Has anyone on here immigrated from the UK with children?

donna_do_good

Basically as the title says,

I live in N.Ireland and just want out, would love to go to Australia or Canada but I know its very hard to get into those countries. Just looking other peoples experiences. It would be myself my partner and 2 year old son

Lone_Wolf70

just go to Mexico and then walk across the border. Ppl do it everyday here and you get helathcare and jobs.

donna_do_good

Can't do anything illegal, I have a child I want educated and we will need to legally work legally lol

Lone_Wolf70

Can't do anything illegal, I have a child I want educated and we will need to legally work legally lol

uh maybe you havent been following politics here....sadly entering illegally doesnt preclude you from either. HA, I got to use preclude in a sentance!

cleorh

I moved from the North East of England to Cyprus, we lived there for 3.5 years and returned to the UK last December. Came back for schooling and I want to go back to Uni. We loved it and I would never let the fact you have children put you off. I did it with 4 children and at the time they were 2,4,6,7. We wont stay in the UK for good......we will move again but who knows where !!!!!

cmriverside

just go to Mexico and then walk across the border. Ppl do it everyday here and you get helathcare and jobs.

You can't walk into Australian or Canada from Mexico, dude.

donna_do_good

just go to Mexico and then walk across the border. Ppl do it everyday here and you get helathcare and jobs.

You can't walk into Australian or Canada from Mexico, dude.

Hehehe, I knew what he meant lol

donna_do_good

Can't do anything illegal, I have a child I want educated and we will need to legally work legally lol

uh maybe you havent been following politics here....sadly entering illegally doesnt preclude you from either. HA, I got to use preclude in a sentance!

I wouldn't have the guts but lol

donna_do_good

I moved from the North East of England to Cyprus, we lived there for 3.5 years and returned to the UK last December. Came back for schooling and I want to go back to Uni. We loved it and I would never let the fact you have children put you off. I did it with 4 children and at the time they were 2,4,6,7. We wont stay in the UK for good......we will move again but who knows where !!!!!

I loved cyprus but the economy in Europe awful. Don't tink we could support 3 people on the saleries they pay, esp as none of us have a skill really

donna_do_good

Anyone any experiences to share?

donna_do_good

Anyone any experiences to share?

Aww I thought there would of been loads

cmriverside

Anyone any experiences to share?

Aww I thought there would of been loads

Yeah, kind of a "niche" group of people. You were really specific in your original post.

Have you tried finding some Ex-Pats websites/forums? I'll bet there are all kinds of Interwebz forums for people trying to immigrate from one country to another.

Or, keep bumping this one. Things move off the "recent" page pretty fast on this forum.

donna_do_good

Anyone any experiences to share?

Aww I thought there would of been loads

Yeah, kind of a "niche" group of people. You were really specific in your original post.

Have you tried finding some Ex-Pats websites/forums? I'll bet there are all kinds of Interwebz forums for people trying to immigrate from one country to another.

Or, keep bumping this one. Things move off the "recent" page pretty fast on this forum.

Thanks for replying, I am going to have a really good look into it again tonight and scour the web& hopefully get some info I can use

donna_do_good

bump

SuperSmudger

Originally from NE England, now out in Australia. Both my sons were born here.

Been here 3 years now.

donna_do_good

Originally from NE England, now out in Australia. Both my sons were born here.

Been here 3 years now.

Your so lucky, we have no skills Aus need. Its my dream place to live

OnionMomma

Can you try to learn a skill that would be needed in Aus? Then move when you are both done?

Mummyadams

What about NZ? We rock

donna_do_good

Can you try to learn a skill that would be needed in Aus? Then move when you are both done?

We cannot afford to give up our jobs to get the experience and the cost of doing them courses are so much

donna_do_good

What about NZ? We rock

We have no skills any country would let us in, I work in a bank and my partner sells car ins. Its just a dream, turning into a need

SuperSmudger

You do open up a big can of worms when you emigrate. Grass is always greener etc.

It is generally a bit easy to get in to NZ, which is seen as the backdoor to Australia. Once you are permanent residents of NZ, you are free to move to Aus.

melaniecheeks

Hiya! I'm in Norn Irn too, and I spent some time working abroad!

Like you, I thought about emigrating to Australia with my 2 children.

What we did was:

a) first of all, move somewhere closer to home rather than on the other side of the planet, to see if we could really handle it. We moved to Luxembourg (the kids were 8 and 10 when we went) and stayed there for 3 1/2 years. What I discovered was I got REALLY homesick, and didnt want to be anywhere that it would be impossible to nip home to family for a weekend. Lovely ex-pat commuunity, though, like an extended family.

b) visit Australia for a holiday. And having experienced it for real, not just pictures on the telly, I felt it wouldn't really suit me. The obsession with sporty outdoors-ness, and with coffee, and the much joked-about limited cultural events convinced me it wasn't the right choice.

