is the grass really greener?
Feb 28th 2007 | 6:03 pm
#106
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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From: at the bottom of a wine glass
Re: is the grass really greener?
Oops sorry 
Will leave him alone 
Of course there are breezes in Adelaide! It's glorious here today, about 34 degrees with a lovely COOL breeze.
Will leave him alone Of course there are breezes in Adelaide! It's glorious here today, about 34 degrees with a lovely COOL breeze.
Feb 28th 2007 | 6:53 pm
#107
Australia's Doorman
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From: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Feb 28th 2007 | 7:59 pm
#108
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From: Kelsall, Cheshire
Re: is the grass really greener?
Thanks Ally
Am very close to making the right decision I feel. Australia really does seem like a better place to bring up children and now would be the best time to go.
This has been a very helpful thread to read. Thank you for starting it. I wish you every success with your application and you never know, might meet in Adelaide some day. I know you were thinking of living there. A good forum is www.pomsinadelaide.com the people on here are so helpful and friendly and it is slightly smaller and specific to Adelaide. A good website is: www.adelaidebound.com.
Rachael.
Am very close to making the right decision I feel. Australia really does seem like a better place to bring up children and now would be the best time to go.
This has been a very helpful thread to read. Thank you for starting it. I wish you every success with your application and you never know, might meet in Adelaide some day. I know you were thinking of living there. A good forum is www.pomsinadelaide.com the people on here are so helpful and friendly and it is slightly smaller and specific to Adelaide. A good website is: www.adelaidebound.com.
Rachael.
You're welcome - and thanks to most of you who participated with useful! information. Hope it has all helped - it has certainly helped me. Thanks for the adelaide links i will certainly be visiting them. Good luck to you too with your decisions and application. It would be lovely to meet in Adelaide some day. Keep us posted of any further developments.
Take care. Allison.
Mar 1st 2007 | 12:06 am
#109
Happy migrant
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 6,756
From: Newcastle , NSW
Re: is the grass really greener?
This is very true. There are always kids over the field opposite me and I see them playing out and walking to the local shop.
A couple of years ago someone wrote a book called Paranoid Parenting. he argued that our kids are no more at risk now from being abducted or attacked than we were 20 years ago. We are just so much more paranoid now.
Mar 1st 2007 | 12:19 am
#110
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 496
From: Waikiki W.A.
Re: is the grass really greener?
Media has made us all more aware of it, too much information in the information age! Media is very good for reporting gloom and doom
Mar 1st 2007 | 12:29 am
#111
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From: Kelsall, Cheshire
Re: is the grass really greener?
Ok - i think we all appreciate that both Oz and the Uk have problems, but for the brits in Oz problems will be dealt with differnetly due to it being a new start etc.. & the same for the Aussies in the UK.
Therefore, can we get back to the main topic of what the brits already in Oz think of Oz & whether it has turned out to be all that they expected. Or can Aussies now in the UK or who have had experience of living in the UK say what they think of Oz in comparison to their time in the UK.
All opinions welcome.
Thanks
Al
Therefore, can we get back to the main topic of what the brits already in Oz think of Oz & whether it has turned out to be all that they expected. Or can Aussies now in the UK or who have had experience of living in the UK say what they think of Oz in comparison to their time in the UK.
All opinions welcome.
Thanks
Al
