WTF - 6 months already???

We've now been in Australia for 6 months! Can't believe it, but it's true. but still fresh off the boat, as my new Aussie mates jokingly say...

What you want:
a new life in Australia

What you think:
It's going to be tough, wonderful, adventurous, happy, sad, hard work and fun

What they DON'T tell you:
you're right ;-)

It's all of the above, but not a single second of regret having made the move. Things are, of course, very different. It IS a new country, with a very different culture and ways of doing things, but it is also a civilised, first-world, english speaking, proud, patriotic, economically sound place to live.

There's loads of work if you want it and very few problems compared to good old SA.

To illustrate:
2 weeks ago the front page news carried the headline 'Golf widows unhappy' or something similar.
THAT'S exactly why we moved here - if the biggest news they could suck off the end of their thumbs was that the men are playing too much golf, and it's THE headline of the day, we (Australians) have no worries! I shudder to think what the news was in South Africa...

Loving it! Come on over...

'it's easy to live here, you'll love it' - Melbourne Cab Driver, aged 57, 2nd generation Australian, on the way to Melbourne airport, May 2007

He's right.