Why am i reading so many "moving back to the UK posts??

[Mcguinnessp1968]

Housing equates the craziness of the gun lobby in my book in the Australian context. Something that should have very long ago have been brought under control and not allowed to flame out of control like a wild fire. While some may appear to benefit, indeed some became very rich, something essential in life, should never have been allowed to become a gambling pawn.

This isn’t only an Australian issue it’s a massive problem in the UK too especially in the south east

[ali]

3 hours ago, EmmaGiggles85 said:

Thank you everyone! Even though there has been some negative feeback, i do feel more confident in our decision to go! I mean, it doesnt have to be forever does it?!

What does it matter if in 5 years time we still havent settled or feel like its not for us? We can just come back, but at least we would have had an awesome adventure!

Plus, that pit in our stomachs will have gone and we will forever know we tried and it didnt work. Or we may be the opposite and create more opportunities for the kids and settle amazingly!

Yeah the kids may grow up and venture off into other parts of the world etc etc.... but to be honest, although i would be devastated at that prospect, i would be increadibly proud of them for being brave enough to take that plunge! (Plus it would mean more holidays for us as we get older haha) xx

Thanks, Emma x
 

Emma, my daughter was 11 when we moved (now 22) and has said she's been really glad to have had her teenage years here in Aus.  She may very well go off somewhere else and like you whilst part of me would be sad, the other would be proud of her.  She's travelled Europe and spent a short time back in the UK visiting friends/family, but was really glad to get home.

[EmmaGiggles85]

Emma, my daughter was 11 when we moved (now 22) and has said she's been really glad to have had her teenage years here in Aus.  She may very well go off somewhere else and like you whilst part of me would be sad, the other would be proud of her.  She's travelled Europe and spent a short time back in the UK visiting friends/family, but was really glad to get home.

That's great to hear! That is what i hope to find with mine x

Thanks, Emma x

[TeacherClem]

Thank you everyone! Even though there has been some negative feeback, i do feel more confident in our decision to go! I mean, it doesnt have to be forever does it?!

What does it matter if in 5 years time we still havent settled or feel like its not for us? We can just come back, but at least we would have had an awesome adventure!

Plus, that pit in our stomachs will have gone and we will forever know we tried and it didnt work. Or we may be the opposite and create more opportunities for the kids and settle amazingly!

Yeah the kids may grow up and venture off into other parts of the world etc etc.... but to be honest, although i would be devastated at that prospect, i would be increadibly proud of them for being brave enough to take that plunge! (Plus it would mean more holidays for us as we get older haha) xx

Thanks, Emma x

Absolutely! Good luck with the move


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[Paul1Perth]

21 hours ago, EmmaGiggles85 said:

Thank you everyone! Even though there has been some negative feeback, i do feel more confident in our decision to go! I mean, it doesnt have to be forever does it?!

What does it matter if in 5 years time we still havent settled or feel like its not for us? We can just come back, but at least we would have had an awesome adventure!

Plus, that pit in our stomachs will have gone and we will forever know we tried and it didnt work. Or we may be the opposite and create more opportunities for the kids and settle amazingly!

Yeah the kids may grow up and venture off into other parts of the world etc etc.... but to be honest, although i would be devastated at that prospect, i would be increadibly proud of them for being brave enough to take that plunge! (Plus it would mean more holidays for us as we get older haha) xx

Thanks, Emma x
 

Our eldest (28) is an electrician and instrument fitter, I think the full title is inlec. He's been working FIFO for a few years now and the money has been great for him. He's had long trips where he's packed a job in and gone travelling for 3 month stints. He's been to the US a few times and several places in Europe.

Usually starts off with some music festival he wants to attend and then sports events. He went to Coachella last year for both weekends and then just decided him and his mates would pop up to Whistler in Canada for a week of snowboarding.

He must have liked it as he now has his working visa for Canada and plans to go in December.

Like you say it's a bit sad that you don't see them as often but proud that he's done what he has and had great experiences he'll be able to look back on.

