Originally Posted by Wjuicypeach (Post 8579583)

:lol:Thanks.......I'm still better looking though.;)What didn't you like about Australia, I'm genuinely interested?

Originally Posted by kevin747 (Post 8579585)

Check out my previous posts. I'm home 14 months and it was the best thing I ever did.

Originally Posted by Wjuicypeach (Post 8579587)

I will, I have doubts too. I dont think it will be some kind of "paradise" either but probably like yourself I need to try it out. Did you stay long?

Originally Posted by kevin747 (Post 8579601)

15 months. I think living in Scotland in a lovely village was far superior.
Education,health and quality of life were inferior,
It's not the forum here to go in to details as so many are happy or stuck in Aus and I wouldn't wish to insult or offend needlessly

Originally Posted by Wjuicypeach (Post 8579609)

I may be saying the same in a years time:).Although, I truly hope not. Thanksa nd goodnight, need my beauty sleep......the Lambrini should knock me over nicely:lol::thumbsup:

Originally Posted by kevin747 (Post 8579130)

Culturally the Uk is vastly superior to anywhere in the new world.

Originally Posted by asprilla (Post 8579656)

heh heh. I think you might have gone a bit far there. Vastly superior to Australia ? Yes. But everywhere else in the world too ?! :rofl:

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 8579659)

New World

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar (Post 8578673)

Oh, my. You didn't care for Palm Beach, Whale Beach, Woollahra, Woolwich, Hunters Hill...? Spent some time in pretty swanky places in Kelvingrove, the New Town, Mayfair, Dulwich, Virginia Water etc and could certainly see the attraction and why people would like to live there, but to say that they were vastly superior on all levels is a bit much.

I have also spent a little time in the rougher parts of Sydney and while I didn't particularly want to live or spend time there, with the possible exception of Redfern, I didn't think they were anywhere near as bad as some of the estates in London. (But I don't claim to be an expert here, I'm just mouthing off, as it were).

I agree with you, though, that it's pretty distasteful that some people use this as an opportunity to sneer at others. It reminds me that in London pubs next to mental asylums used to build elevated platforms for beer gardens so that punters could drink and laugh at the "lunatics". Like the 17th Century? You would have thought we'd learned something since then, in that case. Some people would use it as an opportunity to consider how we came to be in a situation where so many are without work, literacy, central heating. http://www.poverty.org.uk/summary/scotland.htm But others would rather throw metaphorical tomatoes at the people they consider untermenschen...

Originally Posted by Wjuicypeach (Post 8579611)

Sorry before you slag me off I see my error:lol: Night, night.

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 8579836)

Just watched the first 4 episodes, thank god I don't live there :blink:

Saying that, I have seen far worse areas than that in Scotland - and England.

Originally Posted by NELBHOY (Post 8579846)

Aye SLAEMUIR:p