Real estate is a HUGE issue coming here. It’s very EXPENSIVE& rentals are in a crisis. Theres not to enough. Don’t expect to be able to rent somewhere while deciding where you want to go to live & can afford. Be prepared to stay in a hotel etc. Best time to go house hunting is wren it’s raining. For flood prevention it’s important
Great job… well done to you both. You are providing a great service to anyone wanting to immigrate to Australia. Plus, a sense of pride to us Aussies, that we live a pretty awesome part of the world. Glad my parents made that move in 1956 from Italy before I was born. 👍🇦🇺😀
As a fellow Queenslander and long term Toowoomba resident you both need to make the short trip up the mountain to visit us during the carnival of flowers in September.
Good ol tbar. Hope you guys dont get anymore floods. God knows weve had enough of them an hour away from you. But its easier to cope when youre in the open plains vs in a city.
Great collaboration Ross. Love both channels, very helpful information as always. It's handy to gather as much Intel about Australia before making the move, something both channels have provided me with! Keep them coming bud!!
@@ThatJohnstonLife we are in brisbane (north lakes). Winter makes it so hard, everyone is sick and now with another wave coming 😬. On the up side, our kids are well and truly settled (we have 4)! We don't regret moving at all, Australia is beautiful and there are so many more opportunities here for us
@@shyamchabra5355 where I live I joined a meet up club for singles my age group (seniors ) I have a partner now but there are hundreds looking for friendship in the club of both male and female. Only a minority attend a monthly activity. I think many just give up.
In Australia you can meet someone and say “how’s it going?” only to be met with the response “how’s it going?” And neither of you will know how the other person is …
I am so happy to see this collaboration! My wife and I have been watching both of your channels learning about life in Australian. Super helpful and would love to see more. We are actually waiting for our visa's to arrive and making the decision if we should make the move over and watching your content and the The BAM Famalam has really helped us feel more prepared. If you have any more advice we are all ears! Thank you again.
I'm a Brit migrant child of the 60's. Speaking of support: my parents left Colne, where my mother had her mother and friends all just around the corner. Arriving here, my father got an entry-level job which took them to a small wheat town on Queensland's Darling Downs: Tank water, no hot water system and no sewerage, during a drought - with 3 small children. That's tough. I thank them every day for making th emove. PS. Mum says the townfolk were very friendly and helpful
@7:38 for those moving on a budget, there are charity shops, op shops that will sell literally everything you need to set up your house. eg Salvos, St Vinny's, 2nd hand furniture shops etc
Brilliant vid guys. Great to see something different by joining forces for it. It puts a lot of information out there from different perspectives . Mai thing for people whom are thinking of moving here is , be accepting of cultural differences. Us Aussies are pretty laid back, so don’t be too critical about the way you do things in the UK and they’re not done the same here.
Thanks - it sometimes surprises me how little the international student's visa is used by Brits. Pre-covid Australia had upwards of 400,000 people on this visa - yet only a couple of thousand Brits. Most of these visa holders were from East and South Asia who since 2000 in any case have been the majority of migrants to Australia. The student's visa can give you post graduation temporary work rights that many convert to employer sponsored or permanent migration. Chinese students tend to go back to China more than South Asian international students though. Students can work 20 hours per week during term time (even more recently) and it is not just people doing a 3 year degree - you get many one or two year Master's or Vocational Students with families who can normally accompany the student. If you stick to skill shortage industry areas like health, care, some IT or hospitality your PR chances are pretty good. The Australian Government loves it as international student fees keep tertiary providers profitable and they get a skilled workforce they have not paid to train!
@@ThatJohnstonLife The student visa is probably quicker to get than many others - international fees here are expensive too - but it is a very good route to change to temporary employer sponsored migration as you are here and have some work rights both during the course and post graduation. Used a lot by Indian, Nepalese and East Asian migrants but not Brits at present. They seem to prefer backpacker visas that are far more difficult to change.
Wonderful Ross and Maz...having superb holiday near you both at Noosa...beaches magnificent...people so warm and friendly as opposed to most Europeans!!!
