Long haul visits to the YK

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Those of you who have moved to live in Australia/NZ, how can I feel more positive about doing the visit ' home'?
It's been 5 years since my last visit because there just hasn't been the money to fund a trip but since my child has started school I've started working so have booked 3 flights for this July. I was planning to go without DP but then he said he wanted to come too. So, I put it on my credit card and its such a large amount and everything that I earn over the next 6 months is paying for this trip. It depresses me that rather than my job making life easier, we have to go back to counting the pennies for food shops . I know I will be happy to see family when I arrive but all that money to go all that way to sit in people's living rooms for 4 weeks.My family live in a tiny house in a place no one would want to visit as a tourist and it's miles from anywhere with no public transport. My DP will be bored . How can I get excited about it ?
Tell me , I'm being unreasonable - is this what you have to do if you choose to live so far away from family?
What's great about the UK that I've forgotten ?

Aw no. I mean the UK ! Well , England

It's just for 6 months counting the pennies though? If you don't want to go home then don't feel obligated.

I go from the UK to Aus every 2/3 years. We have now decided to move back to Aus but dh is Irish and so we'll still be doing the hellish trip but in reverse 😣

Thanks for responding. I suppose I do feel obligated, I feel like it's our turn as my parents have come to stay here a couple of times and I do want them to have a relationship with their grandchild.
Just want to feel more excited about making the trip really rather than it being a big worry about the cost when we are in a fixer upper house.

I live in Australia and have been back to the UK twice, in three years. Not going back this year as too time consuming/expensive...

However! Both times I visited, duration was 3-4 weeks. So I landed, stayed with parents for a week (say).

In that time, did pottering around my home town and neighbouring city, days out with my Mum, seeing friends etc. After that I would then head on a short break - Portugal first time and Spain second time - for 3-4 days. Either spending 3-4 days in London beforehand or afterward (bearing mind mind I lived in London for 3 years and they are also my nearest airports). Depending on time, perhaps back to my parents for a few days again. So that could easily be replicated with visits to different places in the UK or Ireland, if easier/cheaper.

My parents would never expect me to fly around the world to sit with them for four weeks, although they do think it's funny that I spend 24hrs in transit, only to jet off again to a European destination a week later!

Forgot to say that my parents are coming to Aus in 2018, hence why I am not going to UK this year - although I was unlikely to anyway, as have got a list of other places to visit

Thanks. Yes I guess we'll do similar things though not go on a plane again. ( we did that pre kids to European cities it was great)