[kiwi_cymraeg]

Kia ora!

Just a short one to say hello to you all!
We are a family of 4 (kids aged 7 and 1) from the mountains of North Wales. Speak Welsh as a first language. Came to Perth six months ago and although it is very nice here, it just does not feel like home to us, so we are planning to come to NZ in Feb/March 2007 and give it a damn good go there! My partner is a plumber/gas fitter.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We are looking at settling somewhere in the Bay of Plenty.

Wishing you all the very best of luck with your moves... :)

[keeweescot]

Greetings! I think all the plumbers are heading for the BoP!! :D

We (I'm kiwi & my scottish oh) are heading to Tauranga in August. As I'm a kiwi, we'll be going via the partnership route. But we're finding out more about the plumbing situation as we go along, so let me know if there's anything we can help with. And of course there's loads of helpful & friendly people here :clap

Have you approached any employers yet?

Sal

[wiki]

Best of luck with that. You must find Perth so different from N Cymru.

I've got friends in Blaenau Ffestiniog and I don't think I could think of anywhere more different than Perth. At least BoP has a better class of greeness and hills!

[kiwi_cymraeg]

Greetings! I think all the plumbers are heading for the BoP!! :D

We (I'm kiwi & my scottish oh) are heading to Tauranga in August. As I'm a kiwi, we'll be going via the partnership route. But we're finding out more about the plumbing situation as we go along, so let me know if there's anything we can help with. And of course there's loads of helpful & friendly people here :clap

Have you approached any employers yet?

Sal

Thanks, Sal. We understand that Dylan will have to pass an exam (the same as is here, in Oz) but they only hold them in November, so we're hoping that he'll be lucky enough to work with a restricted one until then. He has worked for British Gas, then Transco for 15 years. Are we right in thinking that Vector is the NZ equivalent??

[kiwi_cymraeg]

Best of luck with that. You must find Perth so different from N Cymru.

I've got friends in Blaenau Ffestiniog and I don't think I could think of anywhere more different than Perth. At least BoP has a better class of greeness and hills!


Hiya Wiki
What a small world we live in! We are actually from Blaenau! :D I take it you've visited?

[wiki]

I have a couple of times. It's a lovely drive down from Llandud with all those trees and the twisty turny road. I used to live in Manchester so it wasn't so far, but now I'm closer to Hull and to my shame I've not been out that way for ages. My bro used to live in Perth, and I only visited him there once and I wasn't too fond of the city.

[kiwi_cymraeg]

btw, how do I subscribe to threads?

[kiwi_cymraeg]

I have a couple of times. It's a lovely drive down from Llandud with all those trees and the twisty turny road. I used to live in Manchester so it wasn't so far, but now I'm closer to Hull and to my shame I've not been out that way for ages. My bro used to live in Perth, and I only visited him there once and I wasn't too fond of the city.

You're right, the Betws y Coed road is lovely. Do you have family in Blaenau?
Perth is heaven for beach lovers and most of our friends love it here, but I'm a country girl and find the city to be too Americanised :roll

[kiwi_cymraeg]

oki doki, sussed the thread subscriptions!

[wiki]

Do you have family in Blaenau?


No just friends: All of my family is in Aus and NZ now (I'm kiwi born, but in England for nine years)

I'm planning to head back to Southland as soon as my partner gets permission to come with me. Otherwise, I'm sticking to Yorkshire.

[Moorf]

Small world indeed!! My father went to school in Capel Curig (it's not a school anymore) when he was 6 and moved back from India, and my gt-grandfather is buried at the church there. My grandparents (Moorfield) are really well known throughout Betws-y-Coed, and Amlwch where they lived for their last 40 yrs or so.

Wow, remembering that gave me goosebumps.

The last time we were there was for my grandmothers wake, just a few weeks before we emigrated here.

Oh, and welcome to the forum!! :D

Moorf

[thezorbster]

Prynhawn da Kiwi_Cymraeg. I'm also a Welsh girl from a little village called Gronant on the Nth Wales coast. Croeso!

[kiwi_cymraeg]

Small world indeed!! My father went to school in Capel Curig (it's not a school anymore) when he was 6 and moved back from India, and my gt-grandfather is buried at the church there. My grandparents (Moorfield) are really well known throughout Betws-y-Coed, and Amlwch where they lived for their last 40 yrs or so.

Wow, remembering that gave me goosebumps.

The last time we were there was for my grandmothers wake, just a few weeks before we emigrated here.

Oh, and welcome to the forum!! :D

Moorf

Wow...tell me about it!!
Beautiful part of my neck of the woods, Betws area.
:nice1

[kiwi_cymraeg]

Prynhawn da Kiwi_Cymraeg. I'm also a Welsh girl from a little village called Gronant on the Nth Wales coast. Croeso!

Bore da thezorbster... Diolch am y croeso... Are you also moving to NZ? :)

[thezorbster]

Bore da thezorbster... Diolch am y croeso... Are you also moving to NZ?

That's the plan!

[kiwidebs]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Debs

[Bruckner]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Emily

[Smiler]

the Betws y Coed road is lovely

Love it around that area! :nice1 Oh is half welsh and his Mum says it's his better half. :laugh

Welcome to the forum. :cheers:cheers

[sarahc]

Hi Kiwi Cymraeg - I have sent you a pm - we are still searching for our ultimate destination! We share your frustration with Perth - lovely beaches but soaring house prices on the back of the WA resources boom together with the isolation of the city make it a VERY expensive place to live (we found the NZ supermarkets to be cheaper than those in Perth) We might cash up & move over to the Eastern states - or maybe SI NZ... I do think that Oz/NZ offer a better lifestyle / life for our kids than the UK - but still not sure where to try next... have to have lots of holidays to find out....
One incident when we first got to Wellington on our recce made us realise how backward Perth is - We arrived on a sunday & I asked at the campsite reception whether any local shops would be open & whether there was anywhere we could buy a bottle of wine...(sunday trading being pretty minimal in WA) The receptionist looked at me as if I was mad & rattled off a long list of options for shopping - I felt like a right hick from the sticks - and we were very impressed at being able to buy wine / beer from the supermarket again (rather than having to search for a bottle shop) ... Ahhh happy memories...
Sarah