Everyone’s move to Australia

Totality said:
I moved to NZ and would never go back. In fact the thought of crowded roads, 20% vat, crap healthcare, high income tax rates, crap weather, expensive fuel, chavs, disrepect people give each other, unfriendly shop staff and ridiculously expensive trains makes me shiver. Luckily I have NZ residency now so don't have to move back woo!
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I'm afraid your country does have chavs.

Over in NZ (and in OZ) they call them Bogans :p
 
Too many spiders for me, that's the honest reason why I couldn't move there. Oh and I think that its overhyped and the amount of aussies I've met that have moved over here is unreal. Grass isn't always greener.
 
I'd love to move, so much so that i'm sorting out my passport next week and will start to thoroughly look, i'm a mechanical engineer by trade but i've no idea if they're after any.

Really had enough of this depressing ****hole of a country.
 
Two girls from work have moved to Aus, one around 8 months ago and the other last month, both love it and wish they had done it sooner, if work presented me with the chance to go i'd consider it, currently i can either move to Dubai or Canada, neither of which i fancy.
 
My younger brother went about a year ago and has no intention of coming home. My mum is in the process of getting herself out there for six months to see what the employment prospects are like and if she can land a job, she'll be staying out there as well.
 
Dr House said:
Is it me or are a lot of semi professional / professional people moving to Australia form the UK?
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I was ahead of the trend; I moved to Australia nearly 2 years ago. :D

So its it really that nice out there?
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Yes, it's ****** fantastic.

Or are people just attracted by what looks like a better pay package only to find that the cost of living is much higher.
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Some things are cheaper; some things are more expensive. But overall, the cost of living is definitely higher in Australia. On the plus side, we don't have Birmingham. :p
 
LC155 said:
Too bad the internet sucks balls. :(
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Dude i'd take a bad internet connection anyday for this :-

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As opposed to the good old UK and 20mb broadband :-

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thecremeegg said:
Too many spiders for me, that's the honest reason why I couldn't move there. Oh and I think that its overhyped and the amount of aussies I've met that have moved over here is unreal. Grass isn't always greener.
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As a Londoner I totally agree with the above.

the Aussie's here are having a whale of a time - 20% of my customers are Australian.

See I could not, with any certainty argue either way from personal experience but this thread is characteristic of all these types of threads... There is no substance!! - if it's better then articulate why it's better.

All I ever hear is

1) better weather

2) beeches

3) better lifestyle

4) better quality of life

but no one ever nails it down - I know I'm not alone as even Stewart Lee made the observation in his comedy vehicle program recently.

I'm not saying it's not better but for goodness sake point out what it is the makes the place appealing..and if you cant do that without mentioning the weather then maybe....just maybe there is more research to be done.
 
The only thing stopping me moving to Australia is friends and family. The quality of life - assuming you're not right out in the sticks - is excellent. I've spent my life either in south London and Brighton (my two favourite places in the UK) and would trade either without hesitation. You wake up on the weekend and go down to the beach, hang out in a park, go to an open air cinema. What would be an exceptionally rare and nice day out over here is an average day over there (bit of a generalisation, but not far off). Everyone's outside doing stuff - playing sports, swimming/surfing, having picnics - and generally the people you see look healthier and more attractive than the grey pasty faced fatties we get over here. So yeah, a better, happier, healthier outdoor life in the sun. Why wouldn't we want to go?
 
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Do some of you saying it’s a good move not feel you’d miss "home" at all? However frustrating it might be? It's such a long way away.
 
I would love to move, only problem is that I only have an Honours in Business, not sure if that is enough unless im going to startup a business myself.

Does anybody know a credibile site to work out what my score would be?
 
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I know 3 couples who moved out there around 2 years ago and only 1 out of 6 has found a job so it looks like they will all be coming home.
 
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