I really enjoyed your video. It's hard moving from a different country. We are a better country because of immigration. My best friend is from Bangladesh. I love our diversity here in Oz. I have been to the UK, and love your homeland just as much.
These two Brit families are realising how different life can be here and fitting in well accepting the variations and working well even though Australians have their own character Your experiences tell others more than all the blurb mostly offered
@@ThatJohnstonLife it's a great song, possibly one of the best (along with "I am Australian" which I did think of with the talk of "droughts and flooding rains")
Partner had a job interview this week (his friend goes out there next week on a WHV) they’ve said for us to wait a month, speak to his friend too (see how he is finding it all) and if we all still want to go ahead I think the process is going to start end of May!!😳 Sooo excited, but nervous and also still all unknown… it’s going to be a longgg month🤣
Really interesting about the 'alright?' and 'how you going?' greetings. I understand Mandarin speakers say 'Have you eaten?' and it means the same thing.
“ see you later “ or “ catch you later “ as a way of saying goodbye. They are not going to see you later, so please don’t wait 😜 As a Brit, now an Australian who did their junior schooling in the UK and high school out here. My best advice to anyone and you said the word in the video. ASSIMILATE. Australians in general are very welcoming, and no we don’t want smoke blown up our arse about how wonderful the country is. However neither do we want to listen to anyone moan about what you have left. Don’t be surprised if you cop a mouthful of “ well how about you get on the next flight back there, if it is so bloody good. Why did you leave? “ When I arrived quite a number of years ago now. The English were known as whinging POMS. It is not a term used quite so much these days, but it was back then, and with good reason. Best to come with an open mind, embrace the differences both in climate and hemisphere, everything is back to front or upside down to what you are used to. You will spend Christmas sweltering as it is summer here. The English traditional Christmas is better suited to our July. Enjoy salads, cold Turkey or seafood with pavlova, tiramisu or trifle instead of a Christmas pudding. You won’t be wanting mulled wine or egg nog. It will be a long cold drink preferably with ice. Try to think Australian rather than English and you will do just fine, but as they said in the video it won’t be be a quick 2mth adjustment, it does take time. Just for the record I thank my father every day for having the courage to take a leap of faith and make the change. All our family have never regretted it not for one minute. Our dining table these days when we all get together, is like a League of Nations, wouldn’t have it any other way. ❤️🇦🇺
Great video, you guys seem to be lovely people. Please remember climate change has a really big effect. The amount of rain our country is getting at the moment is not a normal experience. And also remember we are coming to the end of the "El Nino" weather. "La Niña" weather is coming in Summer. Which means more rain and hot weather. Love you guys.
The "Alright?" and "How's it goin'" confusion is the thing that still trips me up after living in Australia for 15 years. My work colleagues are used to it now as I still tend to say "alright? " instead of hello on meetings. And it's 'defo' rhetorical. 🙂
Great a joint venture. I agree about coming as a young person. I was single and 23 but in 1977. Met an Australian so I was able to fit in better. As for weather events I experienced my first bushfire in 1983. I was so shocked. Language 🤣 yep I've been a long time and my husband still doesn't understand me... probably because I talk too much and he tunes out 🤔 Still love this place and I have some wonderful friends....mainly in my profession, nursing.
Here's a tip for all foreigners, most Aussies won't quickly regard anyone we first meet as a good friend, we're certainly friendly but don't expect that high trust level quickly. @5:01 I'm not sure if it's just a country/city thing, but "How you goin?" might be a rhetorical question in the city, but it's an actual question in the country.
