1ish year on!!

[touch107fm]

Well where do I start, I suppose a hello to everyone is as good as any. I hope you all had a good Easter. I am in work today nobody else is here so I am eating all the left over Easter eggs ha ha!!

 

So this is my recap for you to read. The last 16 months have being a serious roller coaster ride for me.

 

About us.

Me: I am Irish (30) I lived in London for the last 10 years. I work in weird and wonderful media industry.

Girlfriend: English (27) works as a nurse.

 

Story my loving girlfriend came out here nearly 1.5 years ago absolutely loved it was only meant to be a 6 months thing, I was over a few years ago as a backpacker loved it but knew when it was time to go. I had a really good job in London and was happy out there next thing the bubble burst jobs where being shelved everywhere. The recession was in full force weaving its axe on jobs and most of us in work where thinking when was it us how was going to get the chop!!

I worked in a deportment with a team some of who had being working there for 25 30 years, I had only being there 2 years so after much talking with the missus we decided to see if I could come over to oz. The GF was over the moon as she loves it here....

 

So about 5 weeks later I was on route to Australia. I was coming over on a 457 defacto visa. Mine took just 3 weeks to come through happy days!!!

 

So here we are we are still here and still getting used to life in Australia, My Girlfriend loves it I am so so but we are working on it.

My girlfriend is a nurse and gets paid nearly 3 times what she got paid in the UK, she loves where she works, lots of support for nurses out here. She was miserable in London as she worked in rubbish hospital run by the NHS.

 

When I arrived (Monday) I had a interview on the Wednesday job sorted by Friday. Job Done!!! No sign of recession in Australia.

We like many of my fellow country men/women are living in the eastern suburbs, we got a sweet pad which is great.

 

My missus is now starting to talk more and more about having babies, her friends are starting to get hitch so the hints are being dropped!! She is the love of my life and we will most likely spend the rest of our life's together. So we have being looking at houses in Sydney and are now starting to look elsewhere in Australia for a more affordable house. Sydney is just too expensive. I am not interested in living in a apartment neither is the other half we want a house. We are very outdoors type people I do lots of activities to keep me busy. So we are now thinking of moving to Perth we being looking at houses and we could manage 700 000k which should get us something good over there.

 

Australia: do I like it here yes and no.. First up my job looked like a great place when I went for the interview. Lots of cool people working there, Think of Google style environment! so I was working there for about 3 weeks when I realised that there was allot of unhappy sods working there. AHHHH long story short I had a year here where I wanted to quit pretty much everyday, during the year I was bullied by a group of assholes:shocked:, have not had seen this since my school days Nice!! Long story short it being tough but its only a job and I try to stay positive. I miss the banter from my previous roles back in the UK. I am the only Irish/UK person working in the company most are all Ozzy. I am not looking for another job I wanted to do 1 year for the experience if I had to work there for the rest of my life, i think I would rather be back in Ireland on the dole!!

 

Do I think life is better here YES

Is it tough YES

Is it worth it YES

 

Me and my missus are allot happier here we do loads of things on the weekend, camping trips etc we love it. Beach 5 min us who wouldn't love it. I think it would be a great place to bring up Kids (I cant believe I mentioned that I must be getting ready to settle down).

It does have it cons of course which are all mentioned on this site, the family not being here, same goes for friends but my missus had a good point maybe this is a good thing as you don't have to planning things all the time seeing people over here we only have a couple of people who are good friends so we don't have to plan much around them

 

The hardest part is when visiting family leave be prepared for lots of tears. My other half was in bit for about 2 weeks after her folks left. Note I was happy to have the place back to ourselves:)

 

If you are thinking about moving over here, come over and get a feel for it first. Its not everybody cup of tea and if its not go back home, its good that we have the opportunity to actually do something like this.

 

I am not a regular on this site I just though I give you a insight into our story, this site is great for getting info I spread the word to anyone who is thinking about coming over here.

 

Also any People who are living in Perth reading this who lived in Sydney, I would love to hear pros cons of both city's or any advice for people who are thinking about making the leap to Perth!!

 

Peace out I am off to raid more left over Easter egg. Ninja Paddy!!! :mask:

[Guest Ollieosteo]

What a great insight! Cheers ninja

[Guest MaybeOz]

Great post.

 

I haven't visited Sydney but I think you may find it a massive culture shock going from the hussle and bussle of there to Perth. Depends what you're looking for tho, I guess.

 

Kari :wubclub:

[Saz]

Great honest post.

Haven't been to Sydney myself, but my brother & his family have just moved back to Perth. It's where their children were born & where they started out. My sister-in-law had some family in Sydney, but my brother found it difficult to settle, even after 2yrs.

I personally love Perth, then again I'm biased :laugh: Good luck with your future plans, wherever they may take you :yes: