portlaunay Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 For those who have been here for a while, what are your plans for the future? Do you ever see yourself moving on from WA and if so, where to? If you have kids, as they move on through HE, find jobs or travel what do you hope to do with that new found freedom? Any adventures or big changes planned or are you so enriched by where you are that you have no desire to move on? This will be our 2nd anniversary this year but I'm pondering whether we'll always be here as I'd love to have more land, grow veggies and have a smallholding. We also want to take the kids out of school in 2 years and spend a year on the road with them, driving around Australia. Not sure where we'll end up but we're enjoying the ride at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfie Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 Hi Future plans for us go back to Wales after our visa expires in 2016 back to my own home where we can have a dog a cat etc etc as I miss a pet. Oh and to my veggie patch and goldfish pond ;o) Via 12 weeks of traveling Cambodia Vietnam Malaysia Singapore and a 3 week stop off somewhere in Thailand, of course this is all after we have seen the moto gp in Phillip Island and Sepang. The reason for the 12 weeks of travel as the house has to be packed into a box and sent back home ). Thank you Australia for having us for this length of time. ) happy days. Of course this is only possible if Kim Yongthingybob in North Korea and the US of A dont start a war of all wars ................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraighttothePoint Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 For those who have been here for a while, what are your plans for the future?Do you ever see yourself moving on from WA and if so, where to? If you have kids, as they move on through HE, find jobs or travel what do you hope to do with that new found freedom? Any adventures or big changes planned or are you so enriched by where you are that you have no desire to move on? This will be our 2nd anniversary this year but I'm pondering whether we'll always be here as I'd love to have more land, grow veggies and have a smallholding. We also want to take the kids out of school in 2 years and spend a year on the road with them, driving around Australia. Not sure where we'll end up but we're enjoying the ride at the moment. Only 2 years? You are just getting over the jet lag Been here 10 years now but gone back "home" every year for at least 4 months each time. Cannot sustain that though with the ever increasing costs here, my decreasing work opportunities and my age!! If I can wing it then would like 7 months at "home" and 5 months here. That would be my dream lifestyle but it maybe slipping away fast and may need to re-consider the options. All this is on a very low joint income now, and virtually no pension in a few years time, has to mean a re-think surely?? Porty - Kids do not leave home after HE!! Have you not worked that out yet!! Unless you have girls that is and in that case you may have a chance!! Boys stay at home here until they are 30 at least. The houses here are just too big and they have it way too easy My one goes to uni, lives in the granny flat, pays a little rent and has a ball. As he says, "Leave what for?? You two will leave before me". And I can tell you he does not get it easy from us but we will need a tire lever up his ass to get him out We are lucky we have done the veggie, chooks and good life already and although we would like to go back to that if we do not then hey ho been there done that. Also got a job swap back in 2000 and came and lived here for a year before heading back to decide on the more permanent move so done that as well. I sound a right big headed bugger :wink: Hopefully not, more just "StraightothePoint" as always :wink: If I was you do exactly what you are thinking. Pack up and get around this country. I never have, because of other priorities, but if you have that option grab it with open arms and you will never regret it. We never looked back after taking that year away initially. Our son learned more in that time than he did from any school book. Do it for the kids and I bet, like us, you will never look back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlaunay Posted March 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 Nah, you don't sound big headed at all, I admire people who've lived a life and it sounds like you've had a pretty good time of it here, STTP. I gotta say, I'm over my time in the UK, it will be a very sad day for me if I ever have to go back; it won't be out of choice. If we do have to leave here I'd be exploring other options before he UK. I hear you about my son. I was in the RAF at 16 and never went back home. I'd be hoping for something similar for him, it was a pretty awesome time and it was a great opportunity to break away from the council estate. I was thinking that after uni, if they choose to study, they'd take a gap year and travel. By the time they returned their rooms would have been rented out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 I made the comment this evening that I feel very much at home here, no plans to move on ... but then we didn't have any plans to move to Australia until a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexMiethke Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Future plans? Well, all I want is to stop renting and get myself my own place, go on a cruise and sip coconut juice out of a real coconut. But that’s not until the very, VERY far future. I’ve got a lot of work to do ‘till then and I ain’t leaving ‘till I get there! Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenvin Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 We are in our early 50's ( a very young early 50 if I may say so myself lol) and plan on taking early retirement in the next 5 years and moving back to Europe. We have lived here nearly 12 years and for the 10 years previous to that we lived in various countries worldwide. Although we have enjoyed living in Australia we now feel the urge to move back nearer family as its just the 2 of us out here. We have no intention of moving back to the UK but will probably look at Italy or France as it's only a quick hop back to see our nearest and dearest. To be perfectly honest it's only our jobs and good friends that are now keeping us here as we both have well paid jobs and with the world economy as it is we would be really stupid to give that up.We also plan on taking a RV around Australia for a year or so and look forward to saying goodbye to Australia in a good way. Australia is a fantastic country and WA is a brilliant place to bring up family and we have no regrets at all about making the move here. For the past 22 plus years we have lived in 7 countries and it has been a hard decision in making up our minds regarding our future years but for us and our circumstances we feel that eventually leaving Aus is the best move for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossmoyne Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 Great to hear everyone's plans. Have been in WA for 22 years and do not plan on ever leaving on a permanent basis, but as I recently retired, have been giving lots of thought to various trips that I would like to do. A long held dream is to do the grey nomad thing around Australia - only problem being that my travelling companion cannot join me for another five years because of family responsibilities. So I am currently putting together a plan to go back to UK and Europe next year for 3 or 4 months to revisit places I loved, and to catch up with friends I haven't seen for a few years. Meanwhile I am renovating the garden to make it easy to look after and to create an area to grow vegies. Hoping to be a Grandma at some point too... so offspring, if you are reading this, get a wriggle on please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Hi all, some great plans already posted here. We have only been here just over 5 years, not been back to blighty yet, im toying with the idea of going, but then I think, its so much money, big journey (which I hate) and we could spend that money on other things. I would like to make a proper holiday of going back and visiting different parts of the UK, not just visiting folk. But we also want to see more of Australia, would love a trip to Tasmania, The GC (just to get a fix of adventure parks etc for the kids obviously ) and NZ as I have family and friends there too. I would love to go to Figi and the islands around there. Bali doesnt really interest me, but understand why people enjoy it there. Would also love to do a tour of Italy, after reading all the Dan Brown books I want to see all these wonderful paintings and sculptures which he describes in most of his books (reading the most recent one Inferno, very good!) All plans in the pipeline, but happy to trundle off to Busselton for weekends away and spend summer in the back yard, for now! Here for the duration, but never say never! pea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) We have been here 5and half years, I have had one foot out the door from day one, probably due to a horrendous start. Being in heavy construction and engineering, moistly mining related, that has kept us here. That is now dying off at an alarming rate. It was always my intention to go back to UK, but family has mixed feelings, not amove you want to get wrong and yoyo, way too expensive. I have a feeling if wew ent home it may be short lived. I probably see ourselves in the Eastern States orTasmania in the long term. The “real Australia” is generally accepted to be in the East. It’s a different vibe over here (I say ”here” because that is where I now “commute”). I find Perth to be a cold hard place (under the shiny surface),the East seems much friendlier and more ”Australian”. WA has always had a temporary feel to me, partly because Perth has grown from 350,000 to 2 plus million in a short space of time, partly because so many people come and go. We lived in the same house in the UK for 20 years, most of the neighbors had been in the close for that time or longer, here it seems 2 years is a longstay. Edited June 20, 2013 by Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bibbs Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 No real plans. Been here just over 2 years. Bought a house in the last year. Over paying massively to get it "done" and then will see where we are. No kids, so no real ties. The in-laws are coming over too, so we've nothing really to go back to the UK for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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