Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
So much better than Ormeau.
Feb 16th 2011, 11:12 pm
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Re: Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
Feb 16th 2011, 11:26 pm
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Feb 16th 2011, 11:30 pm
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Feb 17th 2011, 12:20 am
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Re: Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
Feb 17th 2011, 4:52 am
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Re: Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
Final Vote Oz....but they wont go for some stupid reason!!
May have been mentioned before but cant help myself as that program really annoys me at times!!
People complain about houses and what they want and it isnt what they expected!! Have they ever heard of google...ok you might never have been before but it aint difficult to have a wee look and see what houses are like!!
Also why is it always the people why get told they will work more hours for less pay always think its a good idea....and the ones who get told the opposite say they prefer the uk!!
Also got stupidly boring of recent times due to visa change over its always Adelaide or Darwin....the odd Gold Coast thrown in!!
Anyway sorry about that!! Nice to meet you all!!
May have been mentioned before but cant help myself as that program really annoys me at times!!
People complain about houses and what they want and it isnt what they expected!! Have they ever heard of google...ok you might never have been before but it aint difficult to have a wee look and see what houses are like!!
Also why is it always the people why get told they will work more hours for less pay always think its a good idea....and the ones who get told the opposite say they prefer the uk!!
Also got stupidly boring of recent times due to visa change over its always Adelaide or Darwin....the odd Gold Coast thrown in!!
Anyway sorry about that!! Nice to meet you all!!
Feb 17th 2011, 5:31 am
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Re: Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
You may decide that leaving family behind is forgone & dealt with prior to getting on the plane. Nothing can prepare you for the helplessness you'll feel when you get "THAT" heartbreaking phone call at 3am to say someone you love has just a few hours to live or worse
Nothing will prepare you for dealing with the homesickness if just one of the family can't settle either
Nothing will prepare you for dealing with the homesickness if just one of the family can't settle eitherIf your willing to emigrate then you have to accept it, if some in the family got ill its obvious the heartbreak it would cause and homesickness would also be really hard, but you have to make a decision!
These people hadnt even applied for their visa and are shown a video of their family and their balling their eyes when their off home the next day!
Lets get real if you emigrate then missing people back home and someone getting is something you have to accept is a real possibility!
Feb 17th 2011, 5:43 am
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These people go for 1 week!
If your willing to emigrate then you have to accept it, if some in the family got ill its obvious the heartbreak it would cause and homesickness would also be really hard, but you have to make a decision!
These people hadnt even applied for their visa and are shown a video of their family and their balling their eyes when their off home the next day!
Lets get real if you emigrate then missing people back home and someone getting is something you have to accept is a real possibility!
If your willing to emigrate then you have to accept it, if some in the family got ill its obvious the heartbreak it would cause and homesickness would also be really hard, but you have to make a decision!
These people hadnt even applied for their visa and are shown a video of their family and their balling their eyes when their off home the next day!
Lets get real if you emigrate then missing people back home and someone getting is something you have to accept is a real possibility!
The flight is another one that gets me...I know its 24hrs but I didnt think it would be that long....really how long do you think 24hrs is!! All of a sudden they relise that they are far away from home!! What the looking at a map couldn't have told you that!!
Grrr!! Always gets me annoyed!! Although if they are looking for people to make a new series could do with a flight to oz....
Feb 17th 2011, 5:52 am
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Yes it will be hard when the time comes the a family member becomes sick or someone passes away, unfortunately this will happen! But as you say, 1week away and they watch a video and they are crying away...come on get real they will be at the airport to pick you up in 48hrs when you get home!!
The flight is another one that gets me...I know its 24hrs but I didnt think it would be that long....really how long do you think 24hrs is!! All of a sudden they relise that they are far away from home!! What the looking at a map couldn't have told you that!!
Grrr!! Always gets me annoyed!! Although if they are looking for people to make a new series could do with a flight to oz....
The flight is another one that gets me...I know its 24hrs but I didnt think it would be that long....really how long do you think 24hrs is!! All of a sudden they relise that they are far away from home!! What the looking at a map couldn't have told you that!!
Grrr!! Always gets me annoyed!! Although if they are looking for people to make a new series could do with a flight to oz....
Feb 17th 2011, 5:56 am
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!! or lucky I suppose
Feb 17th 2011, 6:07 am
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Feb 17th 2011, 6:11 am
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Let me know how you get on in the gold coast I will be very interested.
How many of you going over?
Feb 17th 2011, 6:17 am
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Heading over there is me, the wife and our little baby for a look around, but the dog will join us as well when we finally emigrate!! Would prefer not to have to make this trip but wouldnt be able to get finances in place before we need to enter...so dropping by for a visit first!!
You got family going over as well??
Feb 17th 2011, 6:18 am
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Re: Wanted Down Under - 15 minutes of my life gone
Bear in mind that the programme is very heavily edited to get something that will appeal to viewers. Posters that have appeared in this type of programme have commented in the past about how the editing is all slanted towards making them fit a certain mould, when in fact in reality the family are rather different - and their experience of Aus is often rather different from that portrayed as well.
