Relocating to UK from Australia...

Dorry for my recent absence, I had a HDD fail which took windows with it... and then I tried to RMA it, but they emailed the information to me... so I've bought a new drive.
D4VE said:
Well, I dont think you could use a radio here that was made in Australia.
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Well... they're all made in Japan or China anyway these days so that's probably a moot point.
I would have thought that an Onkyo or Pioneer tuner/amp would work anywhere in the world... what's the standard frequency range for FM anyway?
Here it does from ~88MHz to ~110MHz. I would have thought that any radio can pick up signals in between.

D4VE said:
My bro and I share a house and get 45k combined. We dont have much left at the end of the month after the bills etc so its damn expensive in the south. And this is Hampshire NOT London.
If you can live a little futher out then you do save a lot of money when you buy a house.
Look at places with good rail+road connections - compare rent/buying prices of property on Rightmove.co.uk :)
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Thanks for the advice... at the moment we're looking at wherever the work is. I have no idea where the centres for analytical chemistry are, so don't know where we might be. We probably won't buy for five years or so - global property markets have peaked in my opinion, and we'll wait for another trough before buying back in. Anyway renting will give us a little more freedom until we're sure that we're happy with the area and job(s).
At the moment we're looking at arriving in early December, living with relatives over Christmas, then into job-hunting propper in the new year.
 
What's to deal with bankrupts in the UK?
My wife's trouble with the tax office have escilated somewhat, they want us to pay $192,000 now. We'd prefer to pay it later... and if we HAVE to pay it now we'll end-up bankrupt and they won't get anything.
However, when we move to the UK (i realise that this may delay us a little) will that effect us too much? After all it's our Australian credit that will be crap. We have no credit rating in the UK.
Would we have to declare it?
 
PobodY said:
What's to deal with bankrupts in the UK?
My wife's trouble with the tax office have escilated somewhat, they want us to pay $192,000 now. We'd prefer to pay it later... and if we HAVE to pay it now we'll end-up bankrupt and they won't get anything.
However, when we move to the UK (i realise that this may delay us a little) will that effect us too much? After all it's our Australian credit that will be crap. We have no credit rating in the UK.
Would we have to declare it?
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You owe £77,000 ! :eek: How did you manage that?
 
PobodY said:
Medieval/Roman/Norman ruins all over the place...
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You can't walk down the street without tripping over a relic. I have a castle in my back garden you know.

Boy, are you in for a shock! ;)
 
Energize said:
You owe £77,000 ! :eek: How did you manage that?
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It's a long story, but the short version is...
We bought a small business, it didn't go as well as we would have liked, we made some mistakes (some of them honest, some of them ethical mistakes). The tax office noticed and started an audit, we came clean and said "we didn't realise quite what we'd done." they said... here's a fine of $500,000 which we'll reduce down for your full and honest co-operation to $192,000.
We said "Thank you, but we can't pay that at the moment. Could we negotiate a payment schedule?" They replied "You can't pay it now? In that case we're not negotiating and we'll take you to court." Our accounant then said "Screw them, go bankrupt and they'll get squat. Let them declare you bankrupt and you get screwed."
So we're looking at going bankrupt over our tax debt that we're willing to pay, but currently unable to pay in full.
At least we were planning on moving to the UK anyway, and we'll get a clean credit rating... we'll just have to pay 50% of all income over $36,000 each back to our trustee every year for three years.
 
Dole office is that way>>>>>
Housing benefit is there >>>>>
Child support is here >>>>>>

Welcome to the UK
 
Not sure, it was linked in another recent thread. I didnt take the time to look at the dates. Sorry
 
Just in case anyone is still subscribed to this...

I'm here now - currently in Sussex, but I'm due to start work in Hawarden (North Wales) at the beggining of Feburary.

Incidentally... does anyone have a dirt-cheap car they want to sell me, so that I can get around until my wife sells my other car and comes over?
 
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