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  1. ihanabell
    Thanks for the honest assessment,i feel that you are right and I am only too aware that there is a reason they cannot get Aussie bricklayers for that money.
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    Bricklayer Sydney,I have been offered a job in Sydney as an employee .Pay is 60000 Aus dollars inc super.I am assuming that this works out at 856 dollars take home pay per week .I feel that on this wage I will struggle,any views.
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    Yes,i had some contact with them a couple of weeks back and the salary is 50-60k including super .I have reservations about why they are recruiting so far away and if they run out of work will they drop you like a stone.I have worked over there and know how some Aussie builders operate. Regards
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    Hello,i saw the advert myself and was wondering how much contact have you had with them and were they need bricklayers? Thanks
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    Hello Geoff, i am a 46 year old pommy bricklayer ,spent 2 years in Geelong working on new houses and other projects .Regarding your ad is there a shortage of bricklayers in the west? As some one seriously considering returning to Oz in January what are the chances of me getting work ? Regards Ian
  6. ihanabell
    Alot of reasons but basically we never sold our UK home in 2009 and felt at the time Australia was expensive to buy land and a house so decided to return to UK .Also bricklaying on new houses is savage in Victoria the ethics are way way behind .I was lucky i worked for a decent fellow but i cannot say i miss working in Geelong .If your back on the trowel be warned 30 minute break from 7 till 3.30 is hard and they have no hestitation in telling you they have no work for tomorrow.Great place to live poor place to work for someone is my best description of the area.Any help i can give just let me know.
  7. ihanabell
    Hello Mitch,i did 2 years bricklaying in Geelong and returned to UK in 2011. If your looking for a managerial role then Melbourne is your go as Geelong would be mainly house building . The only decent firm medium size i worked for was Spence Construction in Colac but they had a place in Pakington Street .If you go back on the trowel make sure you check out what the gang is like because there are some characters building houses in Geelong. PS We lived in Drysdale it was lovely.
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    Drysdale is ideal for everywhere on the Bellarine and surf coast.
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    Hello there ,we moved to Vic in2010 ,we rented our uk home out .All good really but realised that without the equity from the sale of our UK home we will never afford an Aussie home without working 24/7 till we were 70 if the exchange rate was 1.5 or so. So returned back to uk hoping to see the dollar weaken to at least 2 to 1 before we could ever consider returning . Bottom line DO NOT COME OFF THE MORTGAGE LADDER in the uk because its going to be harder to get back on it if the Aussie trip does not pan out. Rent your house out and see in 12 months because Aussie cannot sustain the level of house prices it has and the housing bubble will burst sooner or later.
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    As a bricklayer in Victoria i can say they do work harder because they are behind the times in the technology side of the construction industry.
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    Bricklayers

    ihanabell replied to mandy b's topic in Aussie Chat

    I was getting around $32 an hour in Geelong last year ,but you need it if your considering buying a house out there.$51 in Canberra seems high but if its booming supply and demand etc .
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    ihanabell replied to fleabo's topic in Money & Finance

    your right 1.8 would be great.We got 1.8 3 years ago and still had to return home due to not having enough money to acheive what we wanted.I think unless you have a job to walk into and a house to set up in you would need at least 2.2 to have a standard of living you are expecting.The cost of the land and houses is just too expensive.
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    Theres always a future for bricklayers in UK,just had 2 years in Australia and believe me if brick veneers around houses is the future you can have it.I just got 2 extensions to build within 3 days of arriving back.Its only 80cents a brick being paid by Simonds Homes in Geelong and thats after supplying mixer,scaffold,labourers wages plus all the other bits a sole trader has to supply.Its no picnic out there they are light years behind in safety and work methods etc
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    We have just returned to the uk after 2 years in Victoria and rented our uk home out while in Australia,we had the same scenrio as you with funds to buy over in Australia.The house and land prices are over valued and even though we loved Australia we had to realise that renting any longer was dead money .So i hope the exchange rate does get back to $2 to £1 but not in the near future i think.
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    Yes mate gave it serious consideration but i find the lack of variety is what i missed while working here ie brickwork,paving,pointing,plastering,drainage etc things that i did in Uk you cannot do here as easy as they want you to have a cert for everything.I still have a regret about leaving but its an easier working life i want not the type site work is over here so i can restart my uk business and have work lined up to go back to.I think its a great country to live in but bloody hard to work in!
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