Vash the Stampede

More like "An opinion shared is a load of cobblers doubled" in Arkon's case.

Wendy

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As WendyC correctly says, there's a difference to visiting a place and living in it.[/QUOTE]

I was being a tad sarcastic in quoting ALL the "Oz is sh1t" people.



I've just read something on the returning to the UK forum, and I have to say it sums it all up for me.


It says

This is why I feel I'll be OK, cos I'm not traveling round the world on some kind of mission for a better life. I'm going because the opportunity is there and it feels like the right thing for us. If I'm wrong then fine, but I won't be unhappy because of the price of lettuce, how many flies there is or even how hot it is. I will be happy wherever I am, and accept things as being different.

If I ever get to the point where I hate Australia then I may return to the UK BUT only if it feels right to do so. If not then onwards and upwards and all that !! The world is a big place after all

joho

When my me and hubby came for our 2 weeks holiday come have a looky, we stayed in Chester Hill (quite rought apparently)for the first week with some relatives who I had never met and hubby some only once (brill of them). We just didn't like it at all to live and decided to make the most of the holiday and stay in the UK. Can't actully put my finger on what we didn't like. We then moved on up to the central coast to stay with some other cousins, again we had never met. We loved it there and decided this was the place for us and the move was back on, we have been living here for a year now and still love it, our Chester Hill rellies have moved up here as well so we have quite a good family network although they are a lot older than us.

One person's paradise is someone else's hell.

Jo

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...which is precisely why I described the original posters comments as a crock, semantics withstanding or not.

Anyone who offers advice on expatriation (most read by those eagerly awaiting their visas or in the process of applying) based on an unimaginative trip to Adelaide, clearly thinks more of their opinion than anyone else does. Let them stand in front of a group and do the same - they'd look a fool, so perhaps the anonymity of a web forum shields that embarassment.

Also, opinions can change overnight, places don't tend to. During the long wait for the visa, I was on here every day reading other peoples' experiences because somehow I felt it brought me one step closer each day, knowing a bit more.

Well, it doesn't. You form your own opinions at the end of the day. Those are the opinions that count.

Australia - home if YOU want it to be.

Another entertaining evening on BE.

Grayling

The flies are

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NickyC

No, they're not. None of our doors or windows are screened. We might get a few flies in the kitchen (up to half a dozen) when I'm cooking for 3-4 weeks in the height of the summer. Nothing unbearable and nothing that a well-aimed fly swatter won't fix.

We eat outside with no trouble at all.

Living on top of a hill with plenty of sea breezes probably helps.

We don't get any mozzies or spiders either - however cockroaches are another story... :scared:

Grayling

They certainly were bad when I stayed in North Bondi a few months ago and when we walked round the art by the sea display. Even the locals were complaining.

We nearly got eaten alive on South heads :scared:

G

Wave the Sails

Is there a 'Going back to New Zealand' forum? Your comments would certainly be valued there.

Quokka

Good post, best to see it first.

TheCrone

Okay, so the OP came, saw, wasn't impressed. That's her right. But if she disliked it so much, I gather she won't be emigrating..................so what the hell is she doing spouting her nonsense on an Expats site?

sassenach

no it doesnt make you an expert on the uk at all but it will be enough for you to form a general opinion ,after all those that are migrating to australia cant possibly have lived in every street in every town but they can form an opinion enough to justify a lifetime change such as migration just as those returning to the uk cant have lived in every street in every town of australia .We are really talking generalisations australians in general live in cities that would looked through european eyes seem soul less ,where generally aussies tend to think all brits are sardined in to rows of terraced houses and using each others bath water .

Wendy

Trying to cause trouble maybe or thinks that because they didn't like it no-one else will, so we should all stay in the UK and not bother.....

Grayling

Maybe some people are interested in hearing both sides of the 'dream'.

G

sassenach

the point is alot of people have reccie trips and holidays here in aussie before migrating and when they decide to migrate its awhole different experience ,somebody who has been here on holiday can form a general idea of australia after all most of the cities are the same in some respects and flies do tend to inhabit every one of them although they do taste different in melbourne and are a lot juicier if i remember right ,

Hutch

I didn't get the impression the OP was out to cause trouble. I do believe, however, that they could have visited anywhere on the planet and arrived at the same conclusion, so I wouldn't take it as some great nose-thumbing insult to Adelaide, despite the negative comments which are more to do with her validating her decision I suspect.

She said "i was really glad to be back in good old England" - sounds like a tenatative toe-dipping in the water that proved that they were happier in blighty - nothing more, nothing less.