 dead snakes, and on monday i seen my first ever alive one!!! and it was huge, it was a 6.5ft carpet python at the side of the road, i called a snake catcher to help it and it was him who told me how big it actually was!!! I have searched hi n low every where ive been to try and see one and ive seen nowt until now and it was close to a main road. they are defo there you just dont see them. as for spiders, we lived near a lake and had several huntsman in the house which are fine, they dont harm you theyre just fast! but our new house weve only seen one. we did have a redback by the pool. but trust me snakes n spiders will not be what bothers u most, the ants are worse and the mozzies!

no emotional blackmail, just my daughter genuinely misses grandma and grandad. my mum doesnt get upset infact she tries to keep my daughter cheery and tells her it wont be long and they will be back for another visit. We had thought of going back at crimbo but we decided against it as we think that could be a very emotional time to go....

Yep i agree paul, even tho i still call Edinburgh home, i feel that for me personally its because ive never been back, or left here yet, to be able to physically allow me to call this home,if that makes sense? I have a friend been here 7 yrs, after 4 got suddenly homesick, went "home"only to realise that she was home all along in brisbne, so hopefully that will be the case for myself. Someone posted on another post that alot of people who have babies here end up going home, and thats exactly whats happening with me/us.

your spot on, hence i think a trip home will help me to decide

We qualify for citizenship next jan which we will defo get. I think a visit back for myself is needed to reinforce either way. And to be honest i think it will reinforce why we came here in the first place, or i certainly hope so. And yes i do still call Edinburgh home, but ive always said i couldnt see myself retired here or buried here? But im hoping that by going back, when i return here i will then feel like im returning home. I have joined 2 mothers groups aswell.

yep this is me right now!

following this with interest as im the same just now

Hello everyone, just looking for some advice please weve been here 2 years now in brissy and i genuinely love life here. We have bought our house with a pool, hubby has a good job, we are financially 100% better off here and that in turn has just allowed me to have another baby, shes now 6 weeks. But im terribly homesick. Now before you say it, yes im aware hormones will play their part, but ive been like this a wee while now. I initially thought it was brissy but its not, its homesick. Hubbys ok, has his moments but he can see my point since bubs arrived. We have no family here and a few friends. Im thinking of going home for a visit wit the baby see if that helps? My question is should i go home get it out my system or do i ride it out??? Im not one of those suffering from homesickness who despises all things aussie, im the complete opposite but im not sure if the lifestyle is worth the trade off of family n friends. My other daughter (8) said last week she likes it here but its not home, she cries every week on skype to my parents! Thanks Kelly

Hello we are north side at dakabin. Been here 2 years and from Edinburgh. How are u guys finding it? we have very good friends here who are from bonhill!

Hi marie where abputs in brissy have u settled? Where are use frm back home?

yep i agree, location is quite possibly our issue. i think we need to look at a diff suburb/area in brissy aswell as melbourne

and all these points are very valid, which we welcome in helping us decide if its worth the move or not. We dont mind the beach, the beaches on the peninsula here (redcliffe, scarborough etc) are ok, not great not what i would consider a beach where id go for the day and go swimming. If we really want to spend the day at the beach we would pack the car and head up the coast, so a good 45 min - hour drive away which for us isnt ideal. but also we are a good 40 min drive or so out of the city which in the grand scheme of things isnt that far, but i think due to where weve picked we feel a bit in no mans land. were not close to the beach nor the city. its very boring in north lakes and surrounds.