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Post by cookie on Feb 6, 2014 10:28:55 GMT 1
Mini rant warning...
I don't understand why people think that by moving across the world they suddenly have a bigger budget for their house...
I just don't get it. Feeling washed out with our winter weather and even then I don't get it.
Clearly I'm more of a home bird than I thought. I couldn't take my kids so far away. And if they can afford a bigger mortgage then they can have that here, there are some lovely bits of coast in the UK...
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Post by antares on Feb 6, 2014 12:25:04 GMT 1
Lol cookie, I've only seen that programme a couple of times and that was enough. I'm not sure why people think that they can move to the other side of the world and that will automatically give them more money, more friends, better job, nicer house etc. It's not reality But then what do I know, I haven't even been on holiday outside of the uk or Ireland for about 5 yrs. I really am a home bird, nothing I love more than a few days off work to spend at my home with husband, horses and dogs  |
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Post by cookie on Feb 6, 2014 13:33:18 GMT 1
You've totally summed it up. I'm on maternity leave and being sucked into dreadful day time TV waiting on this baby to appear! I've friends who do live over there because there partners are Aussie and see the difficulties they all face, perhaps that gives me a different impression... Or perhaps we're just lucky to be happy with our lot Sent from my GT-I9100 using proboards |
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Post by lizpurlo on Feb 6, 2014 15:25:18 GMT 1
Oh cookie, not daytime TV, that's just the pits! I'm a homebird too..... have FB friends in Oz, and I love looking at their pictures of sunshine and happy children in t-shirts and gorgeous scenery and beaches. Especially as I'm looking out on grey wet fields and mud-coloured everything - but would I swap? No way, ever, I'd have to be dragged, screaming from here. |
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Post by misty on Feb 6, 2014 20:01:40 GMT 1
Or the ones who move to the country and want 5 bedrooms and there are only 2 of them! Then they want room for a horse but need acres! They want to come and see how we manage!
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Post by misty on Feb 6, 2014 20:02:06 GMT 1
Or the ones who move to the country and want 5 bedrooms and there are only 2 of them! Then they want room for a horse but need acres! They want to come and see how we manage!
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Post by julz on Feb 11, 2014 10:56:07 GMT 1
Possibly because it's cheaper living? better job opportunities, and the like....
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Post by gwenoakes on Feb 11, 2014 12:40:55 GMT 1
We had a short time in Perth, Australia. Late 89 beginning of Feb 90 and I was amazed at the number of english people who truly believed that Australia had bought them 'everything'.
When talking to them, in England the wives didnt work, but did in Australia, so in my reckoning that was poss double the money, but for some reason they just couldnt see it! I gave up after a while, you cant put owt where there is nowt. Think the sun must have frazzled their brains.
The prices were not cheap when we were there, you didnt spend much money on heating, but you certainly spent it on keeping cool whether it was air conditioning, extra showers and sun cream was very expensive. Lamb especially was quite dear and we were almost on NZ's doorstep, could never figure that one out.
You spent more on mesh on windows/doors to keep insects out and fly spray. The wages were certainly not the same in our trade which was roofing and you had to be out at 4a.m. to work before it got too hot and the tiles were too hot to handle. We got offered work by two of the biggest roofing companies before we went and then arrived to find there was the biggest building slump ever, so hardly any work.
As you might have gathered, it was not for us, so we came back.........pronto. LOL It was nothing like Neighbours and Home and Away. LOL
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Post by portiabuzz on Feb 11, 2014 17:53:26 GMT 1
oh nooo daytime TV cookie! never seen it, these sorts of programs are usually full of delusional people  |
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Post by portiabuzz on Feb 11, 2014 17:54:53 GMT 1
i do feel totally patriotic about England shame its not full of English anymore and the lovely rural places are being built on  but hey I live in Leicester LMAO |
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Post by cookie on Feb 18, 2014 16:10:55 GMT 1
Possibly because it's cheaper living? better job opportunities, and the like.... See Julz, I'm not sure it is cheaper... Usually these people are taking larger mortgages than they have in the UK and agree with gwen, often mums decide to go back to work. Interest rates in Oz have been high in recent years... Property is cheap in very few locations, certainly not Melbourne or Sydney... There are a few professions that are better paid, nursing springs to mind, but generally I'm not convinced. Sent from my GT-I9100 using proboards |
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Post by portiabuzz on Feb 18, 2014 17:06:17 GMT 1
still stuck with daytime TV cookie? bet your busy now though |
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Post by gwenoakes on Feb 18, 2014 17:39:58 GMT 1
In 86 when we had a holiday there you could buy a house, which to us was a bungalow, for approx 37,000 dollars and it had an acre of land. When we went back in 89 you could pay the same price for a smaller property on a fifth of an acre.
The dollar was 2.52 to the pound in 86, but cant remember what it was in 89/90.
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Post by kafee on Feb 18, 2014 18:44:47 GMT 1
The only reason I'd sign up to a programme like that is visit the country in question.  |
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but hey I live in Leicester LMAO