Big pluses - the kids can speak fluent French. Big minuses - we all struggled with reverse culture shock when we came back home.

Biggest plus of all - I met my now husband when I returned! And actually, NI is a much nicer place to live now, than it was 10 years ago.

Feel free to message me if you have any more questions.

mikeandkate

Hey, I live in New Zealand. My parents moved over here with me and my brother when I was four.

This forum may help you, it is from New Zealanders moving to Australia and may give some info http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=616499&topic=5

Good luck with your move

donna_do_good

You do open up a big can of worms when you emigrate. Grass is always greener etc.

It is generally a bit easy to get in to NZ, which is seen as the backdoor to Australia. Once you are permanent residents of NZ, you are free to move to Aus.

Hey, I have just looked on the New Zeland list of skilled workers required and we def don't qualify. Guess its the EU it is, but my partner thinks the UK is the best place for us to be if we can't be in Canada or Aus

donna_do_good

Hiya! I'm in Norn Irn too, and I spent some time working abroad!

Like you, I thought about emigrating to Australia with my 2 children.

What we did was:

a) first of all, move somewhere closer to home rather than on the other side of the planet, to see if we could really handle it. We moved to Luxembourg (the kids were 8 and 10 when we went) and stayed there for 3 1/2 years. What I discovered was I got REALLY homesick, and didnt want to be anywhere that it would be impossible to nip home to family for a weekend. Lovely ex-pat commuunity, though, like an extended family.

b) visit Australia for a holiday. And having experienced it for real, not just pictures on the telly, I felt it wouldn't really suit me. The obsession with sporty outdoors-ness, and with coffee, and the much joked-about limited cultural events convinced me it wasn't the right choice.

Big pluses - the kids can speak fluent French. Big minuses - we all struggled with reverse culture shock when we came back home.

Biggest plus of all - I met my now husband when I returned! And actually, NI is a much nicer place to live now, than it was 10 years ago.

Feel free to message me if you have any more questions.

Thanks so much, my partner thinks we should stay in N.Ireland if we can't get to where we want to be. He sees this as the best life we can have if we don't get out of Europe. I see it as being trapped

grrrlface

Can you try to learn a skill that would be needed in Aus? Then move when you are both done?

We cannot afford to give up our jobs to get the experience and the cost of doing them courses are so much

What about night courses? You wouldn't have to give up your job and most colleges can offer funding as can the Prince's Trust.

Good luck in whatever you choose. :-)

melaniecheeks

You do need to be clear and agreed on your motivation for moving.

Why do you feel trapped? What things do you enjoy doing? What things about NI do you hope to escape from? Do you plan to have more children? What are your work prospects here ( you are both in employment, yes?)

(Happy to answer these by message if you'd rather)

Turtlehurdle

Basically as the title says,

I live in N.Ireland and just want out, would love to go to Australia or Canada but I know its very hard to get into those countries. Just looking other peoples experiences. It would be myself my partner and 2 year old son

Why?

I'm trying to go to Ireland and you want out?

donna_do_good

You do need to be clear and agreed on your motivation for moving.

Why do you feel trapped? What things do you enjoy doing? What things about NI do you hope to escape from? Do you plan to have more children? What are your work prospects here ( you are both in employment, yes?)

(Happy to answer these by message if you'd rather)

Our motivation for moving is to give our child the best life we can, we live in a good enough area in our town but just want our child to have an out door lifestyle and we feel kids here grow up far to quickly. My partner feels that we have a support network here if we need babysitters etc and it wouldn't be worth giving that up to not get that quality of life and get the experiences we want. We want to escape from the benifits culture, not going to get into it but it sickens us the policy here in regards to single parents and the amount of people who work the system while we do everything right and are prob just as well off.
We would like one more child in a few years and want to go before my son starts school so hes not mssing out on any education. We both work yes, I work part time 21hrs and my partner works full time.

donna_do_good

Can you try to learn a skill that would be needed in Aus? Then move when you are both done?

We cannot afford to give up our jobs to get the experience and the cost of doing them courses are so much

What about night courses? You wouldn't have to give up your job and most colleges can offer funding as can the Prince's Trust.

Good luck in whatever you choose. :-)

This is something we could look into, the only thing myself or my partner could do would be the practical nvq sort of things as neither of us went to uni, this would generally involve doing a NVQ which alot of practical experience is required but it could be a long runs the fox sort of thing.

donna_do_good

Basically as the title says,

I live in N.Ireland and just want out, would love to go to Australia or Canada but I know its very hard to get into those countries. Just looking other peoples experiences. It would be myself my partner and 2 year old son

Why?

I'm trying to go to Ireland and you want out?

Why do you want in?? lol. Where are you from?