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repeats of wanted down under revisited programmes are being shown again.
today at 2pm - bbc 2 is the family from Warrington that went to the gold coast I think. Hopefully they are still there and still enjoying their new life, anyone know? Worth watching to see different areas of australia.

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Its worth watching as I have ping ponged, returning in Jan 2011 with partner and baby who have never set foot on Aussie shores, so been making him watch :lol:but some are unrealistic, they get job offers off pat, the one I watched yesterday was an ex-pro footballer now electrician but with a porche in the drive here in UK and a £500 000 house in Cheshire. He set up his own business after a few months as didn't want to work for a boss and it shows their million dollar pad on the gold coast with all the mod cons etc... can be a bit misleading for the average joe looking for a new life downunder! :)

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Why not? What's wrong with seeing people from all types of financial backgrounds. In the last series I watched hardly anyone had more than $250k to spend on a house and they were nearly all looking at jobs paying around $50k. I think many people would not be able to relate to that either.

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Sorry if I came across as negative, you may have mis-read my post but I did start my reply by saying "its worth watching!" and I have been eagerly watching each episode as broadcast what I was trying to get across that it was the first episode my partner had watched and it was (I feel personally) the wrong one for him to watch as I was trying to "sell" our move to Aus to him, and yes he has now seen some other episodes :thumbup:

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I was just referring to your comments that it is "unrealistic" and "misleading" to include somebody just because they have more money than you believe is the average. Because by definition 50pc of people will always be above the "average".

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Actually they won't. :)

Large numbers from few people raise the average above what is representative of the majority.

Now it's years since I had my maths hat on but isn't it the mean that helps smooth that out?

To put it another way I'm being pernickety today Bermuda. :D

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:D

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Eh, what are you waffling on about. Without going into all the details of different types of averages, they are by and large in the middle. Hence you get people above and people below. It doesn't take much maths skill to understand what an average is.

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I'll have you know many, many years of misspent time have gone into perfecting said waffle. :p

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Confess... I defy ANYONE who has made the move to deny the fact that they watched ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that pertained to australia... from Wanted Down Under to the Worlds deadliest snakes, Border control, Australian Chef programs... you name it, we watched it...... anything that merely mentioned Australia became compulsary viewing... and for some of us we extended that to include NZ too... (we didn't know how far away and how different NZ was from Aus... we do now)


The program is about "the promised land... where the streets are paved with gold... OF COURSE ITS WORTH THE WATCH!!!!

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Aye, we were the same Eddie.
Sponges for anything mentioning Australia.

Same on the internet too.
Favourites folder chock a block.

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Ozophiles mate...:thumbup:

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??
Someone earns 40k
Someone earns 60k
Someone earns 110k

Average 70k. 2 under 1 over, not 50% is it.

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dunno... my maths aint that brilliant on my days off.... ask me tomorrow:huh:

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Russell Coight - All Aussie Adventures. We love that!:D

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I flicked over the other afternoon to find Wanted Down Under on & the family had moved to Perth after originally visiting Adelaide. I then sat there & sniveled through the whole program as it hit me that we'd be there in less than 5 weeks. Not that I don't want to go but just one of those things in the build up to moving that set me off :o

Both the kids (4 & 5 years old) sat glued to the program but bickering over whether Perth was in Australia or not or whether Perth was some where completely different. Apparently one of them is going to Perth & the other to Australia :unsure:

I then watched the previous days program on catch up as that was Perth as well & ended up having to leave the room when they showed the 'guilt trip' videos from friends & family as I was already tearful enough.

Alison x

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I think you'll find that, taking the UK average salary, that it's vastly inflated by the wages paid to relatively few people in the City of London. Even in 2009, 2800 people earned over a million pounds. Those sort of wages distort the 'average' enormously.

http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/..._salaries.html

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Have to disagree I'm afraid, 2800 out of a current in work total of just over 28 million won't skew the "average" that much. May employment

Also it states "total remuneration", not salary, so which one is included in official data?

p.s. not a banker :)

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So you think that just 2,800 people earning 3 billion pounds between them doesn't skew the figures?!.
Sorry pal, but you're wrong. The wages paid generally across the City of London, hugely skew the figures of the average wage in the UK.

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Downloaded one off the iPlayer the other day and watched it - couple (he was an electrician, she was in publishing) who were looking to move to the Gold Coast. To be honest she drove me spastic within five minutes, banging on and on and on and on about the ****ing dangerous wildlife. I've lived here for four years and in all that time I've seen exactly one snake and a couple of redback spiders, this despite the fact that I apparently live in the epicentre of Funnel-Web city. The way she kept banging on you'd think king browns were hanging from the bloody light fittings.

Anyway, it was with a great sense of relief that I learned from said programme that they'd ended up moving to France in the end. I realise that nobody ever ends up looking great on the old goggle box but she was endlessly contradicting herself. Some people, and it goes equally for some posts I read on this forum, you just *know* they'd last six months if they ever made it here.

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You trying to say you DIDN'T shake yer shoes out every morning for at least 4 months after you arrived and kept the floor free from any clothing at all times just in case summit was hiding???????

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eh no, as 1 million people (out of 28million) only earning £2800 each would cancel it out thereby not affecting the average. even £5 an hour for a 16 hour week is more than 2.8k.

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Don't get the obsession myself, I was bitten by a flesh eating spider who played havoc with my leg............still ain't bothered by them.......some would say it entered my head............Just cause I hear voices every now and again does not mean nowt

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From the short period I spent on Fearless I learnt that most guys in the Navy were thick... you're going out of your way to reinforce that. :)

There are, percentage wise, a very small number of people who work in the City, earning fantastic wages, and I don't just mean the 2,800 who earned over a million quid last year. Their salaries do distort the national average.

I can't be arsed looking any harder than the 10sec it took me to find this...
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1438

What do you think would happen to the average if those people in the city were not there..... hmmmm.

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Firstly commiserations for having to spend any time on that old rust bucket. :-)

Secondly why I'll agree a small number of high earners can generally affect a median figure, 0.01% is pretty insignificant statistically. If you want to blame anyone for skewing the figures then surely it's the NHS as health professionals have the highest median weekly wage http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285

Finally salary, which figures are based on, is different to overall remuneration. A point the article didn't make and which has a far greater affect on property values than median salary.

your humble servant :)

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Things have changed so much since that series went out. It's a bit like watching pre-GFC property porn. Totally irrelevant to today's situation.

PS the difference between the average, the mean and the median are frequently abused by vested interests depending on what point they are trying to make.

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Yup, lies, damn lies and statistics :D Always good for a pub debate and now for BE :thumbup:

Personally I just like the way different news outlets will report on the same data set and skew it to suit their own agenda especially the "doubles the risk of ..." stories, never seem to mention the initial risk :sneaky:

Anyway a good debate is hard to find :D

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I agree with Renth............beware those wearing vests. :D

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My mum always told me not to trust a man who wasn't wearing a vest. Wish I'd listened :rolleyes:

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I wouldn't trust a man wearing a vest to be honest. Apart from my dad of course but he's long gone.

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Likewise, but my mum always said they were daft if they didn't wear a vest cos they'd catch cold. I was always interested in other attributes besides their vest-wearing though :lol: Maybe thats where I've been going wrong all these years!!
Perhaps Alfresco could start a poll on it - should men wearing vests be trusted? :D

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The thing is she was probably talking about the vests my dad used to wear which were those daft string things. I never understood how they were going to keep any warmth in :confused::D

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:lol: Crazy weren't they, my dad had them too. Even as kids we couldn't see the logic :D