lesleys

My parents put their names down for £10 tickets, but I arrived instead.

BUT we got our visas this morning (55 years later)!!!!!!!!!

Lesley

Bix da Boss

What a good thread!

Really makes you think - what sort of life did all those £10 a ticket people end up having - good ones I suspect!

Rosy

Not in the beginning - hubbie's aunt and uncle emigrated on a £10 ticket - they're still there and wouldn't move back for anything, but boy was it HARD.

Hubbie's aunt had it hardest - looking after 3 young children, living in communal expats quarters, she says you had to watch yourself in the showers 'cos all the kids used to climb up and over the walls to get a peep while you were in there, and the number of suicides were unbelievable...

snowhite

My parents were also £10 poms !! ,adopted me out in Aus and now I have dual nationality although have always thought of myself as a Aussie and cant wait to go home after 15 yrs in the Uk.

Bix da Boss

Yes, I did realise that some / a lot of them would have found it hard, especially if they had children to support. I was just trying to look on the 'bright side' of the coin

But in reality - what did they expect? What a huge step to take!
Of course it would be hard - that goes without saying!

What we are in the process of doing now, going to the other side of the world to live - is a massive thing to do even if you are in a better position then they were.

What matters is - how they are now and what opportunities it opened up for some of them as opposed to staying in the uk and being even worse off at that time!

There is good and bad to every situation.

Such is life

tiredwithtwins

my mum and dad were all set to go.......until my dad had cold feet and changed his mind......my mums hated him for it ever since!!!

sue

Pants

I have spoken to many 10pound poms and even one yesterday who has been here 30 years said she would go back tomorrow but her kids are here now so won't leave them plus she said she left it too late.

Her co-worker said that wild horses would not drag her back to the UK. So there you have it.I know alot of poms said that they HAD to stay as they could not afford to go back.

Not easy even back then!

Pants...

whisky

Better than I could have ever wished for. We have some fantastic times together. I never thought that we would be together again after all those years.

Whisky

janeyray

My hand is up, my parents were 10 pound Aussies.

jad n rich

My parents were going, but Aunt went first they and nearly boiled alive in tin roofed shacks in summer. Work was poorly paid and they struggled beyond belief with sickness in the concentration camps!! as my aunt called them. Needless to say my parents though better of it once the letters home started arriving. However my aunt and uncle are still here, they have grandkids now so cannot cut the old heartstrings, which is a reason a lot of the oldies do stay here.