...and under the rim of your wheelie/recycling bins. Infact, any dark areas such as where our pool pump is and under the window sills. If you look close enough, you'll find them.

What does your husband do for a living Mona?

yep, the little blighters get everywhere outside

Yes thanks a lot for sorting the downloading out - above and beyond duty - K sent!

are there places in oz that get more spiders or snakes than others?

I would just like to raise a some points with regard to a lot of these families.

I have seen the occasional program, and it seems to me that many of these families are initially very keen to move over, seeing Oz as the land of milk & honey, and get over there expecting a life-long holiday.

The problem for me is that as soon as many of them arrive, they start to pick fault with things. One of the most annoying things I have found are the constant refferals to the UK as 'home'. For instance, 'This is more expensive than at home" , "The chocolate tastes different than home" etc etc. I think it is paramount that if you are emigrating to Australia on a permanent basis, as most of these people seemingly hoping to do, you should forget the UK as being home, and start believing the old cliche that 'home is where your lay your hat'.

I also think that many of these people seem to be leaving close friends and family behind who they obviously didn't want to leave behind. If that's the case, what's the point? If you're just gonna moan about missing your friends and family then why are you thinking about moving somewhere so far away from them!?

I suppose I am just having a little rant because I watch these spoiled idiots getting a paid trip to Oz and then turn their nose up at everything, when the rest of us who would make a really good go of it, have to sit here saving our pennies!

*Gets off soapbox*

I honestly don't know how you can move somewhere else, without noticng things be it prices, tastes, houses, roads etc. I would have thought that was pretty average thing to do.

I agree. But noticing is one thing, comparing is another.

My god! How much is this mansion they are showing now - it's amazing!!! Wonder who I can sell to get it

Isn't that human nature though?

lol probably have to sell the oh to get that one kath

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If you can spend your entire life in one country, then pitch up in another and NOT make comparisons with home you are one very unusual person. They are classic comments of somebody still in the UK, basically guessing at how they will react to living in Australia.

I would have thought so.

These people aren't "spoiled idiots" - they're just like the rest of us, trying to make the decision whether Australia is the place to spend the future. They responded to an advert to appear on a BBC show and got a week's holiday in Oz. Why does that make them idiots? And yes, "home" is the Uk because that is where they currently live.

You don't know they aren't prepared to make a really good go at it. The BBC have posted a few snippets where the family showed dislike or disappointment at a few things. Well that makes good TV, doesn't it, and 5 mins of that tells us nothing about the real goings on in these people's lives. Don't be so harsh - it's TV and editing doesn't always paint a real picture.

I'm sure you'll see the bigger picture one day.