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Dealing with homesickness in Australia

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Priscilla

Hello everyone,

Being an expat in Australia can turn out to be a wonderful human, social or professional adventure... with potential moments of nostalgia and homesickness along the way.

What are your personal tips to prevent homesickness?

How do you deal with such feelings?

Are there shops or stores offering products from your home country in Australia? Or maybe venues with music and ambiance from your homeland?

Thanks for sharing your experience,

Priscilla

BxB27

No homesickness at all :-)

Yonem16

Meeting friends among diverse communities as you may know Australia is a diverse multi-cultural community.

There is always a lot happening on weekends.

However, should that not help one can seek professional assistance/advice/counsel that is readily available in most suburbs.

Or religious communities.

jackchc

Hello, everyone. My wife and I got married and moved to Melbourne in 2013 after securing our Australian permanent residency in search of some excitement and a better life, and we did. We both had full-time jobs and we were having a ball exploring Melbourne and its surrounds every weekend. The first two years were great.

The pair of us has had our fair share of visiting home in Malaysia over the course of our migration, but every time my wife comes back to Melbourne, she leaves a piece of her heart in Malaysia. Her last holiday back to Malaysia in March 2016 proved to be her breaking point. After returning to Melbourne after a 1-month holiday, she fell into depression as her homesickness has proven too great.

We are now divorced as she chose to move back to Malaysia and I remain in Melbourne. She is happily living her old life in Malaysia and most importantly she is no longer depressed. I sincerely hope other (young) expat couples out there hang on to each other as I do believe that when you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse and the family you create together, then your family, etc.

Good luck.

danielhb

Missing lots of friends, food and siblings. 

But found new friends and share lots of new culture that I never learn before. Go out and network to find new friends. Always remain humble so that people will like you.

Shan7

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DavidWF

Just got back from Australia after taking my fiancee there on a Tourist Visa  ( I live in the Philippines with her ) and now she wants to go back permanent to live there.
We drove just over 3000 ks in five weeks and I only beeped the horn once much to her amazement, and she was in awe of the tree`s, the flowers, and the courteous drivers where ever we went, and the different taste of the food and bread.  In fact she only ate rice once in five weeks....... not even missed. lol.
There was never a boring moment and even though she was in holiday mode everything that she had ever dreamed about and wished for was in the small town where I used to live, and now she is pleading for me to go back and live there so I think that maybe it is time take her back on a fiancee visa and marry her in Australia, as i think that a four year engagement has been long enough.
I told her that if she gets homesick ( she is absolute sure that she wont with so much to do there )  she can go back to the Philippines and I will stay there...... little chance of that happening she reckons, so we will just have to wait and see.

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