Wanted Down Under - more ridiculous than ever

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Had to switch over yesterday - a woman who wanted 'more quality time with her family and new relationship', which meant leaving her son behind in England plus depriving the daughter going with her of contact with her dad and family, - and the brother of course. How self-absorbed and selfish do you have to be to think this is any way a good idea?

Today's isn't much better. A woman who hates travelling and hates the sun is being dragged over by her husband who is desperate to override any of her concerns.

The programme used to be vaguely entertaining... it's just ridiculous now.

I was watching that aswell!

I watched yesterday for the first time in ages and was totally at how she'd be providing her son with a better life too. Also as PP said, who doesn't expect shift work in the police? I know people think NZ is a safer place to live but pretty sure crime doesn't only happen 9-5 Monday to Friday there.

I know a family who did this. Lovely people but utterly clueless. Were chasing a dream imagining that the sunshine would solve all their problems.

We have family in Australia so visit every couple of years. Never in a million years would I move there.

Its so expensive for everything! Ok salaries can be higher but everything costs so much more.

It takes bloody ages to get anywhere! Like 6 hours to fly from one side to the other. From the uk 6 hours gets you loads of places!

It is lovely to visit and experience but in WDU they quickly forget they would have the same problems and issues just in sunshine.

I can't bear it when they're all undecided about going, and then they see the video of all their relatives crying and you realise there are children being left behind, parents who will die soon, and they fiddle about with the flags and shout "AWAY!"

It's almost like the sign of a psychopath.

I haven't watched this for years but have no idea why people are under some sort of impression that Australia is superior to the UK. I spent a year there and while it's a lovely place (well some of it is) it's no better or worse than it is here. Sure it's warmer in many places but that's the only pull that I am aware of. Are people really so obsessed with sunshine that they will leave all the people they love to move halfway across the world? Lets be honest your life long friendships will slowly die out (as much as you say you'll keep in contact life isn't like that really - you need to live your life alongside other people to have actual relationships) and your family will only get to see you when either of you can afford the extremely expensive and exhausting flights. I get it when it's a Brit who married an Aussie and they want to go home but otherwise I think it's stupid.

I only caught the end of yesterday's I thought the son was a teenager or an adult. I can't believe anyone would contemplate leaning a child that young. She really seemed to think that seeing him once a year would be enough. Stupid woman.

As we've all found out over the last few weeks, the novelty of constant hot weather soon wears off!

I've never seen them factor in the cost of health care. They add up the cost of tomatoes and washing powder, but not what happens if you need to visit a dentist, get ill or require surgery. It's always awful to see elderly relatives on the video weeping at the thought of them leaving.

I think maybe health care insurance is included maybe in the last section they do?
I know 2 sets of families that moved out there first set moved from a lovely affluent part of England to oz and struggled to convert their qualifications initially 8 years on they are doing ok but having to rent in an area they don’t think is great as can’t afford to buy yet that was Melbourne.
Another family who had never been before moved last year have already brought a lovely house in Perth but meant they both have to work full time now so do have less time at home than they thought.
I don’t think it works for everyone

"Everything is geared up for being more relaxed"
Yes but you are going to have to work far more hours than in the UK

I was gobsmacked watching this morning to find out that a part time teaching assistant would earn £29,000 a year

I just don’t get this programme. It seems that some people’s idea of the country is based entirely on neighbours and that’s it.

Some of the people on this are awful. I remember one where the husband didn’t want to move, he was crying and all sorts and his wife and daughters basically bullied him into submission. And one where a women with kids in a new relationship told her son from a previous relationship he was selfish and ruining everything for everyone because he didn’t want to leave his dad and other siblings. Vile people. In the update on that one they didn’t get to go as the boy’s dad got a court order to prevent them taking him.

Its so expensive for everything! Ok salaries can be higher but everything costs so much more

Yes, but so will the UK now after Brexit less the high salaries

And the heat thing, I'm an Aussie and nearly melted in London. The city, and house, public transport, are not geared towards hot days. The houses keep heat in!

I do cringe when as a pp said someone from dullsville UK thinks they can sell their 3 bed semi and move to beach suburb in Melbourne or Sydney.

We are moving over there in a few months, I'm very apprehensive about the cost of living etc and we lived in London for 10 years...

Yes and it's always pitched as a move to a particular city, but the houses they look at are (of course) in the 'suburbs' which in Oz can mean more than an hour's drive from the city you're supposedly moving to.

Oh it seems the first one I am talking about was Poor Brendan! I had forgotten his name. It was truly awful. Poor man.