How much, and how long?

[PreRaphaelite]

So the world is going crazy again, just like it did in 1939.

If you decided to leave your country and move somewhere else, and you sold everything but one suitcase full of your possessions, how much cash could you get for all of it? And how long would it take you to replace everything once you’d settled in a new country?

Pets and family will be safe and come with you in this scenario.

Go!

 

[missy]

I have no clue as to the money part. The real estate market isn’t doing great atm and that is a sizable chunk of our assets.

Where would we go? Australia or perhaps Canada.

Any Australians or Canadians willing to sponsor us?

 

[missy]

As an aside. This made me lol.

 

[Dandi]

We have a spare room @missy, it's all yours! And very few lethal animals in these parts. Winning!

 

[missy]

We have a spare room @missy, it's all yours! And very few lethal animals in these parts. Winning!

Thank you @Dandi !!!
And I know the USA is no prize but if you ever wanted to come here-same! (((Hugs))).

 

[arkieb1]

@missy - I had the "all Aussie animals want to kill you" conversation with an American guy I know the other day. Like many Americans he was like OMG you have these huge spiders, I'm like what is it with the spiders, why do Americans obsess over the big spiders?

Today a shark killed a guy paddle boarding, our entire coastline is basically surrounded by massive man eating sharks, we have the highest number of venomous snakes in the world, crocodiles that drown and or eat tourists every year, and you want to freak out about the big (but mostly harmless) spiders. I'm like if you are worried about the wildlife, dude, the spiders are the least of your worries....

 

[lyra]

I always wanted to move to Australia, from Canada. It is financially impossible. Not to mention no one else in my family agrees with my desire, lol.

 

[yssie]

@missy - I had the "all Aussie animals want to kill you" conversation with an American guy I know the other day. Like many Americans he was like OMG you have these huge spiders, I'm like what is it with the spiders, why do Americans obsess over the big spiders?

Today a shark killed a guy paddle boarding, our entire coastline is basically surrounded by massive man eating sharks, we have the highest number of venomous snakes in the world, crocodiles that drown and or eat tourists every year, and you want to freak out about the big (but mostly harmless) spiders. I'm like if you are worried about the wildlife, dude, the spiders are the least of your worries....

In Brisbane we had a redback that insisted on building a giant web on the front porch. Every couple of days I would scream hysterically, and my mother would demolish it, and the spider would rebuild that night.

I loathe spiders. Big spiders, small spiders, spindly spiders, squat spiders, furry spiders, black spiders, brown spiders, purple spiders... Nope. Not happening. I know plenty of people who don’t like spiders but I’ve yet to meet someone else who shares my #CompleteTerror response to them.

I honestly don’t know how I survived Australia.

 

[Begonia]

Spiders are beyond creepy, I'm fascinated by them but am also afraid of them. Canada doesn't have big spiders (altho a few are poisonous, but not deadly), but there is one...
Called a tarantuloid, and it's small(ish) but looks just like a tarantula. I suspect it is its wee Northern cousin. Fortunately all these sitings are rare, just don't go poking around the wood pile behind the shed. I found that out the hard way!
Now I'm googling redback

 

[Begonia]

Spiders are beyond creepy, I'm fascinated by them but am also afraid of them. Canada doesn't have big spiders (altho a few are poisonous, but not deadly), but there is one...
Called a tarantuloid, and it's small(ish) but looks just like a tarantula. I suspect it is its wee Northern cousin. Fortunately all these sitings are rare, just don't go poking around the wood pile behind the shed. I found that out the hard way!
Now I'm googling redback

Ok, Australian black widow. Yup, we have those. Well not Australian ones, but the Northern version. Out in the wood pile. Behind the shed.

 

[SparklieBug]

I loathe spiders. Big spiders, small spiders, spindly spiders, squat spiders, furry spiders, black spiders, brown spiders, purple spiders... Nope. Not happening. I know plenty of people who don’t like spiders but I’ve yet to meet someone else who shares my #CompleteTerror response to them.

@yssie Love your Dr. Suess-like spider rant. LOL! Your My sister most definitely shares your sentiments.

 

[PreRaphaelite]

I had a brown recluse spider bite once. Day one of an event gig I was working. Terrible. You don't want to see the picture.

 

[1ofakind]

My biggest struggle is to think of where to go. I'd be very content anywhere with a mild winter and not too humid summer (although with A/C this is better...I just like to be outside more). I saw a real estate show featuring Fiji. When prospective buyers viewed homes the owners would leave fresh fruit and goodies for them. Not like we do in the US...thinking that if they smell cookies they won't notice that the trim is applied with superglue and scotch tape, lol. But they wanted them to feel welcome into what might be their new home. It was very nice and I love pineapple. So maybe Fiji.

