Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia ...
Mar 21st 2008, 6:15 am
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Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia ...
Ok, so by posting this I am admitting that I do read the Daily Mail online from time to time. 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...464&in_check=N
I thought the article had some interesting comments and showed some of the pros and cons to this emigrating lark! Some snippets:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...464&in_check=N
I thought the article had some interesting comments and showed some of the pros and cons to this emigrating lark! Some snippets:
- Yet, after spending a month in Australia - our first visit - my wife, Penny, said: "If I was young, this is where I'd want to be."
- If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
- Australian politics is chronically corrupt. Mortgage-holders are suffering the same pain and fear - as in Britain - that they will struggle to cope with rising borrowing costs on their homes. Drugs are as serious a blight among the young as everywhere else in the world.
- We did not expect to find every woman looking like Nicole Kidman, but we never anticipated the plague of obesity. This supposedly sunny and sporty nation is one of the most overweight in the world - worse than Britain. Everywhere, there are vast, grotesquely waddling women and men with stomachs almost chafing their sandals. There is amazingly little beautiful humankind. The whole nation needs to lose two stone, fast.
- But, in the eyes of a spoilt Londoner, there is an inescapable provincialism reflected in the Australian media's cheap chippiness about any foreign comment on their country
- We seem much less confident of our future than they are. Though Australia is now dominated by immigrants it appears much less divided than Britain, because most newcomers want to become real Australians, rather than mere economic campers."
- If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
- Australian politics is chronically corrupt. Mortgage-holders are suffering the same pain and fear - as in Britain - that they will struggle to cope with rising borrowing costs on their homes. Drugs are as serious a blight among the young as everywhere else in the world.
- We did not expect to find every woman looking like Nicole Kidman, but we never anticipated the plague of obesity. This supposedly sunny and sporty nation is one of the most overweight in the world - worse than Britain. Everywhere, there are vast, grotesquely waddling women and men with stomachs almost chafing their sandals. There is amazingly little beautiful humankind. The whole nation needs to lose two stone, fast.
- But, in the eyes of a spoilt Londoner, there is an inescapable provincialism reflected in the Australian media's cheap chippiness about any foreign comment on their country
- We seem much less confident of our future than they are. Though Australia is now dominated by immigrants it appears much less divided than Britain, because most newcomers want to become real Australians, rather than mere economic campers."
Mar 21st 2008, 7:14 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
Ok, so by posting this I am admitting that I do read the Daily Mail online from time to time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...464&in_check=N
I thought the article had some interesting comments and showed some of the pros and cons to this emigrating lark! Some snippets:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...464&in_check=N
I thought the article had some interesting comments and showed some of the pros and cons to this emigrating lark! Some snippets:
- Yet, after spending a month in Australia - our first visit - my wife, Penny, said: "If I was young, this is where I'd want to be."
- If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
- Australian politics is chronically corrupt. Mortgage-holders are suffering the same pain and fear - as in Britain - that they will struggle to cope with rising borrowing costs on their homes. Drugs are as serious a blight among the young as everywhere else in the world.
- We did not expect to find every woman looking like Nicole Kidman, but we never anticipated the plague of obesity. This supposedly sunny and sporty nation is one of the most overweight in the world - worse than Britain. Everywhere, there are vast, grotesquely waddling women and men with stomachs almost chafing their sandals. There is amazingly little beautiful humankind. The whole nation needs to lose two stone, fast.
- But, in the eyes of a spoilt Londoner, there is an inescapable provincialism reflected in the Australian media's cheap chippiness about any foreign comment on their country
- We seem much less confident of our future than they are. Though Australia is now dominated by immigrants it appears much less divided than Britain, because most newcomers want to become real Australians, rather than mere economic campers."
- If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
- Australian politics is chronically corrupt. Mortgage-holders are suffering the same pain and fear - as in Britain - that they will struggle to cope with rising borrowing costs on their homes. Drugs are as serious a blight among the young as everywhere else in the world.
- We did not expect to find every woman looking like Nicole Kidman, but we never anticipated the plague of obesity. This supposedly sunny and sporty nation is one of the most overweight in the world - worse than Britain. Everywhere, there are vast, grotesquely waddling women and men with stomachs almost chafing their sandals. There is amazingly little beautiful humankind. The whole nation needs to lose two stone, fast.
- But, in the eyes of a spoilt Londoner, there is an inescapable provincialism reflected in the Australian media's cheap chippiness about any foreign comment on their country
- We seem much less confident of our future than they are. Though Australia is now dominated by immigrants it appears much less divided than Britain, because most newcomers want to become real Australians, rather than mere economic campers."
I did like this bit: A British resident in Melbourne said to us: "Australians are like Brits on holiday."
Mar 21st 2008, 7:22 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
I have to say, that i have not come across that many obese people here. I saw many in USA, but i think the woman here are very slim actually.
Mar 21st 2008, 7:46 am
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Mar 21st 2008, 7:48 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
you'll have the fatties after you now for that
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Mar 21st 2008, 8:01 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
If, in Britain, you are struggling to afford your lifestyle; sick of our dank, wet winter; dismayed by urban squalor and creaking public services; if you want to become part of a society that is more interested in where it is going than in looking back over its shoulder, then Australia has a huge amount to offer.
Mar 21st 2008, 9:18 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
Sounds fair, but like others, I've not noticed these incredibly obese people, they certainly don't hang around my neck of the woods.
Mar 21st 2008, 9:41 am
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Mar 21st 2008, 9:45 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
Or perhaps we just have a better class of fatty!
Mar 21st 2008, 9:49 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
The bit about corrupt politicians is the bit which got my attention.
I can't understand why this is never picked up by Transparency International.
I wrote to them once asking how they could view Australia as having a low level of corruption and whether this was because the country was analysed on a federal level rather than a state level...but didn't receive a reply!
I can't understand why this is never picked up by Transparency International.
I wrote to them once asking how they could view Australia as having a low level of corruption and whether this was because the country was analysed on a federal level rather than a state level...but didn't receive a reply!
Mar 21st 2008, 9:53 am
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Re: Never thought I'd read a balanced Daily Mail article re emigrating to Australia .
more likely macca`s n kfc
much more fun in the woods.