BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
Jan 27th 2014, 5:31 pm
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
While doing some back exercises this morning, I watched a programme with two young gay men checking out Adelaide.
I was surprised when one, after being told he could start at about £20,000 more than he earns in the UK, not being happy because he wouldn't start at the managerial level he currently enjoys. So does that matter if he could work his way back up and earn even more money at a later date?
If he wants to move down under he should think about compromise.
I was surprised when one, after being told he could start at about £20,000 more than he earns in the UK, not being happy because he wouldn't start at the managerial level he currently enjoys. So does that matter if he could work his way back up and earn even more money at a later date?
If he wants to move down under he should think about compromise.
Jan 27th 2014, 5:37 pm
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
You'll earn £20,000 more than in the UK seems to be the WDU mantra.
Jan 29th 2014, 6:45 pm
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
I watched another episode this morning (it was NZ) and the show is so hackneyed I got cross with myself for wasting my life with this garbage. Another couple who get taken to Auckland (never anywhere else) only to see their relatives weeping and they can't bear it. As for the Australian episodes it should be called Not wanted down under. No more WDU for me!
Jan 31st 2014, 3:07 pm
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
Nicki Chapman who hosts Wanted Down Under, said on Countdown this afternoon that 6 out of 10 families on WDU eventually go down under as planned.
Not always easy for them of course, but I don't remember moving to Australia or New Zealand was ever promoted as solving all of life's problems.
The WDU host said she herself fell in love with Australia at the age of 19 when she went to live in Sydney.
Not always easy for them of course, but I don't remember moving to Australia or New Zealand was ever promoted as solving all of life's problems.
The WDU host said she herself fell in love with Australia at the age of 19 when she went to live in Sydney.
Jan 31st 2014, 4:47 pm
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Jan 31st 2014, 6:26 pm
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That's not true. What the show does is it runs with peoples hopes and dreams and applies their evaluation formula on them (homes, jobs, social, costs, family and friends left behind), and lets people decide for themselves while the WDU team cobbles together all the viewer capturing highlights. But in the end people hear and decide what they want - irrespective of any rational truths that come out of the exercise and that is the elephant in the room.
Jan 31st 2014, 9:37 pm
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I don't agree. If we assume the people in the programme don't do any research of their own (and it certainly looks that way watching it), then they are peddled complete tosh and aren't arriving at a reasonable conclusion at all. The program makers choose people who don't want to see reality and don't show them reality; they show them a week on holiday. The programme just reinforces people's dreams.
There was one a couple of weeks ago featuring a young girl working as a bookeeper who wanted to go to New Zealand. She could have got a £20k payrise if she was accepted into a graduate recruitment programme, apparently. She wasn't a graduate, she wasn't even an undergraduate. Nobody pointed that out and she appeared not to notice. She and her mum were making their calculations on the basis she would get a job for which she did not qualify.
In my view, the programme sets out to portray both Australia and New Zealand as paradise. Everyone is told you work half the hours, can live by the sea in a house twice as big, be home to put your children in bed and earn twice as much. How many people on here find that is their reality?
There was one a couple of weeks ago featuring a young girl working as a bookeeper who wanted to go to New Zealand. She could have got a £20k payrise if she was accepted into a graduate recruitment programme, apparently. She wasn't a graduate, she wasn't even an undergraduate. Nobody pointed that out and she appeared not to notice. She and her mum were making their calculations on the basis she would get a job for which she did not qualify.
In my view, the programme sets out to portray both Australia and New Zealand as paradise. Everyone is told you work half the hours, can live by the sea in a house twice as big, be home to put your children in bed and earn twice as much. How many people on here find that is their reality?
Feb 1st 2014, 7:11 am
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
I don't agree. If we assume the people in the programme don't do any research of their own (and it certainly looks that way watching it), then they are peddled complete tosh and aren't arriving at a reasonable conclusion at all. The program makers choose people who don't want to see reality and don't show them reality; they show them a week on holiday. The programme just reinforces people's dreams.
There was one a couple of weeks ago featuring a young girl working as a bookeeper who wanted to go to New Zealand. She could have got a £20k payrise if she was accepted into a graduate recruitment programme, apparently. She wasn't a graduate, she wasn't even an undergraduate. Nobody pointed that out and she appeared not to notice. She and her mum were making their calculations on the basis she would get a job for which she did not qualify.
In my view, the programme sets out to portray both Australia and New Zealand as paradise. Everyone is told you work half the hours, can live by the sea in a house twice as big, be home to put your children in bed and earn twice as much. How many people on here find that is their reality?
There was one a couple of weeks ago featuring a young girl working as a bookeeper who wanted to go to New Zealand. She could have got a £20k payrise if she was accepted into a graduate recruitment programme, apparently. She wasn't a graduate, she wasn't even an undergraduate. Nobody pointed that out and she appeared not to notice. She and her mum were making their calculations on the basis she would get a job for which she did not qualify.
