Dear IF readers,

As we take our cultural tour around the world with you our readers, there are so many ways to seek and share information - internet research, blogs, online chats, overseas phone calls, library reference books, people on trains, planes and automobiles.

Tonight I took a favorite route. I sat with my $1.00 Atlas of the World, Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY, Montreal, Copyright 1987 and read maps of Australia and New Zealand and googled alongside. And tonight I found a site that I found both intriguing and comical -
http://www.immigrate-to-a-new-life-in-perth.com. Perth, Australia. This homegrown site is a passion play from a couple from the UK who emigrated to Perth, Australia and it changed their life so much that they built a site to engage the fence sitters, or help the fellow ex-pats, who knows? Its wonderful and comprehensive. Look it up. I did. And here is what I found out:

Source: http://www.immigrate-to-a-new-life-in-perth.com

There has been a slight increase in Australian Visas issued in the migration intake with 144,000 migrant visas issued for 2006-2007

2006-2007 Australian Migration Program

97,500 (same as last year) visas will be for skilled migrants.
46,000 (a slight increase) visas will be for family migrants.
Did you know that figures released in the UK in April 2007 show that ONE in five Britons who move overseas head to Australia? It’s TRUE the Office for National Statistics figures showed 500 British people were leaving the UK every day to live abroad, with Australia the most popular destination.

In the year 2004-2005, 71,000 Brits moved to Australia.

The writer from this site has a side directory that covers the following:

Perth Blog
Visas
Schooling in Perth
Buying a House in Perth
Home Loan Perth
Perth Beaches
Perth Restaurants
Migration Stories
Perth Suburbs
Rentals
Furniture Rentals
Getting There
360 Perth Tours

And much more…..

Recently in my own life in the U.S. after having children, I looked at my husband and said, “Let’s move South for the Winter”, and we did. And we are happier. So for those in the U.K., it seems its Perth. Good good.

Here is to beach and fish and good living in Perth, Australia, Cat Wayland

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