Not an England I recognize.

[Toonmac]

Agree my Wife was born in Australia but has spent most of her life in Uk(Liverpool) We are thinking about going to live in Melbourne. I am a prison officer so i can tell you first hand crime in the Uk is out of control. Alot of people are leaving England behind because of it. I have 2 close friends that left for New Zealand soley based on the crime that plagues our once great country

[Angelcake]

I could say exactly the same about some of the people on here and the way they run down Australia.

The people are cliquey, rude, no-one talks to you, they are shallow, materialistic. The weather is awful, it rains too much in Perth and never rains in other parts. The landscape is drab and boring just like the lifestyle and the people. There's graffiti everywhere, shops shut early, everyone's in bed by 9pm, there's as much crime as the UK, there's no culture, the food is crap and expensive, education is crap etc etc

This may be the Australia YOU know, but there are lots of here that don't recognise that description as they place they live in.

There is NO reality only perception !!

Angelcake

[tracy123]

Originally Posted by MattCath

Yup there is a strange yellow object up in the sky here is South Glos and I have put the washing out!!!! Still in state of shock. Thinking about putting my bikini on as I have a day off work!
England is a lovely country and we don't realise how lucky we are, and as you say the grass is not always greener sometimes its browner! But I just want to try something different. There are no knife crimes, gun crimes etc. where I live and it is safe to walk around even at night.There are area's that I obviously wouldnt the same as everywhere.
I would like to move somewhere safe and nice if possible and if I don't like it I may come back or I may go somewhere else, the world is a big place.
Please tell your girlfriend to come for a visit, we have loads of Aussies in Bristol. They seem to like it.

Can I have a picture please!?!

I think I live on on of the worst streets in Blackburn and Im happy to walk down my road with all the huddies lurking about, but then again i'll be one of the people that make the news as being stabbed and beaten to death.
The more people that claim back their street their town their country the less problems this country will have. We all sit at home saying something is wrong but nobody is prepared to do anything about it!!!!!
It only takes one person to start a movement!

Geoffrey

[MattCath]

Originally Posted by tracy123

Can I have a picture please!?!

I think I live on on of the worst streets in Blackburn and Im happy to walk down my road with all the huddies lurking about, but then again i'll be one of the people that make the news as being stabbed and beaten to death.
The more people that claim back their street their town their country the less problems this country will have. We all sit at home saying something is wrong but nobody is prepared to do anything about it!!!!!
It only takes one person to start a movement!

Geoffrey

You could but it would put you off your lunch! anyway that bright yellow oject in the sky has now been covered by big black rain clouds yet again.
It only takes one person to start a movement!

Yep and my movement is in the direction of OZ!

[Siblin!]

Earlswood,
I'm not going to Australia for utopia , nor do i wear rose tinted glasses , I want to see if i can make a better life for me and my children . It is only human nature to want to better yourself , experience something new .

I am well aware that Aus may have simular problems to England and as i live in a quiet coastal town where i have freedom and feel safe, it is a risky move and an experience which i think will test us . But if we never try we'll never know and i'm all for trying.

I think you have left behind a country which many of us don't recognise anymore and think that maybe you need to come back to your sacred ground and see how much has changed and why a vast majority of people are leaving in droves.

I would rather live in a place which offers me better weather so i can plan my weekends and be able to enjoy a free afternoon , instead of it costing me a fortune , because yet again it's bloody freezing and peeing it down!

[MattCath]

Originally Posted by Siblin!

Earlswood,
I'm not going to Australia for utopia , nor do i wear rose tinted glasses , I want to see if i can make a better life for me and my children . It is only human nature to want to better yourself , experience something new .

I am well aware that Aus may have simular problems to England and as i live in a quiet coastal town where i have freedom and feel safe, it is a risky move and an experience which i think will test us . But if we never try we'll never know and i'm all for trying.

I think you have left behind a country which many of us don't recognise anymore and think that maybe you need to come back to your sacred ground and see how much has changed and why a vast majority of people are leaving in droves.

I would rather live in a place which offers me better weather so i can plan my weekends and be able to enjoy a free afternoon , instead of it costing me a fortune , because yet again it's bloody freezing and peeing it down!

