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Montoya's Australian Blog Aug 08
Hope you are enjoying your weather in the UK and enjoyed the Olympics! Well, what’s been happening since the last blog some eight weeks ago?
G'day Ole' Blighty!
Hope you are enjoying your weather in the UK and enjoyed the Olympics!
Well, what's been happening since the last blog some eight weeks ago?
Well, we are in the last two weeks of Winter (hooray). It's been cold, too, on average 10-12 degrees at night at 20-22 degrees in the day. I hate Winter!!
By the way, this represents the coldest winter in over 20 years on the Gold Coast - we have had nights drop to low single figures nearby here, imagine that!
Spring will warm up nicely to late 20s and early 30s with nice warm evenings, the calm before the storm (summer). We should have use of the pool again soon!
Of course, we cannot complain too much about our weather when we look back at the UK. It seems the UK summer is also coming to an end (did it ever arrive?)
Not sure what to discuss this month, really. It seems that we seem to cover more or less the same topics over the months, that's why I have left the Blog's a tad further apart. The big debate for most I guess is still 'WHY' would you move to the other side of the world to live?
Again, lifestyle… This being the great weather, outdoor sports, outdoor parks and barbies and the general sense of well being. I have recently had a very good mate of mine from the UK call me asking 'how do we go about this migrating thing'? Ha, why's that Kev I ask?
"Just had enough of this bloody country and the over population, climate, way of life etcetera," he replies… Oh how I remember these comments a few years ago when we left.
It seems the pattern is not getting better, in fact worse, if anything.
Just remember, you still have to work and pay the bills out here, though! Unless, of course, you are really rich.
This came to light lately when I had a phone call late at night a few weeks ago. "Dave, it's like this," says the boss, "things are tight and we have to let you go!"
Oh no, I thought, bills to pay, four kids to feed and all that stuff!
Chin up, phone calls around looking for work and I find myself employed again within 12 hours!
I guess the point I am making is nothing is guaranteed in life, or easy. We moved over here for this great lifestyle, but s**t happens still. You have to get up and bounce back - that's life. If we were also that fed up with life here (which we are so definitely not) we / you would just sell up and go back to Ole' Blighty! Nothing ventured nothing gained.
It's easy for me to say, yeah come on over (we are already here), remember though, a few years ago (three years in September) we gave up everything and gambled for a 'better family lifestyle'. We had a nice home in the UK, lots of family and friends on our doorstep and a good job! Still we gave it all up for this, and none of us regret any of it.
If you are serious about the move 'Down Under', go ahead and do it, you won't be the first and you certainly won't be the last!
See you soon on the Gold Coast?
Montoya's Down Under!