Hey Chris,
Congratulations........err.....or should it be good luck? Anyway, I hope everything works out for ya. At least you are staying in the same hemisphere. Australian winters are mild by my standards. In Michigan, months of snow and below freezing weather can grow on ya although recent years have been mild by normal standards.
Being an Aussie citizen and working in Chile, how did you settle the government taxes? In the USA, we all pay income taxes. Canadians really take it up the wazoo. How did this work for you?