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This has been on my wife's mind for the last five years, she has played thru endless pros and cons and possibilities. One reason for going is to experience the actual journey and actual feeling of distance between us and family and although 1 week isn't ideal i do think it's better than not going at all and making such a big decision without even have visited even if it's only for a week

Thanks, I will look at that and see how it stacks up. My wife may have already done this for me, I will check with her when she gets in. Thanks for the heads up. Info like this is much appreciated.

I don't have a visa but we have added the points up and we believe we do qualify. I work in aerospace engineering, my wife is currently a housewife but is a pharmacy technician.

Wow. Thanks for all the replies, great snippets of advice. We do want to go for longer than a week but dilemma number 1 is that we either Go for longer than a week and take our 4, 3 year old and 8 month old which I think would make the recce difficult because that's what this is, not a holiday. Or as planned we leave the kids with grandma for a week which is the max she can manage without blowing up. Besides we wouldn't want to put them through the flight trauma just yet. This is our first big step to making it happen. If we like it the next thing is finding employment, as said where we end up depends where I can find work.

Hi folks, my husband and I are spending one short week in Perth in November this year to try and gain as much of an insight into life in Australia as possible before we decide whether or not to emigrate with our three children. Just wondered if anyone could advise us of things that are a 'must do' in our week,any good schools to potentially try and look around,any nice suburbs to look around for property etc,any suburbs to avoid,any info would be gratefully appreciated. thanks in advance.