keldaz

If your not looking at coming over till next year, then the current situation is irrelevant, times change so to speak. It is common place for trades who are looking to work on large scale construction projects to go interstate, this is nothing new, we've been here just over 4 1/2 years and this was happening then as well. Adelaide is just too small to have constant large scale construction requiring hundreds of trades. This is where the old saying that Australia is 'too big' rings true, if there's no work for you in Adelaide big big problem, as you can't just jump in the car and commute for work as you would in Europe. So really your moving to a far smaller world, with less choice, this was a thinking/planning error we made. As to your situation, if your saying your a house roofer, then there's always been plenty of urban gap filling going on here. Plenty of new build houses going up both on vacant/reused after demo plots. A house needs a roof, it don't get there through the power of prayer, the trick is to find out who and get in. There in, as the bard said lies the romp.

Can't directly recommend anyone as, but as mentioned in my post PIA member Jessica Berry (above) appears to be a careers adviser offering resume advice etc. I'd start off by sending her an enquiry by PM (private message) and take it from there. In my view someone who is a migrant themselves, will understand your situation better than a local.

At the moment it's fair to say the Adelaide job market, in certain sectors at least is a bit dodge. Obviously if there are no jobs in your industry it's self explanatory, you can't apply for a job that doesn't exist. If however there are jobs being advertised in your industry or your applying for what you believe to be a parallel job roll in a different industry, and your still getting no where, my suspicion would fall on your resume. Your resume is essentially a key, it may fit the lock, but if it don't turn that door won't open. This must be a very frustrating position to be in, worse in many respects to no jobs at all. If I were in such a position I would be seeking advice and guidance from someone like Jessica Berry above. It could be that your resume reads well, but something's lost in translation, maybe parallels are clear to you, but missed by those in receipt. I'd also take along some examples of cover letters you've sent, so an eye can be cast. I totally get it may be a slightly bitter pill for intelligent and qualified people to swallow, almost akin to getting mummy to help you across the road, but sometimes you just can't see for looking. TBH, I can't imagine you'd have to sell your car to pay for this service, it means your being even more proactive, which in turn breeds positivity, confidence and empowers you. At least if your resumes spot on it's not that. Right I'm off for meditation and a chant, as it appears I've gone new age, translated that means a bacon sarnie and a cuppa, do you see. Ps Just to point out I am not JB's sales guru, she could be a bald guy with a beard, living in India for all I know. Good luck all.

If you have great interest in what you do for a living, more power to you. I've read all your posts on the current job market, and would have given you more likes, but that would just make me appear like a misery vampire, sitting alone in a darkened room with bloodshot red eyes and snarling teeth 'I need bad news and misery to feed off, where is it?'. When in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

Do people still invite you to parties JB? Just kidding, knowledge is power!!

Mrs keldaz and I have discussed this thread in a little more detail over this long weekend. It started off when I told her l had posted our living standard was the same. She agreed that on the surface in terms of house size, quality of food etc, but said she felt she had lost her true self to the move in terms of career (would be at least a deputy head by now), more surplus money for the things that completed her, shopping, shows and social scene. Next we had a broader chat and we concluded that migration if not a refugee is an investment, and when you invest in something your looking for a return on the amount of investment you put in, based on this we compared ourself to 2 friends who are very happy here. Friend 1, married an Aussie, visa grant time we think 2 months, got job quickly due to other family already here. But if he hadn't found work would not have right to complain, as visa based on marriage. Friend 2. PR visa based on skill set, process time 6 months, left UK with no job, but finds his skills in demand and lands job in 2 weeks $110k per annum (claimed anyway), still there. He was given a 'fair go'. Team keldaz, PR visa based on skill set, 2 year process time, due to Aussies freezing all similar visa. Life in UK totally put on hold, not knowing which way to turn. Arrive in Aus couple of days to acclimatise, then hit the pathway to my trade licence, the response from the people and the system, dunno mate, dunno mate, not our problem. After eventually completing pathway in good grace, there were no jobs anyway. What we didn't know in the UK of course, is that SA has ambitious population expansion plans, the thinking is with more population it can match the economies of the more prosperous states. How they get them, it would appear doesn't matter.

Yeah, but it's a great place to nick a bike hey.

A very good question JB, despite both our occupations being on the Sol list at the time, like blossum above it's been a career and finance killer. Our standard of living is the same, although we only have one car here instead of one each. The best we could come up with between us was, Ooo arrh um, well, don't know, well yes, probably maybe. Thanks for stumping us and giving us a good laugh.

As it goes we do, decided we were moving to gold coast, shopped for quotes, averages $7-8k. Looked at truck hire, avis would do it one way at a cost of $2800. Decided to self load, the winners were Pods, website below. I had a search in the office and found paperwork, container size 27m3. Total cost of move $3277.96. Hope that helps. http://www.portableondemandstorage.com.au Ps don't do the truck thing, you can only drive 3 ton on car licence, and they get very unstable if windy.

Congratulations etch, you certainly earned that.

The V5 doc is called a registration certificate here. Your Uk licience is valid here, as with car. As stated above no mot is required here. Also insurance for property damage not required by law. When you purchase the bike you'll receive the reg cert from seller, the reg will need to be current to start using it on the road. When a vehicle has registration it is automaticly covered by ctp, compulsary third party that covers personal injury. If your only planning on visitingthis is what I'd do. Buy bike, register it to family members name and address, don't bother with extra insurance, unless the bikes super expensive or your not a good rider. If your naughty and cop a speeding ticket from a camera etc, your rellie just passes on your details for the smacked bottom. Nice and easy.