It's important to understand that this an experience in SE Queensland. In the subtropics, extreme weather events can occur. Flooding in particular. Due to El Nina, it's been a very wet few years. That's normally the case and bushfires are nowhere near as much. The south is very different. Temperate climates with winter rainfall but never really excessive compared to Queensland with dry late springs to mid autumns. Bushfires do occur but not as often as recently. They are only an issue in suburbs on the fringe of cities or in the hinterland as in the Sunshine coast. Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne are those temperate climate cities. Adelaide and Perth are cheaper cities but also colder in winter. Generally ranging from 3C to 16C, averaging 7C to 15C give or take a degree or 2. Combined with rain,cloud and wind chill, they feel colder as is the case now. Melbourne is the coldest of the 3 and many escape the city at this time of year as it is freezing. Days can be 2C to 13C for weeks. It's very understandable if moving to Queensland though but be aware of the heat and humidity as it oppressive in summer when it is beautiful and warm to hot and dry in the south mostly.
I'd just like to add that some parts of Queensland can be very cold ie 2 degree in the Lockyer Valley or even below 0 on the Darling Downs, in some spots...ranging upwards to 45 degrees in summer, and yes we experienced massive flooding in the Lockyer Valley too ,with regular bushfire, but it is a beautiful country.....its just being realistic that these things regularly occur ,being prepared mentally and practically ie evacuation backpacks ,bushfire ready preps for properties and self/ look out for others. It's just the reality ...of this terrain ,whilst l grew up down south in Melbourne suburbs you didn't experience these sort of issues . All the best 👍 to those with courage to start out on a new life adventure
Having lived in Australia for over 40 years I agree with most of what you say except the floods and bushfire bit. Yes we have both of those things and in some parts like Darwin cyclones but in all this time (touch wood) I haven't experienced any of those things. I've had my fences blown down and my swimming pool overflowed with heavy rain but nothing worse. I experienced flooding in England and drought in the seventies where our water was cut off and we had to get water in buckets etc from a fire hydrant at certain times of the day. All countries can get severe weather at times. When we first got here we, well me, had a hard time settling in and i didn't expect it to take me so long, in fact in the first two years I would have gone back home again, I'm so thankful that my husband and children didn't feel the same. I found when I went back to see everyone I felt like a foreigner it was strange. If it hadn't been for family in England I would never have gone back again. I felt closed in, suffocated almost, no one seemed happy and shop assistants really seemed to hate their jobs and were uninterested. Like all things in life nothing is quite what you expect so don't come thinking Australia is going to be like the UK but bigger it's not and that's the adventurous part. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Where else can you live a ten minute walk from the glorious Indian Ocean and sit on a pure white sand beach virtually alone and watch the sunrise or sunset 🤔. I'm of course in WA which I would recommend to everyone. The rest of Australia think we're a bit slower but that's fine by me 😊
My parents and older siblings moved here from the UK in the early 1950s by a three month ship journey as 'ten pound' subsidised Poms. I was born here. My father was deeply enmeshed in his UK family and I don't know how my mother persuaded him to emigrate, but they did, and said it was for a better life for the family. Dad still missed his family and mum missed her's but they knew they had made the best decision. My Nanna visited for six months in the 1960s and it took her three days to get here by aeroplane. Mum and Dad went back to the UK for visits, but I think it made them appreciate and value life even more here in Oz. These days with social media, zoom etc. and easy air travel, keeping in touch is not a problem. I love being an Aussie and the culture I was raised and live in. Life in the UK looks quite foreign to me despite my English and Welsh ethnicity.
Watch you both every Sunday morning alomg with Beth and Paul and found this really helpful. I'm over in 2 weeks, any recommendations for an airport pick up for 2 adults and 2 children and luggage?
@@ThatJohnstonLife we're staying at my uncles for a few weeks in Rochdale South. Going to buy a car in those weeks as husband starts his job. I think after that long flight we'd want to be driven from the airport. Just remembered you did hotel quarantine so didn't need a transfer 🤦♀️
The main things are we Aussies are a well laid back bunch.( easy go'in) the main thing is not go lookin and fined spider, snakes , or any kind of problems. And they'll just pass ya by. Go lookin and they'll find you
Friend of mine came over around 30yrs ago and, with pre internet wasn't sure of what he could get here.. so he shipped ALL of their furniture out here.. cost them a fortune..
