General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Owd Codger:

"The grass has sure been greener for the sister and husband of one of my Brother In Laws Wife who after leaving a small terraced house in Wigan now live in a large detached bungalow complete with swimming pool in Sydney as a result of getting better and higher paid jobs than what they would ever have got in our country"

Well, maybe years ago the benefits of emigration, were more than in recent times, and I suppose it depends on what your job is, if you are in a highly trained, niche occupation, such has being a doctor, then the wages offered in Australia and the United States, might mean that you are guaranteed to have a much better lifestyle than in Britain, but for less qualified types of people, when you see them on TV programs such has 'Wanted Down Under' they may be able to afford a much larger property in Australia, than what they have in the UK, but when it comes to the salaries v cost of living, in Australia, then the advantages of living in Australia start to erode fast, then there are the complexities of being immigrants in a foreign country, which has a different culture to Britain, with mixed opinions on how Australian folk think about the Poms.

I encountered such cultural problems when I moved from Wigan To Atherton, because Atherton folk hate Wigan folk, and it is an awful feeling, knowing that your neighbours hate you, not for who you are, but because of where you come from