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The country we'd move to if we had to leave Australia

4 yrs ago

We live in the best country in the world, right? But if we had to choose somewhere else, where would it be?

According to the Australia Talks National Survey, it’s not too far away – New Zealand.

When asked which country they’d most like to emigrate to, 28 per cent of respondents opted for New Zealand, followed by Canada ( 15 per cent) and England (eight per cent). Only six per cent were happy to move to the United States.

The land of the long white cloud – and the universal age pension – was the centre of attention after Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s unexpected victory in May when Australian traffic to the Immigration New Zealand website spiked at 10 times its usual levels. It's obviously still popular.

Where would you move if you had to? And why?

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Suze

4 yrs ago

We can all move to Tasmania :)

... as long as it is not all sold off as the mainland .

Bundabergian

4 yrs ago

Those of you who say UK, make sure you go there to visit before you commit. I am English by birth and went up to University there, came here 35 years ago. Had the odd yearning to go back, usually reversed by being there a few days. There are some lovely places, but there are too many people there, and since the drama of Brexit, the population has become very polarised and some of them have become quite racist and xenophobic. While in France, with my father and sister still living in UK, I made frequent visits, (fly Limoges to Stansted for under 30 euros!) and was very saddened by the place now. It is very dirty, rubbish everywhere on the sides of the road. Very crowded, traffic jams, hard to park in town, just horrible. I came from a rural area of North Herts, hubby came from Ludlow and we went back to both and loved it for five minutes then hated it. We watch "Escape to the country" and look at lovely black and white cottages, green fields and nice stone villages and beamed pubs. But to get there we had to drive out of London, on the M1, and round Birmingham. Ugh.

Leonie

4 yrs ago

Funny you should say that Bundabergian. We did go to visit and yeah, there were some pretty places, but on the whole, I was a little less than impressed. When my OH commented (after being asked the question this topic evokes) "probably the UK" he had obviously forgotten being asked another question on that visit.

He was taking a picture from the top of a hill overlooking the nearest large city to his home town. I asked him why he was taking a picture of a lot of sooty chimneys and dirty factories, and his reply was, "To remind me why I left."

Sophie

4 yrs ago

Hi bandy,

I only just saw your post about your visit to Madeira earlier this year..I’m jealous!I love the place and agree with your views.. also.. the fact that the island is not far away from Lisbon and Lanzarote makes it doubly attractive to me.

Did you try “poncha” while in Madeira? The locals say if you have cold symptoms, that’s a good remedy..needless to say and because I liked the drink so much, I had the sniffles every day :)

Celia

4 yrs ago

Talking of Madeira we called in at the island on the way back from Southampton in 2019, but the day before I was given instant mash potato in the dining room which made me sick, the silly people on the boat were told about my dietary requirements, I think they thought I was making it up, they soon lean't it was true.

However, when the Medical Centre heard of this they kept me in my cabin as they thought I had the Norovirus. What made us mad was they didn't even send a nurse up to me never mind a doctor, so much for the Arcadia.

So we missed seeing Madeira and it looked so nice from our balcony.

Would never go on a cruise again as soon after there was an outbreak of a virus so similar to the Corona virus it is not funny. All the same symptoms.

They had let a couple on that were sick and didn't quarantine them in their cabin.

I went to craft lessons, sick people, went to Art lessons sick people even the professional art teacher was sick giving the class! That was the limit I stopped going! He actually went from person to person touching pencils and brushes!

The trip was 7 weeks to Sydney and so many people were sick even the crew, not to mention a few deaths. It felt one was drowning in mucus; I didn't think I would ever see Australia again it was so frightening.

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