treen74
2nd February 2006, 10:44 PM
Hi all,
I hail from Manchester and I met my kiwi wife in Auckland whilst on my 2 year WHV visits to Oz and NZ (and trips to SE Asia and Japan for the world cup) back in 2001/2002. Shortly after that my OH followed me upto the UK, we spent 1 year in Dublin, Ireland (she'd already done her WHV for UK before meeting me so the nearest place to UK we could live and work together was Ireland. Fast forward 2 years after getting wed in Santorini,Greece , moving back to the UK and also having our first child who is now 7 months old(pictured).
Its been a busy few years from meeting to present day.
Our plan is to move to Auckland sometime this year , from July onwards (or Napier - a smaller chance of this happening as the house prices are comparable with most areas of auckland but there arent as many jobs and from what ive seen upto now, not as well paid either), renting a small place, finding jobs and childcare that wont cost the earth (an oxymoron perhaps). Wont think about buying a house till the above has been done and the exchange rate hopefully improves some more. We dont own any property presently so we will be going down just with what we have saved up. (maybe GBP30K by time we leave)
I'm just waiting for my blood test results (after finding out that my original paperwork submitted was written on an out of date set of forms) to come back before sending the results down to London.
Once I have a visa, then we have to apply for our daughter to get NZ Citizenship and then a NZ Passport (she has UK one presently) as I was told by NZIS that she wont be allowed into the country unless she has a return ticket. Thought it would be a good idea to get fleeced (no pun intended) one more time (oops forgot about the forthcoming migrant levy) and get her sorted as shes a bit young to start travelling on her own.
Anyway - thats all for now. Hope to exchange/extract information soon
:cheers
I hail from Manchester and I met my kiwi wife in Auckland whilst on my 2 year WHV visits to Oz and NZ (and trips to SE Asia and Japan for the world cup) back in 2001/2002. Shortly after that my OH followed me upto the UK, we spent 1 year in Dublin, Ireland (she'd already done her WHV for UK before meeting me so the nearest place to UK we could live and work together was Ireland. Fast forward 2 years after getting wed in Santorini,Greece , moving back to the UK and also having our first child who is now 7 months old(pictured).
Its been a busy few years from meeting to present day.
Our plan is to move to Auckland sometime this year , from July onwards (or Napier - a smaller chance of this happening as the house prices are comparable with most areas of auckland but there arent as many jobs and from what ive seen upto now, not as well paid either), renting a small place, finding jobs and childcare that wont cost the earth (an oxymoron perhaps). Wont think about buying a house till the above has been done and the exchange rate hopefully improves some more. We dont own any property presently so we will be going down just with what we have saved up. (maybe GBP30K by time we leave)
I'm just waiting for my blood test results (after finding out that my original paperwork submitted was written on an out of date set of forms) to come back before sending the results down to London.
Once I have a visa, then we have to apply for our daughter to get NZ Citizenship and then a NZ Passport (she has UK one presently) as I was told by NZIS that she wont be allowed into the country unless she has a return ticket. Thought it would be a good idea to get fleeced (no pun intended) one more time (oops forgot about the forthcoming migrant levy) and get her sorted as shes a bit young to start travelling on her own.
Anyway - thats all for now. Hope to exchange/extract information soon
:cheers