Boxertony

To All, We are moving to Fulham Gardens in the beginning of June. Please could someone provide me with the following answers to these questions. What is the biggest and best removal van to hire on a normal SA driving licence? Where can I rent one one, which is in the western suburbs? How much are we talking to rent one for 24 hours. We probably be moving during the week, so probably be cheaper than a weekend rate Look forward to your replies and thanks

Shame you are not hear now. My current employers are crying out for Occupational Therapists, in fact we are looking abroad for them, we are going to get an Occupational Therapist from New Zealand to come over soon. Tony

Hi Pippa, come to our BBQ tomorrow, I have sent you a PM with further details and my address

Congratultions Simon and Sarah, thatdid not take long from when you had your medicals. Looks like we will be meeting up soon at the other end of world. Chat soon friends

Hi I am after a four bedroom home anywhere in the Western Suburbs. Just wondering if anyone is aware of vacancies or trying to get out of their lease and what meets our requirments. Ideally we would like to move around the begginning of May but we do have slight flexibility. Hopefully someone will come up trumps for us. I constantly look for Homes on the several real estate websites, but their is nothing what appeals to us. I look forward to your replies..... Oh! if you have an amazing home to rent, built in wardrobes, air conditioning, car parking for three cars and a massive swimming pool to rent for less htan $500 then PM me and not on this thread, because every bugger would want it lol.

Hi Jo, you and the kids are most welcome to come along. Hope your hubby can make it, but I would doubt that, if he only lands that day. Neverthless we are having another BBQ in early May, so you could attend that as well. I have also sent you a PM with contact details Tony and Jane

To All, It's that time again for another BBQ/party at ours. Our previous one we had for my wife, Jane's 40th birthday BBQ at the end of January 2011 was a really good celebration, with over 63 people turning up - a great turn out. This time it is my daughter's 18th Birthday celebrations. Same guidelines as last time. Therefore I would like very much for all younger adults (male and female) to come and celebrate my daughter 'Shannon' birthday on the Saturday 16th April 2011. This will help you sociaslise with people of your own age and meet new friends. I am suggesting that we commence around (5.00 p.m.) at our home in Ferryden Park (North West), which is 9km from the CBD, near Woodville, Kilkenny, Athol Park, Angle Park and Croydon. This will help people to chat/socialise and a have drink, I will even put some BBQ food on. In addition we have Mam's and Dad's who are welcome as well. I would like all newcomers to join in, nice way to meet people who have been through the same experiences. I have found it hard to bring older teenagers/younger adults to Adelaide and for them to leave all their friends back in the UK, so come here and meet people your own age, who feel the same as you and have been or are going through the same as you. Every time we have a BBQ new people come and its great. Also I want the regulars to come along as well. If you would like to come, please can you inform me via this post or you can PM me if you require further details or you want me to keep you informed via telphone/text message, leave your details via PM. Each and everyone who states that they would like to come I will contact you via PM or telephone or text message with our address and which buses you can catch from the CBD. Bring your drink and nibbles remember and hopefully see you on Saturday 16th April 2011. Thanks and I hope to see you soon!!!! Tony

Hi Wayne and Caz, If you want to speed things up then go ahead and complete the medicals, this will speed things up. However do take into consideration that you have to be in Australia to validate your visa 1 year from the date you completed your medicals. Therefor if you do your medicals in May 2011 and dont get the visa until December 2011, you will have to validate your visa's by the May 2012. I am really looking forward to one of my old time friends, who I have known since we were both 7 years old. (34 yrs) Wayne we have so many old memories from our school days and our lads holidays and many many nights out at the weekend. Get your bags ready mate because we have so many future memories to share. Speak to you both on Skype very soon. Tony and Jane x

We lived in Newcastle upon Tyne and visted the Doctors and Hospital in Carlisle for all medicals for 4 Adults and 1 Child and it cost 620.00 pounds. I found Newcastle upon Tyne medical practices too expensicve we saves about 220.00 pounds.

