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Congrats mate, good to hear How's work for you?

You simply can't say "I hope your OH comed to sense" without saying "I hope you come to sense". You both have feelings and both want the best for themselves and their entire family. Unforunately you two have different feelings on where most joy and prosperity should be reached. It is one of the most difficult situations and I feel for you and your husband. Never forget it's tough for both of you. Good luck and all the best!

Hi fellow digital maketing mate. You'll be fine in that industry I tell ya that i ran my own agency, before I sold it due to moving back to europe again.

Can't give you a lot of info and I don't speak fom experience looking for casual jobs... But I saw some job openings popping up on various local suburb facebook pages. Just join them and keep an eye on them. I also remember someone saying there are agencies for work for backpackers. But I don't have any more info than that. Enjoy your journey.

Metric system thank god lol...

Don't you have the feeling you are not giving 'your new country' it a fair and full, holding onto your old house? (Unless you do it purely financial to rent it out, increase of value over time etc etc)

Haha cool pic!

I have, so have a lot of other people: (link removed as per forum rules).

The answer to that question doesn't add value to the discussed topic.

Don't be so judgemental (which is a judgemental comment in itself). Everyone has their own values. We loved Perth, never been to Brisbane. But I can imagine being closer to other stuff is a bonus. We really like the dry heat, so that's a plus for us. Others hate that.

It's all up to you and what you want out of life. We love dry heat, a lot of it. We don't like big cities, but it should be big enough to find work in our professions. So Perth it became

Hey buddy, we're in the same situation. Seem to be ping ponging somewhere beginning next year (if we do).

Nine months a year? Seriously? Our A/C was broken during summer in Perth, 38 degrees...that was too hot. But besides one summermonth a year (40+ degrees) or two wintermonths (5 degrees at night) we didn't need any airco.

Don't know, I'm not married. I was in a defacto relationship for 5 years already. I sent stuff like having a joint bank account, rental agreement in both names etc. I guess for marriage it's different, but just to give you an idea. I had my skills assessment done to gain the 5 extra points. If you don't need it, your partner doesn't have to go through the skills assessment hoops. It's up to you to decide if 60 is enough. Depending on the visa, some people are in front of the queue when they get more points I believe. But it's been nearly 3 years for me, so I don't know the details any more. Don't know what PTE is. Not sure if your partner has to do an IELTS test as you're speaking English as your first language. I'm from Netherlands and the partner had to do the IELTS as well (general ielts - at least a 4.5...which obviously is a piece of cake).

congrats mate. Link? immi.gov.au, particularly http://www.immi.gov.au/Work/Pages/SkillSelect/SkillSelect.aspx

I hope I will be in the same boat as you in two months. Originally we left Oz, because I was homesick. My girlfrien wanted to stay. Now I want to go back and she doesn't want to... I feel so bad for making 1 mistake and feel we miss out on so much... Sigh. oh well good luck going back to Oz! Keep us posted.

Sorry, you are right, I misread because it was only about work and doing household stuff and not hobbies my bad. When we got back home and saw everything was the same it only made clear for me how much I changed. Nothing judgemental there, I am glad I did and I am glad everyone back home is doing what made and makes them happy. p.s. If you do somethi 'new' every day, doesn't that get old in a way?

I am on this one with Que Sera, Sera. Our life used to be so much different in Australia than NL (similar to UK). Took me a trip back to realise. Sure you have to work, do groceries etc. And for me those things are pretty similar. However all the spare time we did have in AU is spend so much differently than back in Europe. In Australia we were on the beach or with the horses 3-4 days a week, we went away for long weekends (camping) multiple times a year (except the 2 months during winter) and we enjoyed our time in the park. Just laying in the warmth in the grass. You can say that some of those things can be done in the NL/UK as well. But to be honest, with that awful amount of rain and cold weather pretty much 8 months a year (and even being unpredictable in summer), it definitely is not the same for us.

Congrats, what's her name?

We flew back to the Netherlands with them may-2014 (3 months ago). They were fine. Great price. Only downside was that we had an extra stop at Abu Dhabi which we didn't see coming. It didn't really matter for the total flight duration, which was still good, but the misses hates landing and taking off

I agree completely. Except for investments or a (non investment) mortgage.

Difficult situation, all the best! PS props to your ex husband as well for letting you go with your daughters, knowing they are more happy in Perth.

Would be nice if they extend the project with a rail from Wannerroo to the CBD as well :chatterbox:

Although I definitely agree on the point you made there. Money can save you a lot of headaches and trouble. So, yeah it can certainly "buy you happiness". Will money alone make you happy? No. But if I have a simple house paid off, I can buy all my general expenses and only work for like 20 hours a week while still supporting my family, then that situation would make me more happy than working my ass off 60 hours a week and barely being able to pay for general expenses and a cheap mortgage. It's a balance between how you get the money (ie working your ass off and other stuff you can't/have to do) and what you will do with that money. There is a threshold in which money becomes less and less of a happiness factor. And the price you have to pay in other fields of your life are not worth the extra money. I have a picture in mind of my ideal reachable situation (also materialism wise). It does require a good amount of money, but nothing too overly expensive. Even if I would make a million dollars more...I wouldn't acquire anything else, because it wouldn't make me more happy. I would rather work less than make more money for example.

I thought I knew, but maybe I don't... I thought it was that I missed family and friends. In retrospect it was probably also that I couldn't work with my business partner any more (yep work has a big influence on my life). But I find it hard to determine id those are the reeeeal reasons. I am pretty sure, but how can I know for sure? I did notice by coming back that I loved Oz more than I thought and although we have good friends in the Netherlands, we also made some friends in Oz. And our daily lives are less great then back in Oz (partly because of the opportunities Oz provided). That is by no means a generic comment that Oz provides a better lifestyle, it just does for us.