Still in London

(Extract of an e-mail I sent 12/03/2008)

With 1 month to go in the UK, things are still going well, and everything is on track - even with Lyn having been "out of action"with a nasty cold for the past week.

The UK £ has tanked to the Aus $, so our House Deposit has gone down since chirstmas! It is still a decent amount ofmoney, and always a chance the currency will swing the other waybefore we go to purchase the old "bricks and mortar"

Most of our stuff is packed in boxes, waiting to be shipped in a fewweeks - just the important things left out, like the DVD player,George Foreman Grill, and the Cheese board! I've now got the joy oftrying to fill in the small mountain of paperwork required to open abank account in Australia... the newspaper make it seem so easy for terrorists to set up bank accounts and move money abroad, but I telly a they sure make it difficult for us law abiding citizens!

Been looking at New York, seems to be as expensive as London.. and London is expensive! Still, I'm really warming to the idea of a weekin New York, wasn't too keen at first - probably my natural Canadian Bias against all things American... but more I read, and the more I see the more exicting it seems (and coming from London, the size and pace shouldn't be too off putting!)

Not much more I can tell you about the move to Oz, still planning onsettling melbourne - a good sized city (4 Million) and a very strongeconomy, with near "full employment", so Jobs and career shouldn't betoo much of a hassle - which is my only real worry about leaving London

And only 2.5 more weeks of work, not going to get the improvements project I wanted finished done in time, about 75% there, but the in the endthe software supplier really let us down.