hillsbro Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 This thread give some "food for thought": http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=372612 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StJohn Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I miss Sheffield terribly and doesn't help when I go back for a visit and have a great time. I usually go in the summer the warm evenings, a walk down down to the pub and and a beer or ten .... Lovely. But then I went back in Decemeber. I forgot about the cold and the very short daylight hours. My old mates and family where skint because christmas was around the corner. Don't get me wrong I had a great time but it was also an eye-opener. I have just quickly browsed this thread, so apologies If anyone else has alrady said this, But you might want to try it out, Pick the worst months of the year, Maybe Jan/Feb and go live there a few months and see if you fit back in and want to stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helbco Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 This thread give some "food for thought": http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=372612 thanks for that hillbro - found it very enlightening. As I am not planning to live in 'downtown' Sheffield I can ignore most of the really savage negative comments. Not planning to 'freeload' either on the UK social security system. Been fiercely independent all my life and not looking for handouts now - just wanting to have access to some services. I thought Ulysees comments on the other thread were insightful and really summed up the issues of living in OZ. Don't forget my original comments - would you want to stay in a country on your own, with nearest family 13,000 miles away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 thank you for your comments. They are all valid - no matter what the opinion. My situation is that I am early 50s, divorced with no children (and I have no brothers or sisters). My only family here is my mother (late 70s). Here we have a severe water crisis and temperatures of up to 45 degrees celsius (about 115 degrees fahrenheit) in summer - and I don't live in the outback, but a major capital city!! Would live to live on the outskirts of Sheffield (ie Peak District), but I have only a small family back in the UK - none of whom now live in Sheffield. I am seriously considering building a house on a family property in North Wales. I am worried about cost of living in UK (huge by my observations last year) and health care - I read an appalling story of neglect of an elderly man in the Manchester hospital system on the BBC site tonight - is this typical? Hi There You must live in Melbourne.I used to live there also.I now live in Tweed Heads where the weather is almost perfect.There have been floods up north,fires down south and we have good sunny days,quite a bit of rain but still warm.Please think about it as i couldnt think of anything worse.There are plenty of English people living here.Good luck:thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneyoss Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 hi HELBCO i would be trying wollongong. it gods country. you could visit skippy. and have a swim in is big swimming pool . think of the weather in sheffield 6 to minus 4 tommorow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 When I emigrated to Canada in 1968, I quickly learned about the "thousand dollar cure". Many UK migrants would settle down in Toronto or Montreal, raise their kids, and then the wife would pine for the old country. So they would sell up, fly back home, hate it for a year, then head back to Canada. There they would have to spend money to re-establish .They would do this more than once before finally staying put. I was lucky that my wife never wanted to go back, and we did fiine. We were eight years in Canada before we flew back to Sheffield on vacation, and to be honest I wasn't sorry when the trip was over. Most of our friends had moved on and we were left visiting relatives we didn't care much for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percy Iggo Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I have lived in Brasil for the last 35 yrs. Sorry I spent2 years in Mexico, near Acopulco, working for Davt McKee, but I know how you feel , because I´m thing of coming back, I aways think of it this way. Brasil is my wife, England my mother, I can change my wife, but never my mother. Or as they say, theres no place like home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helbco Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Hi Percy Iggo - my Dad actually worked for Davy's - first in Sheffield and then in Australia, where it became Davy Mckee. Anyway, as you will see it's a long time since I've been on this post and have done a lot of homework since then. Met a UK financial planner who was actually planning to move to Australia because 'the UK's stuffed' Okay - yes, well, different life stages, but learn't a lot from that conversation. Researched Retirement Villages for my mother - yes - very affordable BUT - monthly service fees would bankrupt! And - finally - private health insurance. Extremely difficult to get if over 65. Quotes from 4,500 - 6,500 pounds per annum (she currently pays 750 pounds pa for top of the range). Plus, pre-existing NEVER accepted (here you pay for 12 months and claim for anything pre-existing or immediately for anything new). Premiums go up every year with age. Got to be joking - always the same no matter what age! Well, looks like this isn't going to happen in the near future Our health care system might have it's problems (Prime Minister currently trying to wave magic wand to fix - hmmn) but if you take some responsibility and pay for private insurance (tax incentives for this) you will usually get good and prompt care instead of being on a waiting list. Emergency care is good in both countries. Ohh I forgot to to mention pensions. So - private pensions are not compulsory in the UK? With an ageing population as bad as Australia, looks like there is a major crisis looming. Okay, so not everyone here has enough private pension but most have something to top up the government pension. Well, looks like I'll gain a few frequent flyer points 'just visiting' for the next few years. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binhead2 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 If you do return I would do what I did after leaving the army and go for one of the outlying residential towns that are free from shootings, ghettos, no go areas etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binhead2 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Ohh I forgot to to mention pensions. So - private pensions are not compulsory in the UK? With an ageing population as bad as Australia, looks like there is a major crisis looming. Okay, so not everyone here has enough private pension but most have something to top up the government pension.Cheers!Well it is a welfare state an you do pay into into the system all your working life, at least that is what was promised in the late forties. I paid into the system for 49 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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