Mum's gone 2 Aus

A common dilemma for families considering emigration is “Should we go on a reconnaissance trip?” also called a reccy and spelt in a number of different ways (recci, reccie, recce). If you’re South African you will be wondering whether to take an L.S.D trip…Look See and Discover before you start getting ideas about those crazy South Africans!

To recci or not? What did we do?

When we applied for Australian Permanent Residency we hadn’t set foot… Read more

Today we’re announcing the start of a new series at Mum’s gone 2 Aus: Australian relocation dilemmas…there are plenty of them!

We will start tomorrow and plan to publish a dilemmas article each week until we’ve run out of common questions and dilemmas relating to family relocation to Australia (it could take some time).

Australian relocation dilemmas

The initial topics we plan to cover include;

• Should we go on a reccy? (Also spelt reccie \

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Last week, Friday to be exact, we published our 400th article relating to Australian relocation. We write about things that matter to families moving to Australia, although many of the topics we cover are helpful to individuals relocating without children.

This week we also made a few changes to the way we categorise our articles, hopefully making it easier for you to find what you’re looking for. New categories you will be interested in visiting are;… Read more

Has the My Family car sticker craze reached where you live in Australia? If you’re reading this from elsewhere in the world, are cars around you covered in these stickers?

In Sydney, over the last six months, we’ve noticed that every other car displays stick figure characters of the family that owns and rides in them. In case you’ve totally missed it, stickers are placed on the back window of the car.

My Family car stickers:

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It occurred to Mum recently that Geocaching is the perfect activity for relocating families; it provides a great excuse to get out and about in your new suburb, town or city and will take you to places you might easily overlook in your day to day life.

What’s Geocaching?

Geocaching is a modern take on the traditional family treasure hunt. It’s a high-tech treasure hunt using global positioning system (GPS) devices. These days most people we… Read more

In The challenges of making friends once you’re a parent we talked about the tricky process of setting up a friendship circle for Mum and Dad once you’ve relocated to Australia, or anywhere else in the world. We shared our top “making friends” tips for relocating parents and one of these tips was; “Don’t be tight with babysitting”. We recommended assigning a monthly budget to babysitting so that you can treat yourselves to grown up nights out with… Read more

Mr Mum’s gone 2 Aus tells me I’m a little behind the times but this week I heard Fitzy & Wippa’s Sydneysiders song for the first time, and it had me in stitches! We have watched the video several times since first hearing the song and it provides a clever and fun take on Sydney life.

Fitzy & Wippa are well known Australian radio and TV personalities, currently hosting the weekday morning show (6-9am) at Nova… Read more