Thom

I don't know about you, but I get most of my cash from a cashpoint machine, or cash back on purchases. Very little need for cash these days.

Where are you based? I renewed mine in Canberra without any great problems.

Well that's a helpful post. :laugh:

I did the same, Halifax for my (now paid off,) mortgage, and Lloyds TSB for general day to day accounts.

After 15 years of being out here, I'm going back to the UK to live in a year or so's time. I've loved my time here, and the place and the people. But the pull of home is too strong, and I want to go back to where I feel I belong.

There is only a 17% tax on part of your super, if you take it as a lump sum while living in Australia. https://www.australiansuper.com/tools-and-resources/questions-and-answers/superannuation-faqs/fees-and-tax/do-i-have-to-pay-tax-on-lump-sum-withdrawals.aspx

I rented mine out. I now own it outright, with the renters having paid off my mortgage, and they are now contributing £700.00 pcm to my UK bank account. Which is nice.

We intend retiring back to the UK in Feb 2018. From the time I moved out here I've seen the $Au as low as 33p and as high 68p, at present 55p.\ Brexit shouldn't really affect your plans

The BBC says; I have no problem with 'economically active" people migrating, how ever; From the Grauniad

Who has done that?

So it seems to me he had a long standing mental illness, and was possibly in the acute stage when he went off the rails.

Again, you're not ashamed to show your ignorance are you? This has to take the prize for one of the most stupid things ever posted here; You're not afraid to show your profound ignorance, and lack of compassion, in many forms aren't you? Luckily for us who work with mentally ill people, the law understands ill health a damn site better than you do! Want a tenner on him being found not guilty by reason of insanity?

Thanks for proving me right. What I think he needs is probably a life-long stay in a secure mental health unit, treatment and medication. The sort of unit I've worked in. I hope no one in your family ever gets mentally ill, with compassion such as yours they'd be in for a terrible life.

Do you not understand the horror of living with an illness that controls your thoughts and actions? Do you not understand the enormity of the impact that he may experience when he is sufficiently medicated to realise that he is now a murderer and responsible for her death? Yes she is the innocent victim in this, as are her family and friends, and nothing can be done to bring her back. But to look on this man as a "bastard" just goes to show how shallow you are.

Because the media are focussing on his 27 year old link with a South African magazine, and ignoring the fact the poor sod was a long term schizophrenic who had sought help the day before he went postal.

Really?

You're wrong of course.

Care to quantify that? How come one small Island is the fifth greatest trading nation in the world.

Seconded. (I've worked in psychiatry for the past 35 years, and fully endorse what Quoll said.)

Any uncertainty can cause fluctuations in the markets, these can also self right once stability returns.

This was the decision point for me;

I got my voting papers (OUT!) a week and a half back, no problem posting them.

This is a constant whine from some in the "Remain" campaign, "I vote labour, but we have a Tory govt, so I'm voting "IN" to get socialism by the back door." No respect for democracy.

No. The UK pays £6 billion into the CAP and gets £3 billion back in farming subsidies. Try again.

We've got 2 JR's here, and we're moving to Blighty next year, we should swap pets and save ourselves the transport costs!!