In my view, the programme sets out to portray both Australia and New Zealand as paradise. Everyone is told you work half the hours, can live by the sea in a house twice as big, be home to put your children in bed and earn twice as much. How many people on here find that is their reality?
I do love the overuse of 'could potentially'. Its a funny show.
Feb 1st 2014, 8:05 am
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
Who pays for the flights over here? Don't the people on the show already have their visas? I'm sure they used to when I saw it in the early days back in the UK. I'm sure I remember from that time that the people used the programme to get a trip over here to validate and from what some of them said on here, they were edited to within an inch of their life but at the end of the day they've had a free trip over and didn't really give a monkey's how they were perceived by people they'll never know. No idea how it's done now.
It seems very presumptuous to assume that these people have done no research just because they come across as dumb when it's five odd days of filming edited down to half an hour or 40 minutes.
As for the programme promising anything well that has to be nonsense, it's simply a programme made to entertain people. It's not a documentary, I'm sure it doesn't market itself as factual and it's not made by the Australian Government so why would the makers promise anything other than to provide a topic for people to watch and talk about?
Watch it and make fun of it by all means but don't patronise people when you don't know their full backgrounds or what's been edited out.
It seems very presumptuous to assume that these people have done no research just because they come across as dumb when it's five odd days of filming edited down to half an hour or 40 minutes.
As for the programme promising anything well that has to be nonsense, it's simply a programme made to entertain people. It's not a documentary, I'm sure it doesn't market itself as factual and it's not made by the Australian Government so why would the makers promise anything other than to provide a topic for people to watch and talk about?
Watch it and make fun of it by all means but don't patronise people when you don't know their full backgrounds or what's been edited out.
Feb 1st 2014, 9:22 am
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Re: BBC Wanted Down Under - Series 8
Who pays for the flights over here? Don't the people on the show already have their visas? I'm sure they used to when I saw it in the early days back in the UK. I'm sure I remember from that time that the people used the programme to get a trip over here to validate and from what some of them said on here, they were edited to within an inch of their life but at the end of the day they've had a free trip over and didn't really give a monkey's how they were perceived by people they'll never know. No idea how it's done now.
It seems very presumptuous to assume that these people have done no research just because they come across as dumb when it's five odd days of filming edited down to half an hour or 40 minutes.
As for the programme promising anything well that has to be nonsense, it's simply a programme made to entertain people. It's not a documentary, I'm sure it doesn't market itself as factual and it's not made by the Australian Government so why would the makers promise anything other than to provide a topic for people to watch and talk about?
Watch it and make fun of it by all means but don't patronise people when you don't know their full backgrounds or what's been edited out.
It seems very presumptuous to assume that these people have done no research just because they come across as dumb when it's five odd days of filming edited down to half an hour or 40 minutes.
As for the programme promising anything well that has to be nonsense, it's simply a programme made to entertain people. It's not a documentary, I'm sure it doesn't market itself as factual and it's not made by the Australian Government so why would the makers promise anything other than to provide a topic for people to watch and talk about?
Watch it and make fun of it by all means but don't patronise people when you don't know their full backgrounds or what's been edited out.
I didnt need WDU to help me with my research as I have been and returned to the UK but would like to go back. What I am uncertain of is where to settle back to and the show would have offered a chance to show me something different, flights, hire car and accommodation paid for, when I am not in a position to afford another reccie.
Feb 1st 2014, 9:40 am
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It would seem incredible in this day and internet age that anyone who has a dream of moving to Australia would not carry out tons of independent research.
Feb 1st 2014, 10:14 am
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We see only the heavily edited parts of their trips, do they look at other homes beyond the ones shown in the programmes, and experience other parts of life there? And if they find that buying or renting their dream homes in the big cities are too expensive, do they consider regional locations which could also be near the sea which they usually crave?
There is a lot to consider when moving a family, as in Britain there needs to be compromise.
Feb 1st 2014, 10:22 am
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I'm sure that all the people chosen for WDU have done their own research before being taken for their big adventure, but nothing beats being on the spot to experience reality.
We see only the heavily edited parts of their trips, do they look at other homes beyond the ones shown in the programmes, and experience other parts of life there? And if they find that buying or renting their dream homes in the big cities are too expensive, do they consider regional locations which could also be near the sea which they usually crave?
There is a lot to consider when moving a family, as in Britain there needs to be compromise.
We see only the heavily edited parts of their trips, do they look at other homes beyond the ones shown in the programmes, and experience other parts of life there? And if they find that buying or renting their dream homes in the big cities are too expensive, do they consider regional locations which could also be near the sea which they usually crave?
There is a lot to consider when moving a family, as in Britain there needs to be compromise.
Feb 1st 2014, 10:59 am
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I just wonder if so many people go on about how much they hate it and what it portrays... why are you still watching it?! Go do something different in your life for that 40 mins....
Feb 1st 2014, 11:42 am
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Because it holds a fascination for what might be or maybe it's just car crash tv?!