Not us. My family's Australian on my father's side (ranching family) and myself and my brothers and sister are first-generation poms (mum being Irish). Got loads of family out there including parents, cousins, big sister, little brother etc... have been visiting for years, decided to make the move out last year. Can't wait ...

We didn't notice any TV programs on Australia before we decided to migrate. After we had sent off the application to DIMIA, we started noticing everything Australian - life in Australia, travelling in Australia, etc - on TV, newspapers, and magazines.

Mrs JTL

Never seen it. What channel's it on?

Patterson Lakes and surrounding area if you are interested.

Not sure what they are up to but the last I saw he had got his postman job

Always fancied OZ, but after seeing Billy Connolly's world tour of Australia, that help us make the decision to go. Whilst there we got married, decided this is the place we wanted to live

Cheers Billy.

I never had any interest in the place what so ever, always wanted to go to America or Canada. Then my partner took me out there for 6 months and I changed my mind. Still cant see myself living there for the rest of my life though, but its hard to say we aint got there yet.

Possoms

We decided to go after watching "The Bush Tucker-man" series...You need never go to a supermarket in Aus......You just eat everything that moves and if it doesn't move you still eat it. It's just easier to catch..!!!


Pass me another Widigy grub mate...

That series almost made me think twice about going there...

Then I reminded myself that having already spent several months in Aus before, that Aus is absolutely nothing like that: It's much nicer! Well most of it....

I have had an interest in Aus since being a child in the 70s. One of our neighbours was Aussie, and showed me loads of pics of Aus and Aus wildlife (which has always fascinated me). I have always loved travelling and said to myself that one day I would go there. I got hooked on a natural history series called 'the Nature of Australia', which I loved and I went to many of the places featured just to see what they were like, most notably the Wet Tropics around Cairns, which I thought were brilliant.

I'm not really sure when I actually decided that I might want to live there. I think it was just an idea that evolved over several years, and which I ummed and erred about for ages. I wish I'd come up with the idea years ago mind, as I'm not getting any younger (I'll be 40 in a few weeks...)

Not us ! that prog prob put most peeps off :scared:

Yes its definatley the nature that swung it for me, I was in awe of it.

As for your 40th, life begins Tony you old git

I had no interest in Oz until I saw that series.

Hubby bought it on DVD for me as an aniversary pressie. He thanks Billy Connolly for getting me to Oz, if he hadn't, we wouldn't of met.

I had a personal invitation from John Howard. He asked me to come and save his country.. quote.... "You are the dogs...please come to Australia and teach us about culture and godliness."

R

...And it wasnt until you got there, he realised he had invited the wrong people

You went to the right place then, they could do with some culture in Brissy

After our TV got smashed up in the riots,i decided to emigrate to Oz because i don't want to live in Bradford any longer