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Hi sorry for the lack of info ...they have been together now 2 1/2 yrs they dont live together yet but are moving in together in january. Andrew my son would like to move to oz sooner before they get married but not sure how we can get maddy over. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

hi my son has an Australian passport and is getting married in 18months and is looking to move to Australia his girlfriend is english does anyone now what we will have to do to get her to Australia ???

Hi bob , And thanks for the quick reply .... we moved back to the uk july last yr and we still have the crates that jetpets provided but not sure if another company would use them .... all 6 of them had there rabies jabs march 2014 but from what i have read they will have to have the blood work done to make sure they still have enough of it in there blood is that so ????

Hi i was just wondering if anyone has any quotes for shipping there animals .... we have 3 dogs and 3 cats so know its going to be expensive just waiting on our first quote but would love to hear from anyone regarding how much they have paid and who they have used ...... thanks in advance

Thanks Melza , the reason we left the uk in the first place was to just give it a go and see you never know till you do ... and we loved it the thought of coming home never crossed our minds ...then after being there 5 1/2 yrs i got cancer a yr of treatment then 2 yrs of me feeling homesick hence the move back to the uk .... but i have said to hubby i really thought that after what we had been threw i had given it enough time to know that it wasn't a whim , i had given it 2 yrs but i really do wonder because people i have met threw the treatment had said to me that it can take anything from 2 to 5 yrs before you feel like yourself ........ because i must admit i am nearly 3 yrs out of treatment and i now am feeling more like me ....xxx And me more than anyone really really doesnt want to be a ping pong lol ...... xxxxxx

Hi all , well we have been back in the uk 6mths( hubby still doing fifo from darwin ) ........ And at first i was fine but now ....i want to go back to Aus and i never thought i would say that to be honest .... but we moved from perth to darwin to be with hubby to see if that helped which it did but i honestly think if we had stayed in perth we wouldnt have come back , life just seemed so much easier in perth and it is true what people say people well friends do move on they have got use to life without unless i contact them i dont really hear from them and it isnt for not trying .... family well they are brill but this is so strange to say but i am feeling like i just dont belong i am so confused and torn my poor kids dont know if they are coming or going ............hubby never wanted to come back to the uk anyway but at least he was willing because he knew what it meant to me and i know i have been so lucky with him he is just the best ...... he would be made up for us all to go back to aus , and we never sold our house we rent it out so that a plus if we did go back at least ....... Sorry guys i know i have gone on abit lol but cant really talk to anyone here because as you can imagine everyone is like o no you are not going back which doesnt help ..... my 13yr old said to me "mum lets just go back to perth for a holiday to see what we all think " i often wonder to myself that she has more sense than me :smile: .... well thats about it for now , i was just wondering if anyone else has been like this ????

good for you :wink: so glad to hear that things are coming together for you .... so what is the business venture that you are doing ??? xxxx

I know this has probably been asked over n over so sorry in advance ...... But does anyone know if there is anyway you can move your aus super to an english pension my hubby has quite abit in his and he is only 46 and we are moving back in july ...i know people have said that you cant touch it till you are 60 or is it 65 .... so i worry that that is a long time without any money going in to it and will it be worth anything by the time he is that age ..... so just wondered if you can move it ???? any advice would be great ... thanks xxxx

Love this post because i 2 this morning was having a hmmmmmm moment of are we doing the right thing some reasons the same but some not ....... i myself am 44 in august and hubby is 46 , kids are 19,16,and 13 .... My Hmmmm moment is when i think of starting again we are lucky that when we go back we are going to stay with my parents for a while till we have good funds behind us ... i know i know it will be hard but hopefully worth while , as hubby is staying on here and doing fifo for 11 mths ....gives us time to get money together but by then he will be 47 and i wonder who will give us a mortgage ?????? Hoping that we can get a 15 yr one so thats a plus because if we stay here we still have 28 yrs on the house here .... which by the way we will sell later so hopefully will make money on that.... But like you Aunt Agatha we have loved living here but after my cancer it just makes you realise what is important , we have loved our life here but now just want to be around family .... doesnt stop me worrying though Hmmmmmmmm !!:cute:

Once that pull gets nothing can stop it .... i have learnt that the hard way i tried for 2 yrs to ignore it but one of my very good friends had all ready gone through it ( she was back in the uk ) and she said to me when it starts nothing makes it go away until you have made the choice ????? We have been here 8 yrs .... we go back end of july and like you its the family pull (like most of us) ..... a few times i have said to hubby are we doing the right thing but it only because of the weather and family get togethers are worth alot more than the weather .... thats what i think anyway ..... And my kids are 19 , 16 , 13 ...... but they can not wait .... Good luck with whatever you decide xxxx