If you want an idea of living costs in Aus compared to Uk, then as guide multiply by 2.2. If your current gross household income is £47k you'll need $103k to match it. If your weekly shop is £100, it'll be $220 here. I also note the amount of questions you've asked in your threads, l'm thinking your applying your methodical coppers brain to solve the mystery, unfortunately migration is not that clinical, any which way your heading for D-day, with related risks.

Hi Nelly, sorry to hear of your experiences, especially the dinged car, total pain this early on. All that matters is you find your place and stuff the rest. As to your comment about laughing or crying, easy laugh and fight, laugh and fight till you get it right!

I'm not sure introducing drink and drugs to the job market is such a good idea KennyKen

Hey shant, the best place to start is Autism SA. All information is available on their website, including a brochure to download. You could start the ball rolling now via email, so your aware of the processes. They are basicly the centre of the web for all help and funding for care, support and home. All the best.

I'm not about to start daubing black crosses on doors, but lets just say I wouldn't let my heart overrule my brain. Houses are generally cheaper in poor social and economic area's, or unsustainable in the longer term due to distance. Making a decision on a lovely sunny day gazing at wonderful view is one thing, once the view has turned to wallpaper, it's p$%*ing with rain, and you have a long commute for the next 25 years, things change. But hey, if your game, knock yourself out.

Chatting to parents of kids in her class about what they were up to over Christmas break, Mrs keldaz discovered 5 families split by current work situation. She said I kept asking people what they were up to over Christmas, " off to Darwin " came the reply, Dad had to go there for work. Repeat that with Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and 1 to Hobart! But don't worry the Ladies are doing their bit too, 2 out of the 5 missing were Mummy's. Hi I'm Mummy, bye bye see you when your 18.

Ok I've just read my original post again, I can see where your coming from with a touch of conspiracy theory thrown in. We wouldn't live there personally would have more to do with lifestyle and location, an area worth living in is an a personal choice for everyone with no definitive answer. Just to finish off I don't imply, I say what I see straight out.

Not entirely sure why you've added this to my post, as I completely agree, or how we ended up in Rostrevor. I'll have to assume you skip read what I said. I'll repeat, if we wished to buy our current rental in our current suburb and live a comfortable lifestyle, our household income would need to be $150k per annum. To finish I'll add the words a friend added after a recent meeting led to our $150k conclusion, the words are 'at least'.

There are plenty of people living on well under $150k per annum in Adelaide, in fact your quote above of $85k a year income and renting at $420 a week is very accurate, providing you are more or less debt free. I know this as the figures are an exact mirror of our current situation. If however we decided we wanted to buy our current rental, that figure would jump up significantly and deryrans $150k quote is smack on target. Adelaide's quite a big place so it's best not to generalise, I know you can get a nice house for your 375k, but not in area's we would consider personally. BTW took a drive out to Elizabeth the other weekend, as we parked the car a young guy sprinted past with a policewoman hot on his heels, apart from that I didn't think it looked too bad up there, I've seen far worse suburbs that's for sure.

Just wondering if your son has made enquiries with Peer Veet, their a labour hire company as well as an RTO, and as such employ their apprentices as they train. Since he seems to have put a lot of effort in, I'm guessing you've looked at this already, worth a mention though.

Lol, gatekeepers and mischief makers abound hey. With your background as a professional in the areas described above, and with such a positive and proactive attitude, coupled with the fact that your clearly very happy here, I would say that you are the perfect type of person to be posting threads such as this. With the current employment situation such as it is in Adelaide, it should really be a 'hot topic', after all it's all over TV, radio, papers and evident at street level, even the number of Wombles have increased. If PIA is a true representation of expats in Adelaide, all aspects good, bad and ugly need to be covered. There will always be those with work, there will always be gaps in the job market and unemployed people. Lot's of people are drowning here at the moment, Poms, Aussie's and friends from around the world. I love the Truman Show Film, but I refuse to live in it. All finished:biggrin:

Hang in there etch123, maybe it's Aussie getting revenge on you for your post about places to find snow!!! Bad Karma. On a serious note, it took me 13 months, Mrs keldaz did it in 3 months and saved our bacon. Friends range between coming over to a job, to never getting one (still here though, running their own thing). I was made redundant after 21 months. Applied for a number of jobs, didn't happen, hey ho, My new employer appreciates my skillset and appreciates my efforts, that's right it's me:biggrin:. Keep fighting mate, all the best, maybe mention what you do on here, you never know.

Well done for posting this JB, some may view it as negative, I view it as realistic and informative.

When doing the Great Ocean road the best direction to drive is Melbourne toward SA. It's the direction that really helps you to appreciate the drive, endless bends with the ocean suddenly appearing in all it's crashing glory. Also note that all the stopping pull offs are on the left, if your driving on the left it makes it super easy to pull off for pics and views, also very handy for loosing local tailgaters (remember it's wallpaper to them). As you progress toward the apostles and all the other signed bays, all these are on the left as well. Having said that we drove SA toward Melbourne and were just about to put the experience in the overrated category, but when we U turned to retrace a few K's, all became clear. Mount Gambier is well worth a look, sink hole and blue lake as mentioned are great, but my money is on the Naracoorte caves in SA, one of my favourite all time things we've done in Aussie. We took the fossil cave tour, tour guide superb, great group of other visitors with us too. As to accommodation, stayed in so many, can't remember where they we're or what state but we always use booking.com and only go for ones with a guest rating of 8+. It's worked for us thus far. Actually I think we stayed in Naracoorte motor lodge, great food, the owner is super quick witted and a good laugh. Can't help with Melbourne, we always go for the show and flight deals. Happy travels, and remember always drive with lights on in the country no matter how bright the day, it's carmageden out there.