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we also shipped our bikes garden swing + furniture cleaned them with jays fluid first and rubbed down and painted any rust spots all came through fine no charges no problems.

we did a weekend in milan last year before coming here for £360 flights and 4* hotel was really lovely sights weather and relaxing

no i believe and have read some where its only british citizens that move to any country thats in the EU your not entitled to claim british benefits if you live in oz.

thank so much for the help and advice x

thanks aj.

can anybody help me, we came over to oz last year on a 457, a job offered to my husband, but we have just not settled in and are wanting to return home to the uk to our son and family, my husbands work colleagues have informed him that his company are obligated to pay for are return/relocation under the visa agreements does anybody no if this is true any help or advice would be much appreciated.

like blossom, and i have become more stressed used to be chilled in the uk but very nervous over here as the place is so vast and we dont no anyone i have become quite low in mood dont want to go out only to work and back quite sad really.

personally i dont think its too bad cost wise if you do look on gumtree or ebay, also people on here are going home and selling there belongings off, you can pick up some great bargins there are quite a few furniture stores in dandonong that are quite reasonably priced kmart is great ( cheap) for your house ware ie- kitchen laundry bedding, i hear there is a furniture company super a mart i think its called is good for your bulk items and some places give you discount when you buy in bulk, we brought our furniture with us last september were going home at the end of the year so have to ship it back again its very costly, best to research furniture stores and gumtree aus and way up your storage and shipping costs.

I'd say the nearest place is ryll or blackpool m8 :biggrin:

surely you must have enough cash for a one way flight back stop doing this to yourself go home and be happy you WILL get over it your mental health is more important to you and you are not the first or will be the last to probably leave a debt please please go home.

sorry to say bassboy but he is right we are in melbourne but went to perth to stay with family over xmas new year and found it very expensive, i no it was the xmas period but we didnt go mad out every night or splashing out on things we didnt need but we still got through $3,000 in 14 days, i find austarlia expensive compared to the uk but perth more so, also been to nsw.

Iam so jealous to here your home and have landed in manchester my home town,, we are hoping to be back there in october this year as i feel exactly the same as you did been here 7 months now and i think i new after the first that i had made a big mistake but glad it because i would have been one of those always telling myself what if,, if we didnt, so pleased for you .

your no claims from the uk dosent matter here like bamboozled said they dont ask for proof of it, when i got a car they just asked if i had any accidents in the last so many years told them no as ive not and they take as truth and quote what you, no problems.

you can read all the threads you like but i really dont think i will make any difference to you,, no body actually now's what it is going to be like for there family as were all different and want different things out of it, just like the rest of us you will have to make the move and find out for yourself if its the life you want for you and your family, you just wont no till you've tried it good luck

thanks will look them up

needing some help with a good shipping agent wanting to be back in the uk by october 13 anybody shipped there furniture back with them, could you pass on your agent please anyone no of any cheap reliable ones, thanks guys

we arrived in sept 12 planning on returning to the uk oct 13 just the same as most of you, had been a long dream of moving to oz for that better life, am just glad that it has only taken us 12 months though to realise that its just not going to work or that dream was just that a dream,, i really dont mean to be rude at all but we have found australian people to be quite ignorant set in there ways and yes i can see it from there point of view all these different nationalities moving into there country taking there jobs ( as they do say,, but if they got off there backs side and took the jobs there would be none for us to come for would there ) it must be annoying, but its not just that its cost of living having to start again from scratch building up a new friends network, having to work more than i was in the uk to be able to pay the rent and food shopping ( not great ) the schooling is no better either maybe if i had enrolled my son into a private school and payed some massive fee's every term then he might be getting the better grades but they are no different to uk if not worse as he says that the teachers just leave him to it what good is that,, iam not sorry that we made the move as like the rest we would never have known other wise but iam seriously counting the days till we go back home i really do miss the uk.

when we came here 7 months ago we left our 20 year son in the uk ( his choice ) but the the hurt of leaving him behind and missing him so much has us in doubt of staying him and the rest of our family, i really feel for you hope you can find a way for you all to be happy, we have we are going home

good choice good luck with everything

we gave up everything sold the house left family and friends e have a 15 year old son who has not made any friends outside school in the 6 months we have been here, it is hard but like others have said it all depends on what you want to get out of it, were struggling missing the uk and family but the choice is yours and if you do settle great if not at least you had the courage to give it ago, its not easy.

just to let you no your not the only one in this situation, we have also been here 6 months ( nearly 7 ) we gave everything up in the uk for the chance at a better life here in oz my hubby was offered a job and this came with verbal promises that just didnt materialise when we arrived, we came on a 457 which has very tight Clauses, i did find work quite quickly which was good for our finances as they dwindled very quick once we got a car and put a deposit down on a property got our 15 year old son into school and payed those fee's so now we are living week to week off wages which is quite tuff as the cost of living here is not cheap as you no, but we have found it very difficult to settle find or make friends dont get me wrong the people we have met through work are nice enough but how long can you keep laffing off them mimicking your accent or shake that feeling that you are outsider, and 6 months down the line we think we already no that life here is not going to be any better than it was in the uk if not worse as we dont have family and friends around us, our elder son will be here in june for 12 months ( so sorry i talked him into it now ) so at this moment in time we are waiting for that and just going to see how things are then try and save what we can and go back to the uk with him, like you we have nothing there no home or jobs but our family is there and that is where we belong so if we have to start again from scratch then so be it, dont feel in anyway that you have let your family down as you haven't at that moment in time you were thinking and doing what you thought was right to improve your familys life but somtimes things just dont work out how you think they will, just like many of us you never new how it would turn out but if you didnt take up the offer you would have always been kicking yourself thinking you had given up a great opportunity, my personal advice ask your wife and kids what they want what would make them happy and if thats going home to the uk then go with it you can find a rental in the uk and get work to build yourself up again, because at this minute the way were feeling we no we would

and your list could go on and on !!!!

its a very true saying the grass isnt always greener, we have only been in oz for 7 months and iam already well aware of what i gave up and what we left behind in the uk iam not just talking about family and friends but just how beautiful the country is, we loved to visit wales and the lakes for walking and just taking in the country side, scotland york cotswolds there are too many beautiful places in the uk to mention we no we have made a big mistake coming to oz but like the rest had to give it go or would never have known, our son is due here in june for 12 months then we are all going back to the uk together carnt wait iam counting the days i miss it so much

they want your managers full name job position, the date you started with the company, how long you have severed your position there, any training qualifications you gained while with them you ability to do the job a contact number or email for your manager then they have to print date and sign the bottom, should be on letter headed company paper if possible

i totally agree you need to do your home work on your husbands job and vacancies out here first, NVQ is not really recognised out here and you have to have australian qualification for any trade or employment you get into, out here you have a certificate for everything you carnt even get bar work without one, i have NVQ level 3 in health care 16 years experience and 9 of those in a senior roll in the uk but means nothing here a level 3 is just a level 3 and depending which profession it is it dosent cover all training and units required for australian work, i really carnt comment on your husbands line of work only the qualification but just wanted you to no its not easy, i personally would say to you that if your life in the uk is not that bad and that you just get fed up once and a while like everyone else then grit your teeth and get on with it because its just the same over here you have to work hard for a living and cost of living isnt cheap you wont have friends and family for support around you we are only in our first year which should realy be the honeymoon period but finding it very difficult, good luck with your searching and move if it comes about.