We are already planning a trip. Can't decide whether it's for mountain biking in summer or skiing/snowboarding in winter.

[Paul1Perth]

19 hours ago, Pura Vida said:

You would think wouldn't you? The house in question is central located within city limits but never mind reality escapes some. But inspected others in the region of $580,000 to $ 750,000, close to beach in the so called 'dress circle' down there. Prices are far less further afield in outer suburbs . From around $300,000 even a little less foe an almost liveable old build. Crazy I know and close to prices in Perth inner city. I don't get it apart from people 'trying it' on and not being serious.

Perhaps they are hoping on rich South Africans buying, as their numbers are on the rise there. Quite a few Brit's as well. A number I spoke with moved there from Perth to retire. It is WA's prime holiday city and a lot of new development has gone up and more in the process. Still few jobs, I'd have thought, at least outside of construction. Health and social care being the main job providers.

WA's closest place in resemblance to Eastbourne perhaps? (in its aged population, although the retired folk look healthier in Albany) More women than men as well. Could be an ideal location for gals to set up house together?

Don't know about prime holiday city. It's a long way from a City and there are a lot nicer places for a holiday a lot closer to Perth.

[EmmaGiggles85]

Our eldest (28) is an electrician and instrument fitter, I think the full title is inlec. He's been working FIFO for a few years now and the money has been great for him. He's had long trips where he's packed a job in and gone travelling for 3 month stints. He's been to the US a few times and several places in Europe.
Usually starts off with some music festival he wants to attend and then sports events. He went to Coachella last year for both weekends and then just decided him and his mates would pop up to Whistler in Canada for a week of snowboarding.
He must have liked it as he now has his working visa for Canada and plans to go in December.
Like you say it's a bit sad that you don't see them as often but proud that he's done what he has and had great experiences he'll be able to look back on.
We are already planning a trip. Can't decide whether it's for mountain biking in summer or skiing/snowboarding in winter.

Wow that sounds great! What an amazing life he has! I can only hope my boys can be as confident as him when they get older and take risks and just live life to the full xx

Thanks, Emma x

[Guest263228]

2 hours ago, Paul1Perth said:

Don't know about prime holiday city. It's a long way from a City and there are a lot nicer places for a holiday a lot closer to Perth.

Possible in four and a half hours so not long in the Aussie context. Overall volume of tourists I believe remains the greatest but then bigger than most other spots. A lot nicer places? Subject but not really. Marge River being way over rated. All places can be found wanting as none deliver the compete package, especially considering the price tag on most things.

[Paul1Perth]

27 minutes ago, Pura Vida said:

Possible in four and a half hours so not long in the Aussie context. Overall volume of tourists I believe remains the greatest but then bigger than most other spots. A lot nicer places? Subject but not really. Marge River being way over rated. All places can be found wanting as none deliver the compete package, especially considering the price tag on most things.

That's why we spend so much time at the beach 2 minutes from where we live. 

Surf ski, paddle board, friends and surf club gym and bar all here too. Better weather than down South. That's why we don't miss holidays so much. Used to be desperate to get away for a couple of weeks sunshine and beach holiday when we lived in the UK and depressed when we got back. Now we know we can do it daily and better at weekends.

[Guest263228]

52 minutes ago, Paul1Perth said:

That's why we spend so much time at the beach 2 minutes from where we live. 

Surf ski, paddle board, friends and surf club gym and bar all here too. Better weather than down South. That's why we don't miss holidays so much. Used to be desperate to get away for a couple of weeks sunshine and beach holiday when we lived in the UK and depressed when we got back. Now we know we can do it daily and better at weekends.

All to their own but the Albany region towers above Perth's northern suburbs. Now there's a place I would never contemplate. We enjoy leaving are locality, indeed a necessity. Be that be a short week down south, or up to The Kimberly or overseas. A breath of fresh air, to be surrounded by a different scene, abroad a different mindset and better value and after all that enjoying the offerings outside the front door as well.

