Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9576714)

....and how much, do you think, gets chucked into the sea round Australia?

Not so long ago raw sewage was pumped into Sydney harbour and still into the Brisbane river.

Why, on earth, do you insist it is so different:confused:

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576731)

If you are the typical Brit living abroad in a country that YOU find to have so many faults, it is no wonder the Brits have a bad reputation, if Australia is so bad, why not leave, if I find Australia as bad as what you are making it out to be ,I would do exactly what I am doing now with the UK and leave

Originally Posted by sonlymewalter (Post 9576710)

the turds kill you in UK, the great whites in Aus:lol:

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9576736)

....and you should listen to the Australians if you really want to hear people finding fault with their country.....and whinging about it:lol:

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576742)

not really sure what I would prefer coming towards me if swimming a used tampax or great white. looking above from a boat which would you prefer

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576744)

Yes, but you are making faults about the country to have emigrated to, if so bad why stay there

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576731)

If you are the typical Brit living abroad in a country that YOU find to have so many faults, it is no wonder the Brits have a bad reputation, if Australia is so bad, why not leave, if I find Australia as bad as what you are making it out to be ,I would do exactly what I am doing now with the UK and leave

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 9576776)

All people are saying is the things you are whinging about in the UK are also wrong here. There are a few on here that will only very reluctantly admit to Australia having even the smallest of faults :D I have lived here on and off since 1962 and there are many many things wrong with the country, if I had no choice I could live out my life here and be comfortable but I am under no illusions it is even close to being Utopia and suffers all the issues most other countries do.

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9576759)

Why shouldn't I find fault?:confused:

There are plenty of things wrong with this place.

Wait until you actually try living here before you whinge about people posting about their experiences

....and It is not so easy to simply move when you have committments....as many on here will testify.

I hope you find what you are looking for, but I suspect your expectations are completely unrealistic.

Originally Posted by Bix (Post 9576863)

I agree with Garry. :)

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9572327)

Being English, I am patriotic, but quality of life in the UK has slipped down very sharply in the last twenty years, Anyone going for a quiet pint in ANY town in UK has to watch their back, the prisons are so full knife crimes and rape are classed as petty crimes now, might get a year or 2, anything else a slapped wrist if we are lucky, a lot of towns have no go areas after certain times even for the police,
Lets talk about immigration, I know when I arrive in Australia, if I do not work I will not get paid, I will not get free health care, here in the UK as soon as they step of the plane they are giving free house, benefits the lot, if they have children back in their own country they are entitled to more benefits,and because of Blairs idea to open the doors to everyone, the country is now crippled, the once proud NHS is slowly dying, the retirement age has now been increased because they can not afford to pay the pensions. We have faceless unelected EEC bureaucrats ruling us.
The op mentioned about nothing being exported being British made, many of the typically British companys , Rolls Royce, British steel, Cadburys are not British owned, I want to leave the UK not because I hate the country, but because of how it is being run, the country has had it.

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9572589)

Next time you are in UK, try going to the A&E dept at any hospital on a Friday or Saturday night, or try getting hold of a copper on any of these 2 nights for what ever reason.

little things like please and thank you do seem to be a thing of the past here in the UK,

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9574196)

certain parts of the town EVERY Friday and Saturday a police van with cctv stands guard just in case, this is life in most UK towns not cities, the majority of hospitals in the UK have to have a police presence on the A&E dept on a weekend

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9574503)

I think if you read some of the other post who still LIVE in the UK , you will see that a lot of what I am saying is true, or are they all wrong as well, strange how a person living so far away knows more about the UK then people actually living there,
I admit I do not know a great deal about Australia that's why I come on this site, to find out where to look for work, cheap places to live, instead all I get is that I am expecting too much, got news for you I am not expecting anything.

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576704)

As you have been to Cleethorpes, the North sea, or the Irish sea are certainly not Blue, and the channel nothing more than an open sewer, with the amount of pollution that's been thrown into it.

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576817)

I think in general life is what you make it, if you are not happy with your life you change it. I am not happy living in the UK for many reasons, too many to list here, so I am doing something about it,

Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576839)

people like you amaze me, You emigrate to another country for a better life, because it is NOT what YOU expected you feel that you have every right to criticize the country that has adopted you, YOU quoted you have commitments, I assume family and work, well if Australia is as violent as you say and UK is better, would you not put your family first, if it is down to work, and you are correct you could find work easily in the UK, I think you could be the whinger not me, at least I am doing something about it, and not making excuses