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Yes Noarlunga looks gorgeous too. Thanks for all your advice Curly. Keep in touch

I've been looking around Christies beach area which looks really nice but just concerned about work and not being too far out of the city. However on the other hand we couldn't afford anything too close to the city so this may suit us. I'm trying to keep my options open.

Thanks Curly, that's really reassuring. We were having a chat yesterday about this and we are defiantly willing to try different things and yes every time I start to wobble or feel overwhelmed I look up the pictures of the beaches and remember why we are doing it! Which Suburb have you decided to live in?

Yes that's a downer, I think we would have to stay in SA at least until we got PR. Plus, I want to get somewhere and get the kids settled etc but we shall see. It is a worry but we are going to rent out our house so we always have it as a back up plan if we have to come home due to us not finding work.

Yes I suppose its a case of leap in and hope for the best. My partner would take labouring work I think to get us going, neither of us are precious about our careers as such, we just want to make enough money to afford us a nice lifestyle. If we have the opportunity to do it and we don't I know we would regret it. I'm the main applicant, Ryan's occupation was taken off the SOL the year we flew to Perth on a WHV so that was bad luck, otherwise we would have probably stayed. I then got sponsored as a manager for Sunglass Hut but that also fell through as the company were not willing to pay me up to the threshold of what the government set, then I fell pregnant with my first child so we just decided to throw in the towel and come home. We have always had a longing to come back.

Hello everyone, We are just in the process of applying for a 489 visa and I am just preparing for my skills assessment with a migration agent. However, reading this section of the site has me very concerned as the prospect of securing employment once we get over there from the UK. It seems pretty unrealistic! My partner is a Tower Crane Operator and I am a Work Planning Co coordinator for Royal mail. However I am open to most things, retail, café and bar work, not too fussy really if I get a job that fits around the kids. Seriously is it really that bad? Is there any point in pursuing this dream? As part of the visa conditions we have to stay and live in Adelaide for 2 years and I want to do that but what happens if we cant find jobs? Do we pack up and go home....

That's a relief, thank you to you both for your replies x

So glad I found this site, its so friendly and helpful! I'm Nicola and I am just in the process of preparing for my skills assessment for the 489 state sponsored visa. Just concerned about something further down the line if everything else goes well. Its to do with the visa medicals. My partner had a bout of anxiety when he was at uni and the doctor put him on tablets which he stayed on for a few years and came off in 2011. I also had a bout of anxiety when I was doing my PGCE teacher training course as I knew I had made a mistake choosing this career path but felt trapped at the time. I also went on tablets for this and came off them in 2011. Following the birth of my 2nd child in 2015 I had postnatal depression and the doctor again put me on tablets which I am still on but now I feel back to my normal self again I do want to come off these ASAP. Do you think on this basis we would fail the medicals? We are both of absolute sound minds its just life challenges us all sometime doesn't it.