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House prices in Perth are lower than in 2008, apart from a few suburbs.

So you've never heard of Xmas dinner? Right.

Not really into Xmas here, doesn't feel quite right. I think if you want to embrace it, you have to go Aussie, beach & bbq etc. The whole roast dinner/round the table thing doesn't really work for me.

Never lived there, wife's Aunt used to and we visited a few times. Pros - Loads of pubs. Cons - virtually everything else. There's not much to do, it's a mining town and is set up as such, pubs and brothels. The shops were half day on a Saturday (closed Sunday) and, once you've been to the super pit and mining museum, you've nailed the attractions. It's not a bad place, it's a mining town in the middle of nowhere, it is what it is. Wouldn't move there with a family, if it's just the two of you, fair enough.

2 wives, what a horrendous thought .

Anyone wanting to move to Australia thinking you can live on $373 a week, forget it. Me and the Mrs spend half that in the pub on a Saturday arvo.

Lo and behold, in today's news. Looks like this is the Hillary's/North Beach drive. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/face-body/is-australia-sexist-documentary-asks-if-men-and-women-are-equal-in-the-21st-century/news-story/4c89cf7404ccd1d5f73d8307f7ae3020

We're leaving Perth after 10 years and returning to the UK and I would echo a lot of your post (I am a bloke by the way). The older generation in Perth are mostly fine but the young blokes are horrible. I would hate to have a daughter here having to choose a partner from this lot, they are sexist as hell and a lot are drinkers (or worse) and prone to very anti-social behaviour. I know that's a generalisation but it doesn't mean it isn't true. You're right about the drink and drug problems here, they're rife. My opinion is that most drugs in the UK tend to be more social e.g. Friday night drugs, drugs here are lifestyle drugs, you will see their effects all day, every day. We live in Joondalup and it's a ghost town, like most suburbs are. Looks nice on pictures, one of those perfect Facebook lives that has little behind the veneer. Unlike you though, I have the same opinion of the other States, I spend a fair amount of time on the road and, whilst I do find WA people scruffier and weirder, I think Aussies in general are fairly similar wherever. After typing that, I still have to confess I have enjoyed most of our time here, it was worth doing. I just don't want to do it anymore, there is more to life than what's here.

Had house valued, which wasn't great news. Regardless, it's going up in January then it's just a waiting game. We are selling our furniture as we expect to be in a much smaller place so I'm just trying to plan through coordinating the house sale date, furniture sell, car sell, 2 dogs travel, work notices, etc. Bit of a minefield but we'll get there.

Has to be said, that looks tremendous.

Never seen any over here. My Mrs is mad on them as well. There's millions of types of nuts but they're not the same.

Has to be said, they are being a bit unreasonable. And, no, it won't get easier, that's a fact.

You can get a Liverpool/London train from Runcorn. Love Frodham. The Bear's Paw, Netherton Hall, Helter Skelter, Delamere Forest, Helsby Hill etc. Will be doing all that regularly when I get back!

Brexit will sort that .

My two were at the vets yesterday for booster jabs and he told us that they had had 4 snake bitten pooches in the same day. Be careful!

Whereabouts are you? There's a few good British butchers around, there's a Scottish one in Currambine, they seem to be highly rated. Chances are though you'll never get one exactly like it.

I've been speaking to JetPets and they've been very supportive.

In the last 24 hours he's cracked BBQs, tea, coffee, sausages, Brexit, fish and chips, you name it. What a guy, wasted on here .

Yeah, but fish & mangoes sounds horrible .

That's what fish & chips is.

Great news, all very positive for our move back. I hate coffee anyway.

They don't even taste of potatoes. No issue with the fish, very nice. The chips are crap.

Peak or not, like I said ours is 15% down on what I could have got for it. And the 'value' continues to fall, will do for a while I suspect. I wouldn't buy now, I'd wait, they'll come down more. Been coming down since 2014, 2 or 3 more years of it yet.

We're selling in Perth and they are about 15% down on what they were. I reckon there is another 15% to come as well.

Hamelin Bay is good, you may not have reached there. We enjoyed Augusta as well, Pemberton inland is fairly cool. Then onward to Walpole, Denmark, Albany and Esperance as you mentioned. We then cut back diagonal to go to Wave Rock then back to Perth. Esperance is a fair trek mind.