I would like to know WHY negative posts would be better in a different forum????? What is a negative for one person may be a positive for another you know! Anyway they are not in fact negative posts most people put on here, it is in fact just the way they feel themselves and are expressing it online. Not everyone will agree therefor as i said positive for some and negative for others. Its a free country so dont read if you dont want to. Anyhow i think you would be mad not to read them because, as another poster said, there may be things you hadnt really thought about and better to think before you arrive than after you get here hey
Of course negative threads have a place here! I used to read negative posts all the time because you have to be realistic! If you don't know the down sides (and there are plenty!) how can you be prepared. IMO anyone that doesn't want to know the negatives just won't survive! We did tonnes of research, came on a reckie, have family here and still some things cheese you off!! Surely people would want to learn from other peoples experiences good or bad???
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I agree completely. The move can be a great catalyst for change, but if you arrive in Oz and sit on your arse waiting for things to happen then you’ll be waiting an awful long time. Being here is no different to being at home in terms of what you can do with your life. The effort you have made is what got you out a rut not the location. At best the location just forced you into making that effort. You can change career, move house, make new friends, take up a new sport, learn to dance or go fishing just as easily in the UK as you can in Oz. If you hate your job in Skipton, you’ll hate it just as much in Perth. If you spend every evening watching TV from the moment you get home until you go to bed then moving to Oz probably won’t change that. It’s certainly just as easy to change that in the UK as it is here.
Negative posts are just people bitching about stuff they didn’t expect or didn’t plan for. It seems about 90% are about missing family and friends, which is sad but should also be pretty damn obvious before you move half way across the planet. If you see your Mum everyday and have a best mate that you see 4 times a week and have done since you were 10, then guess what? You’ll miss them. A lot. Is what you will gain from moving worth that? Yes or no? The other 10% is generally about work/money and you can prepare for that before you leave. Check Aussie property sites from the UK and look at prices. If you can’t afford a place then don’t move or be prepared to rent. Contact recruitment consultants in the area you are moving to and ask them what the job market is like for your field. If they say ‘Haven’t had any vacancies for that sort of thing for months!’ then common sense suggests you don’t move to that area.
Cant agree with 90% missing family....I would say 90% bitch about low wages and the cost of living in Oz.
I have no problem with people disagreeing with my "negative" posts, and I must say 99% of these by myself and others are light hearted. My gripe is with a certain few who seem to jump on us for having the audacity to tell things the way we see it and defend their precious Australia with such venom you would think we had broken into their house and curled one out on their new carpet.
And you now what... they are the same people who slag the UK off something rotton after a few drinks.
I think there is a difference between negativity and realism. If people shy away from realism then they are going to be in trouble. If they interpret that as negativity then that is really their problem.
Hi Quoll
I could not agree with you more.
I ticked the box for "yes to negative posts" last night and I've checked it again this morning. The poll results so far suggest that an overwhelming majority of members seem to feel that "negativity" - which is mainly only somebody's else's view of a given set of facts and is therefore perfectly justifiable and not automatically a "negative" view anyway - should not be stifled. Personally, I agree with the majority so far.
This is going to be last post on this subject, I have already posted elsewhere that keeping going on and on about this subject is not helping the forum in my opinion and is just fueling the trouble makers fires.
But I think people over use the word negative and its not necessary used in the right context, the definition of the word negative is - expressing denial or refusal (this is from an english dictionary). When people post a "negative" post (as it seems to be called) I would not regard them as expressing denial. Simply expressing how in there experience things haven't turned out how the way they would like them. The problem is the words people are chosing to use and this is want is causing the offense, I believe. People have to remember that everyone experiences things different and all of us have different opinion. If you don't like what you read, ignore it, unless is very offensive and breaks the rules in that case report it.
In answer to the poll, no I do not think there should be a separate forum for negative posts because if someone asks a questions say about a particular suburb somewhere, you are going to get some negative posts, as not everyone will like a particular suburb for whatever reason while others will love it.
There is no need for a separate forum as providing the negative post stay clean and non offensive then there will be no more need for threads like this.
And this is my final post on this subject........
Mandisfam