[Ike]

I've been here for over 6 and a half years now. In December last year I visited the UK for the first time since arriving (Albeit it was a flash visit due to my Dad being Ill)

As I was driving from Manchester Airport to my home town, my first through was 'What the hell have I come back too?'

Now, don't get me wrong, it was nice to catch up with friends and family, and also to see places that I have not seen in such a long time, but the novelty soon wore off. 
All the time It was just in the back of my mind how I want to get back (Admittedly I did leave my wife behind) 

But the strangest, and most pivotal thought happened to me on my journey back.

In past conversation I have always referred to the UK as 'Home' When that plane touched down on the Tarmac at Sydney Airport a warm fuzzy feeling came over me, and I subconsciously thought to myself how glad it was to be home. 
I then realised what had just gone through my head. 

This Country... Australia is home :-) 

[Slean Wolfhead]

2 hours ago, EmmaGiggles85 said:

 

Wow that sounds great! What an amazing life he has! I can only hope my boys can be as confident as him when they get older and take risks and just live life to the full xx

Thanks, Emma x
 

 

We have some friends who came over with 3 kids 5 years ago from the UK.   One girl was a "bit of a handful", the other 2 lads had just finished degrees but had no real life plan, typical British kids from a typical town.

The girl now has a long term partner and child,  works and has just moved to the Gold Coast from Sydney to buy her first house....a responsible and completely different person from the angry young girl who came over here.   One lad is in Melbourne, working for a radio station as a producer and living in a loft apartment in the city.  The other has just married a lovely Kiwi girl and moved to Auckland last year, has a great job in IT.   They've all done astonishingly well and far better than anyone's wildest imaginations. 

 

[starlight7]

When we decided to emigrate I never even thought of looking at the negatives- as far as we were concerned it was a big adventure, exciting, scary and a new phase of our life. It was all of those things- nothing easy but with a positive attitude it make a huge difference, especially when things don't go quite as you might expect!

[s713]

The absence of friends and family is the biggest thing for me. We've made friends here but it's not the same. And my folks are late 60s now and I feel guilty about missing the last 10 years of their lives (and panic about missing any more).

Australia has lots of things going for it, it's a beautiful place. But I miss the take it for granted normal life day-to-day things in the UK like pubs, family, people, food etc. At first, they might be the things that you feel you won't miss, but often they come back calling with a vengeance.

[Guest263228]

18 minutes ago, s713 said:

The absence of friends and family is the biggest thing for me. We've made friends here but it's not the same. And my folks are late 60s now and I feel guilty about missing the last 10 years of their lives (and panic about missing any more).

Australia has lots of things going for it, it's a beautiful place. But I miss the take it for granted normal life day-to-day things in the UK like pubs, family, people, food etc. At first, they might be the things that you feel you won't miss, but often they come back calling with a vengeance.

Acquaintances come and go, but friendship of the kind some of us may be used to is certainly harder to find. I do miss the interactions with people in certain situations in UK and Europe in general. The stay at home preference due to it all being to hard to catch up owing to distance, driving, and so on somehow disallows the social vibe far more apparent in other countries.

I agree at first it seems a breath of fresh air but a dawning of something not quite on mark can leave a mark over time. One adapts and one accepts to a degree I suppose. But does a certain nagging feeling ever totally dissipate?

[Guest241083]

.........we often miss something we enjoyed

.........it's human nature

..........it's making the most of the things we would miss on return that helps 

........,if we could roll all the good bits of everywhere we've lived

........into one place....we would of found utopia..!

[Paul1Perth]

17 hours ago, Ike said:

I've been here for over 6 and a half years now. In December last year I visited the UK for the first time since arriving (Albeit it was a flash visit due to my Dad being Ill)

As I was driving from Manchester Airport to my home town, my first through was 'What the hell have I come back too?'

Now, don't get me wrong, it was nice to catch up with friends and family, and also to see places that I have not seen in such a long time, but the novelty soon wore off. 
All the time It was just in the back of my mind how I want to get back (Admittedly I did leave my wife behind) 

But the strangest, and most pivotal thought happened to me on my journey back.

