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Originally Posted by Gags
There are some good points to Australia and i left behind a lot of good friends, but i can literally count the things i miss about Australia on one hand. The fact of the matter is that I have done much more in one year since returning to the UK then i did in the entire 3 years i was in Australia. It must be a generational thing because I simply don't get it. The kind of response you post stating every 'Tom Dick and Harry' makes me think you are the typical Daily Mail-reading racist expat that'll probably get along fine with the redneck locals in rural Queensland. Australia is a country of immigrants if you hadn't noticed, what do you expect to find there, a Ku Klux Klan convention. Melbourne and Sydney in particular have huge immigrant belts where you wouldn't see many a white face, you would be shocked!
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Gags
I read your original post with interest - I entirely agree people often deal with the whole emigration issue with blinkers on and many will get a few very nasty surprises when they return to the real world.
However, the later response to Mel simply makes me think you're one of the many people who take pleasure in coming onto sites such as PIO and intentionally raining on people's parades - treating people who you know nothing whatsoever about as if they're everything you despise in life. It's not a great behavioural trait.
The choice to emigrate or even to return to the UK is entirely down to individuals and people's experiences can be very different. You certainly should not be judging everyone else on your own jaded view.
I for example am 26 years old, grew up for 17 years in Harrogate (day trip? pah! not for me again) and now live in York. I am intelligent and well educated and have a good, well paid job. However, I also like my life
extremely laid back and Oz will suit just fine thank you very much. If it doesn't I'll return to the UK and continue not to make assumptions about other people.
If I've read you wrong, I apologise, but if that's the case you should probably be a bit more careful what you put in print.