[mandytuck]

Hi, welcome back to England. It sounds as though you are disillusioned with your time in Oz. I am not denying that England is a glorious country as far as views and places to go are concerned, but the way it is being run down at the moment does not give me any confidence that it will be a good place for my sons to try and make a good life for themselves and their future families. I know Oz is isolated when you compare it to here and that there is not the same history or culture, but we have seen it here already and want to try something different. England is becoming so much like the USA (gangs, guns, knives, drugs, cut-throat business ideals etc.) that it scares me! The amount of illegal immigrants and also legal ones that only come here to get benefits as we are so soft with them worries me too. If life at home is so hard and dangerous, why is it usually young men who come here....what about their families left behind on their own in the 'dangerous, hard country'? I welcome anyone who wants to work and pay taxes like the rest of us, but not others. I know Oz has it's bad points...I would be stupid to think otherwise, but it can't be as bad as we are heading here.