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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
Not a ramble but an inteligent comment! And so true its mortgage territory wherever we go here so if its cheaper in Australia, thats another positive for me!
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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.
Earlswood , Yes and that one in 4 days is always on the bloody weekend when guesswhat? The kids are at flipping school and we're at work. Plus it really depends on whereabouts in England you live. Plus it is still flipping windy and freezing!
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Live life , cause your a long time dead!
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.
Gah you're p*****ing me off now!
When was the last time you were stuck in your small 4 walls with 3 bored kids? Or had to pay out for them to go to a soft play cos it was pissing it down?
Oh thats right NEVER!!!!
Stop talking BOLLOCKs and get your moaning arse back to the UK please and give everyone on this forum a break!!
It rains so much in bloody perth cos theres a permenent rain cloud over your head!!!
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Angelcake , i know , i think until he has a family , he'll never really understand life!
Julie - and don't forget the WATERLOGGED PARKS -from these tiny showers we keep having ...oh ..is that every 4 days Earlswood?
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As my old grandma used to say :
Live life , cause your a long time dead!
2.If you think I'm talking rubbish, it's your prerogative to think so.
3. Got to go put my wellies on (again) to walk the dog and collect the kids from school. In my waterproof coat. Cos it's raining.
Mrs Tyke xx
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Come on everyone you are no being fair (sarcasm!). The sun came out for two hours here this morning! The first time in a month and it flipping July middle of our flipping summer, flipping flipping flipping! Managed to get the chool holidays off work and the long weather forcast is for rain flipping rain flipping rain arghhhhhh!
I will only get half pay so no money to take the kids anywhere double arghhhhh!
Now i have to get my washing in because its started to rain. Triple arghhhhh!
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Moving away from just the weather (although just to add before I do this, my heating has been coming on lately (it's set to come on if the temp. drops below a certain degree) so I think that shows how cold it has been this summer so far) if Australians who had never been here to the UK before listened and believed everything that us on PIO say (because of course we will be discussing the bad points) then they would be as silly as us if we believed only what we read that Earlswood says about Perth.
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what do you honestly think you can do in Oz that you cannot do in the UK.