Same time frame l moved to Singapore (from Melbourne Australia) around 30yrs ago and literally shipped everything l owned!! Cost a fortune and of course l didn't need all the stuff🤷♀️
When I moved to OZ I adapted quickly to the way people drive here but my husband did not. He wanted to still drive the way he drove in the UK and was always getting grumpy at ozzie driving. I loved being able to drive in any lane and being chill about driving rather than the precise way driving was done in the UK. I got into trouble when I returned to the uk for holidays as I still wanted to drive the ozzie way and of course I upset UK drivers.
@@ourjeffie That may be the case but ride on any freeway and you will find the slow lane is the middle lane. I know those slow drivers in the fast land are a pain but it is great to ride safely in the middle lane and leave the lane closest to the exits and entrances free for cars to move on and off.
What is your opinion of the phrase "Australians are friendly, but not friends" apparently it's often difficult for foreigners to make friends down there
Can i ask what score you got on the 189 visa. I've read stuff that days you'll need 75-85 realistically, but without either working or studying in Australia before moving that seems almost impossible without many many years work experience in the chosen field and maybe not even then.
Funny how English were originally sent to Australia as punishment and now they all want to move here voluntarily. Don’t forget you need to buy a surfboard, paddleboard, boat, roof rack, tow bar and roo bars.
My advise stay in UK australia is boring and Sydney third form bottom of unfreidly major cities in the World. Stockholm and Copenhagen worse.. Been here near 50 years true friendship near impossible.
Real estate is a HUGE issue coming here. It’s very EXPENSIVE& rentals are in a crisis. Theres not to enough. Don’t expect to be able to rent somewhere while deciding where you want to go to live & can afford. Be prepared to stay in a hotel etc. Best time to go house hunting is wren it’s raining. For flood prevention it’s important
It was awesome filming with you Ross ❤️
Good job guys!
You too!
Sunny coast and Brisbane aren’t that far away! We hope to see you guys hang out together and film a few videos together.
Maybe soon Jorden
Great job… well done to you both. You are providing a great service to anyone wanting to immigrate to Australia. Plus, a sense of pride to us Aussies, that we live a pretty awesome part of the world. Glad my parents made that move in 1956 from Italy before I was born. 👍🇦🇺😀
They made a great choice
Was really looking forward to this collab and it didn't disappoint. Much love to my 2 favourite Brit families from this Aussie x
Glad you enjoyed it
As a fellow Queenslander and long term Toowoomba resident you both need to make the short trip up the mountain to visit us during the carnival of flowers in September.
Might look into that when the in laws arrive
Good ol tbar. Hope you guys dont get anymore floods. God knows weve had enough of them an hour away from you. But its easier to cope when youre in the open plains vs in a city.
Awesome combo vid! You’re both providing such valuable insights into Australia and life on that side - a real hidden gem!
Cheers Andrew
Great collaboration Ross. Love both channels, very helpful information as always. It's handy to gather as much Intel about Australia before making the move, something both channels have provided me with! Keep them coming bud!!
Glad we can help Tom
Wow, how great to see you guys together!
Thanks Libby
Great video guys - love the cross over between the two channels 👍👍
Thanks Christian
Good one Ross great to see you and Maz combining your experience to help any newcomers or people thinking about joining the Aussie family
Thanks Grahame
It’s great to hear you both share your experiences…..it gives people realistic expectations which is far more useful to them. We really enjoyed this 🤗
Thanks Beth and Paul
Totally agree with #1. We've been here for 6 months now and have not a single friend yet lol
Its tough meeting people and making friends!
Oh no Sarah, where abouts are you?
@@ThatJohnstonLife we are in brisbane (north lakes). Winter makes it so hard, everyone is sick and now with another wave coming 😬.
On the up side, our kids are well and truly settled (we have 4)! We don't regret moving at all, Australia is beautiful and there are so many more opportunities here for us
Sydney 3rd worst city to make friend's in of manor cites in the world.
Stockholm and Copenhagen worse survey of World travellers I saw last week.
@@shyamchabra5355 I have the same view .
