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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Adelaide and South Australia are lovely too....they are looking for migrants and they have relaxed the migration laws to encourage people to go and live there. I would love to do it, but alas they want earners and breeders and I don't now fit either of those categories.
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A friend at work's daughter emigrated to Adelaide couple of months back. She was a policewoman in Leicester, he a BT Engineer. Course she couldn't join the Police Force there because she did not have Australian citizernship, but qualified swimming instructress, could teach Spanish, etc.
They were assured plenty of jobs for them to go at, but when they got there this was not the case, lots of the industries, offered before they set out, were making people redundant and only jobs on offer were cleaning, etc.
The reason they chose Adelaide was something to do with a points system you have when going to Australia.
They hated it ... said the houses were no better than the ones based in some of our more shoddy council estates, people with caravans/cars parked on their lawns and sitting out at night on sofas. Nowhere to go socially at night either.
Was very heartbreaking, but that they decided to come back home again after 4 weeks. Moving back to Leicester this week (after a stay in Ossie with my friend) having been offered their jobs back. Ok.. some might say, didn't give it long enough, but you can't help your initial instincts I suppose, can you ?
Me, much as would be extremely pleasant to visit France and Spain for long periods during the year; HYNDBURN is my comfort zone and would not wish a divorce.