Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 4296995)

Thats one bloody offensive and racist thing to say mate.

This 'continuous onslot of EU residents' as you call them are just people like yourselves who want to get a better life. You want sunshine, they want a decent standard or living.

I suppose you would classify us Irish as part of this group who have been emigrating to the UK for the past 100 years? Just like the 'onslot' of EU citizens, the Irish were only looking to trade a hard days work for a decent wage. No different from the Poles, Latvians or Bulgarians.

Please do yourself a favour and omit your offensive undertones from your vocabulary. This reminds me of that other show...what was it....'A place down under'.....where that guy who went to the Gold Coast with the Gym Instructor and 2 step kids.......well he came out with the clanger......""You cant move in London now for all the asylum seekers" (or words to that effect)

Blarff.:frown:

Originally Posted by B@lDeR$ (Post 4295971)

As I’m sure you know as you are Aussie bound that you don’t have loads of equity in their UK homes once you have paid out for the visa application, air fair, crate to ship all your worldly goods, moving of pets, selling your house ect the list goes on & on. YES the pound is good at the moment but when you are there earning the $ it all ends up being apples for apples. So NO we are not looking at this through rose coloured glasses. Yes I did consider moving to another part of the British isle but I failed to find somewhere with 8 hours sunshine a day. Plus does the BBC really want to open a can of worms on day time TV with 20 families saying how much they are fed up with the continuous onslort of EU residents milking this country dry?
What you didn’t see on the TV show was my wife having to give up her place at university as a trainee nurse because we couldn’t afford the child care and the fact there was no job post availed at the end of her training. (Where’s the incentive in that) You didn’t see me travelling for nearly 4 hours a day to and from work with 1 hour of that on the London tube and when I do get to work the building I work in is number 1 site for our bearded friends to have a BBQ.
My guess is there may be a series 2 where they go back to find or be told by the family feachered in this series what pros/cons they have come across whilst moving to Aus.
I would like to hear your reason for going to Aus
Paul Larner

Originally Posted by RachelH (Post 4297597)

I agree that there is lots of repetition on the show but thats fairly typical for daytime TV and some of it is a bit contrived but as a lighthearted look at an Aussie lifestyle its fun to watch. I am on maternity leave so get the chance to watch it every day!

I hope those that have appeared on the show will keep us updated on their progress, its always nice to hear how things turn out. Especially interested in your story Paul as you've taken the time to post on here.

Its interesting dont you think that so far they have all picked Australia - do you think of the 20 families that any of them will say the UK? I would wager if they do it would only be a couple out of the 20, anyone want to lay bets on it!!

And Aus Bound - whereabouts in NY are you?

Originally Posted by RachelH (Post 4297614)

HI Aus Bound - of course I am posh, I wouldnt be living here otherwise. Ha haaaaaaa. Although if you're in a village location (highly desirable) you too must be posh, no?

Originally Posted by Australia_bound? (Post 4297577)

My reasons
Been there loved it, very different to UK, have lots of family there and have family in process of moving over there as we speak, in 5 years we'll be the only ones left here (if we stayed). I personally love where I live 25 mins from work, beautiful countryside all around, yes weather is very changeable
, "but variety is the spice of life", love snow and rain and sunshine so get it all. I moved from another part of UK 6 years ago to where I am now and I'm very glad I did.
I'm having more of a dig at the programme than the people featured, was expecting a bit more depth than what has been shown so far. So not meaning to offend anyone just general comments on how easy they make it all seems and that they have chosen people with a house to sell, which does make the whole process far easier. Can recall new life down under, woman from Blackpool went with £3000 and her luggage, that is far more of a story in my personal opinion!
I've noticed someone on other thread has taken offence on your behalf, I'm glad to see you're not childish like they're being and that you're taking time to answer and go into more detail than the programme has, much appreciated.

Hope once you get there you can keep us all informed of how you and your family are getting along! Good luck ;)

Originally Posted by skye (Post 4298450)

certainly more depth in todays prog. Flies? what flies? :blink:

Originally Posted by skye (Post 4298450)

certainly more depth in todays prog. Flies? what flies? :blink:

Originally Posted by shiels (Post 4295009)

Ian Harrop without a doubt. Based in Oxford tel number 01993824111 www.ianharrop.co.uk Good Luck C x

Originally Posted by beaumonts (Post 4298134)

Hi,
our limited resources are going to run out sooner if this is not sorted out. For example only last week via the news we were told we only had 9 years of land fill left and we have to recycle more ( which I totally agree). Letting more people into this country surely is going to increase the amount of refuse. Another issue is our state pensions what is going to happen in years to come when there are too many people collecting their pensions and not enough money to pay them..