So Australia has this working holiday visa where if you're 35 and under, you can live and work there for a year. I'll be 36 soon so it's now or never for me. Should I go for it? Aside from a few bands and some good friends there's nothing tying me to the UK. Would I be able to enjoy an okay lifestyle working minimum wage jobs and doing the flatshare thing? I assume Sydney is much like London where that kind of thing would lead to a very meagre existence, but maybe one of the smaller cities would be a good bet.
What exactly will be different when you come back a year later? Or do you expect that Australia will give you something that you're missing here?
You won't get a proper visa without specialist skills and it has a points system that severely penalizes age. The tourist visa they offer requires agricultural work which is fine but some Australian's view it as scabbing as you're being used as cheap labour and it's mostly for kids to travel around screwing each other. The latter might sound fine but what's the point in wasting a year on something you don't really have a plan for.
>doing the flatshare thing
Australia is worse than the UK for housing with long-lines to rent
I've got some relatives over in Australia and I'll second the above lad. Sydney especially will make London look tame, it's one of the worst cities in the world for housing affordability, but my cousins in Melbourne aren't faring much better.
Do you actually have a goal or has your imagination started running wild after realising this is the last year you could make use of the visa? It's your life so if you really want to go who am I to tell you not to but at 35 I feel it's a little late to be fooling around like an 18 year old on a gap year.
