is it just fashionable to move to oz..
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is it just fashionable to move to oz..
after all those programs on start a new life etc.is it just a passing fad,will we all be back in u.k in a few years talking about our exploits down under..
thanks..
ast
thanks..
ast
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
Dunno
People have been moving here for quite few years now
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
I've just watched this, 10 pound poms, http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/produc...oductid=749152 and it's like de ja vu with there comments on Oz. In 1957 one says,'its 10 years behind the Uk!'
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
I have to drive around rivers, through fields and along canals to get home now and its warm. When I get home I am 4 minutes drive from the beach. My weekends are so much better now, we all know its as expensive here as the Uk, we all know that you have to work hard for a living but life is better.
I am not going back to live in a rabbit hutch the UK government try to pass off as affordable housing.
I am not going back to live in a rabbit hutch the UK government try to pass off as affordable housing.
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
I have to drive around rivers, through fields and along canals to get home now and its warm. When I get home I am 4 minutes drive from the beach. My weekends are so much better now, we all know its as expensive here as the Uk, we all know that you have to work hard for a living but life is better.
I am not going back to live in a rabbit hutch the UK government try to pass off as affordable housing.
I am not going back to live in a rabbit hutch the UK government try to pass off as affordable housing.
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
They only show the good stuff, like it's a made-up programme or something!
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
Oz isn't fashionable (in any sense ), the countries with lots of brown people are nations de jour, just look at the celebrity adoptions.
Get yerself a visa for Mali if you want to impress people at an Islington dinner party as you mull over the world with a Chardonnay and a spot of Dido on the Bang and Olufsen.
Get yerself a visa for Mali if you want to impress people at an Islington dinner party as you mull over the world with a Chardonnay and a spot of Dido on the Bang and Olufsen.
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
We could not afford to move back, just seen our old neighbours house up for sale £285000!
I hope it isn't just a trend, Australia can offer many things , it can also be very demanding .
Cheers
Travis
I hope it isn't just a trend, Australia can offer many things , it can also be very demanding .
Cheers
Travis
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
I don't think it's fashionable. I'm the only person I know who's done it - apart from the rabble on here of course. People have been coming here since the 1700s give or take a few years The only thing that's fashionable is the questionable tv programming at the moment. I'm waiting with baited breath for Channel 10 to commission a series on Australians upping and moving overseas and following them with rose tinted editing. Maybe I need to wait a few more years.
Actually, just remembered. I told a lie. Out of 12 firepersons in small station in a town in Herts 5 have moved out here, all in QLD, 3 in Cairns, 1 in South Brissie and 1 in paradise.
Actually, just remembered. I told a lie. Out of 12 firepersons in small station in a town in Herts 5 have moved out here, all in QLD, 3 in Cairns, 1 in South Brissie and 1 in paradise.
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
I came here 36 years ago as I hated life in Britain at the time.
I loved it the day I landed and I love it just as much today
I loved it the day I landed and I love it just as much today
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
If there is a trend, it might be that some people get into a habit of seeing the worst in where they are and therefore migration appears more desirable because it "promises" to get them away from those problems. Of course, there are also some sections of the press that have always taken a delight in, er, seeing the darker side!
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
Not sure about 'fashionable' to move to Australia, but I do think that once one person you know has made the move, it gets other people thinking about it too. At the moment there are three families in Queensland who all took their children to the same ballet classes and another family is due out this year. Also, people come to visit, love it, return to uk and apply to come.
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Re: is it just fashionable to move to oz..
It can't be fashionable. I've never managed to follow fashion once in my entire life