[BabyPom]

Hello everyone!

I lived as a child in Opua, Bay of Islands, idyllic lifestyle, no pressures, no worries, just loads and loads of FUN between the ages of 6 and 13, sadly we never took out citizenship!

We returned to good old blighty when I was 13 ( I'm led to believe I was a major influence in this whacky decision being as I'm an only child and hankered after family - I now realise they were a fat lot of use as I never see the two cousins I have anyway).

I now find myself at the ripe old age of 41 with two girls of my own (11 and 9) hankering after a better, more beautiful life. My dear OH has never been over to the better land but is willing to go along with my hankerings (although he isn't prepared to go blind like me so will be winging his way South next June/July (2009) for a recky).

We would need to go with his skills as he's a telecoms engineer, time served with BT with an HNC in Telecommunication Engineering (sadly not a high enough qualification to gain bonus points for long term skill shortage but we can live with that). He'll need to find a job offer and he is hoping to go knocking on doors whilst on his recky next year. He is also doing a BT sponsored degree in Computer Science which is done at distance, hoping to graduate in 2010, he could do this from anywhere in the world and fly back to take his finals (means we'd have to pay the last year but well worth it in my opinion for the quest of a better life).

We're looking at being Auckland based, certainly in the first instance and as you've no doubt gathered we're in relatively early stages of the process, not applying for SMC until we have something concrete to go with but in the meantime I'm trawling the net gathering information.

Thanks for "listening".
Jane