hello all,
apologies if my queries below have been asked a thousand times before, but if you don't ask you don't get. so jealous of the people grabbing their passports and jumping on a plane home, thats my aim at the moment!
I've stuck it out here so long, i feel I'm almost there and see it as an achievement and an invaluable security net in these uncertain times.. that said I'm ready to swap beaches, sunshine, humourless aussies, paper apartments (i live in bondi), transiency (many mates coming and going :wubclub:) and isolation for the lancashire countryside and draw a line under a great adventure. i think the first 2 years i could never see myself go home but then the novelty wears off and you start to miss things and miss out on things happening back home.
now sydney will always have a place in my heart, so many ups and downs which are part of life and certainly out here when you rely on new friendships and your own resolve mostly. i will miss the amazing coffee however, turned into a proper snob since I've been here!)
I've lived in sydney since november 2009 and was granted PR on 2/12/14.. so am i right in assuming:
* i can bang my application in for citizenship on 2/12/15..
* then wait for my test and ceremony - 6, 7 months?
* i hear waverley council can take unto a year! if i change my mobile phone bill to a mates in the city, is this sufficient to get me a town hall slot? they take around 3 months i hear due to frequency and capacity..
now i know I'm leaving (at some point) next year, i already feel relief and am certainly ready for a new chapter and a game of golf with my old man!
ta will