What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
Jan 10th 2012, 10:28 am
#16
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
Can't find one about 20 people and a screwdriver, but it seems they are in use here as well as back home 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-0...abbing/3716740
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...h-screwdriver/
There are more but the Aus v UK thing gets very boring very quickly
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-0...abbing/3716740
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...h-screwdriver/
There are more but the Aus v UK thing gets very boring very quickly
Jan 10th 2012, 10:28 am
#17
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
How about a group of 20 pissed up teenagers on the Gold Coast kicking the crap out of an off duty cop walking home with his girlfriend, does that count ?
I have never felt personally threatened in either country but to assume these things don't happen is naive at best.
Doesn't Cape Town have one of the highest murder and violent crime rates in the world ? Don't people in Cape Town surround their homes with 10 feet high fences, razor wire and armed guards ?
I have never felt personally threatened in either country but to assume these things don't happen is naive at best.
Doesn't Cape Town have one of the highest murder and violent crime rates in the world ? Don't people in Cape Town surround their homes with 10 feet high fences, razor wire and armed guards ?
unfortunately there seems to be lots of them.
Jan 10th 2012, 10:35 am
#22
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
It's funny really, I get accused of not being realistic about life in the UK but rarely does anything get said about the ridiculous statements made about life in the UK as opposed to the idyllic utopian life here 
I agree,it gets boring very quickly.
I agree,it gets boring very quickly.
Can't find one about 20 people and a screwdriver, but it seems they are in use here as well as back home
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-0...abbing/3716740
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...h-screwdriver/
There are more but the Aus v UK thing gets very boring very quickly
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-0...abbing/3716740
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...h-screwdriver/
There are more but the Aus v UK thing gets very boring very quickly
Jan 10th 2012, 12:11 pm
#25
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
Jan 10th 2012, 3:28 pm
#26
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
Nothing any more thank God! It used to be the DH which was the only thing keeping me in Australia but now that he has agreed to live in UK with me and look after my olds then I barely give Australia a thought, except to be glad that I no longer live there! In a few years I might be prepared to go back for a holiday and I hope to persuade the DH that we are much better off here so that he wont want to go back to live.
Jan 10th 2012, 6:12 pm
#27
no stressin no fussin....
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
I'm with Alfresco on this. Cut out the insults to South Afrikans. It's getting old and it's a deliberate wind up and it's not funny
Behave or holidays are coming up
Behave or holidays are coming up
Jan 10th 2012, 7:10 pm
#28
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?
Then ask other SA to cut out the constant childish insulting references to 'poms' at every opportunity
Jan 10th 2012, 7:17 pm
#29
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Re: What is it about life in Australia that stops you from returning home?