wheezie

Hi I need help! We are planning to move back to uk in December. Been here six yrs now but hubby being made redundant and he going to return to his old job in uk. We used to live in Chelmsford before we came but don't want to go back there as would be too weird and familiar. (Our families aren't there). So we were thinking Brentwood area. My biggest concern in schools as before we left kids weren't at school. My boys are 2,6 and 10. I am also wanting to know abt high schools as wel. Shenfield, Brentwood high schools or billericAy??? I have had a look at schools websites and ofsted reports but would love know some personal views. I got tonne other questions too abt sports clubs but if can find a local to advise would like make contact. Any advice though would be super. Louise

Hi, thanks quoll and nollie. Nollie I agree with such of what you said and yeah it is a case of being fed up and struggling g doing the whole family and kids thing. It is lonely and mayBe I feel back in uk I would have my parents close plus my husbands mum would help out a lot too as she is fantastic with the kids. I keep thinkingnu we would have more time as a couple which just doesn't seem to happen here. I keep myself busy with gym most days and play group. Quoll I started a masters too but am breaking at mo due to baby. But then I didn't know if it was really what i wanted to do either. It's just tough to know what's for best. I looked at lot of threads on here and it is niceto see that there are an awful lot of people who don't see uk as some crime ridden hole where it rains 365 days a yr.n

Hi, yeah we will have our citizenship before we return. Have our test this thurs. I have had a fantastic time but cannot see myself being here for rest of my life. It is a hard decision and very scary. I know before I was married I was quite nomadic moving around a lot and now I just think oh is this just a I am bored again and want go elsewhere. But a lot more at stake with three kids in tow now. I think people back home have this image that Australia is nirvana and I must be crazy to want to go back there. And likewise a lot of Brits here would never consider returning to uk as it perhaps is to them. But yeah the climate is wonderful and life is perhaps calmer but I don't think that's enough.

Hi, I have looked at few threads on moving back and I guess I am similar in lot of ways. I know only I can make the decision when it comes down to it. Been in aus now four yrs and its been great. However this last yr I have felt very unsettled. I had my third child and really struggled. My husband works, I don't, (used to be a teacher). I just feel useless worthless and am fed up. We just had a trip back to uk and I decided I wanted to move back. My husband is ok with that and could return to his old job. I am just worried ant making the wrong decision. We live out in Redlands, it's lovely and quiet. However, I am so unfulfilled. I have friends yet most from uk and tend to be unsettled too. The guys tend to work and don't feel so homesick. My other two boys are at school. I constantly hear from everyone in uk how depressing and awful it is, with crime high, immigration issues etc. Is it really so bad. I worry abt uprooting the kids to then worry even more abt them. I have started to be concerned abt my own parents hence one of reasons for returning too. But then shouldn't it be abt my family. My children are happy with whatever yet are young. I think life is calmer here. We would move back to Essex where we came from although I don't want to live same town. Does this make sense. I think I just want some reassurance and want to know how life is back there. Visiting is always fun as we seeing so many people, yet I know real life is not like that. Louise