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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by mohogony
(Post 8187186)
Why do some people with great well paid jobs , a great house in a nice area and plenty of friends and family want to immigrate to OZ? are most of these people doomed to return to the UK becasue OZ can't make up for what they have left behind.
Other Half is now on approximately double that of his wages in the UK (depending on exchange rate), we have a beautiful house on about 1/3 acre in the fantabulous Blue Mountains and have just as wonderful a life as we did in the UK. Why on earth would we want to return back to the UK? |
Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by mohogony
(Post 8187186)
Why do some people with great well paid jobs , a great house in a nice area and plenty of friends and family want to immigrate to OZ? are most of these people doomed to return to the UK becasue OZ can't make up for what they have left behind.
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Re: WHY?
We did it too, were very comfortable, good friends, great family. Just wanted adventure though, my wife and I were both born, brought up, and worked and lived in the same town for nigh on 40 years.
That was 2 years ago, next year we go to Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Bosnia, and India, I got the adventure I wanted at last:) |
Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by stevenglish
(Post 8187996)
... next year we go to Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Bosnia, and India, I got the adventure I wanted at last:)
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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by stevenglish
(Post 8187996)
We did it too, were very comfortable, good friends, great family. Just wanted adventure though, my wife and I were both born, brought up, and worked and lived in the same town for nigh on 40 years.
That was 2 years ago, next year we go to Malaysia, South Africa, Botswana, Bosnia, and India, I got the adventure I wanted at last:) |
Re: WHY?
My wife's globe-trotting 75 year old Aunt is staying with us at the moment (just back from some hiking in the high country in NZ) and the subject of why some people get on okay and some hate it came up. She said that some people were just always looking for something better and it didn't really matter where they ended up, they'd soon be looking for the next 'better'.
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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by quoll
(Post 8187605)
The grass is greener and the tv tells us Australia is paradise.
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Re: WHY?
Why not?:D
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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by BAY
(Post 8188208)
Because it is ! :thumbsup::thumbup:
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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by mohogony
(Post 8187186)
Why do some people with great well paid jobs , a great house in a nice area and plenty of friends and family want to immigrate to OZ? are most of these people doomed to return to the UK becasue OZ can't make up for what they have left behind.
We are both very outgoing and so haven't found it difficult to make friends. Our true friends from the UK come and visit and as for family we pay for them to come - which for them is a double :thumbsup: as they get to see us and have a great holiday too. A win/win situation. |
Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
(Post 8188255)
There is no way that grass is greener in Australia than the UK. It's brown for half the year. :p
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Re: WHY?
[QUOTE=Petals;8187421]For their children, even though they have a really good life they feel their children may not in the future.
QUOTE] Spot on. That's why we did it. Everyone has a different story though. |
Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by spartacus
(Post 8187676)
Probably.
However, fewer people than you might think have a life with all of those attributes . . . There seem to be a fair few on my London Board. I'd say a large proportion of the well heeled Surryites and other Home Counties migrants, that are something in the City need not apply. In fact it was via My London board and meeting someone off of it who had migrated here with his Aussie Wife, circa 6-7 years back that woke me up to the fact that a fair proportion of people from the UK who liked Aus... still preferred life back in the UK and according to him the far wider diversity and choice. It actually took me aback at the time and was pre my days on this board. Most of them are well established and have plenty of choice and spending power. |
Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
(Post 8188272)
Not sure the Tasmanians would agree with you .... in fact, many Queenslanders won't agree with that either. :thumbup:
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Re: WHY?
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
(Post 8188362)
Tassie I will give you... but how can you tell what colour it is in QLD when its underwater? :)
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