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Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by steve_and_gill
(Post 5759906)
Just watched todays episode and was very interested to see Melbourne. However Gill and I were a bit surprised that they didn't cover the medical issues for the bloke and whether he would pass or not?
It would be cruel if they went all through that, decided to go and then found out his medical condition was a no go. Worse, as it has been left, any half interested viewers will be unaware that the couple would potentially have been denied a visa anyway. I feel a complaining email to the bbc |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Yep, we have just watched it and were saying the same. They should make it clear that it is quite hard to get in with medical conditions.
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Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by mollybailey
(Post 5751287)
hi there we are trying to get into adelaide and we were hoping there would be a programme on it! we are hopefully at the final stages of hearing if succssesful fingers crossed, we hope to go out by october, we have friends living there and they love it, we have 2 children aged 6 and my oh is a plasterer and myself a hairdresser, how about you did you love adelaide?
Same as us!!!! We're hoping to go in October 08, never been before but i've got a cousin who's lived there for 19 years, so it sounds like the place to be. |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by steve_and_gill
(Post 5759906)
Just watched todays episode and was very interested to see Melbourne. However Gill and I were a bit surprised that they didn't cover the medical issues for the bloke and whether he would pass or not?
It would be cruel if they went all through that, decided to go and then found out his medical condition was a no go. Worse, as it has been left, any half interested viewers will be unaware that the couple would potentially have been denied a visa anyway. I feel a complaining email to the bbc |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by snow-white
(Post 5759980)
hi,
no its not too touristy, mind you where we are there are loads of exp ats lol. theres everythign here the kids could want, we havent been here long so are still trying to settle in and find our feet. dont know whether we will stay in the area we are in though, anyway if i can be of any help just give me a shout, why 3 christmas days do you have to wait? lesley I've wanted to move there for about 4 years now - so I suppose I'm around half way throughish. I just break the wait down in my head to - 4 months and move house, 9 months - another baby - 3 months of chaos - get back into the workload - visit oz - maybe another baby - apply . . . it all sort of works out in my head (although when does anything ever go to plan lol) |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by Coppock
(Post 5762188)
I've had to get the qualification, then had a baby, been working freelance for almost a year - but I think I'm going to need between 3-5 years experience (depending on any changes etc), so I can apply for another 3 years or so - so 3 christmas days here lol, then they'll be being spent in the pool!
I've wanted to move there for about 4 years now - so I suppose I'm around half way throughish. I just break the wait down in my head to - 4 months and move house, 9 months - another baby - 3 months of chaos - get back into the workload - visit oz - maybe another baby - apply . . . it all sort of works out in my head (although when does anything ever go to plan lol) all the best anyway lesley x |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by snow-white
(Post 5762220)
i see looks like your going to end up like me with 7 of them and in oz finally
all the best anyway lesley x |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Hi all
The programme started yesterday its on at 9.00am every weekday morning, today is in perth then they go to NZ the next australia one is next wednesday and its in Melbourne, Dont know any more than that as my sky pluss wont go any further. hope this helps Ian:) |
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todays lot are bit miserable :blink: (perth) and it's just the start
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I thought the visa information in (I think) the second episode was a bit off too. It was the one with the young couple and baby. They would be applying on her skills in recruitment but she hadn’t worked in that area for two years as she’d had the baby. I thought you had to have been working in your chosen profession for the previous 3 years in order to apply? Or is it three out of the previous five years or something?
I don’t like the tone of the programme generally (although I am taping them all anyway! Haha!). It’s very much a coffee table programme, thin on information, heavy on silly card twiddling and I think it’s so silly how they act at the start of the show as if the family haven’t been yet and then we find out that they have. Could they not actually tape them before they left and again when they came back??! But it certainly does imply that if you want to emigrate then all you have to do is apply and off you go. They should at least refer people to the IMMI website for further info. Thérèse :) |
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Its very cheap TV. They even interview the familys going to Oz in NZ House and just change the flag on the table. We're validating and doing a reccy to Melbourne in April and learnt nothing from yesterday's programme.
Still, its daytime TV and I don't supposed its competing with Panorama |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by goingau
(Post 5762371)
todays lot are bit miserable :blink: (perth) and it's just the start
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The water police looked ace :)
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Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by Australia_bound?
(Post 5762528)
Seemed to me the mother was the driving force for the move. Not 100% convinced any of the family apart from her really wanted to go there? Wonder why they opted for Perth? :confused:
Another couple also said that when they saw themselves moving to Oz they definitely thought of Sydney or Melbourne and didn't really fancy Perth yet that's where they did their reccie. My OH reckons the programme makers are determining where people go!! |
Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under
Originally Posted by RedT
(Post 5762654)
Another couple also said that when they saw themselves moving to Oz they definitely thought of Sydney or Melbourne and didn't really fancy Perth yet that's where they did their reccie. My OH reckons the programme makers are determining where people go!!
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