@@shyamchabra5355 where I live I joined a meet up club for singles my age group (seniors ) I have a partner now but there are hundreds looking for friendship in the club of both male and female.
Only a minority attend a monthly activity.
I think many just give up.
In Australia you can meet someone and say “how’s it going?” only to be met with the response “how’s it going?” And neither of you will know how the other person is …
😆 so true
good to see you both communicating
Cheers Adam
I am so happy to see this collaboration! My wife and I have been watching both of your channels learning about life in Australian. Super helpful and would love to see more. We are actually waiting for our visa's to arrive and making the decision if we should make the move over and watching your content and the The BAM Famalam has really helped us feel more prepared. If you have any more advice we are all ears! Thank you again.
Thanks Seamus, glad to have both helped you out. We wish you all the best on your journey. Keep us posted!!
Great video guys and really good advice for people thinking about moving to Australia💖
Thanks Tia
I'm a Brit migrant child of the 60's. Speaking of support: my parents left Colne, where my mother had her mother and friends all just around the corner. Arriving here, my father got an entry-level job which took them to a small wheat town on Queensland's Darling Downs: Tank water, no hot water system and no sewerage, during a drought - with 3 small children. That's tough. I thank them every day for making th emove. PS. Mum says the townfolk were very friendly and helpful
I hope my kids thank me when I'm older
@7:38 for those moving on a budget, there are charity shops, op shops that will sell literally everything you need to set up your house.
eg Salvos, St Vinny's, 2nd hand furniture shops etc
Brilliant vid guys. Great to see something different by joining forces for it. It puts a lot of information out there from different perspectives . Mai thing for people whom are thinking of moving here is , be accepting of cultural differences. Us Aussies are pretty laid back, so don’t be too critical about the way you do things in the UK and they’re not done the same here.
We've really noticed that Paul. Thanks for the info
You're never overreacting when talking about fires in Aus!
I think so too
Thanks - it sometimes surprises me how little the international student's visa is used by Brits. Pre-covid Australia had upwards of 400,000 people on this visa - yet only a couple of thousand Brits. Most of these visa holders were from East and South Asia who since 2000 in any case have been the majority of migrants to Australia. The student's visa can give you post graduation temporary work rights that many convert to employer sponsored or permanent migration. Chinese students tend to go back to China more than South Asian international students though. Students can work 20 hours per week during term time (even more recently) and it is not just people doing a 3 year degree - you get many one or two year Master's or Vocational Students with families who can normally accompany the student. If you stick to skill shortage industry areas like health, care, some IT or hospitality your PR chances are pretty good. The Australian Government loves it as international student fees keep tertiary providers profitable and they get a skilled workforce they have not paid to train!
Me too. If I needed additional qualifications I would look at it too. Higher education is so expensive in the UK
@@ThatJohnstonLife The student visa is probably quicker to get than many others - international fees here are expensive too - but it is a very good route to change to temporary employer sponsored migration as you are here and have some work rights both during the course and post graduation. Used a lot by Indian, Nepalese and East Asian migrants but not Brits at present. They seem to prefer backpacker visas that are far more difficult to change.
Wonderful Ross and Maz...having superb holiday near you both at Noosa...beaches magnificent...people so warm and friendly as opposed to most Europeans!!!
Glad to hear you're enjoying the sunshine state Peter
Great collaboration
Cheers Glenn!
I really enjoyed your video. It's hard moving from a different country. We are a better country because of immigration. My best friend is from Bangladesh. I love our diversity here in Oz. I have been to the UK, and love your homeland just as much.
Some of these things are particular to Qld. Weather isn't so extreme down here in Melbourne, even if it's a lot colder.
Brilliant advice thanks
Glad to help Finlay
These two Brit families are realising how different life can be here and fitting in well accepting the variations and working well even though Australians have their own character Your experiences tell others more than all the blurb mostly offered
Thanks Pat. We're loving it
Yes, it's not "Sunny Britain" like many seem to think
Oh, good stuff - nice collab!
Thanks!
@@ThatJohnstonLife my pleasure - thank you for the videos! I'm glad you guys are enjoying the move despite these issues.
