eat at top restaurants, stay in an amazing villa, abundance of staff. You can have any experience you want, so if you want the super luxury lifestyle with everything – ie. Have an open mind with what your expecting from Bali – there is something for everyone. What advice do you have for other families making the move to Bali?īali can be anything you wish it to be. Using Facetime to see the grandparents is not great. The single hardest thing is the distance between family and friends. What is the worst living about living in bali? I love that our kids are exposed to such a mix of religions, all the different public holidays and the associated cultural celebrations. Then before that, we are at a super kid-friendly resort where we can ride bikes, go to the beach, and enjoy kids clubs. Like the other weekend, we were in Kintamani in a homestay, rugged up a bit, toasting marshmallows amongst the mountains. Plus right now it is a great time for family weekends away, they are super accessible and affordable. However, there is plenty of things to do and at a reasonable price like waterparks, surf lessons, sporting events, beaches and lots of active activities. You have to be more planned here because Bali doesn’t have parks like we have back home. There are still good doctors here for the everyday sort of thing. However there are stories that you hear that it hasn’t always been the case. There is a fear with what happens if kids get sick but there is a good Balinese hospital system and good chance that it will all be OK. It is one of the biggest challenges when you come from Australia where there is such a good medical system. What is it like raising children in Bali? Do you find it safe in regards to medical care for your family? It is also nice that ProEducation have a high school so all our children can eventually go through the whole way. It is a super easy commute to school with us either on the bike or car. We sent Lennox to ProEducation in the Umalas because they were doing face to face teaching when we came back to Bali and they had a similar curriculum to what we were used to. W hen we first arrived in Bali, Lennox started childcare around 18 months and originally went to the Sunrise school and then when we came back after COVID, Lennox goes to ProEducation in the Umalas and Hartley goes to Little Trees in Kerobokan. You have three beautiful children! where do they go to school? And why did you choose that school? If you have a small business, you could set up an off-shore business and get a visa for that so there is easier ways to do it. If you are like me and you are setting up an Indonesian company, Indonesia focused, which will sell to Indonesians (that is brick and mortar as well as online in Indonesia), then to do it properly there are definitely a lot of challenges but if you have the right people around and get the right advice things can happen. If you have to set up a foreign-owned company, there are different implications for the business, different laws and taxes and things you are always trying to keep up to date with. Setting up a business in Bali can be hard. Any tips on setting up a business in Bali? You have a very successful coffee wholesale business, expat. We have also stayed in Kerobokan for 18 months, but we do love the Umalas because you are still close to Canggu, Seminyak and you can access the airport easy enough. We also lived in Ubud for a few months to open up a restaurant there. When we first arrived in Bali, we stayed with a friend for a month in the Umalas (closer to the Kerobokan side) and really loved the area. Where is home in Bali and why did you decide to live there? Now there is definitely a lot of good coffee in Bali and good barristers as well. I thought we were young and adaptable, so let’s give it a shot and see how it goes. It would be a business that could do cafes, wholesale, training and education ( ak.a Expat. We moved to Bali purely for work and when I was doing some consulting, I saw a gap in the market for a wholesale coffee roasting business. Then we went back to Sydney early March 2020 for family events and found out Jess was pregnant with Valentina and we ended up staying in Sydney again for 16 months until we could get the right visa and return to Bali in 2021. Profile: Shae, Jess and children Lennox (7), Hartley (3) and baby Valentina (1).Īrrived in Bali: We first moved to Bali full-time when our oldest son was 18 months old in 2016. Roasters and the family behind this successful coffee business in Bali
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