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Old 24-08-2004, 02:20 PM
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Default Emigrating to Australia.......is it worth it???

My bird keeps on about wanting to move to Oz cos she travelled through there a couple of years ago......is it worth considering??? The only thing that i can see is better is the weather ...you will still have to work for a living and i doubt the wages out there are as good as what you can earn here...Are they???
Old 24-08-2004, 02:24 PM
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I will say it is worth it so will Pops but we are biased (although i am moving to NZ) but pops is going most likely next year to OZ
Old 24-08-2004, 02:26 PM
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Why does everyone want to go to OZ.......... It's shit.

I couldn't wait to get out of the place
Old 24-08-2004, 02:30 PM
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I'd go in a flash if i could take everything thats important to me along for the ride

Beats Blighty any day of the week!
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i am thinking of going to nz just for the different pace of life
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Originally Posted by Daveyboy
I'd go in a flash if i could take everything thats important to me along for the ride

Beats Blighty any day of the week!
let me guess a cozzy and a pair of puppies
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Originally Posted by danvisteon
i am thinking of going to nz just for the different pace of life
OI! i was first!
Old 24-08-2004, 02:53 PM
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Would be too hot for my car Davey
Old 24-08-2004, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Cola
Would be too hot for my car Davey
Sell the cossies and get a Holden, 4ltr, 6 cylinders and a turbo.
Old 24-08-2004, 03:20 PM
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Would be too hot for my car Davey
We'd work summat out Babe
Old 24-08-2004, 03:21 PM
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a cossys a cossy tho, but I imagine u'd get alot of money over there for one, but i wouldn't move there too many snakes
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wouldnt be taking it to sell though, would be taking it to drive!!

but i think we're getting WAAAAAY ahead of ourselves here lol

Dont panic Co, im not getting itchy feet!! We'll see if we like it next year first lol
Old 24-08-2004, 03:38 PM
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if Oz is soooo great why are so many of the fuckers over here!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Dannfire
if Oz is soooo great why are so many of the fuckers over here!!!!!!!!
I wouldnt know mate but there are each year loads of people immigrating to OZ
Old 24-08-2004, 03:40 PM
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to make them appreciate what they've got over there
Old 24-08-2004, 03:41 PM
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You have a point dave as me uncle moved to OZ 42 years back and wouldnt want to go back to holland!!!
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like i say, if i could take everything important with me, i'd be gone in a flash! i lovedit out there. Im going again in the new year, gonna drag Cola along for a bit too!!

just a shame its not easy to get citizenship
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easier to get into NZ and if you get to stay 2 years in NZ you can just walk into OZ!
Old 24-08-2004, 03:46 PM
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I honestly dont understand why peeps want to go to OZ I would be bored after 2 weeks! lol Loverly place to go on Hols but i wouldnt want to live there
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i'd prefer to just win the lottery and walk straight into Oz
Old 24-08-2004, 03:56 PM
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Fuck Oz, everything can bloody kill you out there!! Spider, snakes, jellyfish, sharks, crocs.. everything!!!
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Originally Posted by Daveyboy
i'd prefer to just win the lottery and walk straight into Oz

how big is the chance of winning the lottery?
Old 24-08-2004, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Rene
easier to get into NZ and if you get to stay 2 years in NZ you can just walk into OZ!
You would have to swim.
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how big is the chance of winning the lottery?
it would be bigger if i actually bought a ticket every week
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I'm emigrating to Oz in about 8 weeks time, it is an awesome place. Do what I did and find an aussie bird on the net and marry her

you lot are welcome to this scrotty country - if theres any of it left after the immigrants have taken over!!!


All I need to do is flog my saff and buy a big spec 3 door or an RS500 to take with me and I'm gone!!
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"you lot are welcome to this scrotty country - if theres any of it left after the immigrants have taken over!!! "

Thats exactly how the aussies feel about the brits moving over there, believe me I lived there for 2 years

Australia isnt the utopia everyone makes out, it has its fair share of problems just like everywhere else
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Old 24-08-2004, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Y2K RS
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"you lot are welcome to this scrotty country - if theres any of it left after the immigrants have taken over!!! "

Thats exactly how the aussies feel about the brits moving over there, believe me I lived there for 2 years

Australia isnt the utopia everyone makes out, it has its fair share of problems just like everywhere else
I doubt it, seen as we have no rights to benefits etc and have paid a lot to get in (its not easy, even on a spouse visa) and are going there to work, not sponge off them.

It's not like they have tons of brits coming in on the back of a truck every day
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I don't think you can just choose to move there and show up.

I think you need to have a job lined up before you go and it has to be one that they classify as a 'critical skill' that they cannot fill from within.
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where abouts you moving too henry?
y2k rs yes your right it does have its fair share of problems the same as everywhere else,but its the country for me.
the way of life out there is SO much better its unreal.and i think its a far better country to bring my kids up in.they speak english in there schools
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Mate, you are as much an immigrant in the eyes of the aussies as a Kosovan is here.

As a british kid living in Australia I experienced their significant dislike of brits first hand.

Going on holiday and living there are two different things.

I have been back many times since, even took a 3dr cosworth with me the last time so not dissing the place totally just saying you will experience some of the things that immigrants here face.
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when i can afford comfortably to go , the i will , but keep my house here for a rainy day (and we get plenty of those here !!)

but yes i would go without a shadow of a doubt , fook this fookin shit hole off , if a didnt have to pay so much tax and NI i would already have enough cash to go
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Well paul my family have never had experience of the hate??? And they been there 35 years.

I been twice travelling and i Me and wife are going for a month in Nov. This is to see if Lindsay would like to move out there, cos i have wanted to for 6 years now

Cheaper to live
More relaxed pace/way of life
Weather so more to do instead of being in house looking at the rain like now!
Wages are better in most jobs, i can go out there and earn well over 400 uk pound(1000's dollars) per 1000 bricks! And i can lay a 1000 a day easily! Down south in England is about that money but too expensive to live!!! Only comparing it to up here!
As for Aussies coming over here, its because they fancy a change of life..simple! Wouldnt do for us all to be same! Anyway let em come more work for us over there then. This place is a wank hole and ill be glad to see the back of it!
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thank FOOK then that i am not british

or even worse
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Initially we are moving to Melbourne as that is where Kate is from and she still has family there. There is a small chance that we may move to Brisbane/Gold coast area as housing is a bit cheaper. We've just accepted an offer on our house so as soon as thats sorted we're off, quotes for shipping (car and household stuff) and everything sorted already

where are you moving to Pops? and when you looking at moving?
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well you said that alot better than me lee
but yes paul i can see where your coming from,i would say my trips weren't really holidays as such,i was living with my brother,so didnt do the holiday/hotel way of life out there.
my brother has been out there 5yrs now and as lee as said he's never had any thing like that go on,well apart from the usual pommie shite they come out with,but a quick kick in the bolloxs sorts that out
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oh aye ya get the pommie stuff! Nowt serious though! Had quite a few people say they love the English!
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im going sydney area manly/harbord/dee why
is gonna hopefully be about this time next year,the paper work is a killer i aint really done much on it this month as it has pissed me off a bit.but once this trade paper shite is sorted then its fairly easy as far as the main papers go as far as im concerned
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when they say that though lee is from the gayboys and there trying to bum you
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pops get it done mate dont get fed up with it! whats your trade btw?


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