In past conversation I have always referred to the UK as 'Home' When that plane touched down on the Tarmac at Sydney Airport a warm fuzzy feeling came over me, and I subconsciously thought to myself how glad it was to be home. 
I then realised what had just gone through my head. 

This Country... Australia is home :-) 

My Mum died in July so I went back for 3 weeks. I've always landed in Manchester before but this time went to Birmingham as my Sister could pick me up from there. Used to think that Manchester airport wasn't too good till I had to go through Birmingham.

Had some nice weather whilst I was there though and I was staying near Stamford which is a nice place. I had a few nice bike rides round Rutland Water. I enjoyed the pubs and seeing family but couldn't wait to get home.

Are you from near Manchester? We used to live in Gee Cross near Stockport.

Edited October 5, 2017 by Paul1Perth

[Paul1Perth]

1 hour ago, Pura Vida said:

Acquaintances come and go, but friendship of the kind some of us may be used to is certainly harder to find. I do miss the interactions with people in certain situations in UK and Europe in general. The stay at home preference due to it all being to hard to catch up owing to distance, driving, and so on somehow disallows the social vibe far more apparent in other countries.

I agree at first it seems a breath of fresh air but a dawning of something not quite on mark can leave a mark over time. One adapts and one accepts to a degree I suppose. But does a certain nagging feeling ever totally dissipate?

Depends on your lifestyle choices I suppose but we go out a lot more and see friends almost daily. We are both into fitness and enjoy doing sporty things and Aus provides everything you can wish for if you're like us. 

Because of that we've met heaps of people with the same interests and heaps willing to organise fitness sessions, runs, bike rides, ski paddling and boarding sessions etc. Not only at weekends but before and after work. Just a matter of getting out of bed early or not watching crap on TV at night.

The inerraction you talk of happens each time we meet up with different people. That's the Northern suburbs that you don't seeM to fancy though, so you might be missing out.

[ayda]

5 hours ago, Paul1Perth said:

Depends on your lifestyle choices I suppose but we go out a lot more and see friends almost daily. We are both into fitness and enjoy doing sporty things and Aus provides everything you can wish for if you're like us. 

Because of that we've met heaps of people with the same interests and heaps willing to organise fitness sessions, runs, bike rides, ski paddling and boarding sessions etc. Not only at weekends but before and after work. Just a matter of getting out of bed early or not watching crap on TV at night.

The inerraction you talk of happens each time we meet up with different people. That's the Northern suburbs that you don't seeM to fancy though, so you might be missing out.

This is our life in the UK. Socialising is mainly around outdoor activities, surf club etc. Hopefully we can achieve the same in Australia, but with a change of scenery and temperature for a few years ?.

[Guest The Pom Queen]

I have split out the posts about Perth they can be found here https://www.pomsinoz.com/topic/197365-perth-northern-suburbs/

[Coblers]

Hi, we emigrated many years ago (10 pound poms). We had just got married and thought why not. We lived in Melbourne for 4-5 years and my wife got home sick, so we returned after a couple of months in UK we just could not wait to get back to Oz, but a baby was on the way so we stayed until he was a few months old and back we came. That was over forty years ago. Our son now his own family and of course we have our Ozzie grandchildren. Our son travelled around Europe UK and N America. On his return to Oz some 18 months later he could not thank us enough for bringing him to this wonderfull country. 

Yes, we still miss certain aspects of our life in UK. (Mainly Pubs and Fish’n chips). But I think our health and life style is far better than we would of had in the UK.  And if a visit is required airfares have never been as low. 

[bunbury61]

On ‎30‎/‎09‎/‎2017 at 11:11, ScottieGirl said:

I lived in Sydney for 20 years and  loved the place but 20 years ago I didn't think too hard about how my elderly mother would cope on her own. For starters my dad was still around. Circumstances change. 

And as pomqueen says the exchange rate hadxa big effect.  Thanks to a soaring Sydney  housing market and a big fall in the pound I can afford to move back without worrying about the money side of things. It is a lousy time to sell up and leave the UK conversely it's a grest time to go the other way. Hence the imbalance of people going back. Many who were thinking about it are now putting plans into action

the elderly mother ?...i fully understand that

[bunbury61]

On ‎05‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 00:51, s713 said:

The absence of friends and family is the biggest thing for me. We've made friends here but it's not the same. And my folks are late 60s now and I feel guilty about missing the last 10 years of their lives (and panic about missing any more).

Australia has lots of things going for it, it's a beautiful place. But I miss the take it for granted normal life day-to-day things in the UK like pubs, family, people, food etc. At first, they might be the things that you feel you won't miss, but often they come back calling with a vengeance.

yes , there's the relatives and friends issue .

I could live in either place ....on the one hand ,I think oz offers more personal freedom , but ithink u.k offers more choice ( if you embrace it ) .

my daughters have done so much being back n the u.k ....the eldest has just come back from California ,and a trip to Vegas .

the youngest has already seen Venice 4 times , Paris , Rome , the Italian lakes , Switzerland , Austria , Germany , Poland , Czech republic , ....and loads of other places....she is 17 .

the 2 of them regularly shop in london

 

is it a win/ win being here in the u.k as a family ...definitely not .

but my mom is nearly 90 and here on her own , so leaving her is a no-no .

if I had stayed in oz , I would probably be on my way back now anyway .

where will we end up ...who knows.

iam just making the most of circumstances and geography ..for now ...and putting some memories on the board

 

 

[Quoll]

2 hours ago, bunbury61 said:

yes , there's the relatives and friends issue .

I could live in either place ....on the one hand ,I think oz offers more personal freedom , but ithink u.k offers more choice ( if you embrace it ) .

my daughters have done so much being back n the u.k ....the eldest has just come back from California ,and a trip to Vegas .

the youngest has already seen Venice 4 times , Paris , Rome , the Italian lakes , Switzerland , Austria , Germany , Poland , Czech republic , ....and loads of other places....she is 17 .

the 2 of them regularly shop in london

 

is it a win/ win being here in the u.k as a family ...definitely not .

but my mom is nearly 90 and here on her own , so leaving her is a no-no .

if I had stayed in oz , I would probably be on my way back now anyway .

where will we end up ...who knows.

iam just making the most of circumstances and geography ..for now ...and putting some memories on the board

 

 

Yup, this for me too. Our eldest has been to US, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany. Greece, Italy, France, Egypt, all over UK and is heading back to US and France in the new year. They have a home of their own, a nice car and he has a god job. He has no intention of returning to the small pond of Aus.  Our younger son in Aus got burned out in a bushfire, his relationship broke up, he chucked in a scholarship to do medicine in order to be self sufficient in the bush and now does casual work and lives in our house. He’s been to visit us once and get down to Orbost every now and again. He’d live in UK, he says, if he didn’t have his girls.  Meanwhile, caring for my 93 year old dad is a real stressor but we are taking every day as it comes and in 6 years I have really enjoyed every minute of Britain. Just had one good wool show and Christmas markets in Bury and Lincoln coming up and shopping in London. 

I will cope when we have to return to Aus (I promised!) but all my (new) UK friends will be very much missed and it won’t be easy but that’s life.

[calNgary]

We have been here just over 11 years and certainly no regrets. 

We brought 2 kids who are now 14 and 19 and they have done very well for themselves. The eldest gained an apprentiship whilst still at school which turned into his full time job when he graduated. The youngest now works a minimum of 3 hours a week and earns over $13 pr hour.

Making friends takes time just as it would in the UK but thankfully we have met some great people who often helped out us with sleepovers etc to give us some child free time. Something family never really did in the UK.

You do get down days and there are hurdles to jump at times but if you clear them and keep smiling you can sure have a good life over here.

Lots of luck with your plans

  Cal x