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Could you move away?
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I have been watching 'Wanted down under, revisited' and I would love to move to Oz. Me and my partner have a baby and I think her life could be so different over there.
But I know I would never ago..... unless my parents came with us, Im not botherd about friends, just my close family! I keep looking at house prices in Oz, knowing I wont ever go!
We even thought about moving to Devon, but I said no cos of my family, so moving to Oz is a deffo no no!
I dont know why I keep going on about it, I suppose just seeing the TV show has made me think Ohh yeah, I want to do that! Im just being stupid, cos I know I wont go, but I said to my partner 'shall we look into it' :banghead:
Has anyone moved away? be it other side or UK or other side of the world.
But I know I would never ago..... unless my parents came with us, Im not botherd about friends, just my close family! I keep looking at house prices in Oz, knowing I wont ever go!
We even thought about moving to Devon, but I said no cos of my family, so moving to Oz is a deffo no no!
I dont know why I keep going on about it, I suppose just seeing the TV show has made me think Ohh yeah, I want to do that! Im just being stupid, cos I know I wont go, but I said to my partner 'shall we look into it' :banghead:
Has anyone moved away? be it other side or UK or other side of the world.
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Don't get me wrong, I miss my family and friends like crazy and talk to my parents practically every day, be that over the phone, Skype, e-mail, etc. But what I have gained definitely outwighs the hardships which follows with moving to a new country - and if you reckon that you would have a better life then why not give it a try?
As said, I understand our situations are different and its not just a matter of catching any plane or just moving back and forth, but will you regret not going, further down the line?
Its a big decision moving so far away, but if its something you really want to do, then you owe it to yourself and your family to give it a proper think through
Would I advise anyone who wanted to do it to go ahead? Yes.
Current plan is to go to Asia, get enough experience to do a masters degree, and then go wherever I want after that. Better than getting a mortgage and a steady job with a pension imo.
I'm however now doing a job where there's staff shortage all over the world and there's work being done to make it easier to transfer between countries so after I get my next qualifications I might look around and see if I could try living abroad for a while. It's about two years from now though so it's impossible to tell where I'll be at but I like to daydream about it though.
My parents moved to Sweden after having my oldest brother, dad was studying for his PhD. They lived there for 9 years and both me and my 'younger' older brother were born there. They're very fond of their experience there and its influenced them quite a bit.
I also have a brother who moved to LA to study and it's been tough financially but he's so happy to have found an environment he belongs in. I doubt he'll return home again.
I think it's a great experience even if you're only commiting yourself to a year or something. You could rent out your own home, rent in the new country and see how goes. It is a huge deal of course and requires preparations especially with children involved but I believe it's also very rewarding. In most cases the worst case scenario is that you return back where you came from which isn't too terrible.
However after 4 years I'm really missing not having my family around. I'd love to pop round to my parent's houses for tea, or go shopping with my mam, or even be close enough to go for the weekend. I never appreciated having my parents around when I was younger, and now I've moved out we're a lot closer - I see them as friends and enjoy doing stuff together - but I can't cos we're a few hundred miles away! :banghead:
Me and my boyfriend have thought about moving to Australia too, but I don't think I could be further away from my family. Sitting in our tiny, cold terrace house looking at the rain that never seems to stop, seeing the beautiful beaches and gorgeous houses on the telly you do start to wonder if you're a bit mad for not jumping on the plane there and then!
If my children were all under school age or i had no children then i would definitely do it as its much harder later.
Mind you australia is a bit more of a commitment
holy shit, fuck oz. I stay right where I am.
That is one reason its worth moving! Going home to see friends and things in a month though, gives me something to look forwards to
Only problem is feeling like a moron because i cant understand danish very well (i speak it alright but cant respond)
Decision made. NOT going
Where in Denmark do you live?
Unfortunately a tapeworm has more resolve than I do, so I might just stay where I am till I'm 70 and then regret it. Hopefully not tho. A professor of mine (anorganic chemistry) has been a travel guide even after he finished his study and traveled countless countries, even Iraq, and backpacked from fireland to panama.
Maybe one day.
But there are always things holding us back - he's really into his music and plays in a band and I know he'd be reluctant to give up on them as they seem to be getting somewhere finally. Our families are extremely important to us both too, I would worry about my mum in particular and the thought that I wouldn't be able to just nip back over the bridge and be with them in just over an hour whenever I wanted would be hard to deal with.
Having said that, my mum's talking about moving to Cape Town herself next year so maybe I shouldn't worry too much about her!! It's definitely something I'd like to do in the future if the opportunity came up. I'm not married and have no kids and no mortgage, so nothing really holding me back...hmm :chin:
Don't get me wrong, I'd miss my friends and family, but there's just so much to see out there that it seems a shame to miss out on it.
I'm just back from a year in Tucson which I loved, and I'm looking at jobs in academia in:
Victoria, British Columbia
Stanford, California
Long Beach, California
Austin, Texas
Duke University, North Carolina
Anchorage, Alaska
The GF and I had also talked about moving to Australia, but I reckon that's not so good a move due to the fact that my area of linguistics is mostly in the US and the UK.
I can't wait to finish my PhD and get out of here
I'm used to it now, and so are my family i think. Was tough at the start i guess, having never really lived away from home but its just one of those things we all have to do at some stage in our lives.
I don't think i would have a problem moving away outside of the UK.