Wanted Down Under - the one where we start by rooting for the family.

[MrsReiver]

Cheering on the family is becoming a habit!

Previous thread here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/1671253-Wanted-Down-Under-BBC1-9-15am-Watch-and-tut-here?msgid=37208145#37208145

Well I think alot of them could find a solution to their problems without going to the other side of the world!

Yes, they look really poor now .

Those kids were not kitted out in Primark were they!

Holister!

Yes meglet they can't even afford to go skiing.

why do people need to take a week out and be on telly to re evaluate their lives

I do it all the bloody time

Free holiday innit?

the mum this week was nice though, just dont get all the "we have no money but are much happier", couldnt they have worked that out before?

solo, I've often thought that too, maybe we should try it havent had a holiday for years and years, maybe we should go on the telly so i can think about the bleeding obvious

If that is what "having no money" looks like, then God help the rest of us in this country.

yeah no money now means kids dont go skiing every year

Before the 80's average people didn't have loads of holidays abroad. In a few years they will have three in school and she can teach full time again if she wants.

I'm a bit "shruggy" about this family. Glad they didn't take on a vineyard but I do feel sorry for them not having a new car and having to go camping... And the humiliation of having to change postcodes.
(Good job I'm not bitter about the ancient car outside my house. I do love my tent though!)

Blimey! Only caught glimpses of the programme thanks to poorly baby! but who needs to watch it?

Anyway, my thoughts were:

Why do people assume they will be able to pick up new skills and jobs while also having more family time? A bloody vine yard? Eh?

Izzy seemed precocious yet eminently sensible. Surely it shouldn't take a small child saying "couldn't we do nice things in the UK? Couldn't daddy get a different job in the UK?" For you to realise that this is a total nonsense.

Right, I have decided that I fancy a wee holiday. I have categorically no interest in moving to Australasia but I can pretend. All I need to do is keep repeating the phrase "it's just a better quality of life"

I know somebear! I was at that comment. How does a child know about such things? I mean, what was their postcode R1C H1E ?

I think there was a slight edge of pride when the parents said about the postcode the said 'she's a snob'

Where does she get it from?!

Just watched. I think the girls were churning out what the parents had been saying TBH.

Or what friends or relatives talk about, she did seem very grown up for her age, maybe she is an earwig child.

My seven year old ds talks like that. Not necessarily ear wigged although it could be of course.

They didn't seem a match to me. She's too sensible &too nice for someone like him.

Glad they stayed. Well done Izzy for pointing out the obvious.

I've heard a lot of things said about Reading but really
Spot on Izzy though....

I could imagine them moving somewhere like Northumberland after all the talk, but Reading?!!

What did the single mum with two boys do about NZ in the end? The end didn't record :(

Dizzy they stayed in the UK and seemed happy.

I just caught up with Thursday. Why are people so dilusional about what they will be able to afford? 5 bedrooms/big garden/pool/spacious "living space".... I love the cat's bum mouths when estate agents value their property. Surely you should do this yourself so you have a general idea!

Thanks BookFairy (love your name BTW).
It only takes minutes on right move to get an idea of house prices, no reason not to check.

Maybe I should go on the programme and say I am selling my semi and emigrating to Australia and want a house like this and then act all disappointed when my house doesn't get valued at the right amount

Do it!!!!

is anybody watching it this morning?