Originally Posted by
Chalkgirl
Things you wish you'd done before coming back to NZ #34.
I so wish I'd gone to get new glasses and had my eyes re-tested before I left the UK. I just visited an optometrist yesterday to have a check-up and to order prescription sunglasses (the sun is so bright here!). I ended up with the sunglasses and a new pair of glasses (prescription inevitably changed) and a bill of just over $1000. Very ouch! Not a fancy optometrist either. Just much cheaper to do in the UK. Remembered to visit the dentist before coming back, thankfully!
The reason I had laser eye surgery over here, the cost will pay back in years to come & I was getting frustrated at having to change from glasses to sun glasses everytime I went in & out of shops, the sun is so bright here I struggle most days but never looked back since I had the surgery