ADELAIDE.Is it better than middle-class England now?Should i stay or should i go,with my wife and boys,aged?

Question

23,17 and 16.Where lies the best future for us?

Answer 1

have you checked to see if you qualify to move to australia? it isnt easy theses days and you must pass a points test, and if you have medical trouble forget it!

http://www.immi.gov.au/index.htm

Answer 2

Where are you now?

If you are in middle class England then leave.

If you are in Adelaide head to Sydney which is a much more beautiful city

Answer 3

This is a hard question especially if you have boys of that age. Will they adjust ? will they treat it as an adventure and miss their friends after a while and want to go back. Are they in education . Really there is only you and the family that can answer this. it will be a huge change and challenge. Hopefully it will work out wonderful if you came over. I've lived in England and Australia and prefer it here now but my son needed to go back and is now settled in England with a family. He now wishes he was here but because his wife is going to be to far away from her family it doesn't look like they will come back which is a bit sad when loved ones are so far away, but then they have to make the best of their lives with out me interfereing. Weather wise makes life so different here and the exchange rate is not good for you coming over at present. How about you all come for a holiday and see what you think. Expensive yes but could be cheaper than moving here and regretting it. Good luck with your decision, it's huge.

Answer 4

Dont move to England, stay where you are believe me.. you are sooo much better off.

Answer 5

And where, pray tell, is middle-class England?

Adelaide is a great city, one of the nicest I've ever been to, but as to living there, you'd need to ask a resident.

Answer 6

Depending on your occupation, one of the other Australian cities may be better than Adelaide as their economies are in generally better shape. Perth and Brisbane followed by Sydney and Melbourne have better economies but you may have chosen Adelaide for other reasons.



It's a nice city (though the northern industrial suburbs are awful) and life is lived at a slower pace than in the other capitals. I suspect your boys might prefer living elsewhere, but there is still plenty to do in Adelaide. For young people, the action is definitely over here on the east coast, though of course its attractiveness will depend on your sons' outlook on life.

I live in Brisbane and couldn't bear Adelaide's dreadfully hot summers (much hotter than Brisbane believe it or not) and its cold winters and for that reason, Adelaide would be the last place in Australia that I'd consider moving to, but then I haven't come from a place with a climate like England.

I haven't been to England for 4 years and I'm not sure I know what you mean by 'middle-class' (we don't normally think in those terms here), but what I saw then had me coming home feeling very grateful indeed that I was lucky enough to live in Australia.

Jennifer H makes some very good points about separation from friends, but time heals, new friends are made and a better lifestyle in a more cheerful place makes settling in a new place an adventure rather than an upheaval.

If you can afford to come for a holiday, do that, but otherwise, why not take the plunge - many thousands of British immigrants come here each year and the vast majority of them never look back.