BendigoBoy

4 hours ago, Ausvisitor said:

It's got to be easier to renew an existing UK visa than start an entirely new one for AUS.

Even if not easier, certainly less expensive in terms of relocation costs if it's even feasible to begin with, I should imagine...

On 5/3/2024 at 9:01 PM, Monica33 said:

Has anyone had family and friends essentially forget about you after you leave the UK. Most of my family and friends do not want to engage with me much anymore. There’s no excuse these days to not keep in touch. I’ve been in Australia 17 years and it’s exhausting trying to maintain contact with people who don’t want to keep in touch.  I have a trip back soon and trying to lock in a time with my childhood friends and even my sister is becoming impossible. They are all busy. My sister has even booked herself a 2 week Mediterranean holiday the same time I’m there. I’m only there for 4 weeks and her answer was I’ll see you at some point. We haven’t had a fall out or anything, I just think it’s maybe a case of out of sight out of mind. Anyone else with similar experiences. Or is it just me

The friends (in my case), those links remain, even eight years after moving.  Heck, you could say they've gotten stronger in some ways.  Four of us meet up in Singapore regularly for a jolly together.

Family, on the other hand, I realised after seven years that I was the only one ever to make a phone call, ever to write an email, ever to send a Christmas card.  With family like that, who needs enemies.  So I gave up the trying and literally haven't even heard a peep from any of them since.  Blood is very definitely not thicker than water in my book.

7 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

Sounds like rearranging the deckchairs to me.

Probably taking lessons from Vanessa Hudson and the Qantas clowns.

Be a heck of a brave entrepreneur to offer £50-100k for folk who are emigrating and would likely be beyond the reach of the British court system should they decide not to repay.

On 20/04/2024 at 18:12, Marisawright said:

However do check whether there is an outlet in the city you're moving to...

And if it has been set alight in the last few days or not. Wondered what all the sirens were on Sunday in Bendigo.

In line with what Cal says, if you think the assessment process is expensive, you'll probably be sick to the stomach when you work out the full cost of migrating.

10 minutes ago, Quoll said:

I think you'll find that Aus Unis are incredibly woke, just like UK ones which is lovely if you're into CRT, radical feminism, climate change etc and drugs and alcohol are still at the core of most social interactions.  There is also a lot of group grading - if you happen to get into a group with a load of students who don't speak English or who are so stoned they can't be bothered to go to lectures and you want a good grade then you either have to do all the work yourself for group assignments or just accept lower grades. Remember too that honours degrees are going to take you 4 years as opposed to 3 in UK so the road to honours is a longer journey. 

England, mate.  Four years for an undergraduate honours (in the main) in Scotland.

The way I've seen and heard of things going by friends who went into academia, I can't even contemplate going back to visit St Andrews any more.  It used to be a wonderful bastion of centre to centre-right thinkers with the odd SNP loony and Tory Toff thrown in.  Goodness knows what the mix is nowadays.

16 minutes ago, Tulip1 said:

There is no bridging visa for a 50 year old parent.  They would have to be a minimum of 67 years to get one. 

Even that seems overly generous to me! 

Would take an RMA to advise on the likelihood of working rights if on a bridging visa. In most circumstances if transitioning from a tourist visa, my guess would be a no to that.

1 minute ago, Sarah p said:

Thanks what options are there? 

I'd suggest you consult a registered migration agent like Paul who has posted above. You'd do well to get a professional assessment of your situation.

2 hours ago, Sarah p said:

I have worked in Sydney previously on 457. I am now 50, with over 20 years senior work experience but am I right to think all visas even employer sponsored are under 45? 

No.

Just now, Ausvisitor said:

I wrote a post once about our path to getting here and being settled in a rental property.

Now we probably spent more than some would be we weren't *exuberant* in our choices.

I can't find the post, but from recollection we spent over $40k on relocation and visa stuff between deciding to go and actually being in our rental (that doesn't include the $35k for a new car either).

Our migration agent was about $3,200 of that total cost and worth every cent

That sounds like you did it a bit on the cheap, to be honest.  I've a mate who moved over about 2 years ago who splashed nearly $65k just on the move alone. Mind you, he did fly the four kids and the two adults out in J, so that would bump it.

3 hours ago, Ben123688 said:

Australia is a great country if we dont have so many stupid uneducated politicians and fairly uneducated yet feeling so self important morons

Yes, but to be fair, W.A has lots of resources. We're better holding on to them than getting rid of them...

