Testimonials

• Firstly, thanks for the constant reminder regarding the use of the portal. As a form of feedback, I find the portal very informative. My wife and I did have a number of questions and so far we found the answers we have been looking for in the portal. Although we have not completely gone through everything, we already have had some initial information on the essential things we need.

  Family from Sth Africa to Canberra

• I found the tool useful, especially with the links it provided to other websites (car license and such). I found it relatively easy to use and can't think of how it could be improved. Your tool definitely made relocating easier.

  Thanks, Bryn, Canada to Melbourne

• The portal was PRICELESS - Thank You :)  I have researched some accommodation sites around Canberra and started Job Hunting. All our plans are running smoothly as anticipated (so far).WE REALLY CAN'T WAIT TO START OUR NEW LIVES IN CANBERRA. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.

  Family moving from South Africa to Canberra.

• I have been in Australia for 4 years now and have been in Karratha all the time, everyone says that I need to see the rest of Australia but I like me here in Karratha. I have all the friends I need and I love the free time to a drive out in the desert and most of all I like to be in boat out in the islands. I am grateful for the time I have been here in Australia, and for your assistance but look forward to going home and working at home in Norway when the Pluto project is completed at the end of next year.

  Project Manager, from Norway to regional WA

  
  
• Thank you for a most informative portal. I was most pleasantly surprised when I received notification that we had access to the Canberra Information Portal. Wow, you guys really think things through! Most appreciated. Best regards,

  Rick – family moving to Canberra from Germany

• We have been in Australia now 4 months.  We settled in very quickly.  We remained focussed and continue with life as it was back home. My husband started his job the second week of our arrival.  He enjoys his work very much.  His dream is to manage the salon one day. The kids (3 boys) went to school the third day after our arrival.  They love their College!!!  They enjoy the teachers and the classes very much.  My 13 yr old son, started AFL, music and advance maths and he enjoys every day.  The two elder boys (in college) have a lot of work, but are doing extremely well.  My eldest son was selected to take part in 2011 maths week at UNI.  They also started part-time work at Hungry Jacks. I have worked part-time at two beauty therapy colleges and currently I am opening my beauty salon from home.  I joined two Beauty organisations and the CWB for networking. We have done sight -seeing in and around Canberra and love Canberra and the people.  Thank you for all you did for us!!!!

  Sponsored migrant family from South Africa to Canberra

• “Your product has certainly provided me with the necessary parameters by which to adress my family’s move to Brisbane – the information was just the detail I was after and we are now all armed with the necessary information to proceed with a decision about our relocation. I certainly endorse your organisation and product as a strong but low cost tool when it comes to considering the complex elements that make up a relocation exercise.”

  Talent2 employee

• “Thanks for reaching out. I wanted to thank you for all you help. I know it is your job, but just want to let you know how much we have appreciated the service that you have given to me and my family. We are very happy with the house. Our children Casper have settled into school and kindergarten and things are coming together, I have also given my feedback to the company and have recommended that everyone gets your service to a few more colleagues.”

  Thomas, Sweden to Melbourne, BCG

• “I wish I had found this product earlier, it would have been really useful having this overview info at an earlier stage of my research, it has been good to have a route to investigate suburbs with interest. Thanks again for this unique and fantastic  product”

  Paul, UK to Melbourne

• “The relocation tool was really informative and very easy to use, thank you so much, it made things much easier for us to picture how things would be!”

  Nick, EY

•  “I found the tool quite useful, especially with the links it provided to other websites (car license and such). I found it relatively easy to use and can't think of how it could be improved. Your tool definitely made relocating easier.

  Thanks, Bryn” SKM

• “I thought the tool was fit for purpose and would recommend to others. It's no replacement for just getting out there and experiencing first hand but it definitely aided that process so we were ready to get into action when we arrived. Thanks for the help.”

  Drew,     SKM

• “Relocation tool was informative and easy to use, thanks! And we love Perth, compared to South Africa, we've found it to be safe, clean, compact and family-friendly. The coffee culture is great! The transport is good, too.”

  Ernst & Young transferee, South Africa to Perth

  
  
• “Just wanted to let you know that the Relocation Resource has been a big help, particularly in terms of sourcing health insurance and in understanding how health care works in Australia.”

  Ernst & Young transferee

• “Thanks for making all this information available to us in the one location!”

  Melbourne Business School, Singapore to Melbourne

• “I have enjoyed and learned so much about the new city I am moving to. I have found some places that will be ideal to live in but are still looking for something a little more affordable. Thank you very much for such a great project.”

  Yolande Smith

• “I find the relocator very informative, my wife is very happy using the relocator and has the same views about the mapping. Knowledge is power, the more we know the better.” 

  Oce Australia

• “I have now explored the product in depth and can therefore confirm to you my first impression which is overall the excellent quality of this site which I find highly exhaustive and rich in terms of information provided to newcomers. It covers all possible topics related to settling in a new country and provides very useful links to various specialised websites, thus saving a lot of time to users. The big advantage also is to have a site dedicated to Melbourne and not only a generic website for Australia.”

  Bridgett - moving from France to Melbourne with family

• “I'm very impressed with the package.  I have had a lot of experience with e-commerce packages and this is very easy to use. The virtual locator also saved me lots of time.  Now we have narrowed down the suburbs that we will look at for a permanent location after we arrive.” 

  D. M - Relocating from UK to Sydney for Oce Australia

• “The information was fantastic. It saved us a lot of time finding the places to look at more closely.  I really liked the demographics information for our selected areas.  We can see if the area is mainly Catholic or an area where there is more diversity. We now have good information for when we get out to Sydney.  It has given us a fantastic start.”

