I left the UK and moved to Australia (Perth) with work, at the start it was great and i loved it but after about 6 months the honeymoon period had worn off

I am a Oil/Gas offshore worker so i am use to my time off as i mainly work a maximum of 6 months a year and have always traveled.

In Australia i was very limited to where i could travel to due to the long flights and on my time off i would also get asked to come into the office so any travel plans would be shit canned

I was on a 457 visa so you are only limited to so many days you can leave Australia to gain full permanent status (PR) in a 2 year period and after that if you would want to gain citizenship it is the same again for another 2 years.

At first this was my plan to fully move over, i had to fly from Perth to Darwin alot which took around 3 hour 40 minutes (prop aircraft) which is roughly the same time a flight takes from London to Moscow (Turbine aircraft)

After awhile i soon realized how lucky i had been to be living in Europe as there are so many interesting countries i have never seen which are so close as living in Australia which is a massive country made me open my eyes to this

For me at my age (30) not being able to fully travel due to being kind of chained to work was one of my deciding factors to leave and come back to the UK.

Since then i am back in the UK working less than 6 months a year and just finished my first motorbike trip visiting all the interesting places i dreamed off whilst in Oz

I meet some great friends in Australia and being there for just under 2 years change me into a better person so i don't regret going there but for my circumstances being back in the UK is better... for the time being