The story so far

Ok, so by the title I'm guessing you know what this blog is about by now! If not, let me give you a brief history...

I am 22, recently married, no kids. Both my husband and myself love England, and the opportunity presented itself for us to move over there. It seemed like the perfect timing, as we werent tied down by anything (other than pets) in South Africa. After much discussing, arguing, sobbing, more discussing and more sobbing, we decided that it would be the best move for us. Telling my family was hard, as we are all really close, but they also knew that it was for the best.

Marc (the dh) is a police reservist and has been for almost 1o years. Policing is his passion - he loves everything to do with cop stuff :) Not to mention he is really good at it.
I studied to become a medic (emergency medical technician) and I really loved every minute of it. I felt like I finally found my way in life. I found a really nice base and started doing a few shifts. Then I started planning a wedding and everything kinda fell apart for a while haha. I recently phoned the base to organise a shift or two only to be told that they no longer accept volunteers. This is now our situation in South Africa:

Marc wants to be a cop, I want to be a medic. If we decided to do it full time we would earn a combined salary of about R5000 a month. This is not enough for us to live on comfortably, and certainly not enough for us to raise a family. This is where London starts looking promising...

As cops and medics we are really looked after by the government. They are high paying jobs. Its not as dangerous (during the xenophobic riots all ambulance crew had to wear bullet proof vests and were getting shot at), and we can do what we love!

I am certainly not saying that everything is peachy in the UK. I am a realist, and know that life will be hard for us. I'm not even sure if I want to be a full-time medic anymore (wanting to start a family soon and 2 parents doing shift work is not my idea of the family life I want), but at least the opportunities are there for us.

Signing off now - hope I didn't bore you silly!