Hi Quoll
You are probably right about the visa issue and jobs. He’s had no luck at all, having said that neither have many locals who line the captain Cook highway every morning with signs that say ‘ looking fir work’. It’s soul destroying seeing young people having to do this. I earn about 100k here but I doubt that would go far in metropolitan Victoria. The OH has a few contacts down there so maybe easier.
The daughter is in year 11, so completely screwed about GCSEs however a VCE completed may help towards her alevels which she does not mind doing again as we will probably head back after our four years here. It has been tricky being here and we’ve made huge mistakes but that’s our life!
We’ve completely screwed up.
We’ve had two cars written off - one was stolen and driven through cane fields, the other was driven into at a roundabout and damaged beyond repair. We’ve been burgled by 8 indigenous youths who stole iPads, phones, bags, purses and went into our kids bedrooms. We had a party and we’re all very drunk on home brew and did not hear a bloody thing. It’s not been an easy 19 months.
We thought we had researched enough but you cannot beat the lived experience