To All, It's that time again for another BBQ/party at ours. Our previous one we had for my wife, Jane's 40th birthday BBQ at the end of January 2011 was a really good celebration, with over 63 people turning up - a great turn out. This time it is my daughter's 18th Birthday celebrations. Same guidelines as last time. Therefore I would like very much for all younger adults (male and female) to come and celebrate my daughter 'Shannon' birthday on the Saturday 16th April 2011. This will help you sociaslise with people of your own age and meet new friends. I am suggesting that we commence around (5.00 p.m.) at our home in Ferryden Park (North West), which is 9km from the CBD, near Woodville, Kilkenny, Athol Park, Angle Park and Croydon. This will help people to chat/socialise and a have drink, I will even put some BBQ food on. In addition we have Mam's and Dad's who are welcome as well. I would like all newcomers to join in, nice way to meet people who have been through the same experiences. I have found it hard to bring older teenagers/younger adults to Adelaide and for them to leave all their friends back in the UK, so come here and meet people your own age, who feel the same as you and have been or are going through the same as you. Every time we have a BBQ new people come and its great. Also I want the regulars to come along as well. If you would like to come, please can you inform me via this post or you can PM me if you require further details or you want me to keep you informed via telphone/text message, leave your details via PM. Each and everyone who states that they would like to come I will contact you via PM or telephone or text message with our address and which buses you can catch from the CBD. Bring your drink and nibbles remember and hopefully see you on Saturday 16th April 2011. Thanks and I hope to see you soon!!!! Tony __________________

Hi Emma, I am also interested in gaining a decent accountant. What Consultant are you, for instance: Rehabilitation Consultant

On the 10th February 2011, my family and I have been in Adelaide for one year. Wow! one year it just seems like it was yesterday when we landed, does time travel faster in the land downunder or what? Ummmm! What a year it has been! We had our house up for sale for 6 months but it was not selling, so after speaking to a fellow member of this website in November 2009 at 11:30pm UK time. I decided, sod it! Lets just go, we have our visa's, the house is not going to sell, lets rent it. So we rented the house to a lady aged 59 years old with custody of her two small grandchildren. My parents gave me £2000.00 for the flights and we booked them for the 8th February 2011. I started telling the contacts I had made regarding jobs I have been semi offerred, e.g. MINDA, that we are on our way. Wait for this now! Our family of five consiting of my wife and I, son aged 20, daughters aged 16 and 11 arrived in adelaide with £5000.00, just under $11,000. We did not bring any furniture with us. We had already had a furnished house sorted in Seaton for $750 per week, all bills inclusive. We arrived at 12 noon, by the time of 6pm that day, we had sorted out the banks, a big shop and hired a car. The next day we sorted our tax file numbers, bought a car, got all members of the family a mobile phone and pay as you go internet. The third day we had been here I walked on Glenelg beach in 37c heat and could not believe that we live here. From the third day of being here in Adelaide, it was my home, I never looked back, I never converted the $ to the £. I embraced the life of a aussie. By the end of the week Jane my wife had a start date for job on the Cancer Ward at Calvary North Hospital, because money was scarce she had to start within two weeks of arriving. We moved from Seaton to Ferryden Park, had to pay $3,000 bond and rent and no furniture. We furnished the house with the following: 3 Queen Size Beds with Mattresses 6 Bedside Tables 2 x 2 Seater Bed Settee's 2 x TV Units 2 x Coffee Tables 2 x Lamp Tables 1 x 7 seater dining room table set. Costing us $1,660.00 brand new from Super A Mart (Gepps Cross) 1 x Freezer 1 x Fridge Freezer Both costing $650 with delivery from Harvey Normans (Gepps Cross) Many friends who we had met, lent us culterly, blankets, washing machine, blow up beds and TV. I had been offerred 11 jobs, within two weeks of being in Adelaide. Great start. I decided to take the job at MINDA, but had to do my Australian First Aid and get my Skills Assessed again. In the meanwhile I gained a job at De Poi, as a Rehabilitation Consultant (WorkCover), the money was great, but I worked with 67 horrible women, I hated the job. I was constantly called into the office saying I fart to much, do I have a mental health problem, for instance: short term memory loss, just because I put those small yellow sticky notes on my computer screen, which remind me of things to do. I hated going to work everyday. I worked their for three months. In additon the lady who rented our home had never paid the rent and took all my furniture, my floorboards, the light fittings, my shed and even my Combi Boiler. We had lost $30,000 in the value of our home. Police found her, but they could not prosecute her because it was a civil matter. I got my keys to the home posted them back to the bank and walked away. That same weekend in June I applied for 5 jobs and two days later I got all 5 jobs, so I picked another Rehabilitation Consultant role (WorkCover) for $20,000 per annum less, within a few days I loved the job, my work colleagues and management, also the Chief Executive asked me to go for a drink with him, which I would of been daft to refuse not to. He offerred me to sponsor me for Permanent Residency, providing my family with more security/stability. I took up this offer. In the meanwhile Jane was really enjoying her work, apart from going back to shift work, as she was working in outpatients in Newcastle upon Tyne. My son was playing professional soccer for Adelaide City and we also had a chat with Adelaide United as well, who was aware of my sons talent. He also gained a job at the Director and owner of Adelaide City's business, BEST Bricks and Pavers as a salesperson, which he is still working there, but has now stopped the soccer. My daughter 16yrs old did not want to come here and it was a nightmare when she arrived. Constantly on the phone and facebook to her boyfriend, would not talk, would not sociliase, would not go anywhere with us, she constantly stayed in the house for 7 months, this caused a lot of arguments and upset between our family members. My mother offered to pay for her flight back to England, my daughter would not talk to me, she was not interested in gaining the PR or even attempting to make an effort here in Adelaide. Then my son all of a sudden booked his flight for the 5th September 2010 and was going back for good and never returning, also he was going to book a flight for my daughter to go back with him. I understand where my son was coming from and that he wanted to support his sister. I wanted both children to stay until we got the PR Visa but they would not. At the same time we had found out that the amazing home we was living in had been sold and we had to move out, we managed to get a much smaller two bedroom with a study room just around the corner, because both children were going back. 2 days before we were moving my son decides not to go back to the UK, hence my daughter not going back. Everything I told him to try to get him to stay he ignored me, but when his mates at work told him the same he decided to stay. Another problem we were moving to an house with no bedroom for him and really small. We had two days to gain a 4 bedroom house, lucky enough we got a 4 bedroom just around the corner from a patient at Jane's hospital. 6 weeks later my daughter got a job in a cafe on King William Street, she has just passed her driving test and currently driving my car, she has saved up $2,500 to get her own car and will be 18 years old in April, so she can then at least get in the pubs and meet people. My daughter told me that she is staying now, 8 months of upset and worry for my daughter and now its over with. My son is very settled and has a car now. Jane takes her driving test this coming week and we have savings for her to get a car. We have just spent Jane's 40th birthday in Sydney, we have lots of really really good friends who seem to be much nicer than the friends we had in the UK, I find that the friends over here make much more of an effort to meet up with you and especially help you with anything. We have no debts and money to spend and save. Jane and I dont miss anything in England and we have no interest in going back, our parents have even said not to go back for their funerals, in a nice way. I want to say a big thank you for all the friends we have met via this wonderful site and for all the help/support they have given us for this past year.

