Wanted Down Under 2014

[MrsReiver]

I know all you addicts are out there! I am not the only one.

[MrsReiver]

Do his parents have South African accents?

[Sparklingbrook]

Blimey. Brendan and Angela are still married. After what she did to him on National telly.

[BringMeTea]

Oh take it back. Lovely supportive families. Quite the turnaround from Steve.

[MrsReiver]

Or was it her parents? That explains her hybrid accent.

[malteserzz]

She moved from South Africa when she was 6
Bless the grandparents

[bisjo]

Do any of them ever actually go? I reckon it must be one family in 20 at the most from the programmes I've seen over the years. I'm always amazed that people go on this programmes never having even visited Aus/NZ before.

[Sparklingbrook]

Occasionally bisjo, but more often than not they are still fannying about trying to decide.

[HolidayArmadillo]

Yay I love Wanted Down Under, didn't realise it was back!!

[MrsReiver]

Ah. I missed the very beginning. Off to look up update.

[malteserzz]

Just read the update they have had another child, sold their house and moved in with her parents and are hoping to move out there within the next 5 years

[bisjo]

Update:

After their trial week in Australia, Steven is now keener than Norma-Jean to emigrate. The couple sold their property in Newcastle and as of December 2013, are living with Norma-Jean’s parents and are starting to save towards a move down under. The couple have recently had another child. Norma Jean and Steven hope to be in Australia in the next five years.

If they aren't planning to go for another 5 years I don't understand why they've sold their house?

[MrsReiver]

Okay. This is an odd one.

After their trial week in Australia, Steven is now keener than Norma-Jean to emigrate. The couple sold their property in Newcastle and as of December 2013, are living with Norma-Jeanâ??s parents and are starting to save towards a move down under. The couple have recently had another child. Norma Jean and Steven hope to be in Australia in the next five years

[MrsReiver]

Lol. A chorus of WTF!

[bisjo]

So basically this is a free holiday paid for by me and other licence payers? I'm going to apply. I've no intention of moving to Aus/NZ but ds has always said he'd like to visit.

[bisjo]

If they were serious about moving they would do it before the dcs start school rather than moving when Harry is 8 (I think he was 3 in the programme).

[Davros]

God the homes on this one are awful!

[Sneezecakesmum]

I read somewhere statistically quite a high percentage come back for various reasons and was really surprised by how high when you look at the lifestyle and everything else in oz.

Family would be the only thing for me to come back or not to go!

[NicknameIncomplete]

I thought the update would say that he had fucked off without her.

I cant see them moving as a family.

[NicknameIncomplete]

Does the show look into your background to make sure that you genuinely want to move or can you just apply and pretend?

[wellsfamilyoz]

They do give you pretty stiff checks. I do concede though that many have an unrealistic view on life in OZ. One of the musts when you apply is that you can NEVER have set foot in OZ before - which kinda makes it hard to decide in a week whether its right 4 u. One of the big gripes is the 'want to live in OZ badly - but never been there' statements - can never get my head round that one :) For the record - we are are still there 3 years after our 45 mins of fame lol

[bisjo]

How interesting. It does seem very odd to have that sort of stipulation.

I'm pleased it worked out for you wells. Have you been asked to do a follow up programme yet?

[wellsfamilyoz]

Yes...but we felt that we had done the show and had moved on. We were asked to do a revisited this year and turned it down. We did the show because we felt we had something different with our application and it was a great experience. We watched all episodes from day one and could see the pitfalls and the good. There are a lot of unrealistic 'contestants' so to speak which I think brings us all down a tad. When we got to the airport in Brisbane we after a 23 hour flight we were told we had 12 hours before we were to be picked up to film the 'lifestyle' section .... well, you can imagine..... I look back now and am happy to have done the show - its something to tell the grandkids

[bisjo]

Did you end up settling in the area you visited in the programme or did you go to a different city? How do they decide where to send you to visit? Do you have any say in that?

[wellsfamilyoz]

We had a choice to go to Brisbane or Adelaide - chose Brisbane settled in Adelaide!!! Funny how it worked out. Adelaide is a great City - they all are, but as with all OZ places - very expensive. To relocate is really tough on the wallet for sure x

[exleodensian]

Davros, I don't know that Australia would take immigrants with a disability. Early in the programme, it was said that Tanya's parents travelled extensively and that Tanya had been born in New Zealand. If she has New Zealand citizenship, she has a right under a reciprocal agreement to live and work in Australia.