ARE YOU A BRIT LIVING ABROAD BUT THINKING ABOUT COMING HOME
DO YOU KNOW OF ANY BRITS WHO ARE CONSIDERING RETURNING TO THE UK?
ITV1 are making a new documentary series about British Ex-Pats who are considering moving back to the UK.
We’re keen to hear from Brits who have lived abroad for years without (or very rarely) visiting home, but who are now thinking about returning permanently to Britain.
Perhaps you miss your family and friends, maybe schooling is a problem for your kids, or you simply yearn to step back into British culture. Are some family members longing for home while others are not so sure?
We'll help you explore the reality of coming home, and prepare you for deciding whether to stay abroad or return to your roots.
If this sounds like you, or if you know anyone who might be interested, please contact Amy Robbins as soon as possible by email:
Your planned programme will not 'help' anyone to do anything. The real idea is that it will exploit them in whatever they decide to do, for the benefit of those with nothiing better to do than watch misery-stories on TV in a prurient fashion.
How much are you willing to pay me for my own story, my girl?
I think these programmes are a very good idea, in my opinion they give people a true insight as to what can happen when you move to another country, after all it does not always work out for whatever reason, and that it is not always a bed of roses.
Well after watching programs like A Place Down Under, and A Place in (insert European country here) I agree with Gill. Most people watch those shows to do a bit of armchair travelling and howl at other's mistakes.
It's a bit like watching Top Gear. Good fun, light entertainment but no self respecting car fan would take their assesments seriously and nor should anyone watching these types of relocation programs.
Ask yourself, if it was real life it'd be endless footage of waiting in goverment department queues filling in forms and getting the 'leccy switched on. Hardly riverting.
I'd like to be pleasantly surprised but I'd put this month's wages on knowing pretty much how this'll turn out. And I'm not a betting man 8)
Well after watching programs like A Place Down Under, and A Place in (insert European country here) I agree with Gill. Most people watch those shows to do a bit of armchair travelling and howl at other's mistakes.
It's a bit like watching Top Gear. Good fun, light entertainment but no self respecting car fan would take their assesments seriously and nor should anyone watching these types of relocation programs.
Ask yourself, if it was real life it'd be endless footage of waiting in goverment department queues filling in forms and getting the 'leccy switched on. Hardly riverting.
I'd like to be pleasantly surprised but I'd put this month's wages on knowing pretty much how this'll turn out. And I'm not a betting man 8)
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Well I have watched a lot of those pragrams like a place down under etc,before we were granted our visa, and laughing at other peoples mistake's and misfortunes was furthest from my mind, in fact I learned a lot of precious information and was grateful to the people who were brave enough to put themselves in front of the camara in the first place regardless of weather they did it for money.
Maybe hardly riverting but I guess that is why there is more then one channel, or even better the off switch.
Well I have watched a lot of those pragrams like a place down under etc,before we were granted our visa, and laughing at other peoples mistake's and misfortunes was furthest from my mind, in fact I learned a lot of precious information and was grateful to the people who were brave enough to put themselves in front of the camara in the first place regardless of weather they did it for money.
Maybe hardly riverting but I guess that is why there is more then one channel, or even better the off switch.
So we have a different opinion. I think they'll exploit all the bad bits about the UK for cheap sesationalism, and you think think it'll provide some vital information about living in the UK to people who have already lived there. What info could the show provide that we don't already know about our country?
Well I have watched a lot of those pragrams like a place down under etc,before we were granted our visa, and laughing at other peoples mistake's and misfortunes was furthest from my mind, in fact I learned a lot of precious information and was grateful to the people who were brave enough to put themselves in front of the camara in the first place regardless of weather they did it for money.
Maybe hardly riverting but I guess that is why there is more then one channel, or even better the off switch.
So we have a different opinion. I think they'll exploit all the bad bits about the UK for cheap sesationalism, and you think think it'll provide some vital information about living in the UK to people who have already lived there. What info could the show provide that we don't already know about our country?
I was of the understanding it is about people who have left the UK to live in another country and of whom were having a difficult time adjusting to living there new life, not about exploting the UK or what it is like living there.
Amy was simply asking for people who left the UK several years back, and had felt the new life had not worked for them, not anything to do with living in the UK or providing information about living in the UK as far as I can see.
We have only been in Oz for four months and it has been a very difficult and challanging time, and it has crossed our minds several times if it will work but we are going to give it two years and see if we can adjust to life here, I have no doubt for most people it does work and for the few that do not make it I am sure any help or advice they receive would be appreciated, weather that be via friends or TV.
I have no doubt for most people it does work and for the few that do not make it I am sure any help or advice they receive would be appreciated, weather that be via friends or TV.
and that's a fair enough statement. It's just that most of these shows seem to play heavily on the character foibles of the people taking part rather than the geographic ones. And that tends to give a jaundiced view of the whole situation. I remember a show here years ago (can't think of the name) where some English people were complaining because 'the glass breaks differently in Australia' :shock: (amongst other things). Absolutely nothing to do with the country, just quirky people.
If they really wanted to help people they could do a show just comparing lifestyle, costs, bureaucracy etc without the human element. Just my 2c
If they really wanted to help people they could do a show just comparing lifestyle, costs, bureaucracy etc without the human element. Just my 2c
I have to say, I'm with IanL on this one. The UK media likes nothing better than an "in tears" shot, at which point they get the camera in as close as possible. It's almost as if they derive some form of savage glee.
Much though it galls me to say it, Boris Johnson's much-maligned comment about Liverpool "revelling in victim status" really isn't so far from the truth, when talking about the UK as a whole, *from the media's point of view*.
