to want to go on "wanted downunder" so we can have a free holiday and see some sunshine?

[ssd]

most of the people on it don't seem to have a clue, they might move but then again they might stay put

think I'll write to them to say we want to go there, can they fly us out and give us a week somewhere and then we'll decide to stay here and thats that

beats a wet week in butlins AGAIN

Is that the programme where you have to look round houses and twist the cards round and round? UK, New Zealand,UK,NZ,UK,NZ...

I'd sooner eat my own spleen have a week in Butlins.

you have to actually work with autralians though and probably watch alot of neighbours

then get eaten by a cane toad

LOL - we go to Rhodes, Greece every year but couldn't afford to go last year.

My DS4 (14 years) had the great idea to go on the telly programme...'A place in the sun.' He reckoned we should tell them we wanted to relocate to Rhodes and we had jobs there and we knew the area we wanted to live in. His plans were fantastic till I explained to him that we rent our house from a Housing association ROFL....he was so very disappointed.

But they go for a week. Two 24 hour flights in a week? No thank you! (and if all you;re doing is trawling round houses then I think I'd rather be at Butlins).

And, why is Nicki Chapman out there, she doesn;t seem to ever meet the families so it seems a massive waste of the BBC's cash.

AND (now I'm on a roll!) how can these people not know before they go that houses are actually quite expensive over there? Do they not do any research?

Gahhh!

The people on there seriously are deluded, one guy said he would only move if they got a house with a pool. What sane person would base their decision to move halfway round the world on a swimming pool!

Its only just over 4 hours flight from Manchester to Rhodes....

I think lots of people do just go for the free holiday TBH, even though it isn't much of a holiday with the 2 long haul flights in a week, as someone else has pointed out.

God, I'd love to see this programme. I can tell you, pools are seriously overrated, unless you have money to heat them and someone to clean them.

Even then...

When we are buying in Australia not long ago we absolutely stipulated no pool to the EAs. Did they take any notice? Did they buggery.

Pools, meh.

I thought Butlins was supposed to be expensive.

The people on this programme are dim, they think houses in Oz are cheap (they are certainly not) and they have not been affected by the recession like us.

A woman on there this week said "I didn't realise it was so far until I looked at the map on the plane".

YABU to want to do a 24 hour flight and then have a camera in your face (whilst sweating to death in QLD) :)

Don't come to NZ if it's sun you're after. We're having the worst pissing down summer in living memory. Makes washed-out Glasto and Wimbledon look like the sub-Saharan desert.

Only if you're in the North Island Slinking stinking hot and blue skies in the south

Ohhhh, don't rub it in.

God, we've had some Antarctic wind and rain lately, but the sun has got his hat on now (Melbourne), so the place will be scaldingly hot in 30 minutes flat.:o

Pools are indeed a PITA. When we moved home we rented a house with pool.

As far as I can see you pour money time and effort into the bloody thing for the 10 mins a day, 5 days a year you might feel like a swim.

When we were house hunting, any with a pool were immediately crossed off.

When I want a swim I go to the beach, or the river or on holiday.

Those shows are just stupid though, they always seem so surprised by the reality. Do they think everywhere is just the same as the UK but with better weather?

? My dcs have probably swum in the pool 5 times in the last week. It is especially good now that they can go in on their own, so if I am feeling lazy I can sit by the side. I love going to the beach but the pool is much more less effort.

In Canberra we didn't have a pool and we used to trek to the pool or the river almost every second day in summer. Pool are great.

Those shows are just stupid though, they always seem so surprised by the reality. Do they think everywhere is just the same as the UK but with better weather?

Basically yes!

I did see one tge other week and felt quite sorry for them. Tge woman was from oz and had ended up in Shetland living her dream where she met and married a man whose dream it was to live in oz. Basically one was always gonna want to live somewhere else.

Ah see tryingtoleave I find it stacks less effort to jump in the car and go to the beach for the day than to clean, test, chlorinate year round. We stayed with friends with a pool before Christmas, DS1 was in the pool for the first couple of days and then the novelty wore off and he was back to running around instead.

I hated our pool with a deep and abiding passion, never again. I like to lie by a pool with nice young men to bring me drinks, safe in the knowledge I will never need to worry about maintaining the pool.

What Morloth said. Also, it takes so much water to fill it up, and I am saving furiously for a rainwater tank, so it seems silly to use such a large amount of water in a pool. And with land so expensive, a place with a pool would have such a tiny back yard in which to do anything else.

I want a vegetable garden and a few fruit trees! And a trampoline and a dog and some chooks and, and and... (explodes in an overdose of Burke's Backyard factsheets)