I'm definitely being unreasonable! Comparing lives with Australians!

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Watched a lot of Love Island Australia and MAFS Australia this year and follow a lot of the people from it now. Seeing all their stories all year and today for NYE, the sunshine, the beaches, the groups of girls all just having the best time being young in such a beautiful country with the best sort of lifestyle and it makes me feel sad!

I'm in my late twenties married with two kids, boring job, normal family life style but I look and think god could I of done that? Could life of been like that?

One of my old friends is currently in Australia so I'm seeing their insta stories all day everyday and it's made the pining worse than ever, I've never even been there and I find myself just wishing I could do life again and be born there

The then Prince Charles endorsed the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 and urged the Governor-General not to listen to Australians who were protesting. He had meetings with the Governor General prior to the dismissal.

The idea that Britain stopped any involvement in Australian political life in 1901 is unfortunately untrue.

First shift was the fall of Singapore in WW2 when Australia was left to face the Japanese.

But yes the Dismissal in 1975 was full of UK influence.

I live in an inner suburb of Melbourne, thanks.

YANBU for wondering, I think we have all had such thoughts at some point.

YABU however, for using “could of” instead of “could have”

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Good question, I don't know! If you're living a country full of people shunned as tourists perhaps you should probably emigrate to Australia?

I watched MAFS this year for the first and only time. I have never seen such a vacuous group of people. Please don't aspire to be like this.

I had the opportunity to move to Australia about 30 years ago. Went to visit and the racism and sexism was off the charts. Turned down the opportunity. It may have changed by now but from what I hear not much.

You mean like Australian tourists in Bali?

I admit a lot of our tourists are awful, but not sure you can claim Aussie tourists are any better.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12062393/amp/Australian-tourists-Bali-slammed-bad-behaviour.html

https://brechintownhouse.org.uk/why-do-so-many-australian-tourists-behave-poorly-in-bali

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/travel/2023/03/10/bali-to-crack-down-on-tourists-bad-behaviour-with-new-campaign

I think the OP is after the Australia she's seeing on Love Island and MAFS.

There are plenty places for a UK person to visit around the world still. We are not 100% shunned yet.

Melbourne is great. I visited ten years ago and would like to go back there for sure, it seems to have changed a lot in that time too. I liked most places I’ve visited in Australia as a tourist, just living there wasn’t for me.

Meteorologists are warning that parts of Australia could be at risk of a flash drought in 2023, with increasing signs the country could be hit by an El Niño weather event1. The risk of communities running dry in the next drought is greater than ever2. The Bureau of Meteorology has announced an El Niño event is "likely in the coming weeks"3. Eastern and southern Australia are emerging from a widespread and severe drought4

I know we are experiencing strange weather patterns the world over now, with the worst yet to come, but the droughts sound scary.

Rat plague spreads to Queensland's Gulf as residents battle rodents at Karumba - ABC News

Rat Plague in November

"The rats had chewed through cars, homes and businesses in other communities including Winton, Richmond, Julia Creek, Cloncurry and Ingham.

They had also contaminated important water sources and destroyed crops.
The plague was wreaking havoc on the daily lives of residents who were getting desperate for solutions as bait, traps and even predators in the region failed to put a dent in population numbers."

The idea that Australian tourists are shunned in Bali is ridiculous! Yes, of course the Balinese get pissed off by the bogan contingent getting pissed up and being dickheads, much like the Spanish aren't too keen on Brits on the piss in Magaluf, or the Greek opinion of British drunken pisshead teenagers in Malia. But saying the Balinese shun the Aussie tourists couldn't be wrong. There is a huge variety of Balinese hotels and holiday experiences, from $20 a night hotels in Kuta to mega luxury hotels and villas, if the Aussies didn't come to Bali the tourist industry would be decimated, as indeed it was during Covid when borders were closed.

Sorry where did I say they were shunned? Behaving badly. Which I’m sure the Bali locals love.

It’s the same here though. A pp linked to an Amsterdam campaign. It completely misses how much money people welcome as holiday makers visit

Can’t understand choosing to married with kids by late 20s. It’s so young… girls should really be taught at school to wait, develop careers etc. the number of threads on here of single mums etc woth feckless exes and lost opportunities to travel/have adventures!

Also did you even read this article or just get excited by the headline??
it’s not even aimed solely at British tourist, Amsterdam are trying to stop tourists from going there for sex and drugs and to just ‘party’. They welcome tourists who actually want to visit the place! Much like Bali and Australian tourists……

I think there's a few socks on this thread.

Yes and as a pp said, British tourists are still very welcome in Amsterdam. They just want to stop this party reputation…like in Bali.

We were being taught that at my dog-rough, sink estate school in the 1980s.

Well, not so much ‘careers’, as the school had very low expectations of us, and almost never sent anyone to university, but at least to avoid tying ourselves down early.

I don't know whether the OP has gone off the idea as a result of this thread or if she is off to Australia House to fill in emigration forms😄

She only made the one opening post!

Sorry about that, but no need to complain: you have just as much right as anyone else to move somewhere nice.

As someone who holidayed many times in Amsterdam as a British/Irish tourist and was very welcome, much as I am now as an Aussie/British/Irish tourist in Bali, I couldn't agree more!

Almost 30% of Australians were born overseas, and around 50% have at least one parent born overseas. Quite a few of these immigrants are from England, and the rest from a really wide range of countries. So everyone saying Australians are racist - are you also considering the white Australians as Australians- which quite frankly is pretty racist and offensive.