Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 :chatterbox: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 You going back then Harpo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 No plans, but the option is there, IYKWIM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Indeed I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 Indeed I do. And yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Next year hopefully, need to wait until after next October to qualify for an Australian pension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 How long have you been here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 first time four and a half years, second time four years and this time just over three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 first time four and a half years, second time four years and this time just over three. So its getting shorter each time then? Other way round for me, first was 1 year, 2nd 2 years, this time 4 and a half. Eligible for lobotomy now, just havent got around to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 So its getting shorter each time then? Other way round for me, first was 1 year, 2nd 2 years, this time 4 and a half. Eligible for lobotomy now, just havent got around to it i just found my Australian citizenship cert, it'll be 20 years next April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 i just found my Australian citizenship cert, it'll be 20 years next April. You poor thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 You poor thing It's aright, I'm starting to feel a bit better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 i just found my Australian citizenship cert, it'll be 20 years next April. Can I ask what pulls you back each time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Can I ask what pulls you back each time! Back to Aussie or U.K? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Back to Aussie or U.K? AUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Ah, the missus, she's a Melbourne girl, luckily she loves living in the U.K but of course she has her parents and brother and sisters here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 So what pulls you back to the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The countryside, history, the chance to travel to Europe, always seem to have more disposable income, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The countryside, history, the chance to travel to Europe, always seem to have more disposable income, etc. Have you travelled Australia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Just on holidays, Queensland, Tassie, S.A and ACT. Been up to Sydney a few times too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Just on holidays, Queensland, Tassie, S.A and ACT.Been up to Sydney a few times too. Did you like any of them better than Vic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Yeah, Tasmania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Pom Queen Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Yeah, Tasmania. Would love to head to Tas, I bet it's a lot like the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amibovered Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Would love to head to Tas, I bet it's a lot like the UK Ooh you must take a trip to Tassie, it's a lot more like the U.K than Queensland, thats for sure :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 For us I think I'd like Australia more if we could travel - I did fall in love with it all over again when I had the chance to go to Cairns on business (stayed at the Pepper resort and took a trip to Green Island, snorkelling and a 'submarine' trip - hard not to love it! The reality is it is just too damned expensive - I wanted to go to Esperance over Christmas, I only had a few days off so we would have need to fly - $750 each to fly a distance similar to Edinburgh/London! Our last holiday from the UK was a weekes ski-ing in France and it was 750GBP for ALL of us, flights, transfers and accomodation (2-bed apartment!) admittedly a last minute deal but it can be done. I was thinking yesterday I really would like to see Uluru before we leave and maybe we could go at Easter. I was just passing Flight Centre this morning and they were advertising flights and two nights $825 - I simply cannot spend $2500 on two nights away!! Shame we are going to leave with only having seen Perth and a bit of the South-West. On the same theme I friend from the UK was spending time in Sri Lanka for her mum's 60th and suggested we met up there, it was more expensive to get there than to fly to the UK ditto Borracay(sp?) where a friend is getting married this week - $1700 each!! Cheaper from the UK and it's difficult for them to believe we can't afford to attend when many people from the UK are! My OH bought a new camera lens for $500 and his friend was annoyed that he could spend money on that and not come to the wedding, he just could not accept how expensive it would be for us. When we moved to Perth I liked the idea of living in 'the most isolated city in the world' but as someone who is very used to world travel and never comprehended how hard it would be to get anywhere - my son got his bronze ski-ing award at 5, he's never skied since which is a tragedy - I saw no issue when we moved assuming we'd fly to NZ or even just NSW but it is all way too expensive (& the cost of everything else means we're far worse off even though we are on relatively higher wages) Ooh I feel better for that whinge :biggrin: Jules I'd rather live in Europe and travel to Australia (& wherever else in the world takes my fancy) than be stuck here - Bali seems to be about the only viable option and I've never fancied that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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