Marisawright

The workaround is - don't get finance from a car dealer. Their loans are a rip-off. They're desperate to sell you the loan because they make so much profit from it. When I was in the UK, I was astonished at how common it was for people to buy a car on credit - it's a very expensive way to buy a car, unless it's a company car. Go to your bank and see if they will give you a car loan (which, if you can get it, will be on more favourable terms anyway). They may be more likely to take your real circumstances into account. Otherwise, could you buy second-hand and use your credit cards and cash?

Quote from Section 39: Cap and cease Under section 39 of the Act, the Minister has the power to set the maximum number of visas of a class that may be granted in a particular financial year. The cap and cease provision means that when a cap has been reached for a particular visa class, work on all applications which have not been processed to decision stops, the files are closed and application fees are refunded. These applications are treated as if they have not been submitted."

I think you'd love Orange. Australian country towns are often lacking in facilities, with high unemployment, but Orange benefits from having a university and a tourist industry to keep its economy ticking over. It definitely has seasons (it snows in winter). There's no doubt it's a small, sleepy town but if you're not looking for a bustling metropolis, it has everything you'd need. Both Orange and Mudgee are popular destinations for Sydneysiders wanting to make a tree change. https://www.homely.com.au/orange-orange-central-west-new-south-wales

It's unfortunate that the government is playing political football with immigration and citizenship. It's incompetent management - i.e. refusing to recruit anywhere near enough staff to deal with the volume of citizenship applications - not incompetent staff. Bottom line anyway, citizenship is supposed to be for people who want to make a genuine commitment to the country, not for people who want to get it as a safety net then sod off home, so we have no right to complain (I say this as someone who originally got my citizenship as a safety net myself).

Actually the other way around would be a problem. If you live in Australia and try to buy a plane ticket from a UK company, you'll usually find that you can't. If you pretend you're a UK resident in order to buy the flight, you may find you can't get on the plane. And on reflection, I think that was the issue with the family in question. They got a friend to book it in the UK, pretending they lived at his address, and that was why they had a problem. If I'm understanding your situation correctly, you're getting a corporate travel consultant to book a flight on your behalf in the same way they book flights on behalf of company employees, so it's likely to all be fine.

No issue IF you are departing from the country where the ticket was sourced. I know people who have run into trouble when a UK relative bought them a flight from Australia

A Masters is no substitute for work experience. You need the points, get the work experience

There is no such list. Any company CAN sponsor. But companies will only sponsor someone if and when they can’t find a suitable local candidate. No company does it as a first resort

If your employer wishes to sponsor you, then a lot of the process is up to them. If they don't know how to approach it, then they need to hire a registered migration agent to do it for them (there's a lot of stuff they have to do, which you can't help them with). People often advise that you should each have your own agent, I don't know how true that is.

Do you understand what an employer must do to sponsor someone? They must complete a whole lot of paperwork. It costs them money and staff time. They are not going to make that major effort to sponsor a junior employee.

Definitely bring your le creuset! It really is worth getting on a site like myer.com.au and doing a pretend shop for all your pots, pans, cutlery, crockery etc. In normal life, we never have to kit out our house from scratch, so the average person has no idea how much it will cost. Plus, if we've been established for a while, we haven't noticed how prices have increased in the meantime. When we went back to the UK two years ago, we left everything behind. The cost to set up the kitchen was at least three times more than I expected, then I still had to buy towels, sheets, duvets... For instance, your Le Creuset pot will cost you about $350 to replace here - I just looked it up and couldn't believe it, because when I bought mine years ago, it was only about $150.

It's a long shot, because my observations on these forums is that if British migrants don't like the first city they arrive in, they don't often bother to try another one - they just head home. The only exception I've noticed is people moving out of Sydney because they can't afford it. So I doubt you'll find anyone who moved between Adelaide and GC. Adelaide gets very hot but it's a dry heat so it's a lot more comfortable. Gold Coast is less extreme heat but it's very humid so (for me at least) it's a lot more difficult to deal with. Job prospects in both areas are not great, but if you live on the Gold Coast you could commute to Brisbane. House prices more expensive on the Gold Coast than Adelaide, I think. Maybe if you share what you're hoping will be better about the Gold Coast, Gold Coast residents can tell you whether you're right or not.

