Who moved to Adelaide without visiting

[ali@51]

Hi we are also going on the basis of internet research and hoping for the best we mentioned our move to an aquqintance the other day and he knew someone whohad made the move and loved it. Hope telling the family went ok. We told ours and my mother in law said they wouldnt be coming out to see us,emigrating has even more attractions now. Best of luck.
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[cribber]

We're planning a reccie about May/June time.

My wife wants a confidence check on the big decision and i'm going to be arranging job interviews.
I have no concerns about anything other than work, so if i can get a job before we go all the better. We also have family in Darwin i'd like to visit.

All that said we originally planned to go without visiting first. And if for some reason we don't make it at least we've experienced an Australia.

[Tyke]

We're planning a reccie about May/June time.

My wife wants a confidence check on the big decision and i'm going to be arranging job interviews.
I have no concerns about anything other than work, so if i can get a job before we go all the better. We also have family in Darwin i'd like to visit.

All that said we originally planned to go without visiting first. And if for some reason we don't make it at least we've experienced an Australia.

I must admit that I do lean towards reccie trips.
It is a huge decision and will affect the rest of your life.
A good idea if one partner is unsure (that was me - loved it from the first moment though!)

Each to their own though.I suppose that if you come without a reccie it makes you even more determined.

Visiting the family in Darwin will give you an idea of other cities and give you a much better perspective.
We will be popping up there in the near future as we have an investment property there.

[Django]

I must admit that I do lean towards reccie trips.
It is a huge decision and will affect the rest of your life.

Couldn't agree more. In our case if we did a 'reccie' it would financially put back our big move quite a few years. If we had the money we would be popping over for a 'gander' tomorrow.

[cribber]

Flights booked, accomodation with relies sorted, just a Hire Car and ETA go set now.

Decided to do our reccie although it will be just me going over, it wouldn't be much fun for my wife when i'm job hunting, and the weather won't be so great at the end of May.

I fly out on the 20th May for 2 weeks of job hunting and checking out the suburbs and just getting a feel of the Aussie way of life.

Will have my trusty camcorder to bring the experience home to show the family.

The excitement is building, just one more baby step closer to emmigrating.

Paul.

[Kath_and_Ian]

We told ours and my mother in law said they wouldnt be coming out to see us,emigrating has even more attractions now.

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[Kath_and_Ian]

On a serious note, we did go on a recce last year, and it was quite helpful. We spent a week in Adelaide, and at first were quite underwhelmed. It wasn't really what we had expected, and Rundle Mall on a Sunday seemed a bit seedy. We then went to Perth for a few days, and fell in love with it straight away. The light, the big sky, the city skyline, King's Park all looked perfect. Then we looked at areas where we could afford to live, and the love went a bit sour. We didn't want to be living miles out of town on a faceless new estate built on top of desert sand, and 1000s of miles from anywhere else. On coming back to Adelaide, we started to appreciate it more; the friendliness, the relaxed attitude, the standard of housing. After changing our minds two or three times we finally settled on Adelaide (well, South Australia). Since making this decision I've found a job, somewhere to live, and have spoken to countless people on the phone. Without fail, people have gone out of their way to help me, and have shown a degree of help which I would love to think my fellow Brits would show in return, but doubt it. I know SA is not a heaven on earth, and has its problems, but at least I can picture where we'll be, and can imagine us going to the supermarket and the library, and all those everyday things.
Having said that, it did cost a fair bit!

[PEZ]

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Me and sarn are not going to do a reccie. I can see why people do but we feel that its to big an area to fully explore and make decisions in the space of 2/3 weeks.
Also this makes bigger adventure going in with eyes wide shut :lol:

[BJF]

Visiting for a few weeks is NOT the same as living here. They're worlds apart.