Purplethunder

Congratulations Peter, We're hoping to head to Melbourne this year, was supposed to go on the 21st January but I was diagnosed with PA back end of last year and hubby wanted to wait until I started to respond to drugs, have been on plaquenil and now on MTX for the last 6 weeks and am starting to feel 46 again instead of 96! So fingers crossed!!:laugh:

Is Costco more expensive over there as well?

Thanks very much everyone you have put my mind at rest and ive forwarded on to hubby as he's being the sticking point at present, I want to just go still as I'm sure the weather would be better for me..even just today its 5 degrees warmer than yesterday and my hands feel a bit better!

Thanks both, I already eat a healthy diet as our son has childhood nephrotic syndrome so we have to eat healthy for him, plus I walk to school and back almost every day so have a hours walk each day, I've only got a mild case at present so will be going on hydroxychlorophine on Friday after an eye test as this drug is an anti malarial it can aaffect vision...dont know which will be worse! Peter Bull.... when you were in Perth did you feel better? we went to Turkey in the summer and I had very little pain...since the cold snap here my hands have been the worst although I get pain in my hips, knees, toes and back as well! Its the constant exhaustion that I want rid of cant function feeling like a blooming zombie all the time and was hoping the climate in Oz would help with it all!

Hi guys, We should have been on a plane on the 20th to Melbourne...instead I was waiting to be diganosed which I finally got on Monday as Psoriatic Arthritis, I'll be starting a course of drugs at the weekend to hopefully halt the disease. I spoke to hubby last night about now getting on with things as my condition is hopefully going to be controlled by drugs now, my question is, what would medicare cover me for? if any one knows or has experienced this I'd be grateful for any information. Thanks x

OK so we've not got there sadly my health got in the way in the UK and I've only just been diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis...start drugs on Friday as need an eye test first as the drugs can affect vision! Was so upset on the 20th January as should have been flying and was stuck in the gloom of the UK!! Hoping to still get there and I'm sure the weather would be better for me there than here the aches and pains have been awful in the cold damp winter weve had :arghh:

You have to do what feels right for you at the time

The mince pies are good for a standby with the pine sugar

DS and I were watching Strictly tonight...I said isn't their make up lovely...he looked at me and said Mummy you're lovely just as you are you don't need all that make up...made my day

I love appliances online here in the UK, so glad they're there too!

We've had the same with our 8 year old and ours has been happening since the beginning of the year and we're still not 100% it is going to happen but I wanted to keep him in the loop and not tell him at the last minute. I've reasoned with him and said that peoples lives change all the time and that we're moving to try a different adventure, it helped that when we went to Turkey in the summer holidays he made a friend on the first day and they were inseperable the whole week, this showed him that he's not the type of person to sit in a corner and not make friends. Ive also shown him the type of housing and areas that we're looking at and also told him that he'll be able to surf all year and learn life saving and have even better swimming than he has here and that he'll have a choice to make between rugby or AFL, which he loves anway! I think that keeping them informed and involved makes the transition easier...oh and also the fact that we're going on an Airbus A380 on both legs of the flight and managed to get on the upper deck for the Singapore to Melbourne leg helped too :biggrin:

Oh no, why such a long delay?! Can you leave the airport at KL? Hope it doesnt drag too much!

We've just booked yesterday and went with Singapore Airlines as they were the only ones to do a380 on both legs of the journey and were the cheapest, we fly 20th January and its costing 1987 for all 3 of us

We went in 2008 for 9 days and stayed in an apartment in the bcd...loved it, the harbour area was only just being developed then so it'll be interesting to see it now, victoria market, the Yarra river, the zoo, aquarium all fab, we also took a look at Altona, Mordialloc, Berwick, Sandringham and others all on the train or bus and found it very easy to get around...hope it still is with the amount of people that have immigrated since! :biggrin:

Err why???

OK so i dont know whether to be excited or scared s**tless!!!! 1 way tickets with Singapore airlines have been booked fort he 20th January 2013 from London Heathrow to Melbourne!!! Now have a list an arms length to sort out!!! :eek:

Yes lebourvellec the company would sponsor for PR after a year :biggrin:

Hmmm as it looks like we will be going to Melbourne now thi si interesting to me too as our DS will need to be going to school pretty much straight away but as we arrive atthe end of the summer holidays I was wondering how I was going to cope with it?!

Have you been on Seek.com.au? Its a very good site with loads of jobs advetised on it...would be interested in hearing how you get on as we'll be there next year and I'm ACMA too.

Well......The company rang us up again last week and havent cancelled the visa and would still like to offer hubby the job...soooooo....we've decided to go for it and suffer the cash depletion on our savings! We'd be keeping our house here anyway so would have something to ome back to and out flat as its very easily rented out. Now looking at January next year to go after DS birthday on the 15th!!! roller coaster year or what?!!!

Thanks guys, we went back and said we would love to go but the financial investment was proving too much and would they be willing to pay half our costs back at the end of a year if hubby was proving successful or to at least pay for all our flights and a months accommodation but they cam back this morning and withdrew the offer!! the cynic in me thinks they just wanted hubby for his skills for a particular project they had not for a long term employment prospect!!! so decision made... we are 45 & 47 so too old for the points based PR system, 457 was our only way.

Thanks for all your comments guys. Hubby would be on $120k which is roughly 1.5 times the average IT norm in Oz, we would be renting our house out here and we have a flat we rent out too so would have property to come back to if it all went wrong albeit we'd have to give any tenants notice of course! I thought that medicare only covered your emergency surgery on a 457 not say if I needed my goitre looked at? We have the money to do it all its just jumping from a comfortable life to the unknown fire thats niggling and the fact that the relocation package is so naff!

Hi all, haven't been on here for a while..again as hubby had decided that we weren't going tot ake an offer he'd had from a company in Melbourne...mainly due to the cost of us getting there...around 10k in all as the offeror is only paying for his flight and 1 weeks accommodation. We'd be on a 457 visa so would have the extra expense of medical cover and hubby is worried if it doesn't work out we'd have the 10k to fork out of our savings to get back again. He's also worried about the cost of living there and that it seems to be getting more and more expensive! We also have an 8 year old boy that we're both worried about settling into life there and again if we had to come back if something went wrong the effect on him with this too. But we also worry about this being our last chance and should we be throwing it away just because of money?! We have a good life here in the UK go on at least 2 holidays a year and only have 50k left on our mortgage and it feels like we'd be starting again and would be worse off as our home payment would be 40% of our net income rather than the 20% it is now. He emailed the business last night and they said that they've had people not go in the past but they're jobs have then been closed, hubby's is the only one that has been held open and this was offered in December last year so part of me thinks they do want us there but then part also thinks well they would say that to get us there?! We took the day off yesterday and just talked the whole day about it he said he feel a failure if it all went wrong and that the pressure is all on him for making it succeed but he also knew that I really wanted to go and feels that he'd be letting me down if we didn't! My brain now feels like mush as we've been on this merry go round for 9 months and can't see any light at the end of the tunnel especially as the company also basically pleaded for him to go this morning saying they had some really good work for him to do if he went.. We just don't know what to do :confused:

Thought id get you to 11,000 views! :laugh:

Anyone know what Waterways is like near Aspendale Gardens in Melbourne? Thanks Debs