| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/14/2008 8:31:32 AM | Im looking for people who have immigrated to Australia. Private replies are welcome.
What Id like to know is are you glad you took the plunge or did you regret it?
How long did it take and was it fairly straight forward?
I'm a teacher and will be going on my own other than my daughter. Any feedback would be most welcome.
S | |
|
| |
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/14/2008 5:25:23 PM | I immigrated here about 45 years ago from a dark place, I never want to go back. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/14/2008 5:42:15 PM |
I immigrated here about 45 years ago from a dark place, I never want to go back.
I am not sure if any of us want to go back there unless wanting to start all over again
I think OP is talking about the next immigrationafter the first move
I didn't immigrate by choice it was my parents decision...in my teens...well since it wasn't my decision and we moved here after 2 weeks of parents announcing it and also I always had this dream of going to the US...So all that made the first 2 years so boring.... but now this is home I wouldn't mind going to live in some other countries for a few years to learn about them...but I would still call Australia Home and my base.
Give it a go anyway you have nothing to lose but gain.. and remember where ever you go you need time to settle .. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/17/2008 4:53:59 AM | A couple of my friends came from the UK to Australia about 14 years ago, and their point of view to me is that the climate, friendly natives and general good cheer make it well worth while, and that with Skype they get more than enough contact with the Mother Country.
Not bad considering they are in Melbourne and not Queensland. They found the process quite simple, and were "naturalised" about 1 year ago. Their kids are very much at home here. Their eldest was about 4 when they moved.
Teaching here does not pay so well! But the people are great. There are plenty of sites with details if you are interested. (Government, Private and Catholic are the main systems, with a bit of Rudolph Steiner education available as well, and a few community schools) | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/17/2008 6:07:39 AM | I came here as a 23 year old back in 1985 through the Family Reunion program (don't know whether this program still exists in the Immigration policy). It was easier back then because I think the government of the day was very encouraging of the influx of asian immigrants, so I'm glad I made the decision when I did. Well, my elder sister who came here 5 years prior had been prodding me for sometime before I finally agreed.
It also meant that I had to leave my parents and their whole brood, my friends, my hobbies, and everything that's familiar and dear to me.
But I have no regrets. Being adaptable that I am, I was able to make friends, get a job, find a place, and adjusted to the Aussie way of life pretty quickly. Of course, there were times that I felt homesick, but being able to fly home almost every Christmas alleviated that.
After 23 years, I don't see myself living elsewhere - this is now my home and I just love it here. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/17/2008 2:00:45 PM | I looked into immigrating to Australia last year because there was a woman I was seeing in Sydney. Things didn't work out with us but I'm working on going back. I'd like to bring my music down there because it fits Oz. It's actually Scottish inluenced Bluegrass music and I got alot of accolades when I performed there.
Immigration laws don't allow me to work there so I would say go while you are able to. With your vocation you can probably work in any big city or small town. Most Aussies are friendly and helpful and it seems like you could make alot of friends easily in a short time. Nice weather, beach life, sports, music. Get it while you can. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/17/2008 2:51:42 PM | Born here....will die here. And wouldn't live anywhere else (permanently) in-between. I love Australia - this is THE greatest country in the whole world. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/18/2008 12:00:19 AM | i moved here 9 yrs ago with almost nothing and in this time i have almost anything a person could want.
i found most australians to be warn honest and relibale people from which very strong friendships have developed.
when a person says that australia is a place of freedom and prosparity i have to agree.
and for the aussies that know what the true meaning of mateship is about , give yourself a pat on the back as people like you have made this a great county to live in. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/18/2008 12:57:04 AM | Been here over 20 years now and love the place. Aussies in general will give anyone a "fair go", have a great sense of humour and, [in my experience] are very tolerant.
This is indeed the lucky country.
I mean, lets face it, if petrol prices are our biggest concern then we aint got too much to worry about have we? | |
|
| |
| |
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/21/2008 8:32:07 PM | | Moved here from NZ 5 years ago after separating from husband and truely love this place.....the climate, the people, the opportunites - have never regretted the move for one single second. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/21/2008 9:38:55 PM | | Please please take me I lived there for 2yrs from 1980/82. Why did I come back to the UK :o( Traveled all around up the middle would go back tomorrow. Great place to live and work. Been back for holidays. Go for it and good luck. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/21/2008 10:15:34 PM | OP, i too have migrated to Australia 21 years ago from Europe.