Lol love the collaboration
Thanks Jacob
Nice video, both of you are always very engaging ✌✌
Cheers David
I said "do you speak my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
(land down under-men at work)
Awesome 👌
@@ThatJohnstonLife it's a great song, possibly one of the best (along with "I am Australian" which I did think of with the talk of "droughts and flooding rains")
@@alyciasmith1964 Great Southern Land, Sounds of Then ( Gangagang) Streets of your Town, Go Betweens, also ...
Partner had a job interview this week (his friend goes out there next week on a WHV) they’ve said for us to wait a month, speak to his friend too (see how he is finding it all) and if we all still want to go ahead I think the process is going to start end of May!!😳 Sooo excited, but nervous and also still all unknown… it’s going to be a longgg month🤣
Really interesting about the 'alright?' and 'how you going?' greetings. I understand Mandarin speakers say 'Have you eaten?' and it means the same thing.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
“ see you later “ or “ catch you later “ as a way of saying goodbye.
They are not going to see you later, so please don’t wait 😜
As a Brit, now an Australian who did their junior schooling in the UK and high school out here.
My best advice to anyone and you said the word in the video. ASSIMILATE.
Australians in general are very welcoming, and no we don’t want smoke blown up our arse about how wonderful the country is. However neither do we want to listen to anyone moan about what you have left. Don’t be surprised if you cop a mouthful of “ well how about you get on the next flight back there, if it is so bloody good. Why did you leave? “
When I arrived quite a number of years ago now. The English were known as whinging POMS. It is not a term used quite so much these days, but it was back then, and with good reason. Best to come with an open mind, embrace the differences both in climate and hemisphere, everything is back to front or upside down to what you are used to.
You will spend Christmas sweltering as it is summer here. The English traditional Christmas is better suited to our July.
Enjoy salads, cold Turkey or seafood with pavlova, tiramisu or trifle instead of a Christmas pudding. You won’t be wanting mulled wine or egg nog. It will be a long cold drink preferably with ice. Try to think Australian rather than English and you will do just fine, but as they said in the video it won’t be be a quick 2mth adjustment, it does take time. Just for the record I thank my father every day for having the courage to take a leap of faith and make the change. All our family have never regretted it not for one minute. Our dining table these days when we all get together, is like a League of Nations, wouldn’t have it any other way. ❤️🇦🇺
I lived I the UK for a year in the late 90s as I was a nanny. It was a fair culture shock but I did OK but glad to get back home to Oz
Great video, you guys seem to be lovely people. Please remember climate change has a really big effect. The amount of rain our country is getting at the moment is not a normal experience. And also remember we are coming to the end of the "El Nino" weather. "La Niña" weather is coming in Summer. Which means more rain and hot weather. Love you guys.
Interesting, "How's it goin'" is a common greeting in the US too.
If living in Oz got you used to bushfires, you would be feeling right at home in London about now?
The "Alright?" and "How's it goin'" confusion is the thing that still trips me up after living in Australia for 15 years. My work colleagues are used to it now as I still tend to say "alright? " instead of hello on meetings. And it's 'defo' rhetorical. 🙂
Glad to hear that eventually they get used to it even if you don't
Great a joint venture. I agree about coming as a young person. I was single and 23 but in 1977. Met an Australian so I was able to fit in better. As for weather events I experienced my first bushfire in 1983. I was so shocked. Language 🤣 yep I've been a long time and my husband still doesn't understand me... probably because I talk too much and he tunes out 🤔
Still love this place and I have some wonderful friends....mainly in my profession, nursing.
Great to hear your success story Marian
Both good attitudes to living in Australia 🐨
Thanks Liz
Here's a tip for all foreigners, most Aussies won't quickly regard anyone we first meet as a good friend, we're certainly friendly but don't expect that high trust level quickly.
@5:01 I'm not sure if it's just a country/city thing, but "How you goin?" might be a rhetorical question in the city, but it's an actual question in the country.
Hi Ross, any insight on teaching in oz versus UK?
