After your permanent home address, then you can get a real life.
First its medicare registration, then school for the kids, ATO, bank account and get a car. Despite moving from possibly one of the most expensive places to BUY a car (not own a car), I found Aust to be relatively expensive place to buy a car and also own a car. Relative means in comparison with UK or USA is what I mean.
A Honda City for example would set one back for A$22-25K which is not much different from M'sia and maintenance is generally higher. Other cars though do not have this issue but Honda are relatively expensive in Australia in comparison with other makes.
Once you have settled down with a house, then there is the whole works of upfitting the house. Remember when we arrived, we only had suitcases totalling 110kg.
We started with HarveyNorman for whitegoods and Ikea for furniture but ended up with various other places, Forty Winks for beds/mattress, 2nds World for Whitegoods, No96 for Sofas, Myers for Sofas/DiningSets which were on sale then and a place in Hurstsville for Chinese cookingwares.
More to follow...
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