  ; B. D - Emigrating from UK to Melbourne for BCG

• “It was quite easy to use. It saved me time, I found quite a few links I wouldn't have found without the software.  I'd give it 5 out of 5 for value - it touched on most of the areas I needed to know on relocating.”

  D.L. - Relocating UK to Melbourne for Global Corporate Services Company

• “It was easy to use.   For us, the most useful part was the suburb locator.  It saved us time in looking for housing, as it helped us identify particular areas to look at.   The simple information was also useful, eg where to buy a simple TV. We don't know any of the shops, so simple everyday information is useful.”

  A.H - Relocating from London to Sydney for Global Corporate Services   

• “The package has good links to information about what the education system is like. There is one place to go for things like utilities - all of those things take time. Small handy hints were good – like electrical hints - there is no point in bringing certain electrical goods because they have different voltage in Australia”

  S. S - Relocating from KL to Sydney for AOL

• “I found your product useful in thinking about key questions; identifying lifestyle alternatives; highlighting geographic considerations and; comprehensive in its overview of services.”

  Lloyd, Talent2

• “This is exactly what I have been looking for”

  Gary, Amcor

• “I had a look and found this tool to be VERY useful and applicable.  It was really easy to use and I had fun learning more about Sydney.  I have done research on my own and found it hard to get THIS kind of detail.  I learned many new things.  I was printing madly”

  Family Alberts, Canada to Sydney

• “First of all let me say that this is excellent, very definitive and a wonderful initial source of information and links. Really wish we'd had this before we left. I completed the survey and it showed the areas we had previously decided to look at - so I can confirm it is accurate! We eventually chose one of these areas to live in. There are also a couple of extremely useful websites that I have found invaluable.”

  Family Truscany, UK to Melbourne

• “Thanks for all your help, I have been able to find all the necessary things I have to do to take care of the relocation of our dog – he is very important to me and has to come to become my most important issue during this move’;

  S and M Reynolds, Professional single, Canada to Sydney

• “I have been able to find a neighborhood almost like our own back home, I can’t tell you how that has relaxed my anxiety – its taken the mystery away – now I am really starting to get excited”

  Molineaux family, Young family, United States to Sydney

• “The virtual relocator was useful and very informative. It was great to get an idea of the cost of living, medical information, schools, etc... The information it supplied can be got from other web sites, but it was good to be able to go to just one site.”

  User, Oce Australia

• “there was just so much in this for our family but for me personally I found that it gave my wife a real resource for settling her questions, particularly around finding what there was for our 4 year old daughter”

  Peiters, Family, South Africa to Melbourne

• “Coming to Australia and giving birth to our first child a month earlier was never the ideal company move, but I have been able to find the enormous amount of community support and services that are available for new mothers and all before I left home. I was able to arrange all the support services to kick into place pretty quickly, but for me just knowing that I knew the numbers to call and the structure that existed took a lot of the worry out”

  Steinbeck, Family, Young family, Canada to Melbourne

• “The information was really relevant for my preschool aged children, concise and there was an overall homely feel” “I felt like I was being looked after” “It said that the ideal suburb for my young family was Hampton. Isn’t that funny, that’s were we lived and wish we were back there” “I actually learnt a lot about Melbourne”

  Townsend, Professional couple with preschool children returning to Melbourne

• “As a teenager, I was really interested to find what the councils had to offer in the way of youth clubs and programs and the must-joins for kids was great. I am going to get myself into a band through the council”

  B. Alexander, Melbourne teenager

• “I was able to set up my bank accounts and arrange credit cards while I was still back in England, I hate to think how long I would have been writing if I had left this to when I arrived…and my son learnt how to download MSN so now he keeps contact with all his friends back home while he is learning to make new friends”

  Braithwaite Family, UK to Sydney

• ‘It has been so powerful that we have been able to handle our own education on-line, I love the way that we can just come and go as often as a question arises’

  P. Muscott, Tasmania to Melbourne

• “Wish we had something like this when we relocated to Japan, this has just made moving to Melbourne so much easier. We could do everything through it, even arrange and understand all our options around the upcoming birth of our child”

  C. Waites, Sydney to Melbourne

• “The video was excellent, it put a face to the process which I really liked. Coming from the UK, there were masses of facts which I could skip over the bits not of interest. It made my job so much easier”

  A. Armstrong, single UK to Sydney

• “The links were really relevant, so often I get lost in the internet jumping from site to site, but the templates confined my journey and I always knew navigationally exactly where I was”

  M and D McTavish, Professional family with teenage children

• “I have had a chance to thoroughly use the key and believe that it has great potential in our organisation.”

  HR department, Cadbury Schweppes

• “I am really excited about this new product. I have advised my Relocation provider that I will be providing this Virtual Relocator Resource to all of my expats - Global Assignment Management Services”

  Asia Pacific EDS Australia

• “The Virtual Relocator Resource is very impressive, easy to use and has a wealth of information.”

  Account Manager, National Removals Company

• “Trialing the Relocations-made-easy information resource site, we were impressed at the depth of information and recognize the amount of work that has gone into it's development.”

  General Manager, National Relocations Company

• “The resource has been well received by all our clients to date. They have accessed it immediately on receiving their key and there have been no access issues too date either.”

  Account Manager, Australian based relocation company

• “What we have really noticed is that all those pre-arrival email questions have all but dried up, they are on this tool with real results straight away”

  Account Manager, Australian based relocation company

• “This is a refreshing and innovative product in this market space, its about time!”

  ECA-International