brits1

I hope your wife has a friendly experience in the U.K...if anything travelling as we have been lucky enought to have experienced we have found the British to usually be very friendly...ofcourse other countries we have visited especially in Malaysia ofcourse that is just our opinion....heck I even have Aussie friends...so we must be a friendly race..cause that is not an easy thing to achieve....lol...

ezzie

Thanks for that Brits...you've had me going 'aaghhh, errrr, ummmm...." - so I looked it up - Jimmy Hill was the sports presenter with the enormous chin.

brits1

Thank you....Jimmy Hill....oh those where the days...my Dad thought he was rubbish though..lol...

creepycrawley

Australia is dreadfully dull.

brits1

You know if they did not have the weather (and some of that is just too extreme) I am sure people would not come to live here as it does not really have anything else to offer.....and I don't mean that in a horrible way....some lovely coastlines but I have seen nicer....some nice countryside but I have seen much better....culture...just too young a country for that yet and the way the knock old down for new all the time it will remain forever young.....my problem and I have a few..lol...is that....you can wake up and think a nice morning outside weatherwise but then I start to think where can I go today.....been there and done it so many times it makes me feel soooo closed in....because there are not many choices on offer....a friend said the other day..you can do all of W.A in 6 months...I laughed at first (this was a few years ago)but a friend came over to visit on a year ticket but did everything she could here in WA in 4 months so she went off to Malaysia....then the Middle East.....for the rest of the year.....

creepycrawley

It's boring - why people can't accept that there is less to do/see here than UK/Europe is beyond me.

Sure, you might like it here cos it's sunny and you live in a bigger house but at least admit that it's pretty dull.

Everything just plods along in Australia.

I'd rather have economic crashes and arguments over the EU than the monotony of Australia any day.

northernbird

There is less to do for sure but for some that isn't boring. Boring is subjective. I am a plodder so it suits me.

BAY

You're like a dog with a bone! You just won't let go. Why does does it bother you so much that lots of people like Australia ? You're getting very tedious ... have you got nothing else in your life but to repeat the same line ... yawn.

Sorry to repeat the obvious line ... but if you don't like Australia what are you doing here ?

creepycrawley

Been talking about plenty else as it happens. But you are doubtless too busy enjoying Australian life to have noticed all of that.

What are you doing in front of your computer? Is it raining in Perth? Go and get yourself out to a park or the beach man.

BAY

Perfect weather in Perth. Sunday was 28 degrees with sunny blue skies. Today is 33 degrees with sunny blue skies. For Sunday lunch had a sausage sizzle on one of the free BBQs. Then played football, basketball, etc etc. Had a good fun time. The park was full of people having a good time.

How about yourself Creepy ? Did you have a good weekend ?

ezzie

Well, most of the time I think there's plenty to do here, well in Sydney anyhow, but they're all things that you go to with friends or family and that's it. Whereas I find in the UK, when you go to events, places, countryside, you tend to interact more with people. I think for this reason the big Australian cities can be lonely places.

The balance is of course, the UK has some pretty iffy areas, a lot of street violence, general yoof 'what you looking at' attitude and a woeful gov't/economic forecast. So I would imagine that if you had kids who'd already left home, the UK would look a lot more enticing than for those with kids who hoped to give them a better future.

I think it's definitely a 'safer' future in Australia, but whether it's 'better' then who can tell.

brits1

I am agreeing with you....we do find it very boring have done for years and as NB has said some do not find it that way....I wish sometimes I could wake up and just be a plodder and be happy with the small amount of what WA has to offer but alas I was not born that way and we are heading home this April...after 12 years of giving Aus a go....and boy oh boy do we appreciate all that the U.K and Europe etc has to offer....even more so after spending all these years just trying to kill time...

livinginreality

Ezzie,not sure where you are refering to in "general"about people looking at you sideways?I've lived in quite a few places in GB(OH was a relief farmer)and can honestly say I've never been looked at "that"way!

brits1

I think Ezzie the safer version is just sometimes down to luck and where you live and not a country....were we lived and family still do we do not have the problems you have staked about iffy areas etc and was a little bit insulted to think that a stranger to this site who has never been to the U.K would be put off by that paragraph....mine and my OH family who all still live in the U.K were upset that you tarnished their children and area in the context that you wrote...as I said we have had nothing but great friends with children who have done really well, lovely neighbours who we are still in touch with who have not had any violent incidents.....if I was you I certainly would not want to live in the U.K and I would definately stay put once and for all in Australia as the area you are describing you would be mad to return to.

stm1971

I don’t think that it is necessarily safer in Australia than the UK. You only have to read the news from the last week to see that there is serious crime all over Australia against young children and adults.

Yes there are iffy areas in the UK, but there are also iffy areas not far from the part of Australia that I live as I am sure there is Australia wide. You just avoid them and teach your children to do them same. I think it is too much of a generalisation and an affront to tar all the UK “yoof” with the same brush, there is just as bad a small minority of “yoofs” in Australia.