Miss Nadine

Hi thank you for the speedy reply. I will try Bob. Cheers

Hi annmarieyates273 I know exactly what you mean. I am going through the same feelings. I have lived in South Australia for 20 years. Its been good to me, its very pretty, I live 2 minutes to the beach, I have two gorgeous dogs, a permanent job as a teacher, 15 years before teaching I was in the film industry. Oz has been kind to me BUT I just came back from the UK after spending 3 1/2 weeks with my parents, visiting my brother in Kent and met my three nephews for the first time and stayed with my oldest dearest friend in Gloucestershire and for the first time in 20 years, I felt and continue to feel this incredible pull to go home. Its not because I am a nationalist because that is the furthest from the truth. I truly appreciate the landscapes here and the ocean and my incredible colleagues and friends but Australia has become what I believe, one of the most racist and right wing countries on earth. It treats its first peoples with nauseating disdain, treats refugees like economic travellers and there is nothing left of its politics except to be a neoliberal capitalist. I know that the UK is the home of the class system, massive poverty, a very long human rights injustice record, home of Julian Assange cooped up in the Ecuadorian embassy and a colonial history that is second to none but it is by far much more open and honest about what it is than Australia. I feel that I cannot live in a country that is so inhumane not just to the first people of this country but to those escaping unimaginable hardships and horrors. This is is a country where the Labour party is so far right wing now that there is no line of difference between them and the Liberal party. I see promising things happening in the UK, far greater multiculturalism and far more politics being debated than I have ever heard here. I worked in Aboriginal rights for two years which was both eye opening and life changing. I won't be able to go back, without a job and enough money to take my two doggies. So yes I understand exactly what you are feeling. Its fairly likely that you have different reasons and feelings to me but ostensibly, the pull to go back is the same.

Hi everyone, I have two very gorgeous Airedale Terriers. One is 10 1/2 years old and the other is 2 1/2. The youngest one has special needs with megaesophagus and I have investigated flying them both to the UK. Unfortunately, after a very long chat with a vet from a transportation company, the answer was that he would not be allowed to fly because he cannot go without water for such a long flight. If he drinks water horizontally, he can choke and either vomit or inhale it into his lungs and risk aspiration pneumonia. I will not leave them behind so I am wondering if anyone has experience of shipping their pets from Oz to the UK or if anyone has any ideas regarding shipping pets on such a long haul. Any idea of costs and companies I should approach. Cheers