Thom

Libs will be all but wiped out next election.

Oh god forbid you should ever recognise parody!

LOL!! Good reply. I'm right of centre, and do not want division but opportunity, does that still make me "bastard scum"? I think I'm reasonably well read, so you tell me, what is it you think I am unaware of?

"De gustibus est non disputandem", as they say, I think them ugly. Bogans may differ.

Whereas the Labour scum bastards just want to take money away from every hard working person, and give it to disabled, lesbian, Somali, single parent, immigrants along with houses taken from British folk. It's answers like yours which disincline me to post here.

Gungahlin looks like the all entries from a "worlds ugliest house" competition were dumped there. Not as bad as Palmerston though. I'm not sayin they are bad suburbs, just bloody ugly. (Welsh boy, I've been In Canberra for 12 years now, will be leaving in 5.)

Thanks Julie!!

Thanks for the replies, and thanks to whoever moved the thread. That's about the ball park we figured. We wouldn't have a mortage, but would probably have to spend more on transport as our house is a relatively remote area. Anyone else care to give an idea of what they need a month to get by?

Sorry if I wasn't clear, we're considering retiring back to the UK. We go back on holiday every two years and always find it incredibly cheap there, so we were wondering what people call a “comfortable” income to live on, rather than just swanning about on holiday. Thanks for your thoughts.

To have a reasonable lifestyle in the UK? Not big cars and expensive holidays etc, just a reasonable standard of living. My wife and I are looking at the possiblity of early retirment, and trying to calculate how much income we need to be comfortable there. We have a house, with no mortgage on it, in Cornwall. We will both have supperannuations. Any clues? Thoughts? Advice? What do you need to get by? Thanks in advance

APHRA are a total waste of space. I'd been working here for 10 years when they brought in rego. I thought I'd be a shoe-in, but oh no, they had to play silly buggers. In the end I had to be "grandfathered" in with more bloody paperwork than it took to become an Aussie citizen. Why? Well they didn't recognise the awarding body for my qualification, the University of Exeter!!! Bunch of numbskulls.

I lived there for 12 years, still own a house there, and will retire there in 5 years time.

Sound thinking, thanks!

Bought my place, in Cornwall, in 2000 for 52k, kept it on and rented it out while I've been out here in Aus. The house next-door, (identical, mirror image,) is on the market for 235k. Nice .

She was born in 1963, so she'll be apples. Thanks both

That's heartening. Her parents were there working for the BBC, her dad was a documentay maker.

Reading some of the other topics on returning to the UK with your spouse, which are vaguely, but not really, related to my wife's situation, made me wonder, so I thought I'd ask. In a few years time, (3-5) me and the wife will return to Blighty. I'm a Pom (Welsh) my wife is Aussie, true blue through and through. So we will need a visa for her. BUT! By a curious quirk of fate, my wife was actually British born. Her parents, mother Aussie, dad Kiwi, were working in Cardiff when she entered the world. She spent the first six weeks of her life in Cardiff, before they returned to Aus, (via a three month stay in PNG.) So she has a Pommy birth certificate. How should we go about getting this recognised so as to ease our passage (oo err missus,) home? Any and all (sensible) advice welcomed!

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Andy, many thanks, I'm indebted to you.

Gbye Grey Sky, thanks mate.

Someone advised in my thread on the "Money Transfer" forum, that this would be better asked in here, so here goes; [h=2]When does the tax hit?[/h] [hypothetical] Me and the wife retire. We move back to Blighty. We have two lots of super paid into our Australian bank accounts. As and when needed we transfer money from our Aussie accounts to our UK bank accounts. When is this money taxed? [/hypothetical]

When would you be asked to declare any income after you returned to the UK? (not that I'm thinking of tax dodging, not me, no way.... )

This topic is covering the question I asked here, so I'll repost.

If God wanted to give the world an enema, he'd stick the pipe in Birmingham.

Complex one for you. (Please move to money/finance if more apt for that forum.) In about five years time, me and the wife will be moving back to Blighty to live, possibly permanently. By that time, I will have worked and paid into a super fund in Oz for 18 years. My wife* however, will have 35 years plus in her super. Has anyone moved back to the UK who has had a large super fund here, and, if so, what did you do about it? Is it possible to live in the UK on the funds from a superfund which remains in Oz? How would you manage that? Would the cost of sending money (done online, ) from Oz to the UK take too big a chunk out of it? We’d probably also be letting out our house here, which would top up our super income. (We have a house in Cornwall which is virtually mortgage free now.) As I say, this is all five years off yet, so we thought we’d just see what advice and experience others here could offer. Many thanks, Thom the Bomb. *My wife, although a true blue Ozzie, was born in Cardiff, and has a UK birth certificate. She only lived there for three years before her parents emigrated.