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OzGaz: October 2008
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Sunday, 19 October 2008. More Death and Taxes and more. Having not been completely satisfied with the previous meeting I had about our financial stuff, I decided to go for a "second opinion". On the expat website forum. I've been reading I came across the name of Montfort International. After the meeting (which wasn't far off of four hours! We both felt that we had a reasonable ...
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OzGaz: November 2008
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Wednesday, 12 November 2008. I occurred to me while chatting to someone about my forthcoming move that I'd rather glossed over the visa process in my first blog entry. So I though I'd do a quick entry on what I had to do and the rough costs and timescales involved. We visited the Toast Australia. 160;festival and met Dianne Perry of Advantage Migration. We also had to get charac...
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OzGaz: December 2008
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Saturday, 27 December 2008. So, we've just had our last "cold Christmas" with my family and we really enjoyed it. Everyone was aware that we're going to be leaving in about a month, but we had a good time and nobody dwelt on the fact that this would be our last Christmas together, for a good while at least. Monday, 1 December 2008. Taking Things for Granted. And Princes Arcade a...
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OzGaz: April 2009
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Saturday, 4 April 2009. It's taken a while, but we're now finally online at home. The internet here isn't as straightforward as back in the UK. There don't appear to be any deals with unlimited downloads quotas and you have to read the small print to find out what you are signing up for. And the internet through TPG. We did have an annoying issue with our address when getting th...
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OzGaz: Online!
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Saturday, 4 April 2009. It's taken a while, but we're now finally online at home. The internet here isn't as straightforward as back in the UK. There don't appear to be any deals with unlimited downloads quotas and you have to read the small print to find out what you are signing up for. And the internet through TPG. We did have an annoying issue with our address when getting th...
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OzGaz: September 2008
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Saturday, 27 September 2008. Well, just taxes mostly. I've also got to get in touch with the companies that run my life and critical illness insurances to see if I am still covered when I am in Australia. I suspect not, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Monday, 22 September 2008. The Story So Far. The firm that I work for has an office in Sydney and I have applied for a transf...
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OzGaz: On our way...
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Friday, 30 January 2009. As I write this, I am sitting at Heathrow facing a 2 hour delay to our flight. Not the best of starts, but at least Singapore Airlines have given us some food vouchers. This week has been really hectic as we were organising moving out of our flat and trying to tie up any loose ends in our arrangements. Last night we went to my parents where we stayed the...
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OzGaz: March 2009
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Wednesday, 4 March 2009. Today I got my first Aussie drivers licence. It was pretty easy and none of this sending forms off to a faceless department like you do in the UK. I popped into the local RTA. Granted, the RTA office was fairly busy at lunchtime, but I still had time to pop in and grab a sandwich on my way back to work. She did a sterling job too! She went down to Melbou...
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OzGaz: January 2009
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This is a blog of my move to Australia. It's primarily a diary for myself, friends and family but anyone is welcome to read it. Friday, 30 January 2009. As I write this, I am sitting at Heathrow facing a 2 hour delay to our flight. Not the best of starts, but at least Singapore Airlines have given us some food vouchers. This week has been really hectic as we were organising moving out of our flat and trying to tie up any loose ends in our arrangements. Last night we went to my parents where we stayed the...