The twisted flight of Cupid's arrow

[Tabouli]

David:
> There is certainly a shortage of teachers in ordinary schools - I'm not sure about international students, though. The pay and conditions aren't brilliant. <

She isn't keen on being a secondary school teacher again: for the last 8 years or so she's worked at a tertiary level.  From what I saw from a cursory look on university job search engine this morning, there seem no shortage of international student language support jobs in the UK, though I don't know what's considered "good" pay.  Assuming dollar for pound equivalence in buying power, the salaries looked low to me, but I wouldn't really know.

David:
> - would he do the same for her (I don't know about the 
practicalities of working in Aus long term if you are British)?<

He's not in a position to.  He loves Australia (where they met), but he's a lawyer of some sort, and law isn't transportable, unlike ESL teaching.  Besides which, I doubt that Australia would let him in on anything other than a tourist or student visa unless he had an employer here lined up.  She on the other hand, is a British born duel British/Australian citizen who could work there with no visa problems, loves Britain, goes there regularly, and has lived there before for several years and travelled widely there, many British friends and relatives, etc. Don't know about the part of Britain, but she waxes lyrical about Cornwall and Edinburgh.  He lives in York.

She knows the cost of living in the UK all too well: she'd definitely be renting, with view to moving in with him if all went well.  She has a thoroughly mortagaged property in inner Melbourne, but it's in a prime position and would probably command enough rent to let the tenants pay it off for her in her absence.  He already has his own house as well.

David:
> - if it didn't work out but only after a baby came, where would she 
want to raise it? Would the child be allowed back into Aus?<

I imagine she'd prefer to raise it in Australia, where she has a larger support network and a two bedroom house.  (Hey, I'd babysit for her!)  If the child has one Australian parent, I don't think there's a problem visa wise, though personally it would of course be grim on several counts.  Mind you, she was actually talking about having a baby on her own anyway, and that knowing more than most would-be single mothers, as she shared her house with a single mother and newborn for three years and, as she told me, knows just how hard that would be.

Still.  I don't think there's much chance of her being corrupted by my irresponsible cupidity against her better judgment.  She's a very cautious, conscientious, honourable sort of person.  I just thought *someone* should wave the fluffy pink flag of True Love...

Tabouli.


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