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It appears as though there is a decent-sized exodus happening out of Melbourne and Sydney into more remote and regional areas of the country. 

Interesting times indeed

1 hour ago, Gary102 said:

I did my skilled assessment in March and there were other guys doing the exam planning on moving to WA. 
Did electricians get removed after March?

I feel like I’ve been strung along. 

It's looking like you were taken on an expensive wild goose chase ride by your 'agent', mon ami

1 minute ago, Marisawright said:

You are right, most of the immigrants living here are happy - that's only logical.  Most of the unhappy ones go home pretty quickly, so you're not going to meet them!   It's only the ones who can't afford the move, or those who are stuck due to family, who would hang around for long.

However I suspect you've met a few that you didn't know were unhappy.  Just look at the number of people you've met on these forums, quietly putting on a brave face because their partner won't leave Australia. Unless you know that person well, you'd have no idea if they're unhappy or not.  For instance, I wonder if you met @Quoll at a social occasion (as a stranger), would she let you know her true feelings about Australia?  I suspect she'd need to know you fairly well before she'd open up about it. 

This. Spot on. 

1 hour ago, ramot said:

In the 17 years I have been here, only one young person I know returned to the UK. He was very happy here, but decided to go back to be in UK for a while. He is equally happy there, and now has a partner and child. They came for a visit a couple of years ago, so she could experience where he had lived, catch up with friends. He told me that if she would move here he would love to come back, but knew he could be equally happy in UK. 
Several people who were here on the self funded retirement visa have returned, because after at least 15 years here it became to expensive to stay as they weren’t entitled to any help, but were very sad to leave. 
I know plenty of immigrants locally, both in my age group, and younger ones who are my sons age, plus my family from Africa who have no intention as yet to return. So on a very small straw poll, more happy here than unhappy.

This is in no way a criticism of people who are unhappy here, 

I think this could be said regarding all immigrant magnet countries. Vast majority stay in Canada as well. 

My comment was made tongue in cheek geared not at the personal situations, but rather the financial implications of those that move globally multiple times in their lives. I know that for myself,  I literally cannot afford to be indecisive in that context more than twice in a lifetime. I've moved once globally already. If I decide to move again,  it will be the final time, no matter how much I may pine over a beach or palm tree. That's it.

Besides,  I can get beaches in spades back home (ocean AND freshwater!),  and a few places even grow palm trees now too 

I honestly don't know how some of you can afford to 'ping' and 'pong' yourselves all over this planet. Move here,  move back; move here again, move back again; here again, back again. 

Are some of you so flush with cash that you can throw it around moving yourselves globally so many times?!?! Life in the UK must have afforded you the ability to have such luxuries most of us from the peasant colonies could only dream of! 

Doesn't sound like such a bad place to be after all

On 12/10/2020 at 14:22, House Biatch said:

Thats not too bad.

In my case, my wife has hers on the Thursday qt 9.45am and I have mine on the Friday at 8am.

Why is this an issue for you though?  The interviews are less than 24 hours apart. I mean,  they could have been months apart from each other so it could always be worse. 

If it's the case that they were willing participants in this scam, throw their cases out the window and deport them back to wherever they came frrom. They should also be banned from every entering the country again. I really don't see how you could allow these scam artists to stay when so many have gone through the process legally and followed the rules to a tee. They deserve no sympathy or justice. It would also be beneficial to share their identites with other countries (I'm thinking of my own country specifically) so that they can be alterted and on guards for these criminals.

Throw the book at them and toss them out on their disingenuous, lying a**es.

56 minutes ago, theonetruechris said:

where to start Paul, where to start, who are these people you speak of and whom is in a position due to diversity and inclusion?

I can only assume you're a bit cross that jobs you see as being exclusively for straight white males (they're the best at anything / everything) have been denied them because they're not diverse enough and anyone else is bound by nature to fail because the best person for the job is.......

Its OK to be a bigot buttercup all society is a construct with the only truth being your own - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And it's flamebait posts like these that start the inevitable sh**storm of personal attack comments towards other members simply because they share a differing opinion. Exactly the reason why I don't post in these types of toxic threads anymore (besides this post).

On 14/07/2020 at 21:50, Wanderer Returns said:

I lived in Coolangatta 8-10 years ago and loved it. It was always my plan to move there once I returned to Australia, which I did in January. The Gold Coast has become hellishly busy in the last 5 years, even the southern part around Coolie and Burleigh, which used to be a bit of secret. We have Trip Advisor ect to thank for this and now the place is overrun with backpackers, gappers and Brazilian students. It doesn't have the same feel as it used to so I'm looking at the Sunshine Coast instead. Sounds like Noosa would tick most of your boxes - you should get up here and do a recky while the border's are still open  

Give this area another 5-10 years and it will be in the same position as the GC is now.