Kas I have not received the PM Message

Leah, You want to look at working in the WorkCover sector like I do, they are cying out for OT's the wges at our place for an OT is about $60,000 but our company are the lowest paid, you can get amuch higher wage with other Rehabilitation Providers. Send me a PM if you require further info

Hi Julie and Mark Long time no hear, we are having another BBQ in early March, so you have to come to it, we are in a different home now, but just around the corner to our old one. Also to all readers and newcommers to Adelaide, you are welcome as well. Last BBQ we had a few weeks ago 9 new people came to it.

Thanks ever so much for your kind words. What we have been through this last year has been amazing and even the difficult time we went through, when both the eldest two where leaving Australia was still for me. I just cannot get my head round people wanting to go back to the UK, especailly if they have been here in Adelaide for a short while. Life is what you make it, wherever you live, you come across difficult times. You may go back to the UK and it will be great to see the family and friends, but the difficult times still come around eventually. I am extremely close to my Mam, Dad and Sister and have several really good lifelong special friends back in England. My family and friends really encouraged me to come to Australia and not once consider their needs over mine, we still chat on the telephone, send text messages and skype each other. We have the money to go back to the UK for trips but the family and friends say to us, spend it on yourselves, go to Bali, treat yourself, etc.... In my opinion I think its so wrong for family and friends to ask you to go back and visit and/or go back to the UK for good, to me thats emotional blackmail, but not intentional. Mr final note is, I have lived in the UK for 40 years, why not the next 40 years in Australia.

We live in Ferryden Park, which is near North Adelaide

Odette, I applied for my 887 visa in August 2010 and we still not got a Case Officer yet. Not made my mind up yet if I am going to go through with it yet. Good luck!

