jonnyraceway

To balance out the debate....we live on the Gold Coast and built our house 2 years ago...today the house is worth $750k (£425K) 
I could buy a very nice house back home (Suffolk) for that 425k.....definitely with a bigger garden than we have here in QLD, and it would be less over looked too, House size would be about the same...certainly no smaller.

Norfolk, Cornwall, London

Southwold is a great shout too.

agreed but THEY might not be exaggerating, it might be how they see/feel about things, how do we know how they feel/felt about things...we don't, we are only thinking that they couldn't have felt like that because WE didn't......
anyhow, this is a topic that could go on for years and is never right or wrong.

Another beautiful day in Perth.

Cheers. I’ll do some research.

My main office would be Maddington, with quite a bit in CBD and flying away a lot (east coast meetings).

Vic Park was a ‘pin in a map’ job.

Yes, I’ll be renting out my UK house (no profit from renting due to awe full mortgage, but I like the security). I’ll be in a 4 year visa, but the aim to to stay to become a citizen.

I’m very tempted to head over for a week when I start my gardening leave.

C’mon fast turn around visa.

Don’t blame you mate. I couldn’t live in Baldivis either, especially with all family back in the UK. What a crappy life.

Glad you’re back home now, for your own sanity if nothing else.

Nobody realises just how good we have it at home until we go away out there looking for adventure only to find that it's the back of beyond, backwards in time to somewhere in the early 1990s again and live out several years of groundhog day in a stinking baking hot lifeless suburb.
When you get home, you will be like a kind of tourist rediscovering all the fun things you once took for granted.
If anything its worth the move home just so you don't have to watch the insular inward looking TV they have away out there.
And....no more gum trees & colour bond fences or having to water your garden twice a day to stop it from turning in to a desert
If you have the money to get out of that place and get your life back, then do it.
UK is THE place to be now !!!!
 

Food like anyone else does, just not my favorites i used to eat back there and having been back last month and ate lotssss of them ,i am missing them quite a bit at the moment..
Black pudding for one, you can get it here, i've tried quite a few varietys but it tastes nothing like the Bury Black pudding i bought and ate back in the UK.
A good meat pie from the chip shop,, Mrs Mac's are about the best i've found here and are just not as good...
 BBQ spare ribs from the Chinese, again having tried various ribs here i'm yet to find any as good.
Sausage, and yes i know you can buy English ones here from the pommy shop, $10 for about 6 sausage and over an hour round trip to get them ,hence we don't buy them very often. 
Cheese and Onion pasties and pies, Pickled red cabbage, pickled onion monster munch, chip shop curry sauce on proper chip shop chips, Walnut Whips are a few more things i miss too.
Cal x

A heck of a lot of unsubstantiated waffle in this rant. He has simply trawled the internet to find the odd article that appears to back up his fantasy. Some of what is said may well come to fruition, but then the economy, housing, retail, etc is all cyclical.

Throw enough shit and some will stick.

I need some advice on how to overcome jet lag. We arrived on Sunday morning and I've not slept properly since we've landed. I went to bed at 10pm last night but woke up a couple of hours later wide awake even though my body is tired o couldn't get back to sleep. Any advice would be great x [emoji42][emoji42]

Dont agree, after living in south africa and oz, I found oz has very hot weather that could become unbearable and getting worse as time goes on, oz has a lot of rain more than most english cities. I love the 4 seasons in the UK and temperate climate, never to hot or to cold....I meet people from oz in my job and they all seem to love the British weather and say I wish it was this nice back home.

Hello,
The more we think about it, the more we're wondering if it's worth it.
Waiting for visa at the moment but we're still unsure about the move as Mebourne seems to be much more expensive than UK.
Our mortgage is £770 for a 3 bed detached, I doubt we can find something similar for same money...
My salary in UK is £50k, in Melbourne I'll get $85k (plus super). Would that be enough for the same living standard?
Utilities around £300/month, food £5-600/month (family of 4). Still enough left from our income to afford what we wish for: going out, clothes, holidays... and save for rainy days.
My wife is very reluctant about the move, I would still like to have a go and try a different lifestyle.
Thanks a lot

Yes exactly, the thing is it seems many actually believe it, they seem to talk themselves into it or something. I'm still in t-shirt and shorts, almost into November but yeah the weather's bollocks [emoji16]

Noosa is fantastic and by far my favourite holiday spot in Australia. Plenty to do and see in and around the area and Noosa itself is a classy little town.

Hey bud,

I'll try and give you a few pointers to save some hard-earned $$$

As you mentioned, look at getting the Entertainment Book (or App). We've saved $500-600 last couple of years without trying too hard or going too far out of our way. The app is handy as you can also share with 3 or 4 other devices and I find we use it a lot more than when we had the book.

WA Today - check out their website as they had a great article recently (in leisure section) of drink and dinner deals around Perth. Cheersy.com.au is a website that shows similar deals.

Dimmi website/app has a number of deals around the place, ranging from 20-50% off but these change weekly and you need to book in advance via their platform. Some fairly good venues can sometimes be found here.

As you mentioned, Groupon and Scoopon are worth keeping tabs on but I have found the quality of venue can vary.

And my favourite, Clipp app. Only a handful of venues are registered on Clipp but had some phenomenal savings from them during the week (I'm a shift worker so quite partial to a 'school day' drink). It's works on a tab system where you pay upfront via card and Clipp refunds what you haven't spent. No money transferred between you and the bar and all very legit.

Finally (and to state the obvious), once you're earning AUD and eventually stop subconsciously converting into £££, you'll find the prices a little easier to swallow. There are some decent little places here, enjoy [emoji1303]