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I cannot understand how they blew $120 thousand in four months?? That is a massive sum to spend $30 thousand a month!! we (my wife and little boy) came here to Perth last year in April with around 5000 pounds total after flights etc, once we had bought a second hand ute that figure was around 2000 pounds to live on get a rental and find a job, in essence it was a big gamble for us to come to Australia, but one that we had worked hard for in the uk and waited patiently for nearly four years, having to jump through many 'hoops' for the Australian government, rightly so in my opinion as its a two way street Australia offer you a different /new / adventure whatever you are looking for, you in return offer Australia your skills, knowledge and willingness to participate and respect the Australian way of life. we used our life savings to come here I cannot imagine being able to have $120,000 to start that new life with, let alone spending it! For us it's has worked out, partially through maybe luck but mainly through hard work and determination, I remember just before coming out to oz posting on here to someone who said you need a minimum of 300,000 pounds / dollars (carn't remember which) to come here, which I totally disagreed with and as someone else rightly put it because we didn't have a huge sum to come with it would make us 'hungry' for it which is true we didn't have the option of a huge pot to fall back on, we had to hit the ground running.......as it happens I managed to secure a job within a couple of weeks as a welder / steel fabricator and here we are just over a year later building a new house on Lakelands in mandurah w.a. And we have just bought a new car ( we have never had a new car in our life!) and we are as we speak waiting for the birth of our second child (a baby girl) who was due last Thursday she is late just like her dad lol ......one day we will return to the uk to wales were we are from after having our ' big Aussie adventure' ....To those that return with very little I sincerely do sympathise! I have been in them shoes most of my life, and I wish you all the luck in the world?......To those who come with vast sums and blow it....I am not so sympathetic with?...however it is not my place to judge..... maybe their circumstances conspired against them good luck to all returnees from the bug family :biggrin:

Hi zee, Yes the photo was of Daniel when he was a baby back in wales we put a pair of sunglasses on him and he wasn't impressed hehe lol thank you for your best wishes for the new baby, I am counting down the days now, it will be different having an Aussie baby and not a welsh one, I wonder how we stand when in the future we do go back to the uk ?? As she will be an Australian citizen without a uk passport? Got me thinking now. I know colwyn bay well and betws -y-coed, my aunty lives in colwyn bay and I used to do a bit of canoeing around betws, I am from a small lovely town called prestatyn And my wife is from sunny Rhyl. even though we have only spent one Christmas here in oz I know exactly what you mean, it didn't feel Christmassy at all, in my opinion it has to be cold and you wrap up warm, and possibly find a log fire to sit in front off, preferably at a good village pub you are so very right when you say you don't appreciate something when it's there right Infront of you, I was speaking to a kiwi recently, who told me that they had been to Devon four times and it was lovely they asked if I had been there ........and I had to answer no, because it was always there I never thought of going. When you do get over to the uk if you get the chance you should go up mount snowdon I went up there before we came out here to say goodbye to wales. :jimlad:

Hi zee, I wish you the best of Luck and I hope you do get your wish to return to the uk and live in the lake district, a beautifull area to choose.......we are from north wales have you lived there at all as you mention you lived in six county's, I think you are right home will always be home no matter how long the passage of time or where you are in the world....it is like a comfy pair of slippers it just feels right.....we moved out here to Perth last April 2011 and the opportunity's here and the people and weather are fantastic we have a little boy who's four (Daniel) and my wife is due a baby literally next Thursday (very accurate timing these days lol) which we have been told will be a little girl. but I have Always had it clear in my mind that one day I will return home to wales, this journey has always been an adventure and I think everyone should have one big adventure in life.....best of luck and take care

Ahhh wrong side of the fence for me ...one of the reason most people are leaving blighty for new shores, and one of the main reasons we moved to oz is due ironically to mass uncontrolled immigration which was carried out by the left wing looney labour party. yes I know I am an immigrant to Australia but there is a huge difference we had to jump over so many hurdles to get here and spend our life's savings and in the end Australia wanted me for my skills and in return Australia has offered us a new way of life. my point on this was reinforced when last week I read about a Palestinian family who where given a 1.2 million pound house to live in by the left wing London borough council which was promptly smashed up by the mother and her eight children......and then they moaned that they where entitled to another house all courtesy of the tax payer."......... not in my world pal.....the left not the right wing have ruined a once great country ....the Tories have been left with the mess to clean up

Hello, I can highly recommend Britannia, we used them last year to ship all our worldly goods over to Perth from north wales, they where very professional, and efficient, they packed everything at the house shipped it all and unpacked it all here in Perth, really good hassle free service. the price as you rightly say is a good bit cheaper than some of the other shipping companies, the chap we dealt with was called chas bollen and he explained the whole process in Our home before we decided on anything. We didn't,t ship our car....but then again we arn't lucky enough to own a Mercedes slk 200 , so I carn't advise if they are the best when it comes to shipping cars, but for household stuff etc they where brilliant......one tip for you make sure you take out insurance that includes salvage protection as we where informed that if for instance the ship carrying your container was to sink (god forbid), then you are liable for a percentage of the salvage costs!! Which could be a fortune anyhow hope this has helped good luck Daddy bug