Conniebygaslight

I had no family in the Uk.....me my Aussie husband and 3 children moved to Australia to be with his family, yet we still returned to the uk. We miss our Australian family very much and speak a lot but we prefer the U.K. By a mile. My husband had lived in the uk over 20 years when we went back to Australia so I guess he had just become too British. We went back to Australia for a visit last year after being back in the U.K. For 6 years.....if we didn't have family there we probably wouldn't visit again.

It's a while since I've been on this site but saw this post and felt that I would offer my two penneth.....my Australian husband and I along with our 3 kids moved to oz because we were desperate to be with the family that we all missed very much (none in the uk), it didn't take us too long to realise that we missed the uk dreadfully and even the love of our Australian family couldn't make up for us wanting to be elsewhere. We moved back to the uk and haven't regretted it one bit. My point is if you love Australia as much as you seem to do I wonder if moving back for family is enough. Good luck to you, it's such a hard call.

Looks like that is what we have to do...it's a pain and costly process.

Hello all, we we are returning to Oz at Easter to visit family, our 3 children have expired Australian passports and I'm wondering if they can enter on their uk passports if they take their citizenship certificates and expired Australian passports with them, just desperately trying to keep costs down tbh. I've asked the Australian high commission and they've said they would not be able to get a visa in their uk passports but I'm sure others have been in this situation. Before we go to the trouble of having to renew 3 Australian passports and a trip to London, I wondered if anyone could help. Many thanks

still her, still loving it.....back 5 years and not one single regret. X

Hope you make the right decision Greg....best of luck xx

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We slotted straight back in as you know and we have never looked back. However conversely for my Aussie husband returning to Australia to live after being away over 25 years he felt like an alien in his own country. The pull of family for him and his memories are still there but he really struggled trying to adjust back in Australia. For or us we moved to Australia for the family there but returned to the uk for the country and how it makes us feel. I appreciate this is the opposite way around Greg but I think it answers your question. Hope you are doing ok x

We moved back within the year and had to completely start again...we even bought a house online from Australia and picked up the keys when we returned. It was a wreck that needed renovating, as it was all we could afford after the cost of the move. We had 3 children under 8 and my husband is Australian. That was 4 years ago and we have never looked back. We have no family here as they are all in Australia and we miss them but we simply love the UK.

Lovely part of Yorkshire....fairly close to York which is just fabulous IMO

I didn't realise he'd gone back to oz...lol. I find it very strange someone choosing lifestyle over their children but then again I find lots of things strange....

We've been back 4 years and My Aussie husband and I are both still blown away by how much we love the UK.

Our family that live there, we miss them incredibly so..... The amazing sky at night.

I may be wrong Rupert but in my experience it's often women who have closer and more open friendships than men or maybe we're more affected by their opinions. Like I say may be wrong just a thought. x

We had a similar situation but in reverse, my husband is Australian and we moved there to be closer to his family as I have none in the UK. We didn't like being in Oz at all and we made the decision to return to UK. We miss the family in Australia tremendously and my MIL passed away suddenly not long after our return to UK. It was an awful time...my FIL is 81 and we feel faraway, all my husbands siblings and their families are in Australia and we miss out on weddings births etc. We still prefer the UK though (particularly my husband) and we are in weekly contact with the family in Australia. For us it's the place not the people...if you love the place then go for it. Could you visit the UK every so often and are you an only child? unfortunately it's a massive dilemma I know...good luck in whatever you decide x

Prefer the UK...by a country mile. A friend of mine has just moved to Australia and I have wished her well, she may settle, she may not. We are all different.

There is nothing wrong IMO with pride in one's country and this goes for singing the national anthem. I believe in Australia it is so much more than that. I've had many experiences from Australians who have shown an incredible amount of scorn for anything non Australian. This is what my opinion is based on.

So I made that up did I?

Why is my comment inarticulate...? my apologies, next time I'll post something you agree with.

I love all the pomp and circumstance because we don't do it very much, the Aussies are imo unbearable with 'aussie owned and made' on everything. Hell you ask for something that's not Australian and they look at you as though you've slapped them. I remember trying to buy pounds sterling from the NAB they looked at me with horror, and the girl at the airport was absolutely staggered when we said our tickets were one way. Creepy.....singing the national anthem is lovely if it's about pride, I found it to be about drilling it in.

Imo there is a distinct difference between patriotism and nationalism. It will be interesting to hear your opinions of brainwashing in Australia.....I couldn't believe how bad it was, felt like a cult lol

It was with the Halifax, not sure what sort of mortgage it was as we shouldn't have qualified for an expat mortgage given the fact that my husband is an Aussie and therefore a foreign national. TBH I think they just didn't have a clue but because we had a good amount of capital and a job offer in writing they let us have one (even though they based it on his Oz salary-very bizarre). We thought better than landing on these shores and only being in new employment....it worked for us. Good luck. I do have a number of a broker if you want to PM me...he was very helpful but couldn't do anything for us with my husband being Australian-may be worth a call.

We bought a house on line and picked up the keys when we landed....was very scary as it needed completely renovating and extending but we knew the area and we guessed it would be easier to get a mortgage based on salary in Oz (still have no idea how we managed to do it but we did). We were lucky enough to stay with friends (there are 5 of us so it was a squeeze) for 10 weeks while the renovations took place (Re wiring, re piping new kitchen, bathrooms, installing new central heating, new floors etc). Husband got a job pretty son after. We'd only been away for 8 months s we fit straight back in....although friends of ours did exactly same as us at the same time and they'd been away for nearly 6 years, very daunting but possible. Good luck xx