Angela Claire

Thanks that's really helpful, i will contact them.

 

We were both born in the UK. We moved to Australia for good reasons and here is now home, it's all my

twins know. I'm not keen to uproot them, especially since hubby has not returned for good or because he loves the UK. I don't want to uproot the children (eldest is in important school year) to then find us following him again at short notice in a year or two time to somewhere else.

You can't leave Austrslia ! If they go back to the uk and he has court proceedings waiting for you - which he probably won't have - in theory the children then can't leave the uk for more than 28 days. I wouldn't risk it personally, he left, he can come back to visit.

My ex pulled a right stunt on me putting us on the kidnap alert, no fly list.

All I would say is the courts were extremely helpful, took 10 working days for the WA courts to put us on the list ex parte ie behind my back and get us off it again. Not nice but they see it all the time and fundamentally believe the kids should be able to go home if that's what the parent wants.

I don't think so, due to the type of jobs they have. Pretty sure all if not most are PR 189 visa.

Figured as much, we were 2 years too late by all accounts :-)

but what goes down comes back up again

Still meeting new people who are obtaining jobs. Can't say how many jobs they applied for to get it, but they're getting jobs! These vary from admin to trade work.

with sponsorship ?

I am in need of new clothes but I just keep putting it off as I hate shopping so much. Mind you, I can spend hours in a bookshop or music store.

Tbh anyone who travels 23 hours and spends a couple of grand on airfares to walk around the shops would be bored anywhere, as I say to the kids only boring people get bored. I could entertain myself in a desert island

Yeah I think you are right thl4kel, its a different scenario to when we first moved out to Victoria in 2009, there were loads of people making the move then.

 

We are taking a chance going back, but then again I'm in the O&G industry so if stay in the mature N Sea basin or go and get involved in the LNG sector again, there will be cyclic periods of uncertainty in either location. What I will say is if I was a betting man I'd put my money on the LNG game in Australia for the long term as opposed to the N Sea O&G industry!

 

I hope you get a clear way ahead, we have been weighing up our situation for the best part of a year now, its very unsettling.

if you have residency it's a whole different ball game. To move on a temporary visa now would be sheer madness. I miss Perth every day but there's a time and this ain't it for us.

Welcome to the forum... Going off the posts on here of late from new arrivals to Perth, they seem to be doing ok and finding work so i do think it depends on your trade somewhat. We too have been here almost 10 years (QLD) and i think in hindsight we were probably a little spoilt with the amount of jobs available around that time, things have slowed down all over the country, some States more than others ,but there are still some jobs out there especially if your flexible.

 

Cal x

It's nothing to do with flexibility and everything to do with PR .... When the axe falls 457's are out the door first and your chances of finding another sponsor are slim.

Honestly I'm earning double what I was earning in my last role in Perth which is around the same as when I arrived in Perth in 2012. But it's the disposable income I've noticed the biggest difference in.

Theres obviously a price to pay **** weather, no beaches lol but people who say they are moving for financial reasons I think need to take a hard look at the figures, especially if you have children. Even with the Tory cuts of which there's been a lot, I personally have never been as well off as I am right now

How's things now ? I'm back in the uk, miss Perth every day but it was the right time to leave.

Oh well if you'd rather bitch about my chosen profession than discuss the economic climate i'll leave you to it.

I thought I might be able to engage in intelligent discussion, clearly I've come to the wrong place in more ways than one.

I don't know any uneducated recruitment people, I have a masters degree myself and bachelors is minimum industry standard.

Er the people that work there will though won't they

And too many coffee shops, too many restaurants

Office vacancy rates at the highest they've been in 20 years.

The terrace (CBD hub) has tumble weeds blowing down it.

Must have PR or be the spouse on the 457 unfortunately the industry isn't too open to sponsorship.

I've been a recruiter in oil and gas for 15 years and just got out - maybe temporarily - but not much happening here in Perth at the moment, Aberdeedn is booming - but cold.

TV's will measure if any interest - $300 and $200

king size bed $300

queensized bed $250

fridge freezer $300

tumblecdrier $300

washing machine 8kg front loader $400

wardrobes - girls next - good condition $200 each

sylvannian family hotel and loads of families and furniture $200

mamas and papas rocking horse $200

ikea book case expit $60

laura ashley coffee table - Milton range - $300

will add more as I think of it

Pick up from Shenton park