It will be year in February 2011 that we have been living here in Adelaide. We came over on a Skilled Migration (Subclass 475) State Sponsorship Visa. Which means the criteria we have to meet to gain permananet residency, is for either my wife or I to have worked for at least 12 months (full-time 30hrs+) and for us to have lived in South Australia for at least 24 months. From February this year we have both worked for a year and from February 2012, we have met this criteria and can apply for permanent residency, which will provide us with more security and peace of mind, etc. However several months ago my current employers offerred to sponsor me for a permanent visa Skilled - Regional (Residence) Visa (Subclass 887). I was really grateful of this opportunity and accepted this from my current employers. My Employers had to provide lots and lots of paperwork and send them away, which got approved and now a Case Officer has requested for us to pay for the visa and also undergo medicals. The cost for this will be apporoximately $4,500, for everything. Now we have been given a Case Officer, I am now thinking that with us only having a year to wait anyway via the State Sponsorship Visa we are currently on, just wait and it will be a lot cheaper as well. Also I am not tied to my employers for a minimum of two years and also save ourselves $4500.00. In addition the first job I gained was as a Rehabilitation Consultant with really good wages, but I hated the company and I spent 3 months of hell being there and then my current employers offerred me the same job, but for $20,000 less money. I love my current job and my current employers are amazing, but the wages are poor. I frequently get opportunities to do the same job for other companies for approximately $20,000 more per annum. I have no idea what I should do for the best? Be loyal and stay with my current employers, for at least another 2 years and pay $4,500 to gain the security of permanent residency for my family and I and furthermore I also love my job and current employers. Stay on my current state sponsorship visa for another year and then apply for permanent residency, saves us $4,500 and does not tie me down to my current employer for another 2 years. But delays the security and peace of mind, which permanent residency offers, also my Son can apply for the Police on a permanent visa. Do I stay on my State Sponsorship Visa and leave my current employers for another company, which pays me $20,000 more per annum, but extremely worried that I may end up being in another company I hate working for, because I could not cope again with a horrible company to work for, even if the money is better. I happy to read other people's opinions about my situation and take on board what suggestions you may provide me. I eagerly wait!

To those members who do not know us, this is the best time to meet us and many of our friends. This time last year my family and I had just arrived and knew no one. We organised a couple of open house invitations to our BBQ's and over 50 people attended to our first BBQ, it was amazing, within an hour, everyone was socialsing and becoming good friends. Thankfully we are still very good friends with the original people we met and they will be attending Jane's 40th tomorrow (Sat 22nd Jan) from 4pm, most people coming after 6pm though. Like last year I would like to invite all. Newcommers to our BBQ. Great way to meet new people. We have three kids aged 21 lad, 17 girl and 12 girl and most of the people who are coming have kids similar to these ages. We are fully aware that families with older children it can be hard for you to help your older children to meet similar older children, but this is the way where our two older children met there friends nowm so bring them along. We live in a small cul de sac of 7 homes and the neighbours are happy to have a street bbq. We live in Ferryden Park, North West Adelaide, off South Road, Regency Road. Send me a personal message on here, if you want come and I will give you my address etc. Or e-mail me on Tony_Smith1969@hotmail.com

I have just changed over from BigPond to Optus, via a company called DODO. We use to pay $99.00 per month for the house phone and 12gb of internet usuage. Only this week I have changed and gained unlimited limit, no cap on downloads. Also the house phone for $69.00 per month.

Yes even Geordies, support a 5 - 0 drumming of West Ham lol

I was actually told if I want to change employers, then the new employer has take over the visa, immigration told me that my contract has to state a minimum of two years on it. Different stories are told by so many people lol.

Hi Martin, I came to Adelaide on a State Sponsorship Visa (Subclass 475) and gained employment. After two weeks my employers stated that they can sponsor me for permanent residency. Which of course I jumped at it, basically gaining permanent residency immediately and not waiting for the full two years and working for a year etc. However I am aware that I have to stay with the same employer for two years. We have been throught the first bit, where the job and compnay is validated and now we are in the second part, which is the approval stage of the application of course subject to poilce checks and medicals. We are just currently waiting for a Case Officer to be assigned and then we will pay for the visa and have our medicals completed. Tony

Hi Lee I am not a drinker either, pissed on three. I am ok for tonight, if that's short notice. You can choose where and what time. If not tonight I am ok most evenings. My house phone is ****** and mobile is ********. Tony ( Phone no's edited out - ask Mik suggest please pm each other - your phoneline will be getting junk calls otherwise mate!) Tyke