Wanted Down Under 2014

[MrsReiver]

I know all you addicts are out there! I am not the only one.

wow.

Maybe I am too traditional, but I couldn't do the hours my husband puts in as main breadwinner and leave him with the kids. It's not that I don't trust him, but I know everything wouldn't get done. Too much of a control freak, I guess. And, in turn, I know he wouldn't be happy doing the mundane stuff that I have to grit my teeth and do every day.
And I would miss my girls too much to do the full time thing. Although I know how spoilt and privileged that sounds, sorry.

I already live in a semi rural place just outside edinburgh. Going to a laid back lifestyle in NZ in a place like this would kill me. If I went anywhere, it would have to be in a big city. I am, after all, not ready to retire!

I'm not keen on that house.

Although saying to has not enough space was a bit churlish. More space than home, I suspect!

Hurray! Husband house!

How on earth do people afford these houses?!

I'd live there. Wow.

I have a secret desire to move abroad. I think my DH would as well, he's lived abroad before. I don't think I could leave my family though.

I don't really know why they're going, he could just give up his job anyway and they live off one salary anyway in UK.

My desire isn't so secret! I bore him to tears with my going on about it. Difference is, I have family out in oz and do not live near my family in the uk. If I lived out in oz, I think I'd see my parents and siblings more often than now!

She had to mummy wobble. Like it or not, I think mums are programmed to want to be close to babes. I know that sounds sexist but I think there is an element of that in all mums, regardless how much you love your job.

Ooh I am from near Edinburgh too!

Could they both not work part time hours and split the childcare?

cherry - my point exactly! make the changes in the UK. if it works, great, if not THEN decide whether to move to the other side of the planet, probably dragging your woes along with you. I do think a lot of these families have issues that moving to NZ or As will just heighten.

oh, Morning fellow WDU'ers

I really think he wouldn't do so well as a stay at home dad. He would need to work a bit. Even I need to work a bit, and I am a lazy bint who doesn't trust DH with any aspect of organising the kids!

What are their occupations?

MrsReiver we are in Dalkeith. It's as far from a city as I am willing to go. If I moved, it would be closer to not further away from the city.

She's a quantity surveyor. He's a policeman. He's giving up 20 years work to stay at home.

He's a copper, she's a quantity surveyor. They ain't going I don't think.

I like them

Thanks!

I don't see why they want to move to NZ. They could do the same thing in the UK if he retired there.

Am many a birthday treat was had a the butterfly farm. We grew up even further out, just in the Borders. The best thing about it was the bus to Edinburgh!

Oh no, mawkish music!