Leaving Australia
After finishing uni, we (me and the lady) never got anywhere in life. We both had shit jobs, a tiny basement flat that was damp (from the Cheltenham floods) and no prospects of going any further in life.

One day I got some cash from my family (I helped sell the house my parents lived in - due to separation) so I decided to do something big with it (the in-laws wanted me to buy a house in Cheltenham - NO FUCKING WAY!). I got two working visas and got a plane to live in Oz!

From getting a good biology degree from a good university, I got nowhere in the UK. Three months in Oz, I had a nice flat, very cool job working in a property development company by Sydney harbour and a beaten up (but still excellent 4x4). Amazing weather, great place to work (that's another story all together) nice house and car.

Why did I leave? Visa ran out and I couldn't find sponsorship in time. What do I do now? I help run a caravan park which are full of fucking moany, rude cunts who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.

Not a day goes by where I don't think about what I use to have. I would do anything to go back.
(RJWEcology is just sharpening his axe on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 7:33, 14 replies)

Aaah. You needed to get married to an Aussie chick like what I did.
Aimless overly educated but under-experienced retail bod in the UK.
In under five years in Australia I have gone from being an office temp to a Senior Intelligence Analyst for VICPOL (pretty much my dream job, now that I have found out that such jobs exist for people like me).
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 10:08, closed)

hi, we've recently changed the visas a bit
you can probably come back if you're prepared to work in the country for two years.

(let me know, and i'll give you the name of my migration lawyer) he is excellent and not over priced.

edit: oop, sorry replied to the wrong person.
( KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 10:15, closed)

Err yeah. You replied to the person who did the 45min citizenship test in under 3min

(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 10:17, closed)

what is the name of the cricket legend who scored an average of 99.9?????
thats on the test right?
silly country
(augsav forgot about B3ta, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 11:08, closed)

I was dreading questions like that - my excuse being that I would get British equivalent ones wrong too...
But the test is really aimed at people from countries round the world who have, shall we say, less enlightened attitudes. Questions such as:

Which of these is an example of equality in Australia?
(a) Men and Women have the same rights.
(b) Everyone follows the same religion.
(c) Everyone belongs to the same political party.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 13:19, closed)

Sir Donald Bradman
99.94 average. When he walked out for what turned out to be his final innings at The Oval, his average was over 100. If he'd scored a four, it would have stayed that way. Instead he got 0, and England collapse meant he didn't get chance to bat again.

Never taken the Aussie test, just used to be into cricket...
(Capo, Sun 26 Sep 2010, 5:57, closed)

The only test I had...
...was at Brisbane Airport when we migrated in 1988.
The Immigration Officer asked me if I had a criminal record.
I told him that I didn't know you still needed one...
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 11:42, closed)

Ha haha!

( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 12:06, closed)

3 minutes?
What ones did get you get stuck on?
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 14:31, closed)

There were 20 questions
20 questions in three minutes is an average of 9 seconds per question. Given it took about 5-6 seconds to read the question and three answers, I don't believe I got stuck on any.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 14:37, closed)

Hmm...
...hope you don't take yourself so seriously all the time.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 22:31, closed)

Sorry
The absence of a smiley for contextual reference left your prior remark open to misinterpretation.
:p
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 23:29, closed)

:)

(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 26 Sep 2010, 15:48, closed)

RJWE - I hope you get back here...
...the economy is doing okay and there seems to be plenty of opportunities for sought after skills.
KittyWastes' comments seem pretty much spot on.
Good luck!
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sat 25 Sep 2010, 11:47, closed)