Whingeing Poms or Realists

TheLastMohican

This couple spent a fortune to emigrate to Oz. On arrival, the cost of teabags (10p) plus not being able to buy their daughter's favourite soft drink proved a turning point and they returned home. I know a young machine driver who went out there three years ago, had a job fixed up for $1,200 pw but decided before he got off the plane that it was not for him. He was home two weeks later. Now his friends call him "Boomerang". What gets into these people's heads?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341588/Family-swapped-Hull-life-luxury-Australia-return-home-months-later-shock-cost-living-lack-Robinsons-fruit-juice.html

**Vai**

Unreal. Hope they're enjoying the weather with a tall glass of Robinsons.

IM0

wicked nickname. boomerang!

ChunkyLover_53

Bogans...Bogans everywhere.

The Backwards Man

Very unlike the Daily Mail to print a story like that.

the purple tin

Just give the child a different drink, silly reason to come back.

IM0

fairly dumb thing to do not to see how far your money will go in a new country for you before you even start doing anything about moving

Sulla Felix

I don't know why people like this dont go rr on holidays for a week our a month, recce a bit.

kowloon

Got a lump of spiced beef ready for Sunday. All those who've left for heathen nations can kiss my pale ass.

Aidric

Not being able to source your desired diluted soft drink. Yep, seems a perfectly good reason to return home. Jesus wept.

My name is URL

I don't understand how they were expecting stuff, especially fresh produce to cost less in Australia when water and arable land is at such a premium there. Also believing that there'd be no additional cost for imported stuff? =/

DEFTLEFTHAND

Joe Duffy had a segment about this a few weeks back. There seems to be a few cases of people who go out and return swiftly. One chap even had a container with all the families belongings shipped and now he can't afford to bring it back.

Pumpkinseeds

And 3,2,1 B*tch.......

Judging by the photos of Mr and Mrs Goodfellow it would take substantially more than two bags of groceries to maintain those physiques. What about poor Savanah? How are mummy and daddy going to help her grow with the cost of white bread and a blocks of cheese being so expensive? Sure they couldn't have the poor child slumming it with Ribena for goodness sake, that would be tantamount to child abuse surely?

No, clearly the Goodfellow's thought long and hard about their dilemma and accepted that realistically, eating less was far more impractical than returning to England without really making any effort to create a better life for themselves:D

Capt'n Midnight

old aussie joke


How do you know when the plane from London has arrived ?

You can still hear the whining after the engines have stopped.

cml387

Petula said it all before..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA93sPlY6-8

kylith

What a pair of muppets. You'd think they'd at least take a holiday there before deciding to sell up and ship out.

Duckworth_Luas

What's wrong with Hull?

London 0 Hull 4

camel jockey

I wouldn't mind one of those inflatable Kangaroos.

RossyG

The real reasons why this didn't work are there:

"But far from experiencing the life of luxury she'd expected..."

"...with no family and only few friends living in the country,"

"Mrs Goodfellow, 35 said: ‘I’m really impulsive and I can be quite a bully when I’ve made my mind up on something ... I didn’t think he’d say yes. I didn’t think he’d leave his mum."

"Mrs Goodfellow continued: ‘We knew almost straight away that something wasn’t right, but we just didn’t say anything to each other. It just wasn’t what we were expecting. You think you’re going to be able to go out there and afford a great quality of life because the wages are all higher, but it’s also really, really expensive."

‘We missed our families more than we thought we would, and talking to them was difficult because of the time difference."

The remark about fruit juice was probably a throw-away line - and when you're unhappy the tiniest things get magnified - which the Mail seized upon and decided to use as the main thrust of the story. It's the silly season; they thought they'd make the family look stupid and hopefully create a "click bait" story.

It's the usual crap standard I expect from that rag.

Lunni

RossyG wrote: »

The real reasons why this didn't work are there:

"But far from experiencing the life of luxury she'd expected..."

"...with no family and only few friends living in the country,"

"Mrs Goodfellow, 35 said: ‘I’m really impulsive and I can be quite a bully when I’ve made my mind up on something ... I didn’t think he’d say yes. I didn’t think he’d leave his mum."

"Mrs Goodfellow continued: ‘We knew almost straight away that something wasn’t right, but we just didn’t say anything to each other. It just wasn’t what we were expecting. You think you’re going to be able to go out there and afford a great quality of life because the wages are all higher, but it’s also really, really expensive."

‘We missed our families more than we thought we would, and talking to them was difficult because of the time difference."

The remark about fruit juice was probably a throw-away line - and when you're unhappy the tiniest things get magnified - which the Mail seized upon and decided to use as the main thrust of the story. It's the silly season; they thought they'd make the family look stupid and hopefully create a "click bait" story.

It's the usual crap standard I expect from that rag.

Yes, almost definitely, but the rest of the comments make them look like complete idiots as well. They moved to a country they'd never visited based on a TV programme. They didn't look into the cost of living. It didn't occur to them that higher wages may well mean high prices for everything. They didn't have jobs lined up. They didn't think they'd miss friends and family. They didn't think they'd need to give it longer than 2 weeks to adjust before deciding to come home. I don't think they need the DM to make them look like a pair of muppets.

RossyG

Yes, they were idiots for not thinking it through, but not because a brand of fruit juice was unavailable.

crybaby

What a pair of fools, they watched a TV show and just decided to emigrate and raise their child as an Australian, didn't do any research on cost of living in Australia and didn't even seem to think about how they would feel away from their families.

mikemac1

He is a fork lift driver and she is in recruitment so I suppose you'd call it sales

I thought you needed a trade or be in certain professions to get in, no? They are too old for the working holiday visa.

They arrived with no jobs lined up at all.

Capt'n Midnight

mikemac1 wrote: »

They arrived with no jobs lined up at all.

And the plan was to pay four grand to fly the dog over later on ?

the purple tin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

And the plan was to pay four grand to fly the dog over later on ?

Is it just me or is that not really expensive? If they can afford to do that then why are they cribbing about not having enough money?

branie

Mrs Goodfellow said they might live in Sydney if they wanted to move to Australia. That's another expensive city.

Grand Moff Tarkin

They look like a pair of special cases to be fair.

biko

Bloody Sheilas if you ask me.

branie

In a site for expats, a poster on a thread similar to this mentioned a couple who arrived in Victoria, and they were heading for Melbourne in a taxi, and they told the driver to go back to the airport, and they flew back to the UK that same day!