I just spent 10 minutes writting to you and my net crashed ... not impressed !!!!! Damn internet !!
Anways ...
I shall tell you my story (again) ...
About 4 years a guy hubby knew was moving back home to Perth and asked hubby if he wanted to move too and he'd put us up wil we got on our feet and he'd get hubby a job. Hubby asked me so many times but my answer was always no, it seemed so far away and back then I was only 19. At the time my mum, dad and brother lived in Cyprus (I choose to stay in the UK and be with hubby instead of moving to Cyrprus with them) I rang my mum to tell her and she said 'go for it girl, it'll be the best thing you'll ever do) My mum and dad were going to move when they were 21, when I was 1 but family asked them not to go so they stayed ... now 22 years on they don't talk to any of their familys except my mums twin and my dads brother! So back 4 years ago we started looking into visas ready to go but we couldn't afford the £5,000 for the visa plus £3,500 for Missy, plus flights etc etc so we put it off, we still researched and hoped one day we'd be able to make the move. My family moved back to the UK May '09 because my little brother didn't settle over there, he came back in boxing day '08 and lived with me and hubby for 5 months while my parents sorted everything out in Cyprus.
Christmas '09 was the first Christmas we'd spent together in 3 years and when we were sat having dinner my dad said why don't we all make the move to Australia together. So after a few months talking about it, doing homework and finding a migration agent in April we started the lengthy process, for mine and hubbys visa the estimated time was 18 months to 3 years and my mum and dads visa 12-18 months (my brother will be on their visa as he's only 16) with my parents business class visa the state more accepting in South Australia. In early August hubby got a phone call from a company in Adelaide, South Australia offering to sponsor him (he's a carpenter) but if he wanted the job we had to be here in FOUR WEEKS ... the job was where my family was going to be moving and it meant we'd be fast tracked here and didn't have to wait in the UK once my family were here ... So we took it once we'd managed to talk my mum round to having Missy (we agreed on 3 months ... 9 months on she's still there and my mum's in love with her lol) Luckly we didn't have a house to sell, when my family moved to Cyprus they bought a house for hubby and I to live in (kind of a security blanket for me incase hubby and I seperated, so I had a roof over my head) so we gave away/sold everything, boxed up a few personal things for my family to bring out with them, packed 2 suitcases, booked flight, got a new passport in my married name, got our visas and flew out 4 weeks later.
Best thing we ever did, we have a beautiful house, all new possessions we picked out together. There's alot more opportunities out here, wages are better, we have the beach at the end of the road. In the UK I was on £5.50ph here it works out I am on £14ph ! Hubbys wage has doubled too ... somethings are more expensive here , food, houses, old cars etc. A loaf of good bread is £2.40I can't wait to have a bub and take him/her to the beach in the summer or play in the pool with daddy when he gets in from work
I must admit I do miss Christmas, it's winter here and dark about 5.30 and the evening are cold and it feels like it should be Christmas, we are infact going to Christmas in July on the 14th July lol, apparently the poms have it as it feels more like Christmas rather than in 40 degrees heat. Next Christmas will be better though as my family will be here and hopefully we'll have a bub. I also miss my washing powder ... fairy non-bio and the blue lenor
Well there's my life story
Sorry if I bored you, I think I've rambled on .....
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I'm gonna copy this now incase my net crashes again, I'll be damned if I'm gonna type that again ! x