Cannot hear you say "you alright" without hearing Steven Grant from Moon Knight 🤣
Not gonna lie, had to Google that
@@ThatJohnstonLife what! Get on it! It's gotta be the best marvel series so far!
It's important to understand that this an experience in SE Queensland. In the subtropics, extreme weather events can occur. Flooding in particular. Due to El Nina, it's been a very wet few years. That's normally the case and bushfires are nowhere near as much.
The south is very different. Temperate climates with winter rainfall but never really excessive compared to Queensland with dry late springs to mid autumns. Bushfires do occur but not as often as recently. They are only an issue in suburbs on the fringe of cities or in the hinterland as in the Sunshine coast. Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne are those temperate climate cities. Adelaide and Perth are cheaper cities but also colder in winter. Generally ranging from 3C to 16C, averaging 7C to 15C give or take a degree or 2. Combined with rain,cloud and wind chill, they feel colder as is the case now. Melbourne is the coldest of the 3 and many escape the city at this time of year as it is freezing. Days can be 2C to 13C for weeks.
It's very understandable if moving to Queensland though but be aware of the heat and humidity as it oppressive in summer when it is beautiful and warm to hot and dry in the south mostly.
Thanks for the info Jim
I'd just like to add that some parts of Queensland can be very cold ie 2 degree in the Lockyer Valley or even below 0 on the Darling Downs, in some spots...ranging upwards to 45 degrees in summer, and yes we experienced massive flooding in the Lockyer Valley too ,with regular bushfire, but it is a beautiful country.....its just being realistic that these things regularly occur ,being prepared mentally and practically ie evacuation backpacks ,bushfire ready preps for properties and self/ look out for others. It's just the reality ...of this terrain ,whilst l grew up down south in Melbourne suburbs you didn't experience these sort of issues . All the best 👍 to those with courage to start out on a new life adventure
Very good
Thanks Mick
Having lived in Australia for over 40 years I agree with most of what you say except the floods and bushfire bit. Yes we have both of those things and in some parts like Darwin cyclones but in all this time (touch wood) I haven't experienced any of those things. I've had my fences blown down and my swimming pool overflowed with heavy rain but nothing worse. I experienced flooding in England and drought in the seventies where our water was cut off and we had to get water in buckets etc from a fire hydrant at certain times of the day. All countries can get severe weather at times. When we first got here we, well me, had a hard time settling in and i didn't expect it to take me so long, in fact in the first two years I would have gone back home again, I'm so thankful that my husband and children didn't feel the same. I found when I went back to see everyone I felt like a foreigner it was strange. If it hadn't been for family in England I would never have gone back again. I felt closed in, suffocated almost, no one seemed happy and shop assistants really seemed to hate their jobs and were uninterested. Like all things in life nothing is quite what you expect so don't come thinking Australia is going to be like the UK but bigger it's not and that's the adventurous part. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Where else can you live a ten minute walk from the glorious Indian Ocean and sit on a pure white sand beach virtually alone and watch the sunrise or sunset 🤔. I'm of course in WA which I would recommend to everyone. The rest of Australia think we're a bit slower but that's fine by me 😊
My parents and older siblings moved here from the UK in the early 1950s by a three month ship journey as 'ten pound' subsidised Poms. I was born here. My father was deeply enmeshed in his UK family and I don't know how my mother persuaded him to emigrate, but they did, and said it was for a better life for the family. Dad still missed his family and mum missed her's but they knew they had made the best decision. My Nanna visited for six months in the 1960s and it took her three days to get here by aeroplane. Mum and Dad went back to the UK for visits, but I think it made them appreciate and value life even more here in Oz. These days with social media, zoom etc. and easy air travel, keeping in touch is not a problem. I love being an Aussie and the culture I was raised and live in. Life in the UK looks quite foreign to me despite my English and Welsh ethnicity.
Watch you both every Sunday morning alomg with Beth and Paul and found this really helpful. I'm over in 2 weeks, any recommendations for an airport pick up for 2 adults and 2 children and luggage?
