New series of Wanted Down Under

[sailorsgal]

I think it starts next week.

I love this! Exciting!

It's all crap anyway...we were told by several banks here that we couldn't get a mortgage for at least 2yrs as we needed to build up a credit & banking history...so it isn't as easy as selling one home & getting a mortgage on another...

Unless they all have the money to buy outright...

Merry - don't forget:

• Looking for an indoor lifestyle
• Hoping to work in an industrial estate on the outskirts of a medium-sized city
• Looking for a small home with non-integrated kitchen

I love it when they go and sample the 'outdoor living' and do things like-

Have a picnic
Go kayaking
Walk on the beach
Go to a climbing wall

All things that can not be done in the UK at all, ever.

Poor Brendan

I love this show. So many unrealistic, pie in the sky ideas and loads of emotional bullying.

Yippee! I too am in the series link shame. Got hooked on this on mat leave (well it was a good incentive to get out of bed and dressed in those early days)
I too love the "how much?" when they list their shopping list, after all the exictement that they seem to be ever so slightly better paid in whatever job they haven't yet got.

I like the pointless "Well chicken thighs cost 16p per kilo less here, so there's a good saving," conversations.

95% of the things they find out could have been found out on the internet back home.
i mean who wouldn't have had their house valued prior to going on the show.

Sparkling There was also that family who went to an animal park, and sold the whole idea to the kids almost on that basis alone. Have they not heard of Whipsnade, Longleat or Woburn?

there was something about organic milk on one of the programmes, either they couldn't get it or it was 4 times the price or something. Deal breaker.

Ooh yes clam no animal parks or zoos over here with a kangaroo in.

I often think about applying to go on this. No intention of moving to Oz but fancy a week in the sun looking at properties. Then we all vote to stay in the UK and come home again .

I love it too but am away until Tuesday so will have to do catch up AND series link when I get back. I love how they go there planning to work less hours and make more money but then talk themselves into getting full time jobs for both parents, stick the toddler and baby in "daycare" for 10 hours a day (no relatives to help) and believe they are going to be living the dream

But, but...they can go to the beach after their 10 hour workdays when they're knackered... Work/life misbalance.

I bloody love January! Bring on the tutting!

there was one where in order to cover the finances in Oz the teen would need to get a job too.

I've only ever watched sporadically, but every episode without fail featured a wife desperate to emigrate and a husband who was reluctant. It's not a new house in Australia she wants... It's a divorce!

And they usually have to drive to the beach

I remember that one too, Sparkling - and if I remember rightly the teen didn't actually want to go, and the mum was guilt-tripping her about ruining her dream.

Oh I can't wait to watch on Monday. I love the catch-up series they do every now and again too. Seeing them all still living in the UK.

Ooo will series link too.. I love yes we will be £20,000 a year better off in Australia if we both worked fulltime.. Says the current SAHM in the UK well not shit sherlock you would be too in the UK.

Oh god there's one on right now - must be a repeat.

I find it so bloody depressing. They're desperate for a life just like a holiday, and are willing to risk everything and leave their family and friends behind to try and achieve that. The videos of their families crying always breaks me, can't bear it.

You want a better work-life balance with more time outdoors? And you've lived in the UK for the last 30 years and haven't achieved that? What makes you think that moving to another country will magically make that happen?

Then they go on their 1 week holiday, and go "Ooh look see we've spent all day at the zoo with our children, see how better our lives are"... but you're on HOLIDAY. Everyone's work/life balance is better when they're on holiday, cos they're not actually going to work!

I have a wonderful work/life balance. I go kayaking, walks on the beach most days, walks in the hills, BBQs in the summer and I live in the UK.

Aaargh! Rant over, I feel better now

The lady on today's episode was a hairdresser in Liverpool. She said "Well I've heard that British Hairdressers are really in demand in Australia. Everyone wants British hairdressers. And the salary is much higher".

Because they don't have 'proper' hairdressers in Oz, yeah the scouse hairdresser will be snapped up at £30k a year!

Speaking as someone from a dysfunctional background i find i would happily slap these families who feel so rounded and whole and perfect and settled that they will happily move away from the distraught grandparents.... Who did everything for their kids and love them extravagantly and care for them and gave years of free childcare so kids could realise their dreams, who phone them every day, laugh and joke and play together, are all each others bezzie mates.

I imagine if i had ever said, i want to move to the other side of the world my dad would have shrugged and said "So what?" Weirdly, you never see any videos from home like that in that show. Everyone seems to come from card carrying functional loving families. They take it so much for granted they want to F off to the other side of the world! slap I feel better now.

Completely agree with you blue

I totally get why someone would want to move to a new country, if they had no ties and nothing to lose. Why not. But when these people have loving families who are utterly heartbroken at the thought of their loved ones moving away, taking their grandchildren with them ...

On today's ep, the little boy consistently voted to stay in the UK because he said he would miss his friends and family. His Dad cheerfully said it's ok, they would buy him a new laptop so he could Skype everyone instead. Little boy looked really really sad.

I turned it off at that point, it upsets me too much, so I don't know what they decided!!

I know. Skype is a poor substitiute. My mum had a fab Spain lifestyle with her yacht and used to Skype me. Most of the time the sound didn't work or the picture cut out so my mum would obsess over the stupid technology utterly missing the point of what Skype is for, it should be the medium for staying in touch rather than being just all about Skype! I didn't really want to stay in touch by any means and if she was happy in Spain on her yacht I didn't really care one way or another.

A funny thing on that show is the way they present the British family with the big PROBLEM: all the kids are in different rooms in the house on all their separate social media devices. SOLUTION: move to the other side of the world where everyone will magically become toned beach bum surfer types with lovely communal family lives. Er, no. You move a whole bunch of antisocial kids who are in separate rooms to the other side of the world from all their friends.... Will they go out surfing in the sun? Will they heckaslike. They will be in separate rooms (bigger rooms, further away from each other) strapped into the Grid staying in touch with their friends and family the other side of the world!

Also another time, a woman with a huge garden and a three bedroom home with all her kids grown up and moved out. PROBLEM, she needed "more space". Speaking as one who has always been underhoused and has never had a spare room i thought she had a damn cheek.

Somebody mentioned 'flower power family'

They're all still in Scotland and haven't been back to Australia since the show. The 3 dc are all now in full time secondary education, they seem good and are now very tall like their parents. Lee and Lucy still haven't married.