I have been in Australia just over 6 weeks after leaving Sheffield. I know it is early days yet but not missing UK at all. We spent 6 weeks in Fremantle in serviced accommodation and moved to Leeming last week. I enjoyed the busy atmosphere of Fremantle knowing that we were only there for 6 weeks and I am glad we have found a place to rent out in the suburbs which is much quieter. My 23 year old daughter had been backpacking around Australia for a year and has joined us for a while. She was disappointed that we are not by the sea which would have been nice but it is quite expensive. I find everything expensive but the trick I am told is not to convert. Public transport is good and it will depend on where you live for your 16 year old to get around.
We have left our dark compact 4 bedroom town house back at home with our 26 year old son living in it because he was not interested in joining us. However, we had only been gone a couple of weeks when he agreed to visit for Christmas. He arrives next week for 6 weeks. It will be interesting to see how he feels after his visit. We live in a bright spacious 4 bedroom single storey house that is easily twice as big as our house in Sheffield. We love the outdoors and I have watched about an hour of TV since I have been here.
Actually I do confess to missing something. Hathersage, and our lovely walks in all types of weather. Now it is sun, sun and more sun.