Melby

On 18/05/2021 at 07:22, Marisawright said:

I wouldn’t be using air miles due to the high risk of cancellation. 

Air miles are refundable. Well with Emirates they are ... not sure about other airlines.

On 21/04/2018 at 16:39, Parley said:

If you were born and raised in Melbourne you should know that you are a Melburnian. (Not a melbournian whatever that is).

Didn't realise it was a spelling test... my error i overlooked.

Don't really think that was relevant to say.

Happy for you to private message me at any time if you have any questions. 

I was born in Melbourne although moved to Geelong 4 years ago. 

I know alot about schools and areas.

Really depends if you want catholic.... they are zoned to areas and public are zoned.

Newtown is lovely. The nicest suburb in geelong it has the old homes from late 1800 to mostly 1920 bungalows etc. You will pay alot at least 850K plus in Newtown. And rent is more expensive. 

Roughly 550 a week for something half decent. 

The schools are great in Newtown- st John's lutheran is a private and excellent small school of 200 students from prep to grade 6. 

Chillwell is meant to be good. And fyans park. 

Montpellier primary in highton. 

The list could go on. 

It all comes down to your child and how it suits him. Do some tours. 

Highton is my fav suburb out of them all.... it's honestly safe and friendly and so so so quiet.

I'm a melbournian born and raised. Lived in Brighton all my life. 

I moved out 4 years ago now to Geelong. 

I hate the thought of even visiting Melbourne now.... let alone living there !! But that's just me.... 

Everyone's different. 

I prefer Brisbane city... lovely. 

Geelong is a nice place to raise a family with awesome beaches! 

No where in Victoria is green.... I am born and raised in Melbourne. I have moved an hour out of Melbourne to geelong. 

We just don't get rain.... at all. 

Victoria is a dry place

If you are wanting a home 30 minutes to Melbourne your looking at 1 million plus.... welcome to aus!

On 12/07/2017 at 13:40, Har00n said:

In the same boat as you, sue... Got a car and motorbike to sell before we head back at end of August. 
Am tempted to just take a hit ont htem both, if it means getting them sold. have them on Gumtree,facebook, carsales etc, but not getting anywhere..... anxious is the right word... 

Hey Haroon 

why are you leaving Perth to move back to the UK?

On 05/07/2017 at 23:05, suesmalls said:

Thanks everyone for the clarification on the passport.  

Hi @Melby

We're probably one of the few on this forum that have never lived in England.  I'm getting good advice and guidance so I'm appreciative; it's been very helpful.  

We sold our house in Perth in June & settlement is 26 July. Same day we fly out at 9.55pm that night.  2 cats flying same day on Emirates.

 We're going with Qatar and we'll be staying in  Peterborough (Whittlesey) at first until we find work and where that takes us. Would be nice to stay around the Cambridge area.  

Finish at work tomorrow.  Paul from Chess dropping in this Friday for catch up & dropping some boxes. Going to pack my bedroom before pack up day so cats can be kept in one room while lots going on. 

There's definitely things I'm not going to be able to sort before we go.  Will have to finish from England. 

Do you have any destination in mind?

We're moving to be closer to family & change of lifestyle. So hope that works out for us. 

 

 

Hello!

I'm sure it will work out great for you.

We are not sure yet of our destination have a few lined up.

Norfolk, Suffolk or Yorkshire - trying to decide. And will suss it out more once as have a look in October.  

We plan on making the big move beginning of January. Our house settles late August here in Victoria. 

Gives me plenty of time to organise things this end etc.  

You will have a busy day wow on the day of house settlement! 

Hi suesmall's 

We are heading to England to for the first time to ever live - we are based in Melbourne Australia!

Looking at a time to book, we have two young children.  

We have sold our house but settlement is August and seems to rushed.

Thinking January of booking the one way ticket.

we are heading there in October to check out the areas and get a feel.

Where abouts are you heading?

Have you booked your flights?

Car insurance $800 a year 

Health insurance  $370 a month 

Car registration- $800 a year and going up

Electricity $150 a month and rising

Water $150 a month 

Gas - Very expensive to run - especially in winter $200+ a month 

Cable Internet only $80 a month 

Mobile phone $80 a month 

Council rates  $2400  year 

Taxes are alot here 33 cents per dollar under 90K a year 

School fees vary $2500 a year for a Catholic primary 

Private schools schools vary from 20K to 35K a year 

Petrol  $1.40

Bill's are very expensive and rising unfortunately.... hope that helps 

Hello! 

I'm based in Australia and have we have health insurance here we pay $3600 a year for a family.  

I was wondering how much it is in the UK and does it work the same?

We sort of have to have it here or you will go on a waiting list in the public system for years and years.  

Is it the same in the UK? Do you even have health insurance or is your NHS system work fine?

I'd definately stick to the Moradialloc  and aspendale 

Have you thought of Sandringham, Hampton, Bentleigh, Brighton East, Mentone? 

All great areas family friendly safe and very easy access to transport beach and terrific schools.  

5 hours ago, RandL said:

 i am living in the UK at the moment , as an Aussie citizen, but also have lived many years in Germany.

