No, its the Site Owners that are God, only they have the ultimate power

Of course. I was actually going to add that it would be easy for these people to reflect on this positive attitude after the event, or after they continued to slog on for another hour. (Reminds me of that 'Day in the Life' story about that Russian held captive in a gulag).

I seem to remember those various hostages in the 90s talking about bleak hours and depths interspersed with positive thought. People are just capable of hardships that they never thought they could deal with.

I find it hard just getting out of bed to be honest.

Have you seen 'Life is Beautiful'? An amazing film everyone should see about an Italian son and his father who end up in a concentration camp. The father makes it all one big game for his son in order for him to cope during their time in there. It's a very, very sad film but also incredibly uplifting and positive at the same time.

Pah

you and i know that aint the truth

You must know something I don't then......

rumours Polly just rumours

In the main though you are right - people do find themselves in situations they do not care for through no specific fault of their own rather than circumstantial. But someone can certainly work out what is troubling them and what a solution might be (which might be a move elsewhere). I wouldn't expect other migrants to share the same views.

Tell you what - I reckon that many, (ie. not all) expats and migrants have choices (to move or not to move) which is more than some British or Australians have. Migrants and expats sometimes have choice in their new country too which locals don't have.

Don't have a problem with that.The impression I have is that ABC has got past that acknowledgement phase and is probably well over it (er if you excuse the phrase) as part of the well known steps in dealing with culture shock which I think we can credit him with having listed. I also think he alluded to it as part of his pingpong and move from Sydney to Brisbane).

It isn't the "old fashioned misconception" it's the conception bit on its own that concerns me

Anyway, as I am old, I am entitled to be old fashioned

So you are over it then. I needn't have worried.

One last statement from me I promise.

If positive posters are capable of negative thought but can't be arsed to report it, and negative posters are capable of positive thought, then maybe what you tend to post is a summary of your state of mind, thoughts, or motivation on your migration as of now - and we do see changes of course. There has to be some motivation.

So it's academic. I think people have to accept what people say at face value as noone really knows. But civilisation has always placed value on positive thought and action and self-improvement, even if it takes critical self-analysis to get there. I don't think other people can criticise this positivity if you have already got there.

And my kids have helped themselves to the contents of the freezer. I am in it now!

But you did say So, the way I read it is, that this is about things that people dislike about Australia.
I have no problems with people having problems with Australia, however I do try to be more specific with places in Australia to show them that it may not be the same everywhere in Australia, or to compare options such as wooden fences or colourbond fences, where this whole thing started

I reckon your best mate would turn up just as late in the UK ? Would you then blame the UK for it ?

Then there was this one:

Emphasis on Here in Australia, and positive opinions about Australia.

As it happens you will see that many of my posts are statistical, and are not specifically positive on Australia as such.
Tax Rates, Populations etc

Others are ideas on prices on how some areas of Australia cheaper than other areas of Australia. By default if I say that a loaf of bread is $1.10 in one shop but $3.40 in another shop, I am being positive about one Australian shop and negative about another Australian shop.

However that gets turned into me being a person who doesn't seem to give anything other than positive opinions about Oz.

I am still trying to work out the logic in that. I actually rarely compare the UK to Australia.


And to be honest, there is nothing that I would say is crap here in Australia for me. But then, we may just have different definitions on the meaning of "Crap". I consider crap to be something sufficiently bad enough to warrant complaint.

Which is exactly what I have done, and moved forward changing things as required so that I no longer have problems with them, especially in changing from my negative attitude, to a positive one.

Which brings us full circle....

Just off to bang head on a wall somewhere....

I don't believe in god or even God. Where does that leave me? I think you're being over generous in considering me to be your god but thanks anyway.