Nothing wrong with the MBUK folk got to have balance in your life, otherwise you could find your head too far up ones arse

I quite agree.
Have been posting in there on & off since I have been a BE member as we have lived abroad & moved back to UK previously, so I do understand all the dilemmas people go through & that it is not an easy or straightforward decision very often.

Would you like to back that up with some facts ?

Exactly. And I think it helps some people to realise that even though Australia has worked out perfectly for them, not everyone is as lucky.

Yeah, most are fine but there is one bird who is a right wally......... Nu something or other?

How about the fact that close to one in four return to the UK?

There is definitely a huge proportion of people that would find the UK as a much better and therefore far more worthwhile country for them.

So less than 25% makes for a 'huge proportion' ?

What school did you go to ?

Ducie Technical High

I think you are confusing 'proportion' with 'majority'.... and one in four, given the amount of time, effort and cost, involved in getting to Oz in the first place qualifies, at least to me, as a 'huge proportion'.

Yes, but after how many years ? 30, 40, 50 ?

And how many come back again ?...

God knows... all I know is the last set of figures I saw came out at roughly 2,400 Brits were leaving and saying they were 'permanently leaving'; for every 10,000 new arrivals.

I just wish that I could permanently leave.

NO

In my opinion NO

No, but had to come here to find this out!

It must have gone down a bit then, my earlier figures (4.64% + 4.77% + 17.09%) show it as 2,650 per 10,000.
But that was the average for 2002 to 2007.