I a nutshell:
If you are migrating out of a sense of adventure, craving a new and different culture, if you are open minded and tolerant and dont take yourself and your past too serious and if you are looking to build a new future you will love this country and embrace it and this country and its people will embrace you.
You might have to work on your english though . . .
If you are looking for a solution to your problems (personal or work or family), are unhappy with what you have, are trying to escape emotional pain or people , or are feeling you have always been hard done by - and life owes you something . . . chances are your troubles will follow you to Australia.
Just something i have observed over the years. 
In the meantime dear 'S' . . . WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/25/2008 1:21:04 AM | I love a sunburnt country
The dry and desert plain
To ride a horse across the bounty
Clinging to its mane
The place is called Australia
Full of dinkum aussies
There is only 1 big failure
The flies and flippin mossies
You can be a nobody with nothing and in a relatively short time have a house, nice car etc etc.
No guns!!  | |
|
| |
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/25/2008 2:37:18 AM | Absolutely the best decision i've made....came here just over 4 years ago from UK, got aussie passport and I LOVE IT.
WA for the first 3 and a bit years and now in sunny Queensland
Took me years to sort it all out with quali's etc but all well worth it.
You'll meet loads of people from all over the world and yeah as a rule people are very friendly...it's a great place
Just do it.....
 | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/27/2008 5:07:49 AM |
More people wanting to get in than out.......
...............................................................................................
you are talking about Australia i take it?  | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 5/27/2008 8:07:19 AM | It's easy, it's good here and,,,,,,,,,you can always go back!
If you don't take a chance, you don't have a chance!
Good quality of life here  | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 8/15/2008 7:13:26 PM | | good becuz Iam a teacher and longing to move to mackay where my friend Karen lives so SINGLe men, please send me a message on my inbox. Thanks. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 8/15/2008 7:58:23 PM | Well I'm prepared to buck the trend. I find it amazing other people have such a different perception of Australia to me.
No, we don't give people a fair go; Woomera, other detention centres, regular typecasting and scapegoating of minorities in the media, riots in Cronulla, Muslims being excluded as un-Australian when their communities want to build mosques and schools in rural Australia.
Religion of any sort in fact rarely gets a fair go, but is generally bashed in our media.
Principled and intelligent people are routinely bashed in our media; we prefer sports stars to Nobel prize winning scientists, for example.
It has changed in a token way with this government but on the whole I find Australia isolationist, exclusive, anti-intellectual, parochial, and to be exporting all of its intellectual and moral capital overseas.
For the inevitable comebacks, I intend to be following that trend.
By all means come here, but as my grandparents found when migrating from Europe, if you are expecting to talk politics, literature and philosophy in the town square here as they did in Moscow and Berlin, you will be sorely disappointed. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 8/15/2008 9:21:50 PM | ^ perhaps ur not going to the right places, and u cant come from another country hoping it to be a replica of the country u are from, ppl were brought up very differently both back then and in terms of culture.
are we less intellectual, i would like to disagree with that.. but maybe i hang around different ppl :P but i do get in a sense what u mean, australia is in a sense a 'fun' country, we emphasize on having fun, sports, pubs, and traditions like the melbourne cup, and two up on anzac day etc etc.. rather then a group of ppl sitting around federation square about politics, literature and philosophy...
but come on.. lets face it.. we are lucky because most of us even if we struggle a little can pay our rent, we dont have to worry too much from civil wars or our country being over turned by our government that would force us to leave this country (like ur grandparents.. a bunch of what intelligent ppl create this situation for them?)... and to my mind... at work is where i intellectualise, or here sometimes on the forums or in the odd conversation or two.. but life is for living and having fun and australia is a good place for that, especially while having the luxury of feeling safe. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 8/15/2008 11:05:53 PM | hehe life is for living and having fun...not in my book. It's for making a difference and doing improving the world and leaving it better than you found out.
That's why I am in science. | |
|
| Immigration to Australia
Posted: 8/15/2008 11:10:15 PM | | so your saying u cant live life and make a difference and have fun? ur assumption is that those of us who have fun dont make a difference in life... tut tut... widen the box that u think in dear. | |
|
Home
login 
...