14 minutes ago, Bulya said:

Actually the hardest and most important part will be deciding which AFL team to support.  Life revolves around AFL 365 days of the year…

If you can't decide which team to support, just slag off Collingwood.  You'll be backed up by most of the state... and more than a few Collingwood supporters, too.

19 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

However Quoll makes a good point. If, as you say, your visa will "move quickly" it must be a 482 temporary visa, in which case you won't be able to access the apprenticeship scheme.  I'm sure your husband will want to apply for a more permanent visa asap, but that can take a year.

Add in usual caveats and warnings about 482s being temporary, no guarantee of permanent residency and the need to potentially go home on expiry here, etc.

8 hours ago, Ausvisitor said:

Is that because of all the witches looking for a co pilot?

Seriously though what's the issue with cats out there?

It was a by-law when they started building the estate: no pet cats to protect native fauna.

P.S. Kudos on Angular; less so on .Net

I've been fighting a losing battle with Vue/Nuxt 3 uplifts over the last few months... Eurgh.

Just now, bluequay said:

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but as you are in the business! Do you know what the market is like at the moment? Angular\.Net Developer landing in Adelaide towards the end of the year. Spent the last 20 years contracting in the UK, but I appreciate it's more permie based in Oz.

Drop me a private line, mate.  Happy to take this into the back channels and see if I can hook you up with any contacts.

Just now, bluequay said:

All fair points, but if they don't have an aptitude for coding they will be mediocre at best. Aptitude will always determine how good they will be, I've known a lot of very intelligent people who really struggle with coding as their brain just don't work in that way.

Absolutely. We're more on the same page than not, mate.

End of the day, I want tickets moved and products built. If people can't do that, they need to move on.

3 minutes ago, bluequay said:

A lot of the better coders I know haven't been near a university. Education might get you through the door, but it's an occupation that is really down to aptitude, you've either got it or you don't

Yes and no.  I've only met a handful of self-taught developers who really have a decent aptitude with complex algorithms and mathematics.  That's not to dismiss folk or say there aren't any.  I'd still rather have someone from one of the decent ancient universities any day of the week, though; at least they generally know how to balance soft skills with tech skills.

39 minutes ago, shridharshanvak said:

Well I thought about that too honestly but some say taking Masters in Artificial Intelligence in Monash is better than Adelaide .... 

I don't want to put *anyone* off furthering themselves; however, quite honestly, I care less about postgrad degrees when I am interviewing, and infinitely more on whether the person I am interviewing can (most importantly) communicate clearly and (almost as importantly) knows what the hell they're doing.

A bit of gumption is never a bad thing in our industry, buddy.

Good luck, whatever you decide to do.

P.S.  Monash is a good university; but I see far too many people just "chasing degrees" rather than actually learning to do a decent job.  I'd rather take the grafters than the grifters.

30 minutes ago, jessi said:

Thank you, would you know of a safe rural area not too bad to commute from towards deer park?

Or any areas to avoid. 

Too easy.  Look at Eynesbury, unless you have a pet cat.

2 hours ago, jessi said:

What about sunbury do you know? 

Would that be a nice neighbourhood for children and teens would anyone know? I see it was mentioned up above.

I see a few kids have recently gone missing around sunbury but then again that could be runaway teens long back home. It's so hard to know without actually being there.

Once we make the decision if we're going it'll be super quick so I'm hoping I can think of anything beforehand that could become a problem. 

Sunbury's fine (just, for the love of God, don't accidentally move to Sunshine).  Got a couple of colleagues who live there, and they're quite happy.

If any kids have gone missing around there and anything untoward happened, it's not made the headlines over here as far as I've seen or heard on the radio.

On 13/04/2024 at 20:13, shridharshanvak said:

I am a bachelor of computer science student in India and I have applied for both Monash and Adelaide but I'm not sure which one to choose and which university would provide me with a better job and lifestyle.

Neither will. Your skills, application, and interviews with employers will provide you with a job.

Honestly, from what Adelaide teach on their masters courses you'd be better off doing three months of intensive self study on computational neuroscience, LLMs, fuzzy logic application etc etc than spending tens of thousands on a churnmill degree

1 hour ago, Parley said:

According to wikipedia it can lapse if you leave UK for more than 2 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_leave_to_remain

So much for "indefinite"