Seems the BBC are trying to corrupt the innocent minds of stay at home parents and get them to emigrate. Dodgy social planning that.

Also the program has so many clip repeats in it, it is so primed for satellite distribution for those recaps after the ad-breaks. Poor production that.

It's like telly-tubbies where they used to show the EXACT same clip twice in a row. (And before I look like long-term unemployed, I was a student then! And I have worked full-time for several years since then!) Anyway my point is that it's designed for the lowest common denominator.

suprise suprise, once again it's a family with ove 200k in the bank, they make it sound to easy to get a job awell, what about all the people on this site who struggle with licences etc.

Not seen the programme for obvious reasons but to those complaining about not seeing this or that, perhaps it would be a good idea to watch the entire series - there are other people involved. Then at the end, when you have seen no sign of what you're looking for - then complain

To the person asking that they mention stuff like jetlag - I know you didn't just mean jet lag but why mention something that in the huge scheme of migrating, is so short and unimportant?

As for the stress etc of getting the visa - are they showing an indepth documentary on how to migrate or showing a daytime entertainment programme, editing people so people talk about them and want to watch another one to see if there are any really daft people etc etc. (Obviously not saying they are daft, just that that is what a lot of people are tuning in for).

It's a bit of fun for daytime tv. Watch it but don't take it seriously, unless you are the sort of folk that take Eastenders seriously of course

Er, Eastenders is a real-life documentary. Actually.

And don't get too hungup on my example of jetlag, coz a few people have mentioned it now - I was just thinking of negative things that they could have mentioned but didn't in the first prog. I think the 2nd one was much more balanced. Didn't see this mornings.

Don't worry, I'm not hung up on anything, I've been there, done that, have the t shirt and are now happily living here

Re: Eastenders - there is sadly no help for you sorry

Today's installment ( Adelaide ) really was The Pits , methinks !
BBC didn't even see fit to show 10 seconds of the actual Adelaide CBD , or of the Rundle mall , or of any markets , shops , historical buildings/monuments ...
...or anything of actual interest ( to whoever isn't entirely brain-dead yet !)
- instead , most of the show was spent on agonising over houses , U.K. relatives/friends and the beach/es...
This leaves another 17 episodes .
Does anyone know where to find : which city is going to be "on" , on which future days ?

[QUOTE=esperanza;4293290]Er, Eastenders is a real-life documentary. Actually.

Don't they export it all over the world, its a wonder anyone comes to the UK at all!

And as for Emmerdale, aparently its one of the most dangerous places to live in the world, they've had a plane crash into it, the pub has had things fall on it killing people in it, a bus crash, a house collapse along with a whole load of other life threatening incidents! all this in a little rural village!

AND if you want to get kidnapped, move to Coronation Street, just ask Tracey Lee!! I think she's been kidnapped three times so far

Dolly

I must agree with you, I'm not that impressed with it. It doesn't give you a full picture of what you have to deal with when you arrive, medicare, renting, stress of getting a job, etc. If anything this show has given me doubts as to whether or not we can do it financially. The prices of houses so far are out of our budget and that's with having money from the sale of our house. Instead of showing updates of the show every ten minutes which I might add is very annoying, they could use the time better and give you varied examples, i.e varied example house's which might be from 100K upwards, showing the different areas of the town.. Just because someone has 200K+ to spend on a house doesn't mean they have to buy one for that price.

I'll get off my soap box now but it's only the start of the series and it might get more informative as it goes along touching on different subjects in each show. I'll keep watching anyway.

T xx

Maybe you missed the bit where they said that the family was from Reading? We live in Reading as well and house prices are very high here. You may have also missed the bit where they said the family lived in Tilehurst (very ordinary part of Reading) and that their house was worth £300,000. They showed a shot of the outside of the house and it looked like a typical ex-council house with no garage. Gives you an idea of what house prices for very ordinary houses are like down here (and why some people have to work day and night)!

Gina

Finally, the voice of reason . Exactly right! It is not an in-depth documentary - the fact that it's day-time TV AND presented by Nadia Sawalha are two big clues here.

It's fun seeing the different families and lovely to see a little bit of footage of Australia.

If you are expecting to learn something - then don't watch it. It's not meant to be educational.

As for slagging off the families that are in the programme (some posters above have accused them of whinging and worse) that's really not on!

Gina

Have to agree. Its daytime TV, easy watching. If they started to go in depth about TRAs and visa applications people would switch over to ITV!

Its winter and people want to see sunny australia and the nice places they could live, if it really gets them interested, they will then find out about the lovely pile of paperwork that goes with it

Dolly

She laughs like Sid James.

By the way, missed yesterdays as OH set up the dvd player but forgot to delete the old recording, so not enough space to record the programme , and it was my HUSBAND who is a MAN!!!! wasn't someone complaining of their WIFE and WOMEN not being able to set up the dvd. Hopefully, it should record todays as dvd has now been cleared, and I double checked before I left for work today that TV was on BBC1, any failure today is completely down to the DVD recorder.

Dolly

...and is far to "jolly" for that time in the morning!