camponotus

If you are British and you are currently in Australia specifically and not sure you wanna stay, please post your thoughts and feelings together with things you especially miss about England, Scotland etc. You could also list things that you especially dislike about Australia if you want.

Let's keep this one ULTRA friendly; no mocking of people's ideas and feelings, please. Show people respect and understand their right to miss their home country.

Londonuck

teehee sorry couldnt resist.

maka paka

Where do I start,
Were out of here on 13 Nov and it can't come quick enough,had enough of the terrible TV,job,wages,high interest rates,under par and overpriced supermarkets,horrendous curries,abysmal dangerous driving,knuckledragging mentality of woman cook and man talk about fishing with beer,mullets,no shoes,Mcdonalds and KFC on every street corner,soullessness of the place,asbestos everywhere........You may have gathered I don't particularly like this place(Brisbane),I'd have the UK any day.

Tr1boy

Based on that, I don't qualify for this thread

quoll

LOL you mean you are entirely sure you dont want to be here!!!

islandergirl

I don't actually hate it in Aus but I do really enjoy reading rants about it, and under the influence of certain other MBTTUK'ers I have been known to jump in.

I'm going home to Scotland in 129 days.

Mostly miss family and friends but miss belonging as well.

Here's a scenic image of the drive between Canberra and Adelaide, not sure exactly where but it doesn't matter it all looks exactly the same for the better part of 13 hours...enjoy

emigratingherberts

Some days I am very happy here and think about staying for a long time but other days I yearn for home. I have been here for 10 months so feel I should have really made up my mind by now. In hindsight, if I could turn the clocks back 18 months I would not have chosen to come to Australia but stay in England. It really isn't worth the grief of leaving family and friends and the guilt put upon you by your children when they are unhappy is unbearable. Our family is split. Some of us want to stay and some want to go home.

I read a lot of threads from people saying "try it, you can always go back". Unfortunately it is not as easy as that. Its a big risk giving up your job here to go back to England with all the uncertainty with the economy. It also costs a fortune. I can see why a lot of families split up under the pressure.

We are staying here for the foreseeable future but I am forever worrying when the right time will be to go back. As the children get older it becomes more difficult with schooling etc but we will definitely go back at some point.

camponotus

That's a lot of things you don't like maka paka! Essentially though, hard to disagree with anything you're saying there. 'Asbestos everywhere' - how do you mean?

maka paka

I live in Brisbane,and there is a lot of houses actually built with asbestos sheets,both inside and outside.They don't built them now obviously but there are thousands of them here.

The conduits that Energex(My employer) laid years ago and are still in the ground ,are made of asbestos.

They get contractors in to remove them when required and I can honestly say they are very rough about it leaving asbestos dust everywhere.
If I complain then I'm a whinging "pom",although I'm a Scot (They don't know the difference never being outside their beloved country).

I just think the whole place is under par.

Sorry if I sound like a complete moaner,but that's what these forums are for I supposse.

sdunx

You're not a moaner you're just telling it how it is. Oz is very, very overrated and has deteriorated in my opinion over the last 5-6 years. There's also a very strong undercurrent of 'anti-pom' feeling, this is more prevalent now than ever before. It's also a bit of a worry the amount of thick/ignorant people you meet - I blame the press and their education system for deliberately keeping people in isolation, this way they believe and perpetrate the mantra about Australia being the best country in the world, even though many have never been out of their home state.