Craig went travelling to Australia when he was younger. You could hardly say he roughed it as his Grandad moved out there in the early seventies. Craig fell in love with it and made it clear when we met that he intends to move out there someday. What turned out to be his dream, has slowly become a family ambition and this year we’ve ramped up our plans.
It’s not that either of us hate the UK. It’s not that we’re obsessive over Australia either as we’re just as taken with America. We just would love for our family to experience an outdoor lifestyle and warmer climate. The scant sunny days over here just aren’t enough, and spending those in our garden or our decrepit local park are a bit limiting for Dexie.
The difficulty is that Craig doesn’t have any skills to take across (apparently they’re not short of couriers with a road rage problem - I know! Shocking right?). So it all rests on me. As I’ve been in social media for over ten years now, and also have experience of digital recruitment - I’ll have to flutter my eyelashes and try to leverage my skills. Obtaining a visa is notoriously difficult so we’ll have to use a specialist service such as these here.
I’m not naive enough to think it’ll be all peaches and cream in the States, or even Australia. We’ll have to work so hard to get there, and even harder to better the lifestyle we have here. If I’m lucky enough to secure a sponsor willing (and possibly stupid enough) to take me on, I’ll have to support Craig until he’s eligible to work, and there’s a whole heap of additional costs to think of such as health insurance which we tend to take for granted here in the UK, but we just can’t imagine ourselves enjoying being here for the next ten years.
So expect to hear lots from me over the next few months on how our plans are progressing - oh and of course, as soon as this stupid appendix is out, I’m rushing myself to Weightwatchers (the thought of standing next to a bronzed and buffed beauty right now makes me shudder with fear!) - Tips welcome!
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