I spoke to my Aunt in Adelaide last week and she told me that she had spoken to her friend who is an Aussie and also Assuring us.
Our Assurer told my aunt that she considers us family now. I thought that was so sweet, especially as we only met once while on our hols in September at a BBQ that she held for us on our last night!

From our experience whilst on Holiday the Aussies are so welcoming and friendly.
I am sure that this will help us settling in.

I know that it is not an exciting topic, but haven't written much so thought I would add it.

Kelly.

thats nice to hear kelly :D with people like that it makes the world a better place its a shame that everyone cant be so nice :( but i suppose that is what makes the world go round with everybody being different.

im sure it will help loads with settling in, also there are a lot on here that will be there for us when we get there. :)

debs xxxx

I know with some friends that migrated to Perth the sister of their agent put them up and then helped them loads to find a rental and sort themselves out. So it does seem to be the norm, like Debs said it is very refreshing.

Sasha :)

We too have found many lovely people here - from the travel agent who met us at the airport and took us out to dinner on our first night, to those who lent us furniture and stuff for our house when ours was held up for a month on the way over, to those who still continue to lend us bits and bobs and give advice on the best places to buy particular things, and so on.

Many of them were also immigrants at some time, so understand that side of things too!

Elaine

I've found the majority here very friendly. I am still amazed when people in the street say 'hi how are you' and stop for a chat. And I have been so fortunate in having the best neighbours at all three adresses where I have lived.

Most people are more than willing to bend over backwards to help you out - the migrant bank manager at the Commonwealth is fantastic, she even called up my landlord to make sure he wasn't trying to rip us off!!! And I agree it is a bit odd to get strangers talking to you in the street (you get everyone talking to you if you have a baby!!!), but it is nice to know that people are genuine.....

Garf ;)

When i lived at Glenelg, walking down Jetty Road would always take twice as long as it should have because i ended up chatting to several people on my way. Coming from London, it is a very weird experience. When i lived there you were lucky to know your neighbours name let alone srtike up a conversation!!

Where I lived in London you were lucky if you could pronounce you neighbours name and speak in whatever language they spoke!!!

Garf ;)

I know the young lady we spoke to at the commonwealth bank 6 months ago moved on, but it's good to hear the current incumbent is following the same tradition! 'our' lady there got out a map and circled a whole load of likely looking suburbs all over the city for finding a place to live, and suggested others we might like to avoid. It was a great starting point - especially as we hadn't discovered this forum at that stage!

Elaine

We moved from a flat in Peckham, South London where we had a ground floor flat and haven't a clue what any of our neighbours were called.
Now we live in Kent we know our neighbours and are quite friendly with them.
But we still noticed that the Aussies take more time to be friendly and to get to know you.
Three of my Aunts friends held BBQ's just for us and my cousin also had a BBQ for us where she invited all of their friends and they were fascinated that we were from the UK.

And apparently we have some BBQ's booked up for our arrival later this year!


Kelly.

Sounds like you will be very busy kelly, I hope you have time to fit us brits in!!!

Tracey :dance:

Of course we'll be meeting all of you Brits too.
Can't wait to finally get to know you all properly.


Kelly.

Hi Elaine,
What were the Suburbs to avoid then?
Jan