To just move to another country? Advice

[travelfaraway]

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Me and DP are mid 20's and have a young DC.. We are hoping to sell our house soon and we think it will make a good profit!
Me and DP have never really travelled. It's something we are both interested in but feel we will never have the chance, however Ive started to get this idea in my head that once we sell the house why not move to either New Zealand or Australia for upto a year.. We both hate our jobs, I'd happily do any job for a year to get by so we can explore another country with our DC before they are school age and we could just rent for a year and then buy a house once we are back.
Would this be a silly thing to do? I feel excited even at the thought of doing this as I've never felt that it would be an option for us until now!
Has anyone else here done this? What would we have to do in order to achieve this? What is your advice ?!

I know people who did this. They were never able to buy a house again. You can travel without moving to another country.

I will definitely consider Canada as an option now, hadn't thought about there originally but I know of a lot of people who have been there and love it there!

What visa would you apply for? Are your jobs on the skilled shortage lists? It's a long process even if your jobs are.

You cannot get a working holiday visa if you have children.

I have lived both in Canada and Australia.

I went to Canada on a working holiday visa - I was single then. Was there about 2 and a half years.

Met Australian husband and went to Australia with him. Applied for the first half of the spousal visa but was only on a bridging visa for the 2 years I was there. Long, long process and very expensive. I decided to come back to UK before my spousal visa application even began to be processed.

I definitely need to do some research

Have done this 3 times! Went to Canada for a year when I was 21, went to Korea for a year at 23 then travelled around SE Asia for 6 months after that!

From there I moved to London instead of going back to Ireland - winged it, showed up with my backpack from my Asia trip - am still here 6 years later!

I’d deffo go for it have had so many great experiences!

Done this - only advice I’d give is:

Rent out your property - do not sell
Research a lot (and then some more)
Grass is never greener - do it for right reasons
Do not do this for your DC - as in they seriously won’t remember if they are that young!

Sorry just. Realised to trying to do this with kids - May be more difficult in that case! You could probably do something like teach English in Asia or something?

Australia and Canada aren’t so straight forward - I was able to get the Canadian visa for the year easy enough - but Trying to sort visas for children deffo more complicated!

Australia is even stricter I believe!!

With the money you’d spend on an actual move to Australia you could Just go travel around somewhere cheaper (South America or Asia)
You wouldn’t need to work and you could just have a long holiday? Like 6 months! I would think your kids would get more from that then just moving and living In one place !!

Canada and Australia aren’t cheap to live in!! You’d probably struggle to travel around and see more of the country while trying to work full time jobs etc!.

Not wanting to put you off but if you do go, it might be a big wrench to come back and you may not have the option of staying.

That's a terrible reason for not trying something new, sorry.

I worked abroad and it was amazing, admittedly I was single so it was easier.

I agree with that renting out your home while you're away is worth considering. Everyone I know who has travelled/worked abroad has had great life changing experiences.

Have you considered NZ? It used to be easier to get a visa there, that might have changed though.

I think it's a great idea! You're only young once and it's good to have adventures. Wait until covid dies down though.

Would you be interested in teaching basic/conversational English (TEFL)? It’s pretty easy to start. I knew loads of people abroad who did this, some with kids and some for a decade or more. Plus imo it’s more interesting immersing yourself in a culture with a different language and less British influence.

great idea but perhaps somewhere in Europe, not australia or nz. Very hard, expensive and time consuming to get visas and the costs of living is extortionate especially if you're just doing temp jobs.

Travel and living abroad in your 20s is really important if you have the opportunity to do it.

HOWEVER, please just give a thought to the fact that if you and your partner split up while abroad and he doesn’t want to come back to the UK, you may have to fight through the courts to bring your children back with you.

We all think that our relationship will last but please just read about The Hague Convention on child abduction before making any decision to go

It's going to take a long time for things to return to normal and there could be a shortage of jobs in many countries post Covid so harder for you to find something - could it be worthwhile getting skills or qualifications that would make you a more desirable resident elsewhere , learn a language ... become a nurse (they're always wanted)