Kapri

I've just spat wine all over my computer screen.
That's exactly what I was thinking Arkon.

mad city fan

anyone been watching wanted down under expected it to be more about migration to australia, it seems its more of a property programme. well im not impressed but saying that ill probably end up watching it for the rest of the week

kaysnjack

HI, i just managed to catch the end of todays show on BBC 1 at 9.15, based in Adelaide, my partner would love to watch these shows, does anyone know if they will be shown again at a later time (not when everyone is at work) or will they ever be shown over on BBC 3?? If anyone knows would they let me know, much appreciated, Alison

kaysnjack

Exactly, what a stupid time to show the programme, I am gutted, I did the same by checking through the TV guide to see if it will be repeated?? Does anyone know if this will happen. Im asking for SKY + for my birthday!! There are 20 episodes altogether.

dancingd1970

Hi every one

I'm new to this site, its always been a dream of mine to move to Australia, and I was wondering if any one has been watching wanted down under, I just want to know if anyone knows where the family from the 16 jan 2007 episode visited in Perth because I can't remember and it looked really nice, and I can't think where the suburb was.

Thank You
dancingd1970

daunted

hi all
Ive been recording these shows and watching at night. Gotta say i am a bit disappointed - I hope some of these families are going to be going on a budget. Im sure i cant possibly be the only one who will have to go into rented accommodation for a while until established in job to get a mortgage

Australia_bound?

Programme seems very much (so far) a typical British person, works all hours has no life wants to go to Aus to have a "better" life, work short hours and have a BIG house as got loads of equity in their UK homes to enable them. Not sure if they ever thought about moving to another area of UK 1st! Would seem more logical, seeing how so far everyone admits to not wanting to leave family/friends. But they'll have this bridge to cross when they get there, I'm glad my Mrs isn't that close to her family as would make leaving far harder and would put pressure on move being instantly good for all concerned!

I'm pretty sure there's lots of us who will take what we save or have very little in the pot and have to do things the hard way. Also not everyone is daft enough to work themselves into the ground and are not so much looking to escape things by moving to Aus!
Such a shame show isn't more serious pros/cons, how things work etc, but maybe only aimed as a gimmick show with no depth. Love the spinning flag idea, what a audience winner lol

uksniper

Sorry Rumswizz I was only joking when I said I was the Director General of the BBC. I can't help you with getting it shown in the USA.

daunted

DITTO what australia bound said

B@lDeR$

As I’m sure you know as you are Aussie bound that you don’t have loads of equity in their UK homes once you have paid out for the visa application, air fair, crate to ship all your worldly goods, moving of pets, selling your house ect the list goes on & on. YES the pound is good at the moment but when you are there earning the $ it all ends up being apples for apples. So NO we are not looking at this through rose coloured glasses. Yes I did consider moving to another part of the British isle but I failed to find somewhere with 8 hours sunshine a day. Plus does the BBC really want to open a can of worms on day time TV with 20 families saying how much they are fed up with the continuous onslort of EU residents milking this country dry?
What you didn’t see on the TV show was my wife having to give up her place at university as a trainee nurse because we couldn’t afford the child care and the fact there was no job post availed at the end of her training. (Where’s the incentive in that) You didn’t see me travelling for nearly 4 hours a day to and from work with 1 hour of that on the London tube and when I do get to work the building I work in is number 1 site for our bearded friends to have a BBQ.

My guess is there may be a series 2 where they go back to find or be told by the family feachered in this series what pros/cons they have come across whilst moving to Aus.

I would like to hear your reason for going to Aus
Paul Larner

sheli0508

Thanks for your post Paul.

I watched the show for what it is - day time television - escapism at it's best on a dreary January morning for the masses. But for those of us that have a genuine interest in moving, or going through the same thought processes or even going through the Visa stage it's that little glimer at the end of a blxxdy long slog.

I only wish we had had the same opportunity instead of going on blind faith. I for one am interested in everyones migration story, the more diverse the better - it helps me learn along the way and without programmes like the bbc's and definitely this site I'd be lost.

thanks again,

Shelley

Rumswizz

Awwww darn it ! And here's me thinking we have contacts in high places on this board!!

uksniper

Shelley you have hit the nail on the head. It's a shame more people never looked at it like you.

est71

Could'nt agree more with your comments. I for one have found the programme to be both entertaining and heartwarming, no it isnt a current affairs programme, its a quick inside look into peoples first impressions of australia. My god why do people take life so serious that they have to question the moral intentions of everything that is put in front of them. People have dreams which may or may not be achieved, let them have their dreams. Yes reality is some what different but would any of us get out of bed in the morning if we thought to long and serious about life etc etc etc.

I say a big thankyou to everyone who has a dream and goes with it! Thats what makes life worth living, your dreams my dreams!

Stephen

Thats one bloody offensive and racist thing to say mate.

This 'continuous onslot of EU residents' as you call them are just people like yourselves who want to get a better life. You want sunshine, they want a decent standard or living.

I suppose you would classify us Irish as part of this group who have been emigrating to the UK for the past 100 years? Just like the 'onslot' of EU citizens, the Irish were only looking to trade a hard days work for a decent wage. No different from the Poles, Latvians or Bulgarians.

Please do yourself a favour and omit your offensive undertones from your vocabulary. This reminds me of that other show...what was it....'A place down under'.....where that guy who went to the Gold Coast with the Gym Instructor and 2 step kids.......well he came out with the clanger......""You cant move in London now for all the asylum seekers" (or words to that effect)......

(edit)...found it http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...seekers+london

"".....I've just watched a bit of Channel Four's A New Life Down Under, in which a morose Cockney and his improbably orange wife were explaining their motivation for leaving England to move to Australia. "We were in London the other day", he said, "and there were just too many asylum seekers".

Riiiiiight. So you checked all their visas and papers personally, did you? You performed a citizen's arrest on every short, dark and/or dirty looking person you saw in Waltamstow and frogmarched them to the Home Office so as to verify their refugee status, did you?...."


Blarff.