Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10800903)

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The doom and gloom tends to come from those who read the trash papers like the Daily Mail and take the rubbish written as gospel.

Originally Posted by kwazywabbit (Post 10800912)

As for the unrest no more or less than what i have to deal with out here.

Originally Posted by colchar (Post 10801343)

What unrest has there been in Alberta or Canada?

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 10801080)

Well you raise an interesting point.

Sure, high street shops close down. Why wouldn't they, since there are shopping centres and big box stores out of town. I like to see small independent stores on the high street when I return to England, but I shop in the out of town shopping centres like everyone else. Time marches on in the UK, even while we live abroad for years or decades ... that's a sign the old place is still alive and kicking! And, the fact that new immigrants want to come is also a sign that Britain is in good nick!

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10800903)

There are jobs, in fact the unemployment rate here is only marginally worse that Australia.

Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10801607)

The UK unemployment rate as of June 2013 was 7.8%, and the Australian unemployment rate as of July 2013 was 5.7%, so the UK rate is substantially higher (over a third higher). Having said that UK unemployment is trending down, and Australian unemployment is trending up, so they may converge at some point.

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10802123)

Exactly but people believe it. Round the figures up, in Australia OFFICIALLY 6 out of 100 are unemployed, in the UK it is 8 out of 100. The difference is marginal but in one country you will be told there is plenty of work and in the other there is no work, neither is right.

Originally Posted by yozzernz (Post 10802282)

But in some parts of Oz there's no Jobs such as here

Originally Posted by yozzernz (Post 10802338)

There's an awful lot more beaurocratic nonsense here though

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10802123)

Exactly but people believe it. Round the figures up, in Australia OFFICIALLY 6 out of 100 are unemployed, in the UK it is 8 out of 100. The difference is marginal but in one country you will be told there is plenty of work and in the other there is no work, neither is right.

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 10800903)

The doom and gloom tends to come from those who read the trash papers like the Daily Mail and take the rubbish written as gospel.

Originally Posted by roaringmouse (Post 10802678)

...says he who recently started a thread entitled "Home ownership for many in the UK a distant dream" - based on an article that had appeared in the Daily Mail.