Net migration is down

ultralaser said:
Totally, and that's how they do their points systems, but weirdly often a part time sparky course will get you the points. So something to think about :)
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Many years ago a friend did a quick course in welding at work and that was enough to get him to Australia!
 
As the years go by, especially when we have overcast summers (since late June) like this year, I get increasingly tempted to think what if I could move to somewhere near the equator to relieve my SAD symptoms, such as The Canary Islands. The bonus would be that Tenerife for example, is a popular place for road cyclists to ride up Mount Teide etc.

Net migration to the UK might be at its lowest (at ~240000 over 12 months) for a few years, but where were the extra homes to provide these people (and others like them since the population explosion started in ~1990) with a roof over their head and not increase the rate of buying/renting price inflation? Do the Conservatives and previous governments have a Utopian vision of the poor living in shanty towns we associate with places like Sao Paulo? It certainly seems that way, because none of them since ~1980 have had adequate measures in place to ensure enough affordable homes were being built for an increasing population.

Not pleasant reading, if true... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-study-homes-communities-agency-a7799116.html

http://england.shelter.org.uk/campa...and_figures/subsection?section=housing_supply
 
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Diddums said:
Cheers, I could bang on for hours and hours about what I've experienced and all the positives / negatives of everything but I won't chew anyone's ears off!

We were in Oz for 3 weeks at the start of the year, which is when we fell in love with the place. We landed in Sydney, stayed there for 3 days before driving down to Melbourne over the course of 8 days, and stayed there for a week before coming back. I've been to loads of places in Europe, I've been to Vegas, Cincinnatti, Cairo, Beijing and a few others, but Oz was just the most beautiful place I've ever been. As a saffer I am a staunch outdoorsy type, but obviously South Africa is too dangerous to raise kids in like I was raised so it's out of the question for us. Oz reminded me a lot of South Africa before the ANC took over and flushed the country down the pan, the weather is amazing, the scenery is amazing, the people are much more pleasant than London (even in the middle of Sydney's CBD, it really stuck out how much more welcoming the ozzies were towards us irritating tourists). We did as much of the local stuff as we could as well, listened to the news on our road trip a lot, listened to the local radio stations, watched local telly, read a few papers, etc, and there was very little of the SJW nonsense, the ozzies just don't seem to give that stuff the time of day. A much more relaxed lifestyle, no busybodies sticking their nose in everyone else's business, etc. Can't wait to move there.
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Glad it has suited you! Personally, it offers the polar opposite of everything I want in a country. I agree about UK life being too frenetic though, a change of pace would be super.
 
Edrof said:
Britain is a fantastic place to live and a bona fide paradise in most areas when compared to a huge portion of the rest of the planet. I love the culture, the history, the sophistication, the food - you name it. Sure, our weather is a bit rubbish but you can't have everything. As much as love other countries like Italy, I'd never move from Britain.

I find the self-negative Brits are, without fail, those that read the newspapers and watch the news on the TV. It's all half-fabricated doom and gloom.
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Totally agree. If it was just a tad less rainy and we got a few weeks of sustained sun in the summer it would be perfect for me. I don't think I could live anywhere else as I'd miss my British peasant foods too much.
 
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