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PC Pom	May 20 2009, 03:40 AM
Anyone for tennis? Posts: 654 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 23, 2006	Thanks for an awesome post! For those that are reading this and don't know, I came out here (Brisbane) in 1991. Changi Airport was a lot smaller and practically empty back then. So was our Qantas flight from Singapore to Brisbane - we were able to sleep across the middle aisle seats and run up and down the plane. Australia looked like mars, no matter how many windows we peered through. Of course, by 1992 it was all over. I headed back to get married and the working systems that dragged at the heels of Mrs Pom prevented her from coming out to work as a newly qualified pharmacist. Instead, she'd have had to go back to uni in Australia! Sod that! So we started married life in the UK and my parents and brothers wrote to me from the other side of the planet. We weren't rich. We saved to come out to Australia as often as we could. Secretly I hoped the trips would encourage Mrs Pom to make the leap, and they did. However, family ties were stronger and we had to make do with holidays every few years - airflights in those days weren't cheap! We had covered the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane by then plus surrounding areas, so had a good idea of where would suit us come the day of reckoning. I'd say by the time we decided to move it was the stress of life that was really giving us the kick up the pants that we needed. We applied in 2002 and arrived here in 2004. I sold one business I had and kept an interest in another. There are some people we miss. Most are never coming over here because they're either too old or have a pile of sprogs in tow making travelling the distance an absolute luxury. So we email, scribble and visit them when we fly over. That's part of the agreement when you come over here. Mrs Pom flies back and forth about once a year. I tend to do the trip every 2 or 3 years. We'll be celebrating 5 years in Queensland in a few months time. We've achieved so much in the time that we've been here. I can't possibly imagine how we could have achieved a similar amount in the UK. It's like the migration process acted as a wake up call to those middle-age years that creep up on you. Think young, behave young, live old (well, hopefully). Australia's a great place to do just that. P.
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