What is the appeal about Perth to Poms? My understanding is that there is a huge cohort of English in Perth, but I can't understand why the area is such a magnet for them specifically. Is it the assumed perception that the weather is 'perfect' in Perth, above all else? Can anyone explain this?

Just curious.

8 hours ago, kimboslice said:

We can only hope

This is from over three months ago. I doubt this is entirely accurate at this time.

14 minutes ago, vickyplum said:

Yes you'll be contacted by email. From what I can gather, the status on the immi account doesn't reliably update (mine has been stuck on 'received' for over a year now).

Great to hear. Cheers! 

Question.

If we have movement on our citizenship application, and this is conveyed on our immi account, will we also recieve a notification in our email that is attached to our immi account? In otherwords, can I just check my emails for updates instead of having to physically log in to my immi account?

16 minutes ago, naviozz said:

Yeah, it’s really good news. I am from Townsville council. Has any one got any invitation from Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg, or Any other regional area in qld. Thanks

Nope

20 hours ago, Indianinoz said:

https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship

Tests in many regional areas have resumed today

Good news. I'm in Mackay so we shall see how long it takes.

48 minutes ago, gwheng said:

Hi Guys

I  got my test booked in for tomorrow, those who has sit and passed the test, could you shed some light.

I've went through the study material and have been taking the practice tests from following 2 sites https://citizenshiptests.org/australian-citizenship-test/ & http://www.aussiecitizenshiptest.com/new-practice-tests/, on average i will get a passed score 17/20 - 18/20.

 

My question, is aforementioned practice test sites enough to get you through with the actual test? will it be more difficult? 

Is the answer nuances that make some questions vague particularly?

i try not to screw up my test after been waiting since early this year. 

appreciate your response.

I did the mock test on the Aus Gov't website; got 20/20 without any kind of pre-study. Seems pretty eazy-peazy. Very basic questions that should come naturally to most from the Anglosphere Commonwealth countries. For those who are from other non-commonwealth, non-english speaking countries, well, it might be a bit more of a struggle for you I suppose.

50 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

Yes, it is massively underrated by the British!   The British attitude is "hot weather good, cold weather bad", which is why Australia is seen as a paradise.  It's only when you have to live in a hot climate that you realise that (a) working in hot weather isn't nearly as much fun as holidaying in it, and (b) it is actually possible to be too hot.  

Hmmm, this sounds increadibly familiar to what I hear from most people back home, and I used to be a part of that cohort.

I've learnt that the grass isn't always greener (or better) on the other side.

Question. 

As mentioned,  most regional teat centres are still closed. However can they choose to have you come to one of the other open centres (closest to you) to conduct the tests? Or will they just wait until the regional test centres are opened again? 

Just curious.

1 hour ago, bhupendra said:

travel records, it's to show as an evidence for your length of stay in Australia

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/entering-leaving-subsite/Pages/Requesting-travel-records.aspx

Interesting. I was not required to submit any such document when I submitted my application.

What are 'movement records'?

It's fine now.

8 hours ago, Melb2016 said:

Hi Everyone,

Applied mid April for wife, baby and I. British. No updates on Immi. Application status is still ‘received ’. Based in Melbourne. 
 

It’s going to be a long wait...

Especially in Victoria.........

I do wonder why the regional areas for in-person appointments remain on-hold while those in the larger centres are resuming first.

On ‎19‎/‎08‎/‎2020 at 15:19, Nemesis said:

What do you mean "the government shifting all immigrants to regional areas"? Immigrants do not have to live in regional areas unless their visa specifies it. 

Canada also is trying to get immigrants to regional areas where most Canadians do not want to live, instead of them heading to the immigration magnet areas like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. In large, vast hinterland countries like Canada and Australia, govt's want to encourage settlement in less populated areas to create a more developed country with more infrastructure and a larger population base spread out equally as much as possible. And In Canada's case, increase the population base up north so that we can solidify our sovereign territorial rights in the arctic against the rest of the world, particularly against the US, Russia and even China nowadays, who don't seem to respect our territorial rights and try to claim the arctic waterways as 'international waters' when they are legally and internationally recongnized Canadian waters. Full stop.

The things countries like ours have to do to protect ourselves from the rest of the world. Sheesh.