Melody93

Hey All, i posted a few days ago about being undecided on the decision of whether make the move back to the UK or not, i have indeed decided im going to go ahead with it *gulp*. im excited tho! for what lies ahead. Just have some Questions if anybody can help or offer advice in reguards to work there.. Im in childcare and have my Cert 3 in childrens services, does anyone know what that equivolates too back in the uk? Also if there is any demand for work in that area? or any pointers on maybe how to get my foot in the door with somewhere from over here? so im not getting there and frantically trying to find employment??? Anddddddddddddddddddddd, anybody got any advice on living there? i can move back in with my parents. but im not looking to move back into that area of england, im more looking at norfolk, which is where we lived for 4 years prior to emigrating here. Whats renting like for young people in england? as i am only 20? i can look at staying with friends for a while, but ill eventually need to find my own place. ANY info will be awesome, and i realise i could ask my parents all of this, but they dont know im coming back. its a big xmas surprise (i have to hide in a box with a bow ontop, that kind of surprise) haha

im sure your right! haha. give it a few years of solid family time first though can never get the time missed with them back. looking forward too it !! (:

THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE! iv decided to go ahead with it and am booking my ticket tomorrow for Dec 1st. Fingers crossed I can find myself some work there. For those who asked, I'm in childcare. My parents live in Sussex but I'm looking at returning to Norfolk after iv spent the festive season with my family. So hopefully it all goes well. Im definitely scared, but I am confident that its the right choice for me at the moment and am excited to have everyone around me again. Just have to get onto selling stuff and shipping.

Everything you just said rung so true, iv never thought that people are guna wanna hear MY stories and what iv been doing for the past 6 years.

Thankyou. I dont feel so crazy knowing that there are people that think i would be making a wise decision. People are too quick to judge sometimes. so thankyou!. (:

Thankyou for the admiration. i think thats what has stopped me even going back to visit, because in my head i still see england as a 14year old school girl, then everything else that people say whom have also left england for there own reasons, added into the mix. i really dont have a very nice idea of England in my head. but its my family im missing out on, and that comes before any amount of sunshine in the sky. i cant even remember what its like to have my whole family around at christmas! so that excites me. to say the least tho, im scared! but travelling america also scared me, i guess its just the fear of the unknown. thing that worries me most is finding work in UK, i hope to find work from here o i can just walk into a job (high hopes) economically i have NO IDEA where england is at with it all anymore. just kinda wishful thinking..... Europe on my doorstep is so awesome! iv already planned paris for newyears! whether im in england on holiday or moved back. it cost $100's here to fly even WA wide. thanks so much again

i do have my citizenship, that was one thing i didnt want to waste, having the opportunity for dual citizenship. i go back to america next month and get back mid september. Then its only 3 months to try sell/ship and pack up here. (not that i have much mainly my car and furniture). Everything is so close to UK, which is something i look forward to being able to have even more opportunity, as i am young. Australia is so beautiful, and it is MY home, its where i have grown into the person i am today, leaving kind of scares me. but i know i have people waiting for me when i get to England. thanks so much for your post.

Hey all, im just after some information, feedback, anything really that doesnt involve a bias opinion. 6 years ago (this october) me and my family all emigrated to Australia from England. i was 14 at the time and being the stubborn teenager everyone is at 14, i dug my heels in and became really hard work for my mum and step dad. During the 1st 2 years here atleast. i shut myself off to the 'world' because i just didnt want to be here. simple. Then a few years passed, i left school, moved out, got a taste of the real world. Made a life for myself here, moved back in with mum and dad (cause we all do that once atleast haha). Then out of nowhere, my family decide they want to move back to England... my mum ALWAYS plucked ideas out the air. Speacially when it came to moving, it was a different country every week!! so i sat on the fence for a few months. BUT sure enough, they were serious about going back to England, the house sale fell through twice, but they got there citizenship's and last August they all shipped off back home (England). much to my WHOLE families confusion, they were all dumbfounded that ME, the one that disliked being here the most, had infact decided to stay here. But, i did. and for the past year, i have continued to do so. Ofcourse i missed them, and it was hard at times. But i have a desire in me to do my own thing anyway by 18 i knew i wanted to travel america, and i recently got back from doing so, and am heading back next month to do some more travelling. my thing is that im now just feeling like i exist here, im not living a life. in an ideal world America is where i want to be, but thats another story. my reasoning behind staying in australia was that i cant make the money in england that i can here. and everyone always bangs on about how **** it is for young people, bla bla bla. but now im at the point where i dont want to be in australia, i spent xmas by myself and it was bloody awful. much like when i first arrived in australia at 14,im shutting myself off to everything because i dont want to be here, now i dont even know if i want to be in england, because i havnt been back since i emigrated here almost 6 years ago. But its where my family is, my friends that im still in regular contact with. i feel as though im missing that big part of me... iv got a nephew i have never even met. so im just abit confused, and i am going back for xmas this year but im at the point now where its going to be a one way ticket. nothing is forever i can always come back to australia, i know that. i just have a weird sense of failure if i decide to go back? has anybody else had anything like this? or am i one of a kind?! haha.. ANYYYYYYTHING anybody has to offer me, ill gladly listen! thanks so much!!