northernbird

It's like rubbernecking, you just can't help it even though you know it's totally wrong!!

al_and_lucy

ha the Perth one where they stayed in mandurah had my park in! We live in Lakelands

Amazulu

Don't like.Don't watch

Simple

CF=0

Kelli28

Most people love to see others fail especially on tv and everyone points and laughs, it's nothing personal it's just what everyone does. I mean those funny home video shows are really popular and all thats shown is the event leading up to them being carted off in an ambulance and we all roll round laughing.

Appear on reality tv and you have to expect to recive the good with the bad comments, you just have to look at the love / hate talk about people like the kardashians and others from reality tv.

carolinephillips

It is called "schadenfreude" a German word used to describe the feeling of satisfaction we get from other's misfortune.

chris955

It really is like watching a car crash, the latest is a nurse could earn £30,000 MORE in Queensland than in the UK. Do they really believe this and do no research of their own? The wife says how fantastic it is they could buy a house that had a gym for her partially disabled husband. HELLO the gym is just a room with someone elses equipment in it. I think for some the flight completely puggles their brains.
Then right at the end the old 'healthier lifestyle' chestnut rears its head.

paulry

Like watching a car crash very much sums that one up. They are a lovely couple very much devoted to each other but without their established support structures there's no ways they'll be better off in Australia. Then there's the false expectations regarding the nurse's "doubled" Australian salary. The producers of the show have really messed up with this one.

Dorothy

I've never seen the program and have no desire to. However I have to wonder how the couple you're discussing thinks they're going to get a visa if the husband is disabled. It's not a given that he would pass a medical with a disability.

moneypenny20

How on earth do you know that from watching half an hour of edited snippets?

paulry

Because I'm good at spotting that kind of thing.

moneypenny20

Ok

paulry

Have you watched the episode?

seanpears99

It is popcorn TV, its not a serious look at what is achievable in Australia in most cases for a lot of people, it reminds me of Bullseye in the old days when Jim Bowen brings on the speedboat for a couple in the Midlands and says, tek it back boys, they have shit it!

It shouldnt come down to getting personally offensive to anyone either, a forum is full of individual opinions and that is all they are, WDU is a programme creators manipulation for the winter months in the UK to try and make people feel better.

Over the past 5 years Australia has changed and is a really expensive place to live now, work in certain states has dried up but if you have a niche which allows you to enter the country then in that scenario, it can be fruitful. We shouldnt mock people for watching this trash, it serves as a sonnet to the whole verse which is migrating to another country, I wouldnt be blind enough to watch this and pack my bags, its a small insignificant taste of what life could be like.

Everyone needs to chill out!

In the meantime Im going for a ride on my jetski in my pool

moneypenny20

No. I think I saw a couple of episodes before we moved over. Don't watch much tv, let alone some UK reality shite. I don't get why people do tbh but each to his or her own.

Pollyana

And that is the reason why I think these programmes can mislead or may two of the The Reasons.

I've watched programmes from this series saying people can earn salaries 20,000 POUNDS more than thry get in the uk- as nurses and social workers.
And I've seen them say people will get visas - when thry are disabled. They MIGHT get one, there is no given. and when was the last time anyone heard the producers mention police checks?

Programmes like this should give a realistic outlook- I don't care that its not good tv. On here we try so hard to give people a realistic view. I just wish the likes of WDu did the same.