I would not need to replace everything because we would probably have a smaller house. Some things would be difficult or impossible to replace...like the handmade walnut rocking chair and ottoman made with 50+ pieces cut and fitted together to make a tortoise shell like seat and back. It is so comfortable and I'd never find another one...especially for the deal I got!

The value thing is hard too...Much of what is in our house has been built, repurposed, refinished or preloved. Like the rocking chair, I would spend more replacing than I did to acquire it in the first place.

 

[AprilBaby]

I’ve been to Australia, it’s too expensive. I think a small town in Italy. We would not replace much of what we own. It’s time to downsize. We would love Switzerland but again too expensive. I really liked Germany. Maybe emigrate back to Stuttgart.

 

[fluffboll]

In Brisbane we had a redback that insisted on building a giant web on the front porch. Every couple of days I would scream hysterically, and my mother would demolish it, and the spider would rebuild that night.

I loathe spiders. Big spiders, small spiders, spindly spiders, squat spiders, furry spiders, black spiders, brown spiders, purple spiders... Nope. Not happening. I know plenty of people who don’t like spiders but I’ve yet to meet someone else who shares my #CompleteTerror response to them.

I honestly don’t know how I survived Australia.

I HAAAATE spiders, and I'm so disgusted/terrified by them that I can't even see a picture of one without screaming (well, at least choking down a scream). A decade ago, I was granted a permanent residency visa to Australia and was about to emigrate when I met the man who is now my husband and scrapped my plans. Just as well I never moved, even the relatively small spiders we have in Sweden scare the s#@% out of me! @yssie, I feel your pain!

 

[MRBXXXFVVS1]

Aside from real estate, cars, and very select things, I would just donate everything. That's what I did the last time I moved as "things" don't really matter to me, and it wasn't worth the hassle of selling or moving it. I would pack in my suitcase irreplaceable and sentimental things. Everything else I could replace if desired. Aside from real estate (getting to know the area and inventory), I could probably replace everything else in one day as I'm very savvy when it comes to e-commerce (not counting delivery times). I would take a zero based budgeting approach and start over, only buying what I will need and use. I actually do a deep clean and purge 1-2x a year and am planning to do so again soon, as I prefer to be a minimalist.

 

[arkieb1]

O.K so redbacks (black widows with a red cross on their backs) and funnel webs CAN potentially kill you they are small to medium sized spiders, fairly common all around Australia, you just look out for them and try and avoid them.

My FIL has been bitten by both, got really ill but mostly you do not die. The guy that got killed here yesterday by a 3 metre (10+ foot) long shark on the other hand, I'd have to say I'll take the spiders over a freaking huge shark any day of the week.....

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I'd go to NZ. Funny my DH had a job offer there.... I'd leave Canada in a heartbeat.

cheers--Sharon

 

[MJ_Mac]

In Brisbane we had a redback that insisted on building a giant web on the front porch. Every couple of days I would scream hysterically, and my mother would demolish it, and the spider would rebuild that night.

I loathe spiders. Big spiders, small spiders, spindly spiders, squat spiders, furry spiders, black spiders, brown spiders, purple spiders... Nope. Not happening. I know plenty of people who don’t like spiders but I’ve yet to meet someone else who shares my #CompleteTerror response to them.

I honestly don’t know how I survived Australia.

@yssie - now you have, online at least. Nothing terrifies me more than spiders. Hubby knows if I am having a spider dream because the arms and legs start flailing around madly.

 

[kenny]

@missy - I had the "all Aussie animals want to kill you" conversation with an American guy I know the other day. Like many Americans he was like OMG you have these huge spiders, I'm like what is it with the spiders, why do Americans obsess over the big spiders?

Today a shark killed a guy paddle boarding, our entire coastline is basically surrounded by massive man eating sharks, we have the highest number of venomous snakes in the world, crocodiles that drown and or eat tourists every year, and you want to freak out about the big (but mostly harmless) spiders. I'm like if you are worried about the wildlife, dude, the spiders are the least of your worries....

People who subject themselves to high risks are responsible for their own deaths.

 

[Phoenix]

In Brisbane we had a redback that insisted on building a giant web on the front porch. Every couple of days I would scream hysterically, and my mother would demolish it, and the spider would rebuild that night.

I loathe spiders. Big spiders, small spiders, spindly spiders, squat spiders, furry spiders, black spiders, brown spiders, purple spiders... Nope. Not happening. I know plenty of people who don’t like spiders but I’ve yet to meet someone else who shares my #CompleteTerror response to them.

I honestly don’t know how I survived Australia.

