Uk Or Australia

[breadstick]

are they any advantages to living in the UK over Australia?

why don't more people give moving to oz a go?

or is it not all it seems?

[ummmm]

I can give you her email address if you want.

[ummmm]

OOOOoooo wanted down under has just come on TV.

[Mosaic]

many thanks Ummm - mine are looking to the Melbourne area and white-collar jobs and I'm a tad worried that everyone else is doing similar.....I'm sure they'll be alright from what you've said.

[ummmm]

My daughter (sorry C if you look in) is a bit of an airhead, but she's quick witted with a beautiful smile and her first job was as a dental nurse!!

In the UK we'd have to qualifications for that!!

[ZedBloke]

This is the old "grass is greener syndrome" - many believe their life would be so much better if they could emigrate to (insert name of utopia here), so much better than where they are now! The problem is that people who think like that are usually lazy selfish fools who think the streets in utopia are paved with gold and they can live like kings for sod all. That never happens, even if they go there they often come straight back when they realise the life if a sponger in Britain is the best in the world. Evidence the Ten pound Poms! many of them came straight back when they realised that paradise was too much like hard work.

[DSJ]

Living & working in Australia is not all it's cracked up to be. I do speak from experience here.

Think very long & hard before you go down that route.

[slaney]

As regards the Australian healthcare, it was ranked just behind the UK in 2010 by the New York based Commonwealth Fund.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/2010/Jun/~/media/Images/Publications/Fund%20Report/2010/jun/MM2010l.gif

No. 2 son is there at the moment working as a junior doctor. He works fewer hours and gets paid considerably more than he did here, and enjoys the lifestyle.
Not sure if he would want to stay indefinitely though.