It is so nice too read such a lovely post makes me smile :hug: Thank you xxxxx

Hi tillyd, I have been reading your posts over the last couple of wks and my heart really does go out to you , but i am so glad that you are feeling a little better and that you are getting support from alot of people , we never really know who will be there for us until we let them know that they are needed , so onwards and upwards from now on and like quoll has said once you have you back nothing can stand in your way , good luck and i can not wait for that post that says i have done it and i am so happy .... take care sending you lots of love xx

Thanx lady rainicorn .... i can now say jules lol xxx

when you do go how long are you and the little one staying for ??? Because just that time alone for him might make him realise he doesnt want to lose his family xxx

I am with SKW , just wanted to let know we are here for you to talk to ... and i really feel for you ... fingers crossed all will work out xxx

..... i to know who you guys are talking about and i think it is a shame that just because there are in pain they try and make us feel the same ... I am sorry to read that you will be going if only for a while i have found reading what you have wrote has helped me so much and thanks to you the advice you gave someone on a post a while back i read and took that advice and guess what me n kids are heading back to uk in july hubby will do fifo for a yr then come back to uk ..... so thank you and if you dont mind i would like to be friends on facebook so i can catch up from time to time if that is ok :cute: if you dont mind please look me up its Emma N Scott Bragg xxxxxxx take care xxx

Bunbury61 i know what you mean i am an only child ...... and when we first moved over my mum n dad said they would move over to aus a few yrs after us .... well they cant move my dad would lose 47% of his pension so they couldnt afford to ..... but at the very very begining when we first started the process i did say to hubby if mum n dad cant move over then i will come back , because the thought of something happening to one of them and the other being on there own is just to much i would hate it and it upsets me even thinking about it ..... And yes we do have other reasons for going home as i have wrote in other posts but just wanted to let you know that i agree with you 100% , we have been lucky to have great parents xxxxxx

keeping all things crossed for you :biggrin: ..it looks perfect xxx

We are heading back end of july ..hubby staying here and doing fifo which will be hard but hopefully only for 18mths (fingers crossed) ...... Our reasons like alot of people is family , friends , belonging ........ We have loved most of our time here and our 3 kids have at different times .... at first eldest wanted to go home he was 11 but soon settled ... he is now just turned 19 and he didnt want to go back to the uk at all , felt so guilty , but he flew back 3 wks ago and guess what he loves being back said he feels like he never left and said to be honest carnt see himself coming back to aus ... he said being by family is great , i am so pleased he feels like this ...... my other 2 are 16 and 13 ... 16 yr old has always said he would go back from the time we got here ( he was 8) he settled great lots of friends plays football but hes says uk is home .... 13yr old has said she is looking forward to going but she wil miss aus but she has lived here longer than she lived in uk so i can understand that ... And as for me n hubby well he has said there are things he will miss but i had cancer 2 yrs ago and it just made us both realise how far away we are and that nothing compares to being close to family .... so getting the cancer i suppose starting the ball rolling for us, everyone told me not to decide anything to soon after my treatment and i didnt but like people say when that pull starts pulling there is nothing worse ...we even went on a big family holiday last july in total there were 21 of us all my family from the uk and us , it was awesome and my hubby said at the time that the holiday would be the make or break for Aus ...... so at least we know we didnt rush we gave ourselves time and 18mths later we decided yes we are going home ..... O another plus if we stayed in Aus hubby would be 74 before we pay off our house :chatterbox: with going home and the money we save we would only have to get a mortage for 15yrs so he will be 60 big difference !!!!!! It not easy but like everyone says treat it as an adventure thats what life is all about and life is so short ..... xx

when me and the kids go back to the uk my hubby will be doing 8 wks on 2 wks off :sad: so dont know how long we will be able to keep that up .... our choice though because we want to get the kids back in to uk school as they are 16 and 13 and if we leave it any longer its not far on them ......

Thanks so much guys .... i did it this morning but only $100.00 to see if it works lol i got charged $24.00 on top and my dad gets 51 pound ..... but me and the kids move back in july and hubby is staying here doing fifo so i will be transfering about $5,000 a mth then, am i still better doing it through the banks do you think???

Thanks so much guys ..... so i only need the code for the english bank account then , and all should be ok ??

I was wondering if anyone knows if you can transfer money from your Aussie account to an english one ,,, we bank with anz and my dad barclays i tried to transfer money into his account but got a letter the other day saying that anz didnt recognize the account and that the bank of new zealand said there was no such account ... well thats because it was a barclays account .... So was wondering if anyone knows if there is a bank in Aus that you can transfer money from into an english account ...any help would be great thanks :biggrin:

i can tell you now that if my hubby got a job offer for that in the uk we would take it .... just go with your gut and good luck .xxx

you are Helz980 and gorgeous :biggrin: xxx