Me!!! I am PETRIFIED of spiders, even the teeny tiny ones. {{SHUDDERS}}

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

I rehome all the harmless spiders I find inside the house. They are great for eating other unwanted pests and I feel sorry for them so I catch them in takeaway containers and release them.

Is anyone scared of roaches? Both my boys yell for me on the odd occasion that they find a roach and I have to kill it for them.

Spiders I can understand but roaches can't kill you!!!

 

[yssie]

I rehome all the harmless spiders I find inside the house. They are great for eating other unwanted pests and I feel sorry for them so I catch them in takeaway containers and release them.

Is anyone scared of roaches? Both my boys yell for me on the odd occasion that they find a roach and I have to kill it for them.

Spiders I can understand but roaches can't kill you!!!

For me it's actually the webs, maybe more than the spiders themselves... I honestly think I'm terrified of spiders because they build webs. Seeing strands glistening in the sunshine - seeing a dusty scaffold looming in the corner - makes my stomach just free-fall. I think if I encountered a spider that didn't build webs I might be okay with it in the same way I'm okay with other bugs... Not a fan but not, y'know, evacuate the premises... But I'd have to take the time to evaluate it and register that it's a non-web-building-spider - and there's no chance I'll ever not panic for long enough to do that!

Same with silk - I won't wear silk any more than I'd wear cobweb

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

how things are right now im kinda very happy to be living in covid free NZ but a part of me will always wish i was American
NJ or Texas

but the exchange rate is soooooo bad right now anything involving US dollars is out of the question

i like Australia but their govt treat NZers working and paying tax in Australia as 2nd class citizens
as soon as anything goes wrong we are entitled to zero welfair and so many kiwis do not read the fine print before they pack their bags and move over

while its not perfect here i think Maori people have a better lot in NZ than Aboriginal people do in Oz, Australia do not have a great record in race relations
and we have free health care in NZ
i wish our housing wasn't so exspensive but hay! as a trade off cops on the beat don't carry guns

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@mellowyellowgirl something is wrong and i can't reply but i love spiders
i feel quilty dusting away their webs sorry @yssie
i have one on the bathroom ceiling and he sails down his silk thread to see me once or twice a day then he shimmies back up again
but don't talk about roaches
we have a lot of gaps under our doors and this week has been really cold and ive had 3 big roaches inside
one was crawling across the telly
im scared to squash them because then the eggs come out
they are huge compaired to the almost tiny sweet little native things that used to come in the toilet window in Wellington
the worst place is the letter box
we always sort our mail before we bring it inside

 

[missy]

@missy - I had the "all Aussie animals want to kill you" conversation with an American guy I know the other day. Like many Americans he was like OMG you have these huge spiders, I'm like what is it with the spiders, why do Americans obsess over the big spiders?

Today a shark killed a guy paddle boarding, our entire coastline is basically surrounded by massive man eating sharks, we have the highest number of venomous snakes in the world, crocodiles that drown and or eat tourists every year, and you want to freak out about the big (but mostly harmless) spiders. I'm like if you are worried about the wildlife, dude, the spiders are the least of your worries....

LOL. Well I am more concerned about crocodiles and sharks and snakes than I am about (mostly harmless) spiders. So perhaps I am not the typical American and I sure wouldn't let it stop me from moving to your part of the world. I will respect their space and hopefully they will respect mine or at least leave me alone. My dear friend lived in Australia for many years teaching at the Optometry school there. She loved it but ultimately moved back here for reasons I won't go into. Nothing to do with Australia.

 

[missy]

@mellowyellowgirl something is wrong and i can't reply but i love spiders
i feel quilty dusting away their webs sorry @yssie
i have one on the bathroom ceiling and he sails down his silk thread to see me once or twice a day then he shimmies back up again
but don't talk about roaches
we have a lot of gaps under our doors and this week has been really cold and ive had 3 big roaches inside
one was crawling across the telly
im scared to squash them because then the eggs come out
they are huge compaired to the almost tiny sweet little native things that used to come in the toilet window in Wellington
the worst place is the letter box
we always sort our mail before we bring it inside

Yes, let's not talk about them. That is my achilles heel to be sure. Ewwwwwwww and eeeeeeek and gross. And flying roaches? Just fuggadeboutit.

 

[arkieb1]

Yes, let's not talk about them. That is my achilles heel to be sure. Ewwwwwwww and eeeeeeek and gross. And flying roaches? Just fuggadeboutit.

We have HUGE cockroaches here too. Some Aussie bars and pubs have Roach races for entertainment and no, I am not kidding....

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

I can catch roaches with my bare hands when the situation requires me to

 

[missy]

I can catch roaches with my bare hands when the situation requires me to

You’re my idol! Not kidding. Wow.