Gadgetboy

Hi. Yes, I am in the same boat as you, have a look for my post and read the responses there. Have been here 3 months now and feel very homesick but not as in being able to deal with and getting on with life in Oz, I do feel like this isnt for me and want to go back although it wont be something that we can do quickly as we have no funds to get back and complications like car finance, phone contract and rental lease. You will get a mixture of responses, telling you to stick it out etc buty I do believe that a lot of people have this gut feeling for a reason and not everyone is going to slot into life in Oz easily. For some it does take a long time, the way I see it is that we will have a plan to either return to the UK or to stay and will save money either for flights or for a mortgage here and both will take a while so have still got time to see how I feel and not making any rush decisions. Do you have a PR visa?We do so we know that if we return to the UK and then change our minds at a later date then we can still return to Oz easily although obviously it would be another huge expense. Have you come to Oz with a partner and children? How do they feel? Have you got a job? How easy would it be for you to return?

My experience is that yes had an ok life back in Uk but struggling for money and stuck in a rut, we had a chance to emigrate and it took 5 or so years and we just didnt want to give up on it and so it became all we thought about and talked about and saved all our money up for and so we couldnt see friends and family much, didnt want to spend money going out doing stuff or going on holiday as it was all about Oz. I guess we just had this image of what it was going to be like, we had been here for holidays so not totally in the dark but that was before children and a while ago. We knew we would regret it if we didnt come here so now we are here and yes as you know I feel like this isnt somewhere I can stay for the rest of my life. I dont think I will be able to adjust and dont feel I want to! I think coming here was the only way to get it out our system and as we have a PR visa we can come back again if we do choose to go back to the UK. What I am trying to say is that whatever I read/heard I just wanted to get here regardless of how expensive things were, how it wasnt all it was cracked up to be and thought the people that chose to return were crazy especially after how much money it did cost to get out here and the stress and the arguements etc. I wish I had spent time and money and spent on creating a better, happier life back in the UK which we could have done and now if we go back it will take a long time to get settled again.

I agree the prices are higher here in Oz and they are saying the prices here are going down, would hate to think what the prices were like when they were 'high'! I too am a vegetarian and used to eat loads of veges in the UK, my children used to eat lots of different fruit aswell but just cant do that here as cant justify spending $5 on a pack of blueberries that was half the size of what you could buy in ASDA and half the price. I guess I have been used to having every single fruit and veg available in the UK whereas here you can only get certain fruits at certain times. Cant afford to buy the raspberries or cherries. I just expected being in Australia that everything was going to be readily available, a lot more fresher and better quality! Also what is with fish being so expensive aswell, considering how close we are to the coast, why are the prices so different?

Thankyou for your replies. I expected to get a lot of people thinking im crazy. My post was just to get my feelings out as have not been able to tell many people and I feel so much better. The thing is we wont be able to go home anytime soon as said in my post as obviously we would have to save up a lot of money as we have nothing left now so the longer it takes to save money then the longer I have to sort out my feelings. I know myself though and I have a feeling my gut instinct wont change but I will obviously live my life and try and enjoy the experience but at the end of the day the UK is my home and I dont have to stay here if I dont want to. Saving up is not a bad thing so we will either have the money to get a mortgage here or to return to the UK. I have had responses from people who have thought the same thing after only a short period of time and have got plans in place so I know I am not alone.

Harpodom are you returning to the uk?

3 months so far and not ashamed to admit it....I dont care about the 'you need to give it 2 years'. Although not planning to go back to the UK just yet, my husband knows how I feel and so we are going to put some kind of plan in place.

But that isnt why I want to go back to the UK though! Just because I am limited doesnt mean I dont have a life and therefore want to go back to UK. Im pretty sure even if didnt have kids or they were at school I would still feel the same.

Hi. Yes I do get out and about, certainly not stuck in the house, I have 2 children under school age so they are with me all the time. I have met up with other people in the same situation although they are all loving it and none feel the same as me hence not wanting to talk about that with them as dont feel it is fair to bring other people down. I think im just looking to hear from people who are also making the move too and the practicalities of it, I just want to have a plan in my head at least as to how it can be possible. You are right the adrenaline has gone, I didnt expect to feel this way but there must be a reason for it. I keep thinking I am a strong person, deal with change etc but at the moment I feel this is just a step too far for me. The only reason I wasnt happy in the uk was because was so focused on just getting here, totally ignoring what I already had in the UK and what I now miss incredibly.

Thankyou, much appreciated.

Hi. We are in Perth and my husband works and we have a lovely house. I am very homesick and at the moment I realise that not everything was bad in the uk afterall. I ask myself why did I want to come here in the first place well weather was a big thing but at the moment I just cant handle being so far away from what I have been used to and I know that we had to come here to try it otherwise would have regretted it but now we are here I just have that gut feeling. I was so obsessed and focused on getting here for the number of years it took that I did not focus on what was important and what was lacking in the uk that I could have changed. I guess it is difficult to explain to people who dont know me and why I feel like this so early on.

Hi. I have just posted my first post as I want to move back to the uk and really need to discuss with others who are feeling the same way as no one else will understand. I read the thread about the private forum which I need to send a pm to admin to be part of. How do I do this, im new so have no idea what to do and really dont want to get loads of grief from people just because I want to return so like the idea of it being private.

Hi. I have recently emigrated, 3 months ago, but already have the gut feeling that I am not happy here and want to return to the uk. We wont be able to do it for a while as we have now used up all our savings so will have to save up but I just know I cant stay here forever. I miss my family and friends and just the familiarity of everything. What worries me is we already have things like car finance for the next 4 years, phone contract and rental lease, how do we return to the uk with those sorts of ties and how do we find somewhere to live and work in the uk again, do they do short term rentals like they do here? Im so worried that we will be stuck here now as it took us so long to get out here and now really wish we had never made the move. This is just my opinion and im ready for the negative comments and being told to give it time, well I will be as we wont be able to plan anything soon so at least when it gets to the point to get the ball rolling I may of changed my mind but I really dont think I will.