Hello there, heres my 2 cents worth.

I am married to an Aussie lady, whom I have been with for 4 years, we meet in England and I have visited Aus with her twice, once for a year. I enjoyed the place as a holiday but I would not want to live there. You soon realise if a place is "right" I reckoned that it was ok for Aussies, but a Brit would find it rather boring/suburban.

Anyway my wife seems happy now, however she gets emotional blackmail phonecalls off her mum, asking when shes coming home, giving the old aussie is great, how can you cope with the uk, dump/bad weather etc. My wife seems to enjoy life here, but I worry about if she will inevitably succomb to the harrasment. I hated the place and wonder if anyone else is in a similar position??

Thankyou Kong. You just saved a lot of people a lot of time and money.
As all us Brits are the same we need not bother looking toward OZ then.

You know I've just seen the light.
Right then pack the bags, stick the container back on the ship, we're going home to the UK.
Horses and coarses I suppose.

Are you pulling our plonkers?

"Kong " spelt another way= Gonk

<jargon> /gonk/ 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition. In German the term is (mythically) "gonken"; in Spanish the verb becomes "gonkar". "You're gonking me. That story you just told me is a bunch of gonk." In German, for example, "Du gonkst mir" (You're pulling my leg).

cheers

Anyway if you're not - I can't believe how your wife will base her decison on "the weather" and her nagging mum ( P.s - it's actually very sh*t weather today in "sunny" Brisbane - raining and overcast)

( P.s - it's actually very sh*t weather today in "sunny" Brisbane - raining and overcast) [/QUOTE]

I know- this damn weather, I came here under the illusion I would
a) get a tan
b) develop a body like either kylie or any of the cast off Home and Away
c) never get rained on again.

That's it, sod the bush walks, vast empty spaces, and beaches to die for I am off back to Bristol. No wait hang on, they closed down my old place of work- had better stay put.


On a more serious note, my boyf' of 3 years comes from Adelaide and we met in Bristol with work. We both got transferred here to Brisbane Jan 2003. He really misses the Uk, quite possibly more than me, but for strange reasons like the football (soccer to the aussies out there), meeting up with freinds to watch sport in the pub on a Sat afternoon, and obviously easy access to the ski fields of France and Italy. We are now thinking about our next move, maybe Canada as i would be good for us both to be "new" somewhere are we are both in the mining game. I think however, that my folks would kill me as they love Oz and if I moved on they would lose their B&B!!!

And heres my 2 cents worth.

I am married to an English bloke, whom I have been with for a lot longer than 4 years, we meet in Aus and I have visited UK with him twice, once for a year. I enjoyed the place as a holiday but I would not want to live there. You soon realise if a place is "right" I reckoned that it was ok for Brits, but an Aussie would find it rather boring/suburban.

Anyway my husband seems happy now, however he gets emotional blackmail phonecalls off his mum, asking when hes coming home, giving the old aussie is great, but how can we cope with the uk, bad weather etc without you. My husband seems to enjoy life here, but I worry if he will inevitably succomb to the harrasment. I know others are in a similar position.

where are you from in the uk? did you come to sydney, melbourne or somewhere else?
I reckon it would depend where you live - inner sydney is okay - but i couldnt live in adelaide. All those empty parks and total lack of nightlife (in comparison) would do my head right in.
i bloody miss london though.

LOL!!

my god. another classic example of someone sharing his point of view and being told they are wrong. what do you care if he couldnt live there for. doesnt it just mean one less whinging pom to worry about.

Me finks its the Twonk Twoll

See http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hreadid=222129

Phoenixuk2oz

I was thinking exactly the same thing.
He is being told he is wrong or a Troll


What is more interesting is the tone of the replies

G

When ya see shells..........think eggs

Phoenixuk2oz

Personally I think.......chill out peeps.

We live in a democracy, everyone is free to air their own views. One persons view certainly won't impinge on my ability to make my own decision, enjoy life and do the things I want to.

Kong (novel) decided that was his view, mine is totally different. So is over 250,000 people (the approx number) who apply to migrate to Oz every year. Maybe more maybe less, I am no staty.

Either way, a point of view and thats all it is. I am Melbourne bound and who knows, may well find my own little nubile, tanned, extremely fit ex home and away star (aren't all Oz girls like that......hold on sorry forgot to remove the rose tints again) and then I may not.

Roll on Melbourne, roll on Oz and those that want to diss it, feel free. It won't affect my decision(s).

Njoy everyone.

Girl out of the country but country out of the girl?

Here, Here, IanJ, everyone is entitled to their opinion, afterall if we were all the same we would be boring.

We all have to try to find out if we like something. I have been to Oz three times and absolutely love it, but I do have thoughts sometimes about whether I won't like it once I'm there etc etc.

Will just have to see I guess, and cross that bridge if and when I get to it.

Good luck to everyone and there decisions.

Roll on 16th June