Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Nov 28th 2010, 7:54 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
They live in Wollongong Polly
But you are right there is nothing wrong with knowing the facts but you don't need to have it rammed down your throat so much so that kids are having nightmares!!
I don't know whatever happened to common sense it got lost somewhere along the way .......people going to see the big waves or the scary bushfires.......
I get more like Grumpy Old Women every day.
But you are right there is nothing wrong with knowing the facts but you don't need to have it rammed down your throat so much so that kids are having nightmares!!
I don't know whatever happened to common sense it got lost somewhere along the way .......people going to see the big waves or the scary bushfires.......
I get more like Grumpy Old Women every day.
I feel - and share - your pain
Nov 30th 2010, 12:19 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Since I've been back lots of people have chipped in with their two pennies worth "why one earth would you come back..." doom and gloom mince. I just say "have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then" - end of.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
Nov 30th 2010, 12:29 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Since I've been back lots of people have chipped in with their two pennies worth "why one earth would you come back..." doom and gloom mince. I just say "have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then" - end of.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
Nov 30th 2010, 12:36 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Since I've been back lots of people have chipped in with their two pennies worth "why one earth would you come back..." doom and gloom mince. I just say "have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then" - end of.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
Nov 30th 2010, 3:58 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Since I've been back lots of people have chipped in with their two pennies worth "why one earth would you come back..." doom and gloom mince. I just say "have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then" - end of.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
Nov 30th 2010, 5:12 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Too right, the stupid in Britain say "Britain is crap" and the stupid in Australia "Australia's awesome" so it's an opposite viewpoint but equally uneducated way of thinking.
Both countries have their good and bad points, which have been discussed at length in other threads.
But I'm damned if every idiot I meet is going to tell me I'm wrong for choosing to live in my own country. Nah, not on my watch.
Both countries have their good and bad points, which have been discussed at length in other threads.
But I'm damned if every idiot I meet is going to tell me I'm wrong for choosing to live in my own country. Nah, not on my watch.
Nov 30th 2010, 5:35 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Too right, the stupid in Britain say "Britain is crap" and the stupid in Australia "Australia's awesome" so it's an opposite viewpoint but equally uneducated way of thinking.
Both countries have their good and bad points, which have been discussed at length in other threads.
But I'm damned if every idiot I meet is going to tell me I'm wrong for choosing to live in my own country. Nah, not on my watch.
Both countries have their good and bad points, which have been discussed at length in other threads.
But I'm damned if every idiot I meet is going to tell me I'm wrong for choosing to live in my own country. Nah, not on my watch.
Nov 30th 2010, 5:56 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Since I've been back lots of people have chipped in with their two pennies worth "why one earth would you come back..." doom and gloom mince. I just say "have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then" - end of.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
I think that the British media has so much to answer for that people have got an inferiority complex about living here.
Even though there were many things about Australia that I liked, and some aspects of being back that do suck (the subzero temperatures this week for example) I refuse to indulge the uneducated in Britain OR Australia.
"Have you ever lived in Australia? No? Well then"
Yes this is the line I will use. Thank you.
Good for you!
Nov 30th 2010, 11:49 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
Such a great topic. I have no worries about my return home other than this one. I just can't stand negativity and I know how much of it there is there. I am afraid it will really get me down.
Luckily most of my family and friends are upbeat and actually love England - and for the the ones who are not, I usually just tell them facts - like "did you know I pay $1,400 a month for health insurance that still won't pay for my migraine pills?" That usually shuts them up.
My mum is terrible and it's entirely because she reads the Daily Mail. No other reason. Her life is lovely and she has nothing to complain about. I tell her that all the time but it doesn't seem to penetrate.
Luckily most of my family and friends are upbeat and actually love England - and for the the ones who are not, I usually just tell them facts - like "did you know I pay $1,400 a month for health insurance that still won't pay for my migraine pills?" That usually shuts them up.
My mum is terrible and it's entirely because she reads the Daily Mail. No other reason. Her life is lovely and she has nothing to complain about. I tell her that all the time but it doesn't seem to penetrate.
Dec 1st 2010, 4:00 am
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Re: Glass half full or half empty? Does the UK really have to be that bad
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv...der/index.html
I was very interested in the programme on the plane as it was a home search for an ex-military man and his family (plus his mother!) relocating from the UK to a Sydney suburb - and they were looking at a property in French's Forest, where my best friend's sister lives.
I've seen this Phil Spencer and his sidekick (the posh) Kirsty Allsop doing 'Relocation, Relocation, Relocation' TV programme in the UK and I guess as the format has become rather tired, they're now venturing overseas...and Phil's wife just happens to be Australian....so how nice to get the TV company to have them over in Oz for filming a series.
Anyway....no wonder Brits watching this 'Relocation Down Under' get all of these ideas about living in Oz the way that Phil was glamourising everything, and here's a quote from the video clip on the link; Phil is narrating and this is what he says - "Adam and Kam George hail from Basingstoke in the south of England who've given up on not-so-Great Britain" (How dare he say that! Grrrrr!!!!!)
I'd love to know how much editing is done as everything seems to go so smoothly and according to plan and the sun is always shining (no-one seems to struggle financially either). The links says "Apply Now to go househunting with Phil in Australia"....
Next thing we will probably see Phil in Florida....
I have noticed that the TV production company now has a media request on this website....for people wishing to RETURN TO THE UK...anyone, lol?
Now I wonder why they are doing this.....could it be that some people just can't settle Down Under?! 
Last edited by Englishmum; Dec 1st 2010 at 4:18 am.
