After just 2 years in WA we are heading back to the UK. The draw of family and the expense of daily living here has ground us down.i feel that I have back tracked finically about ten years with no way of making it up here and still paying a mortgage until I'm 70 
Despite having a reasonable salary it's just not possible IMO to have a quality standard of living with anything under $150 000.
Will miss the weekend beach days and the hot days but certainly not miss the scorchers.
I so regret not making it to live in Brissie.
Now got my road trip over East to plan 