Poms leaving Blighty for Australia.

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Klenchblaize said:
My wee girl left to 'work' on Hamilton Island last year. Beats dealing with the challenges and frankly unacceptable stress that a 23-year old UK History Teacher faces in 2026.

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and better weather too
dartmoordog said:
Up to 50% return within a few years.
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yes thank phuck as they are the 50% that we don`t want. We want good Poms.

Btw where did you get that figure from?
 
Klenchblaize said:
My wee girl left to 'work' on Hamilton Island last year. Beats dealing with the challenges and frankly unacceptable stress that a 23-year old UK History Teacher faces in 2026.

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The wife is a Teacher. I wouldn’t get out of bed for what they expect from her and what they pay.
 
Scotty99 said:
If I go it will be the US and to the Deep South.
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Interesting! I love the mid west, Idaho, Wyoming, off the scale scenery. But of the 38 countries I have visited, and this may seem strange, if I could speak the lingo, France would be my choice, the most visited country in the world, amazing scenery, culture, food, wine beers, and great hunting, and a great central hub for visiting the rest of Europe…..Oh, and great rugby, nothing like watching rugby in France!

After that, Canada, but against the grain and pick Atlantic Canada. If it wasn’t so tense, and it is, South Africa, just amazing, stunning coastline, and bloody cheap. Australia, WA south of Perth, Margaret River perhaps, but a high cost of living means you need a good pension.

But England has given me a great lifestyle, great job and pensions, live and worked in an amazing part of the world, so despite seeing a bit, I have had no real hankering to live anywhere else. But the more I get around Britain, the more I see why Brits are moving elsewhere to live, my bubble is amazing, but large parts are becoming intolerable. If I was in my 20s now, and starting out, and full of experience and wisdom, I would be gone.

It’s a shame, I truly believe if our population was 10m or less, there would be absolutely no better place to live in the world, it has everything…………But it ain’t! Shame it’s been ruined.
 
John Gryphon said:
and better weather too

yes thank phuck as they are the 50% that we don`t want. We want good Poms.
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I went with great expectations. Australia is sold hard as the Lucky Country, and on paper it made sense. I hold three degrees specialising in mining, a sector Australia itself deems critical to its economy, alongside a further qualification underpinning broader business acumen, and I was genuinely committed to making a go of it. On paper, I was exactly what they were looking for.

Tall poppy syndrome, however, is alive and well... Being overqualified apparently disqualifies you, which is a neat trick. The very credentials Australia said it wanted became the reason the door stayed shut.

So perhaps the question isn't whether you want good Poms; it's whether Australia's hiring culture, its visa departments, its government, and frankly Australians are actually capable of recognising one when it sees one. I score over 90 points on the immigration system, far exceeding the threshold, and still wasn't picked up. The points system will welcome you with open arms, and then the industry and bureaucracy will quietly shut the door in your face.

The most disappointing thing is that Australia had a real opportunity to cherry-pick the best aspects of Western nations and build something genuinely great. It didn't take it.

Instead you get bureaucracy that would make a Whitehall mandarin blush: a separate licence plate for every trailer, limits on how many dogs you can keep in an urban area, compliance layered upon compliance.

And the weather? People forget that an Australian summer can be genuinely unpleasant. Not the Bondi brochure, but 45°C, flies, and red dust that gets into everything (winters are great though).

Topped off by draconian gun laws and the third highest alcohol tax on beer in the world, after Finland and Norway.

I left and came back. No regrets. UK has its problems, but so does Australia.
 
So, a case of management not liking people who are cleverer than themselves working for them..........much the same as the UK., including in government.
I once had a boss who knew f****all about the work he employed me to carry out.
I was able to use the situation to my advantage, though....:norty:

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Grass isnt always greener and I think that all countries have issues that arent fully understood until you live there.

We (the boss and I) considered moving to Canada a while back...just not a fan of sub zero temps for as long as they have :) 👍
 
The grass is always greener. But of course once you move, there’s always going to be things you miss and things you don’t like. So the grass looks greener back home. As for governments and laws, the more time goes on, the more they pass laws supposedly to make society better but usually it just restricts people more. That’s the same everywhere.

A couple of my old chums have gone down under and both love it, one to Perth and one to NSW. Oh, and one has emigrated to the USA. He’s got mixed feelings. Says the people are great but the politicians are worse than ours. Didn’t think that was possible!
 
Mike1979 said:
Grass isnt always greener and I think that all countries have issues that arent fully understood until you live there.

We (the boss and I) considered moving to Canada a while back...just not a fan of sub zero temps for as long as they have :) 👍
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Nova Scotia! Really nice climate there Mike, very rarely snows, great people to. 👍
 
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