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Job, that should decide your area, I am in country WA and applying for jobs in Perth and getting nowhere in my trade / motor trade. I would secure a job, Skype interview where ever you can then move. No pint living in a nice house then having to head back to UK after six months due to no work. Seek site is good. type in your trade and minimum amount and have a look. My workshop was sold from underneath me and I have been job hunting for 3 months here in WA. Now looking further afield and had 5 phone interviews in a week all either country QLD or SA. Good luck the move, just a bit harder than it was, and remember you move a year down the line.

Since you can always move down the line, job comes first. I have been on this forum for nearly ten years and in Australia for nearly 8. A lot of people moves fail because thy found a nice house etc but husband has a 4 hour commute or no work there. Job first then location and once settled in keep an eye on your preferred spot. Moving all the way to OZ and then having fail would be rough. I wanted to go to WA but was instead sponsored into Alice Springs NT, did my time and then moved to Bunbury, GFC meant no one was hiring until they new what was going on. Good luck with the move, look up Austral and Thiess in Perth.

Cheers all, i was very briefly on a 457 myself. I am trying to sell the idea to the owner of the business. I am more looking for a , "its costs this much, takes this long and this what we need to do" so I sound like I know what I am talking about. Very different being on the employers side of things. Even with the mining down turn we have remained very busy mostly because we work on BMW and Volvo's/ Audi etc.Finding someone with that experience has not been easy after our top guy left to start his own business.

Hi there. I run a small garage in the SW of WA. Have been looking for a while for a foreman type experienced tech who is used to working on euro car which is 75% or our work. Had zero success so far and wanted to maybe look at sponsoring someone in. But the business owners are unsure since it sounds complicated. Diac website seems to take you round and round in a circle. Appears I need to show receipts for training I sent the other guys on, market tested job?????? No one replied to add asking for VW or Renault experience.... Have contacted the local agent but they were very tight lipped. Any sensible links to article on first time sponsoring or advice would be really welcome.

Hi does anyone have anything in West Australia at the moment? Have a mate looking to the 457 route and start asap somewhere. Vw, Renault, Fiat and Nissan. 20 years experience .Pm for details. Cheers.

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All good advice etc. My own experence was from the Uk, almost a year, after migrating and moving from the Nt to WA about 6 weeks. Definatly hit up any companies in your line and research what projects they have going and tailer your CV to the application if poss. Good luck, and dont forget linkedin -) pS, I think that the most important thing is the job, find a job, then take a breaklease or short rental nearby, then choose where you are going to live. Have seen a lot of threads saying we chosen to move here.... but there is no work so we have to move back to the Uk.

With tourist season about to kick of your propbably going to go ok -)

Hi there, who knows. Its not as if you are a prisioner here, you can allways return. I moved in my early 40s with my younger wife. We now are parents x2 and love it here. But is hard work. First thing first is job and visa etc. Where you move to maybe less important than you think. I f you have a visa and no work then the move will fail. Good luck

Hi, was thinking of importing a camper trailer. Conway poptop windout variety. 2k gbp or $22000 here for a used one. Any idea if it would be worth it?

Hi there, settle in at a backpackers for a week, you will meet a ton of people doing the same-). Have fun and take care

Hi, when I looked on seek most of the jobs were mining and LNG projects in north wa and darwin fly in fly out.

Car now sold , cheers.

Hi there, cannot complain about Bunbury, we moved from Alice Springs just over a year ago. We settled in well but had visited the area and knew it well. There are a couple of media companies here, prime media and GWn have offices here so might be an angle. There are two large hospitals here side by side and a teaching wing , they service the SW so both a reasonable size. Good luck wherever you choose.

Hi there, I live south of Perth in Bunbury, have a low miles Honda crv for sale, ideal car for when you arrive, seat fold etc. Low miles 122000, recent dealer service, new cambelt and service. Landcruiser forces sale -) Offers around $6500. cheers Have owned the car for 2 years and done 20000kms since I brought it. I work for Toyota and when a cheap landcruiser was traded brought that. The Crv is a manual, good on fuel and made chunky! Clean interiour, very low miles for year. Pm me. cheers.

Hi there, I live in Bunbury area as well, sorry to hear your struggling to find work. I know many of the the building firms are still hard at, famers market and regional arts centre etc. Have you tris Perkins builders? What type of chippe work do you usaually do best? Pm me and good luck with the job hunt. I work servcing most of the local builders and subbies in the area.

Arrive, sleep, get over jet lag and then start looking-). Some of the older houses in the south have massive yards and polished floors and are turn of the century. Withers, carey park and dalyelup a mix of new and council housing so depends on street rather than suburb. Rent somewhere before buying etc. Not much traffic compared to the UK and a 20km commute is 15 mintes or so. Good luck and maybe see you in while -).

Hi all, we have been in Bunbury for nearly a year now after moving from Alice Springs NT. Love it and the beaches further south. You can ask for one way car rental from all the big hire firms. Buying a car while jetlagged might not allways be a good idea. Then look on gumtree which is used a lot here for ome cheap wheels. Good luck with the move. We can put the kettle on some time -) (no cold ones till summer gets here )

Hi there, my nephew is over from the UK and allready thinking about staying for the second year. Anyone aware of done and farm work in the southwest, he will be based in Bunbury but can travel/relocate. Cheers in advance .

Hi there, I have since moved on afeter a couple of years in the NT, company was peter kittles in Alice springs, large garage and may well have an opening, lots of hours though -)

I would try one of the large mining companies or the harbour here in Bunbury, cable sands, cristel mining, doral mining, diverse minerals or Bhp office in Australind a few kms north of the town centre. The `milk carton`office block in town is home to 15 goverment departments as well, good luck.

Depends, we did ours, then paid an agent to check the application before submitting, all medicals etc allready done. It wasnt that hard to be honest. Good luck either way you go.

Tough one, we drove from Alice springs to Near Perth last september. Places like border town and ceduna worth avoiding if poss. Stayed at streaky bay, fueled in ceduna and stopped at border town, all the good rooms gone and ony some nasty second rate one s left. Balladonis , great rooms and food. Esperance chilly but very good selction of rooms again. Last stop I think was narogin motel, cheap but ok. We took lots of breaks, (when the screaming got to much). Took lots of photos, didn`t pin our selves down to whether it was a 6 day or a 9 day drive and had mostly a couple of alt places to stay, with camping gear just in case. We had one tyre fail at speed when the wife wa driving, car was well loaded so not bad.Wath out for wildlife etc. We just sat at 100kph and the fuel bill wasnt too bad considering we were moving to WA and carrying a lot of stuff.