That’s because they’re car shipping people and they’ve quoted for your car only. Get a quote for a shared container based on the total of what you want to ship. BTW I strongly recommend shipping kitchen stuff if you have any decent pots pans cutlery crockery etc

That's in a shared container though, so you may as well put everything in the same shared container - it will work out cheaper than using a separate Movecube or any other kind of separate shipping.

Hubby is happy for you to go for a year, because he thinks you'll get it out of your system and be happy to come back. You won't, and I'm pretty sure you know that. I think you have to ask yourself, what would a year off achieve? It would give you one year's respite, and then you have to come back and face the awfulness of the rest of your life in Australia - how many years is that? If moving back permanently isn't an option, then don't waste your savings on a year in England. Instead, use the money to spend the summer holidays (Dec/Jan) every year in the UK. Yes, I know that means you'd be back in the UK in the worst of the weather there, but you'll also be there for Christmas and New Year, what a lovely time of year. And maybe your husband could join you for the festive season, then go back to work. Alternatively, as others have suggested, how about a move elsewhere in Oz?

Sounds like a bad plan, TBH. First, it's usually a waste of money to ship a car. There's a forum here where you can check to see whether yours is worth it. Shipping your car so you can put stuff inside it is definitely not worth it. Shipping gets cheaper the bigger you get. So splitting your goods into two lots will cost you a LOT more than shipping it all at once. If you don't have enough for a container, have you looked at shipping a part container? I know the cost of container shipping looks scary, but have you tried pricing how much it will cost to replace all your furniture and white goods when you arrive? Check out the prices at sites like Domayne.com.au, thegoodguys.com.au and Ikea. Do a trial shop. You may find that by comparison, the shipping cost doesn't seem so bad! If your furniture is old and you'll be glad to see the back of it, then of course you wouldn't ship it. But consider that you're going to arrive, have a month in a holiday place, and then you'll have an empty house to fill. Forget about hunting for that perfect sofa - you'll have to grab the first half-decent stuff that's in stock, and then you'll be stuck with it all. The Movecubes are great if you're mainly shipping small stuff - clothes, books, household stuff, small appliances, furniture you can flat-pack, etc. As soon as you try to put big furniture items in, they fill up very quickly.

I think if you liked Adelaide, go back to Adelaide. If you didn't like Adelaide, give the Gold Coast a try. People tend to assume all parts of Australia are very similar but they're not.

Get rid of clutter and stuff you never use. Bring everything else.

Is your whole family in Queensland? If so, it would be worth applying for a RRV because you have close ties to Australia. Getting the RRV doesn't mean you'll be forced to return to live, it just means you'll be able to come and go freely as long as it's valid.

Sadly, probably not, because so many people don't read a thread properly before they jump in.

I agree with your first sentence. I don't agree with the second. People who have a "passion" for any country tend to be one-eyed and probably talking themselves into believing it's wonderful. There are good and bad points about every country in the world.

We see this all the time, people who think that studying in Australia will give them an advantage in getting a PR visa. What a pity no one warned you. Are you getting the necessary teaching experience in the US?

I love your optimism. In your shoes I'd be chewing my fingernails and saying, "Yikes, I've only got one Saturday to find a place", whereas you're saying, "We'll get one good Saturday, that's fine". I can imagine there being a flurry before Christmas because people who have to move (for whatever reason) will be anxious to get settled before the school holidays.

Since the agent is not a lawyer, then they are talking about representing the landlord at the Tribunal.

You might well find a place in a week, but you can't guarantee it. If you've lived in Sydney before, then you know that real estate agents aren't particularly helpful. Many of them won't agree to arrange a private viewing for a rental property - they'll say, "The inspection' s on Saturday at ..., like it or lump it". If you're arriving on the 13th, then trawl realestate.com.au and domain.com.au and make a list of all the inspections you want to see on Saturday 15th, because that's your best chance of finding a place. Some places will have another inspection on a weekday the following week, but not all, and I doubt there will be many on the 22nd. Even if there are some inspections on the 22nd, there won't be time to process your application until after the Christmas break, so nothing will happen until at least January 7th.