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Old Dec 30th 2013, 11:28 am
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Default Had to laugh- family member outed as Australian hater

My nephew came on a WHV..sure he was going to apply for PR as soon as possible.

He worked in remote NT for a month, came to Melbourne, sat in our house less than a week and fled back to UK.

All well and good but he 'did not like Melbourne'...obviously meaning our house as that's all he saw. And he has told me that 'no-one who moves there, likes Australia, and they all want to leave'.

So can all you migrants from UK please bugger off as you are here only pretending to like it. I have my ticket booked too.
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Old Dec 30th 2013, 8:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Pomster
My nephew came on a WHV..sure he was going to apply for PR as soon as possible.

He worked in remote NT for a month, came to Melbourne, sat in our house less than a week and fled back to UK.

All well and good but he 'did not like Melbourne'...obviously meaning our house as that's all he saw. And he has told me that 'no-one who moves there, likes Australia, and they all want to leave'.

So can all you migrants from UK please bugger off as you are here only pretending to like it. I have my ticket booked too.
He sounds like my father in law. The different being my father in law has never been on an aeroplane
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What did those blokes in NT do to him...he sounds traumatised ?
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my uncle is a bit of a whinging Pom...
but he is also a bit of a Little Englander...his wife is a bit of a shopper...
you know Harrods, David Jones..even has plastic fruit in a bowl..

(my mother was shocked...)

it all tends to go hand in hand...
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How pro-Australia, Australia is great was the OP's relative before he came ?

It makes me smile, these people that are rah - rah - rah for their destination country. Then they can't leave fast enough when the 'extended vacation' feeling ends.

Pretending to like Australia ? Apparently some of you who have emigrated to Aus, have been doing this for decades !

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Default Re: Had to laugh- family member outed as Australian hater

Originally Posted by Snap Shot
How pro-Australia, Australia is great was the OP's relative before he came ?

It makes me smile, these people that are rah - rah - rah for their destination country. Then they can't leave fast enough when the 'extended vacation' feeling ends.

Pretending to like Australia ? Apparently some of you who have emigrated to Aus, have been doing this for decades !
Yup, been pretending to love this place for the last 6.5 years.... When I obviously can't stand it.... I HATE the pool in the garden, especially when I'm floating in it with an icy cold little creatures in me hand, LOATHE the lifestyle, abhor the friendliness of the locals, dislike the taste of steaks and prawns on the Barbie ...... And pine for the company of my dear MIL, 12,000 miles away
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Default Re: Had to laugh- family member outed as Australian hater

Originally Posted by eddie007
Yup, been pretending to love this place for the last 6.5 years.... When I obviously can't stand it.... I HATE the pool in the garden, especially when I'm floating in it with an icy cold little creatures in me hand, LOATHE the lifestyle, abhor the friendliness of the locals, dislike the taste of steaks and prawns on the Barbie ...... And pine for the company of my dear MIL, 12,000 miles away
You and me both, I hate it too and have been pretending to like it for 8 years now
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Originally Posted by Pomster
My nephew came on a WHV..sure he was going to apply for PR as soon as possible.

He worked in remote NT for a month, came to Melbourne, sat in our house less than a week and fled back to UK.

All well and good but he 'did not like Melbourne'...obviously meaning our house as that's all he saw. And he has told me that 'no-one who moves there, likes Australia, and they all want to leave'.

So can all you migrants from UK please bugger off as you are here only pretending to like it. I have my ticket booked too.
Sounds like a sensible lad....should do well
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pine for the company of my dear MIL, 12,000 miles away
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Hmmmmm... Would be funny if she weren't sat next to my pool right now, and planning to be for another 4 bloody weeks
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Default Re: Had to laugh- family member outed as Australian hater

Originally Posted by Pomster
My nephew came on a WHV..sure he was going to apply for PR as soon as possible.

He worked in remote NT for a month, came to Melbourne, sat in our house less than a week and fled back to UK.

All well and good but he 'did not like Melbourne'...obviously meaning our house as that's all he saw. And he has told me that 'no-one who moves there, likes Australia, and they all want to leave'.

So can all you migrants from UK please bugger off as you are here only pretending to like it. I have my ticket booked too.

Bet he would have had a totally different view had he mixed with my 19YO daughter and her friends. Depends on whether he can handle going out 5 nights a week I spose.

I dont think you would have got him to go back......... ever.

I've not had one person come to this house and dislike Aus.... If they like the bush I send erm up to my BiL's station out back of Goondawindi.


Then there's my weekly charcoal based BBQ's and Rottessiries with my football mates and rest of the crew...... 3 languages spoken at those sometimes...4 if you include piiisssseeeddddd.


Always, always always, mix with the locals in your peer group

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Originally Posted by ozzieeagle

I've not had one person come to this house and dislike Aus.... If they like the bush I send erm up to my BiL's station out back of Goondawindi.
That brings back memories, the "Wobbly Boot" pub at Goondawindi used to be a regular stop of mine, I haven't been there for must be seven years so I don't even know if it's still open.

I big London fella used to run the place and served a good steak, but my word they did have a 'mixed bag' of regulars
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Default Re: Had to laugh- family member outed as Australian hater

Originally Posted by Grayling
Sounds like a sensible lad....should do well



I love Grayling, he's like a predictable Karl Pilkington
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Originally Posted by Pomster
My nephew came on a WHV..sure he was going to apply for PR as soon as possible.

He worked in remote NT for a month, came to Melbourne, sat in our house less than a week and fled back to UK.

All well and good but he 'did not like Melbourne'...obviously meaning our house as that's all he saw. And he has told me that 'no-one who moves there, likes Australia, and they all want to leave'.

So can all you migrants from UK please bugger off as you are here only pretending to like it. I have my ticket booked too.
If only all our dissatisfied immigrants had the grace to leave so quickly.

He must have left a big hole in your life when he left
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I love Grayling, he's like a predictable Karl Pilkington
To be fair he isnt the only predictable character on here on either 'side'
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