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Wanted Down Under
Picklebum
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Anyone as irritated by this as I am but find it strangely addictive TV?
The family today really annoyed me - the kids are barely out of their teens and the parents are desparate to bugger off and start a new life for themsleves and the youngest child.......their life and environment (on Scotlands lovely West Coast) was equal to that in their surroundings in New Zealand!
It seems like the BBC is on an agenda to depart this country of its skilled workforce and sell them this glossy brochure of life down under. Anyone member of the family who is not sold on this image is een as a "problem" amd must be won over.
I can speak from experience that the grass is not always greener - my family emigrated in the late 70s to Australia and we came back after 2 years and have never looked back.(1 was 11 )
And whats going on with Nikki bloody Chapman?? what a useles bint she is!
The family today really annoyed me - the kids are barely out of their teens and the parents are desparate to bugger off and start a new life for themsleves and the youngest child.......their life and environment (on Scotlands lovely West Coast) was equal to that in their surroundings in New Zealand!
It seems like the BBC is on an agenda to depart this country of its skilled workforce and sell them this glossy brochure of life down under. Anyone member of the family who is not sold on this image is een as a "problem" amd must be won over.
I can speak from experience that the grass is not always greener - my family emigrated in the late 70s to Australia and we came back after 2 years and have never looked back.(1 was 11 )
And whats going on with Nikki bloody Chapman?? what a useles bint she is!
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And nearly always they end up coming home twirling their stupid flag cards.
Never really though about it like that before!:mad:
Further deepens my argument that the BBC along with our pathetic govt are trying to rid the country of the skilled workforce.
We miss Nadia Sawalha as she added a touch of humanity and warmth which is missing now. It does seem to have been pared down this year compared to previous series and it doesnt appear that Nicky Chapman ever meets the applicants, whereas Nadia Sawalha always met them at Australia House to help them choose a location.
Some of Nicky Chapman's pieces to camera seem to be identical in each programme and are just cut and pasted in each programme for cheapness. They all visit in winter and the houses they view are selected more along the lines of what they can afford on their budget, which keeps being emphasized.
We thought it was quite ridiculous to put up one family who had a gorgeous house in Scotland in a wooden holiday cottage in the middle of nowhere in New Zealand, where they weren't even given enough wood for the wood burning stove so had to burn pine cones all night!
I thought I had heard that the Australian and New Zealand Tourist Boards contributed to the programmes' costs.
I'd love to know what's happened to the family that left the Dad behind while they went to live in Christchurch.
Blimey, that's hot, water boils at around 100!
That's 100 centigrade, Australia is 100 fahrenheit! :eek:
They will never come back here too live.
They become Australian citizens this month.
Hehe,
BBC Estate Agents
BBC Relocation Agency
Or they can just rename the BBC to BRC (British Relocation Corporation
*smallprint* let licence fee payers send you for a free holiday to australia, or sample lots of houses whilst getting on tv as a bonus
:rolleyes:
What I don't get is when one of the teenage kids says 'I'm not moving coss I've got a boyfriend in the UK'. The parents always let them have a choice. What they hell is going on with modern parenting? When I was a kid if my parents had wanted to emigrate and I hadn't wanted to go they'd have just said tough luck, get used to it.
Nicki Chapman is supremely irritating - what's the point of her? She never actually meets the families. They could just have someone doing a voice over like on Come Dine With Me. Taking the mick out of the families would improve the show no end!
Swahala was better though she's been in the irritating Place in the Sun/Escape to the Sun beforehand
I'd quite like to see that return now and see how the expats are coping with the recession
It's nearly 2 years since my sister and her family went to Melbourne. I don't think they will ever come back either, they have got a lovely life out there.
I'm watching these programmes with interest as one of them - not sure whether it was Wanted Down Under or a similar programme on another channel - was partly filmed at a Melbourne restaraunt where my nephew works as a pastry chef.