Yep and its the flipping middle of the summer!

[earlswood]

Originally Posted by windsor

GMTV - Poor quality of life

I think this sums up!!

Thank you....that sums the media and the people of the UK to a tee

[saunders clan]

Originally Posted by earlswood

I know it is natural for folk who are moving to Australia to jump on every bit of bad news that comes out in the UK in the media and on the news to justify and probably more importantly convince their partners that it is the correct move…when ever a bad piece of news come out it is only natural for people moving to another Country for them to say “That’s why we are moving” the more bad news that comes out in the UK the more justified some people feel about the move.
My Aussie girlfriend reads this forum and has got a picture of the UK being like some third world country with people dying on filthy hospital wards and dying literally in the streets as you step over them, she asks what it is like to live in a Country where the sun never shines and it rains for months on end.
Not a Country I left.
Just a thought.

Withour research or a visit everyone conjures up an image in their heads of everywhere.

You mention Australia to most Brits and due to what they hear, read and believe they imagine beautiful beaches yet shark and jellyfish infested seas, millions of massive spiders, deadly snakes and ants running around all over the show, brown outback, koalas and Uluru. Truth is these things are there but millions of people live and survive in Australia without encountering these things on a day to day basis.

Same as the UK. All the things people discuss are there, happening alive and kicking but you can still live your lives there without it entering your bubble.

[sykestykes]

I really hate to sit on the fence (but here I go again).

I can see the viewpoint of everyone who has posted on this subject on this thread and all the others that have gone before it. I can't speak for Earlswood but I do know he is a young single guy who doesn't yet have any kids.

I know he is desperately unhappy where he is and I think this has made him pine more for everything familiar and dear to him (friends, family, the pub, etc., etc). Being homesick must be dreadful, whoever it happens to and I think it must magnify what you are feeling.

However, we have several friends in Oz who do have children and they are always busy and tell us that simple days out cost nothing - in the UK it costs us £25.00 for the 4 of us just to go to the cinema and when one wet weekend is followed by yet another, funds rapidly deplete and it's a case of "Oooh, what overpriced indoor activity can we go to this week, kids?!"

I am sick of being indoors all the time or schlepping round the park with the dog in the rain in my wellies, day after day after day. I also feel the cold more because I suffer with an underactive thyroid, which means I can be freezing even when it's bearable for everyone else. I don't hate the UK, I love it - I just want a different experience before I go in my box.

As my nan would say, if we were all the same the world would be a very boring place - that's what makes life interesting!

Sorry for the ramble.

Mrs Tyke xx

[earlswood]

Originally Posted by sykestykes

I really hate to sit on the fence (but here I go again).

I can see the viewpoint of everyone who has posted on this subject on this thread and all the others that have gone before it. I can't speak for Earlswood but I do know he is a young single guy who doesn't yet have any kids.

I know he is desperately unhappy where he is and I think this has made him pine more for everything familiar and dear to him (friends, family, the pub, etc., etc). Being homesick must be dreadful, whoever it happens to and I think it must magnify what you are feeling.

However, we have several friends in Oz who do have children and they are always busy and tell us that simple days out cost nothing - in the UK it costs us £25.00 for the 4 of us just to go to the cinema and when one wet weekend is followed by yet another, funds rapidly deplete and it's a case of "Oooh, what overpriced indoor activity can we go to this week, kids?!"

I am sick of being indoors all the time or schlepping round the park with the dog in the rain in my wellies, day after day after day. I also feel the cold more because I suffer with an underactive thyroid, which means I can be freezing even when it's bearable for everyone else. I don't hate the UK, I love it - I just want a different experience before I go in my box.

As my nan would say, if we were all the same the world would be a very boring place - that's what makes life interesting!

Sorry for the ramble.

Mrs Tyke xx

This is it......this is what i am on about...my girlfriend belives this rubbish.....on average it rains one in four days in the UK over a year and that might only be a short shower...75% of the time it is not raining...you can have days out with your kids that do not cost much what do you honestly think you can do in Oz that you cannot do in the UK.