ARmy Rumour SErvice

**filthyphil** · 16-04-2012, 01:23

Australia tops list for bleak Brits | Latest Business & Australian Stock market News | thetelegraph.com.au

Shall I stoke up the barbie chaps?

**eodmatt** · 16-04-2012, 01:27

Might as well.

I voted with my feet years ago.

**Oddbod** · 16-04-2012, 01:27

Originally Posted by filthyphil

Australia tops list for bleak Brits | Latest Business & Australian Stock market News | thetelegraph.com.au

Shall I stoke up the barbie chaps?

No thanks, I'm off to New Mexico in three weeks, so chile & burritos are on the menu.

You buggers have far too many poisonous beasties in any case.

**maninblack** · 16-04-2012, 01:36

Currently working in Brazil. Top place. May move here.

**Negligent-Discharge** · 16-04-2012, 01:43

Originally Posted by Oddbod

No thanks, I'm off to New Mexico in three weeks, so chile & burritos are on the menu.

You buggers have far too many poisonous beasties in any case.

... and NM only has poisonous Hispanics amigo!

**eodmatt** · 16-04-2012, 01:46

Originally Posted by 3123

I blame the media. Giving us Nieghbours and Home and Away, not to mention The Sullivans, Jake the peg with his extra leg and Dame Edna... and don't get me started on the "wish I had lived down under, find me three houses to choose from.." type programmes...

Everyone aspires to drink gallons of orange juice whilst listening to Stefan Dennis singing "donnnnimakeyafeeeelgoood".... and talking about how big a 'drongo' they were for not having done it sooner....

Saying that it's pissed down here all day and it's as cold as my birds affections, so I'd chance a box jelly fish sting and DVT for a spot in the sun...

Just do it, mate.

You can buy a nice 3 bed bungalow outside Pattaya for around 100,000 dollars. Beats paying over a quarter of a million quid for something not as good in UK.

**serve_to_lead2011** · 16-04-2012, 01:52

Lol, it's interesting...I might, once or twice, watched those programmes...the families all seem to think that Austrlia is a place where: you work less; earn more; nothing costs anything; they always overestimate their house price etc etc. But I'm glad for people who have made it work!

**serve_to_lead2011** · 16-04-2012, 02:08

Originally Posted by 3123

Same here, StL I did look at it a while ago when I re-established comms with a mate I served with who moved to Perth and set up shop. Theres a few from my lot who ended up down there and have never looked back.

Also have a mate who was RAF, upped sticks from the UK, sold his 4 bed £300k house, children out of school and resigned from the plod to join NZ police. Served 10 weeks after initial training and handed his kit in at his station in a black bin liner with his warrant card...

He'd come up against too many mahousive polynesians who wanted to eat him in the space of a fortnight that he quickly re thought his cunning plan...

Did he end up back in the UK? Rejoin the forces?

**serve_to_lead2011** · 16-04-2012, 02:23

Originally Posted by 3123

Came back again, re-applied to the UK Police and went back in with his pension and pay grade the same as it was when he left.. lucky bugger considering he resigned and wasn't on a career break etc.

Very luck indeed! Bet the missus was not happy with the whole thing lol

**IndianaDel** · 16-04-2012, 02:31

I left the UK in 1997, would not move back for all the tea in China.
When visiting last year, I was less than impressed by the crowding, piss taking high prices and general turn for the worse in almost all respects. There are good points about Britain, but they are out weighed by a much longer list of negatives.

Oh and I was amazed at how many experts there are about the United States (No "accent" see, so I do not sound "Colonial"), who say they have thought about emigration. In most cases watching Glee and CSI Miami was the limit of their "research". The one serious fella (I have known him for 35 years), did make a point of a couple of quiet chats with me whilst I was there and now lives in Northern California.

Certainly in the case of the US, do your research, it is not the UK with an accent.