Fed up with Britain?

[adbat234]

If I was 35 years younger.......

 

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35 years younger? you can get into oz till 45!. If you are stil climbing trees and alsmost 80 then i am flabbergasted ha ha:lol:, Got family out there who love it and mates who have tried and hated it!. Horses for courses eh:thumbup1:

[White Noise]

The amount of water the grass around my way gets, is one of the main problems with this country.

 

Along with maybe Politics , Taxes , Fuel costs , NHS the list goes on but I do also hate the blooming rain it gets you wet . Love my country though Although I would emigrate if family and friends would tag along . That means I,d have to go without a proper meat n tato pie

[janey]

It might be tempting when I've seen and done all our beautiful country has to offer. Which will be never !

 

Plus I'm pale and pasty enough to have to use sunblock all year 'round here; I think I'd fry down in Oz.

[Matthew Arnold]

I've lived in the same area for 21 years. My colleagues are amazed by my local knowledge of the area. One thing my colleagues like is my knowledge of the country lanes. We had a bit of a challenge between me and my boss. The boss took the main roads i used my local knowledge to get to the same site. I beat him by 15 minutes. One of the joys of being a local lad. I also know lots of landowners which has its ups and downs. Upside lots of shooting. Downside if the landowner has a section of old railway line my boss wants his/her details asap so he can start negotiations for opening.

[Taupotreeman]

If you don't like Britain and Oz is too hot, too many creepy crawlies, floods etc move to NZ. Climate is not too disimilar to the UK, less than a 10th of the population (just over 4 million people) no issues with massive illigal immigration etc and the politicical problems pale into insignificance. The scenery is stunning, the beaches clean, the weather generally better than the UK, no snakes, only one poisonous spider species.........need I go on? Oh yeah, arborists are on the skills shortage list so you have a pretty good chance of getting in on a work visa or residency visa. Man, I love it here.

[High Scale]

If you don't like Britain and Oz is too hot, too many creepy crawlies, floods etc move to NZ. Climate is not too disimilar to the UK, less than a 10th of the population (just over 4 million people) no issues with massive illigal immigration etc and the politicical problems pale into insignificance. The scenery is stunning, the beaches clean, the weather generally better than the UK, no snakes, only one poisonous spider species.........need I go on? Oh yeah, arborists are on the skills shortage list so you have a pretty good chance of getting in on a work visa or residency visa. Man, I love it here.

 

It's still the arse end of nowhere;) That said I could sell my house here and buy a castle in New Zealand with the money.

[Taupotreeman]

The arse end of nowhere is fine and dandy with me. Too far for most people to invade or think of as an easy refugee country. Don't think you will be getting the castle anymore though as the housing boom put paid to cheap property in the major centres. If you're happy to live further out or in the small towns, like me, there's plenty of bargains to be had. You can still pick up a decent 3 bed in some of the smaller towns for about $150k so about 75k sterling. Plus we don't have to worry about bailing out Greece, Spain, Portugal etc no euro for us. Oh and my dad just got residency here at age 65. He smokes like a chimney and has diabetes so there's hope for some of youz fullas yet eh.

[High Scale]

75k? I could buy a brace and have change.

[likeitorlumpit]

I'm not sure i love it in uk but it's a great place to develop a business (generally) and from that see the rest of the world.

UK winters are a bit crap but it's all relative and give me a bright winters day any time over scorchio when you've gotta work- specially chainsaw gear on sort of work

[Taupotreeman]

We can do that too. I'm half hour drive from the ski fields. Temps get down to about freezing at night in winter on the central plateau but the days are stunning. Warm enough to work all day in a sweat shirt but never that biting cold (I worked in North Wales for two and half years) that's associated with the UK winters. I also worked in OZ for a year and the heat is a killer. I didn't even want to spend time at the beach because it was so hot (two days at 50 degrees out on the tarmac). Summer meant finding somewhere with aircon. The further north you went the more humid it got. I was based out west of Sydney so Winter meant -2 at night then 27 degrees during the day; you just couldn't dress for that sort of nonsense. I do sometimes miss the heavy snow falls you guys get in the UK but I'm glad I made the move here and, now having dual nationality, I can come and go between OZ, UK, NZ and the islands as I please so I'm on a winner all round really.