Emigration..... The grass isn't greener after all...

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

That's the average of those able to afford mortgages.

Slightly different to the average wage of the country.
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No, it's not. Thats the average of full time male salaries.

The average of those with mortgages is only 3 times earnings.

nollag2006

Good point Hamish.

Why do these bears lack the decency to admit when their wrong?

Why spoil a good story with the truth, eh?

Not_a_Newbie

It's down to the individual surely? I would much rather pay the amount that people are saying in the above posts for a property in Australia (with the better quality of life that goes with living over there) than pay the same in this country with the ever increasing level of chavyness that this country seems to be breeding?

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

No, it's not. Thats the average of full time male salaries.

The average of those with mortgages is only 3 times earnings.

It's still not the average wage of the country.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Not_a_Newbie wrote: »

It's down to the individual surely? I would much rather pay the amount that people are saying in the above posts for a property in Australia (with the better quality of life that goes with living over there) than pay the same in this country with the ever increasing level of chavyness that this country seems to be breeding?

Australia has it's own Chav problem, except they are called Bogans.

Complete with Mullet hairstyle and overly loud "ute" with the silencer removed.

I've spent many months there with family, living in ordinary houses, in ordinary neighbourhoods, shopping in the shops, and drinking at the local pubs.

It's really no better than here. Other than the weather. But it has it's own problems, plenty of them, Chavs/Bogans being one. And the spiders and snakes problems get really annoying after a while.

nollag2006

Add in the complete lack of any form of culture, and the sheer distances from there to pretty much anywhere else in the world and it has all the feel of Slough in the sunshine (but with scary things that bite)

sjaypink

nollag2006 wrote: »

Sometimes the truth hurts.

How old are you? :rolleyes:

nembot

nollag2006 wrote: »

Hey !! That's great for them

If they have your wit and intelligence, their emigration could serve to raise the average IQ of both Aus and the UK

:T

If it's so good - why not join them?

Pinch that insult from Robert Muldoon and not bothered to quote him either?

Maybe if you didn't have to use someone else's wit, we might just believe some of the rubbish you post.

toby3000

I'm confused, is run away house price inflation a good thing here but a bad thing abroad?

I'm not saying anywhere is perfect, but if Austrailia has "political correctness gone mad" then it's been a rapid turn around. Weren't they shooting on boatloads of emigrants a few years back?!

phil_b_2

I've never been Aus myself, but the summer temperatures terrify me more than the wildlife. I'm not one for hot weather so would struggle through their summer more than the winter here which aint so bad.
As much as we Brits moan about our weather at least we dont experience either extreme end of the scale and dont have giant waves washing us to our doom.

Your quality of life is what you make it, where ever you are (unless rotting in some part of Africa). Some people choose to be a slave to the system, others do not. Some choose to sit in and watch telly from 6pm to 11pm after work, others don't. Lazyness of the body and mind is our worst enemy.