kangaroo.bruce

not looking for negatives at all, im excited and want to find out as much as i can before i go...even the so called 'negatives' im told about aren't negative to me as its all part of the experience im looking forward to. I also like hearing other peoples experiences and views, its interesting..to me anyway xx

It's good to look at others opinions but at the end of the day i reckon you'll love it :-)

You'll make you're own opinions anyway

The only thing worrying me moving to Perth in the new year is all the negativity from people on here who are coming back to the UK for one reason or another.

Another thing that scares me is the job. What if I don't like the boss, what if the boss does not like me, what if I do not get on with work colleagues. It's all what ifs.

Its costing us around £10.000 to move over there, which is a lot of money if it does not work out as we're going on a 457 visa.

But hey oh got to go and give it a go. Nothing gained nothing ventured.

Can't see your problem, get a another job, you don't have to stay with that company

No don't regret a thing, mind you I didn't move to Sydney so alls good. The locals say ;-)

Maybe something for the wannabe migrants to chew over.

 

When I migrated here in 1969 Australia was not the country that it is today, in fact it could be described as 'The wild west'.

 

Migrants arrived by ship after a 5 week voyage and usually ended up staying in a 'migrant hostel'. Two famous ones in Sydney were the Cabrammatta Hostel and the East Hills Hostel. These were primitive army camp style premises where migrant families were housed in old Nissen huts. There were no seperate rooms for adults and children, merely blankets hung as dividers. Toilets were communal and outside as were showers and baths. Meals were eaten in a large canteen building. Most hostels held around 500-600 people. To be blunt, it was bloody awfull. To show the degree of dinginess these places were, when the Vietnamese Boat people invaded Aussie shores in the late 70s and early 80s, the Government had to place them in emergency accomodation. They looked at some of the old 'migrant hostels' and deemed them unfit for habitation by humans and refused to put them in them.

 

those were the good old days

lmao

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