Moving My Family from Buenos Aires to Australia 07/07/2004 by Silvana Ligouri Packing up her life and her family in Buenos Aires, Silvana moved to Australia with her husband to start a new life Down Under. This is her story… The day I arrived at Sydney airport my only thoughts were of my grandmother. I […]
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Moving from the Country to the City 14/06/2004 by Sue Ellson Originally from Adelaide and with family on Kangaroo Island, Sue has enjoyed the ups and downs of both town and country life. This is her story… I recently met a woman whose husband died two years ago. Three months before that, with a sore
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The Challenge Of Translating Afrikaans to English 19/09/2003 by Irene de Bruyn Irene posted this piece on the Home Sick South Africans Yahoo Group on 10 September 2003. She had written the article for the South African Club in Perth, Western Australia. We sought her permission to publish it here. This is her story… Please
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One Cup of Coffee Syndrome By Sue Ellson As many of our regular readers know, Newcomers Network subscribes to a variety of online email groups. Spousesview is an international Yahoo Group that is part of Tales from a Small Planet and we share reciprocal links with them. In June 2003, our Founder responded to the
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The Reasons I Love Sydney By Marina You can make over $100,000 per year and still can’t afford a house. You never bother looking at the train timetable because you know the drivers have never seen it either. You order organic fruit and vegetables online, but eat out every night anyway. You spend more money on
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How Moving Overseas Changes You Packing their life in to storage and going out on a limb, Jon and his wife moved to South Africa to experience a whole new world. This is their story… Making the decision to move overseas was actually a pretty easy decision to make: I was in a job that was going
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Learning to Drive Around Melbourne By Karen Reading the last email newsletter from Newcomers Network made me chuckle, as I recalled the situation my mother and I found ourselves in a couple of weeks ago. ‘Have Melways (printed street directory) will travel’ is basically my motto, and the concept of having difficulty getting around Melbourne
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Staying Longer Than Expected in Australia 11/03/2003 by Lisa After leaving a life in America for her Australian husband, Lisa never expected that she would still be in Oz 10 years later. This is her story… First of all, I never thought I’d make it to year ten in Australia. I can’t tell you how
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