The way we were: I just spent about 20 minutes reading the archives of our blog back to our first international move. Reading back, it seems like our life in Atlanta was much more exciting then our life here (ironically). And I was clearly naive about how long it would take us to migrate to Oz. There's a post from Aug 2002 were I suggested we start the process then because I thought it would probably take 4-5 months, HA! Just in case anyone's curious the process actually took much closer to a year: about 4 months time for the correct agencies to evaluate our job skills, and about 8 months actual processing time beyond that. That's all water under the bridge now though, because we've got our passports back today complete with with new permanent residency Australia visa stamps.