Still visit multiple times a year.

And if i would have to go through the process of relocating to Europe again , i would definitely choose Germany next time, especially now with Brexit potentially limiting your future options .

So no, as someone who has been through the visa process ( living 30 years in germany, 25 years in Australia and 5 years in UK)  , i  didn't have a dig , based on my experience I was offering an alternative seeing that they already hold german passports.

 

 

We are going to Germany to in a few months. Germany is beautiful my family background is German. My side all from Germany and speak German, although I do not - I am worried about the language barrier although I'm sure easy to pick up. 

Do you like living in the UK as much as Germany? How did you enjoy australia?

17 hours ago, snifter said:

York is lovely. Depends what you want from an area tbh.

Define 'safe' or 'great schools' as peoples opinions will vary. Also the ways schools are rated in the UK is very different to Aus. TBH I don't place much stock in Ofsted reports and quite happily placed my child in a good but not rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted school. They are useful to a point but what you want from a school isn't always found in an Ofsted report. I wouldn't send my child to a very poorly rated by Ofsted school and would use it to rule certain schools out that way. But I'd not rule out good or whatever it is they use these days over outstanding. 

You need to consider what you are hoping to do work wise also and factor in that some areas may be better than others in terms of that.

I can think of plenty of lovely safe areas with good schools but they probably see just as much crime, quite possibly more than places here but doesn't mean I'd not live there. Just depends what your level of acceptable is. Serious crime is rare in most places tbf. Minor crimes tend to happen across the board. In our area we had car/shed break ins, burglaries, cars stolen, damage to local parks etc and that was par for the course of suburban living for us. A few other things also would crop up from time to time. Living rural we had different types of crime. Horse theft, livestock theft, farm equipment stolen, fuel stolen, house break ins, working dogs stolen and so on. Less damage to public property and spaces though. 

Keep in mind also that holidays are very different to the reality of living somewhere. Day to day life will go on. If its an adventure for a couple of years you will probably be ok with it and use your weekends (if not working) and school hols to explore around a bit. 

Thanks for the wealth of information, it really does help  

We are definately going to give it a shot we have nothing to lose we just sold our place and gave a great amount of savings.

York is lovely I have been around the UK a few times and Scotland. 

we are heading back to the UK in a few months to suss it all out and have a look, would make the move not long after that. 

On 2017-5-19 at 14:13, kevsan said:

Agree with this.

It was on the cards for us for a long time, having first visited in 2007 and having friends here that came over for 4 years. When we started getting serious we went to a migration roadshow ran by one of the agents and had speakers from Immigration, removals, NAB etc to give people an idea of what to expect. It was a joint NZ/AUS roadshow and probably close to 150 people there. A rep from tourism NZ asked the room how many people had been to NZ or OZ before? Me and the wife and another couple were the only 4 hands that went up. that was the scary part, that all these people were seemingly desperate to leave the UK for a better life without really knowing anything about it. I asked one guy why he was looking into it, the response - "it must be better than here"....

I Have the same feeling of leaving Australia.....  the UK or anywhere else must be better then here.

Not bagging Australia out, it's not all its cracked up to be. Yes we have some nice weather. Crime is high and wages are not the best for the average house price is like 900K and that is way out of the city. 

6 minutes ago, Skani said:

The OP may be OK but even before leaving the EU  it is now very difficult for the Australian spouse of a UK citizen to move to the UK.  It must be at least as difficult for the Australian spouse of a German citizen.

It's actually easier - Being an EU citizen and having a spouse then to hold a British citizen 

10 minutes ago, Parley said:

Britain is leaving the EU though so you might not be able to live there for long.

I'll take my chances 

3 hours ago, VERYSTORMY said:

You will need to look at visas carefully. You would need to go through the surinder Singh route, the problem with which is that it is not clear if such visa holders would be permitted to stay post brexit. Or look at UK visas

Hi There.

No im not a British citizen. I hold a German passport as do my children.  

So the singh route wont apply to me. 

22 hours ago, snifter said:

What about your husband? Does he hold a UK passport? I can't work out from your posts if he has one or an Aus one. 

HI Snifter 

My husband holds an aus passport 

Was looking at getting an EU/EAA family visa for him. Hoping this is possible for the UK 

25 minutes ago, MrsP said:

We did it! Same situation, I'm Australian and the better half is English. We were in the South so temperatures were a little less hectic than York but York is an amazing place. There are great schools and great people every where but we certainly found England to be more child orientated than where we were in Australia. Good luck and go for it!


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Thanks Mrs P.

Where abouts in the South are you living and how long have you been in the UK for?

7 minutes ago, Nemesis said:

What visas ar you planning to use to move? \or do you have dual citienship?

Hi nemesis.  

I hold a German passport and so do my children from my mother. 

Hi all.

My husband and I with two young children have the urge to move to the UK with no family. Just for a change, have the urge to try something different and have enjoyed holidays in the UK. 

I'm born in Australia although we are wanting to move early next year. 

Has anyone ever done this before and regretted or enjoyed it?

Where are great safe family areas with great schools In the UK? We love York.

Thanks!