Shellybingobingo

Who was it directed @then If it was me I if I decide oz is for me will buy a house when the time is right , I still have my house in uk also , and you bust ya gut anywhere for a mortgage everyone is a slave to the bank in some form or another unless you are minted , and unless ya me mother in law who still thinks a bottle of milk is 10 shilling , anyway not decided what to do yet it will b a while till a buy here 18 month plus ,

Haha chortlepuss , made me giggle , you have probably explained yourself better than me , but I think exactly the same as you , we will get on property ladder though eventually , I'm not knocking me oh wage it's just that for anything decent I'm going be paying it off when I have false teeth lol , anyway I shouldn't get wrapped up in these posts I do try stay away from them and just read but it is crazy that most people unless very wealthy shell out more than half their wage for a decent enough house , what's left then enough for food , petrol and a few beers . I read somewhere ditch the foxtel , ditch the beer , ditch the car , well my answer to that why would anyone want settle for less than they use to for sunshine , you would live a pretty mundane lifestyle if you had to ditch everything you had before for sunshine

Just saying jasepom , in my eyes I don't see apart from weather any difference , maybe me expectations were too high , but don't think down turn in work helped , and having to move again , although he has been offered his job back in wa but a little too late now because I have no more to give it's financially drained us and how much can one person take , I just think now I wish I never rocked the boat , but I won't give up now after the hassle the cost and everything else I at least want citizenship out of it and he's all good now job wise here he loves it , but do I think it's been worth it no not yet I'm hoping it will be though but my hubby thinks it's early days still time will tell hey !

Lol, me son still in uk and beer is deffo cheaper from the off licence spirits and beer , tesco 24 cans of Stella 10pound at Xmas although that's probably Xmas and euro and World Cup it's on offer but deffo cheaper in the off licences I went back last year everything's cheaper apart from petrol , for the things I like anyway , 2 boxes of beer here between 40 and fifty dollars a crate and only something like 330 ml so a box is about 12 cans give or take but that's not what I miss lol , anyway me hubby's a white collar engineer and I'm was just saying wages here on a parr of what he could earn back home he's a high end earner and I cannot afford go out here like I could in uk and think I miss going out with friends family and everything you know , but I'm not giving up yet I'll see how we roll

Deffinatley beer something to miss although , where I am now I bought 3 pints , a vodka and tonic , Tia Maria and coke , came to 37.50 so compared to another state I've not long left that's great bottle shops are on a parr though

im the same too half and half would suit me just fine in a perfect world

Hi there , don't post very often but do follow , I have been in Australia around 19 months , I think it's been the hardest thing I have done in my life , some people settle in straight away some take months or years , for me I think it's going to be years if I'm totally honest , i love the weather but that's all I'm loving , I'm missing family and friends , birthday, christenings wedding s everything you took for granted in uk I am missing , has for coming here it was me that was the driver my husband was not fussed , I was the driver purely for weather , because wages are no different here than uk for my oh , in the 19 months I've been here I've moved to another state the first state we went to work dried up a little , so we moved for work , now I'm stuck wether to just call it a day here or give it longer my oh thinks 19 months isn't long enough he thinks it will all be fine and we will be glad we stayed I'm not so sure , people say your wages are higher here for some I can totally understand why they think that , but throw in cost of living unless you came here a few years ago say 6/7 8 yrs ago think people coming now have missed the boat a little , now we can afford to live here don't get me wrong but I feel like I'm going backwards to what I had in uk , i don't explain my self very well but all I can say since being here I have no confidence to what I had , I think I've had the life sucked right out of me , I have been shot down by folk because they think you are being negative , I think Australia is a beautiful place to look at and I really wish I could say I'm living this so called dream but I am not although to be fair we have moved on a lot since the last state we were in and I do find the state I'm in now people to be very friendly and warm , to me and I honestly do think this now , it is no different apart from weather than living back home if you had good jobs and a nice home and a couple of hols abroad every year I would seriously think hard before coming , and my oh is a high end earner , if you had it rough in uk I totally get why people want to move here , anyway I do waffle on sorry for the long post but there is more I feel but won't bore you with it , I am trying to love it but at the moment it's not happening , my oh thinks give it longer he's sold on it now he's found the right job , but even though he's sold on it here now he will do what I decide but I would like hang on for citizenship just incase I get back and think what have I done , I think I'm in a phase where I just don't know which side of the world to sit.