Where do you need to get to? We just rented a car as our first transport option
@@ThatJohnstonLife we're staying at my uncles for a few weeks in Rochdale South. Going to buy a car in those weeks as husband starts his job. I think after that long flight we'd want to be driven from the airport. Just remembered you did hotel quarantine so didn't need a transfer 🤦♀️
@@kleddy3966 hope your uncle can give you a lift!
Check out Con-x-ion buses - we’ve used them for airport transfers to Brissie and they were great 😊
@@ThatJohnstonLife won't fit with our cases 🤣
The main things are we Aussies are a well laid back bunch.( easy go'in) the main thing is not go lookin and fined spider, snakes , or any kind of problems. And they'll just pass ya by. Go lookin and they'll find you
that looks different when there were Poms called the Ten pounds pom
How times have changed
Friend of mine came over around 30yrs ago and, with pre internet wasn't sure of what he could get here.. so he shipped ALL of their furniture out here.. cost them a fortune..
Hope it was worth it!
@@ThatJohnstonLife He loves it here..
Same time frame l moved to Singapore (from Melbourne Australia) around 30yrs ago and literally shipped everything l owned!! Cost a fortune and of course l didn't need all the stuff🤷♀️
When I moved to OZ I adapted quickly to the way people drive here but my husband did not. He wanted to still drive the way he drove in the UK and was always getting grumpy at ozzie driving. I loved being able to drive in any lane and being chill about driving rather than the precise way driving was done in the UK. I got into trouble when I returned to the uk for holidays as I still wanted to drive the ozzie way and of course I upset UK drivers.
Aussie drivers are fine once you adopt the Aussie mentality of driving
Ummm ... you can't drive in any lane in Australia. Check the road rules for the State where you are driving.
@@ourjeffie That may be the case but ride on any freeway and you will find the slow lane is the middle lane. I know those slow drivers in the fast land are a pain but it is great to ride safely in the middle lane and leave the lane closest to the exits and entrances free for cars to move on and off.
Costs of going the other way (to the UK) - czcams.com/video/JIe-76QC1hQ/video.html
What is your opinion of the phrase "Australians are friendly, but not friends" apparently it's often difficult for foreigners to make friends down there
I can agree that can happen sometimes. Maybe those particular Aussies weren't meant to be your friends. Get over it and find some more I say
Hi, I was wondering if you guys have met in person yet?
Not yet, maybe soon
Yeah they probably don't have massive green build zones in flood plains like NSW 💲😢
We say how’s it going in Ireland to as a form of greeting up the Irish
Wonder if it came from there?
You wouldn’t know
Can i ask what score you got on the 189 visa. I've read stuff that days you'll need 75-85 realistically, but without either working or studying in Australia before moving that seems almost impossible without many many years work experience in the chosen field and maybe not even then.
We have a video all about our visa. I'm sure it's in there
@@ThatJohnstonLife ah cool didn't know that I'll see if I can find that one. Thanks :)
If someone asked me how you going ? il be confused whether they want to know how are you or where you going !!!
It takes some getting used to Levi
Funny how English were originally sent to Australia as punishment and now they all want to move here voluntarily. Don’t forget you need to buy a surfboard, paddleboard, boat, roof rack, tow bar and roo bars.
People would commit crimes again if they thought it could get them over
@@ThatJohnstonLife haha. A greater punishment sending Aussies back to live in Blackburn, Luton or Bradford.
You sound so Australian now.
I'm putting it on. You should hear me when I drink tea
My advise stay in UK australia is boring and Sydney third form bottom of unfreidly major cities in the World.
Stockholm and Copenhagen worse..
Been here near 50 years true friendship near impossible.
Sorry to hear it hasnt been great for youm Let's hope the rest of Australia is a little more friendly
@@ThatJohnstonLife dream on .
it's getting worse .
In my experience you find what you look for.
@@emmett3067 can take a horse to water .
@@emmett3067 Australia is nothing remotely like home snd away and neighbours on the box .
Those are utter rubbish.