AUS to UK?

Question

just wondering how come a lot of people from Australia move to the UK?...It just seems like you like in a better climate (not trying to offend anybody)

Answer 1

About Canada, the Australian government is quite out-of-touch and want to stay on the safer side.

As for moving to UK, Australians seem to want to travel and experience new things - and where better but the mother country.. also the fact that they speak english, and the accent  is not too different ensures they will not be made fun of.

Also the beer consumption is the same, or even more.

And Australians like beer.

Answer 2

Social life, things to do, culture. Art galleries, concerts, castles, stately homes and gardens, europe on the doorstep, exotic beer, snow, goths, nightclubs. There is a lot more to do and better shops over there! Not everybody loves the sun you know, especially as harsh as it can get most days in summer here (try UV 13 extreme weather warnings).

Answer 3

A number of Australians move to the UK when they're young because the UK is in (to Australians) close proximity to the many and varied countries of Europe and Scandanavia; they speak English; it's widely believed that the UK is a good base for European travel and Australians seem to have little trouble finding work there to fund their European explorations.

Australians are generally well travelled and are not nearly as insular as people from many other countries (e.g. the US), but going directly from Australia to a European destinations is very expensive and time consuming. We can't simply hop on a plane or a train and be in another country in an hour or so.

Relatively few Australians actually move permanently to the UK. They go for a few years, get some travel under their belts, make their name on the world stage and then come home to the warmth, beaches, relaxed lifestyle, wide open spaces and opportunities available in Australia. Most at least come back here to raise their families as Australia is a far better place to bring up kids. Of course, a few come to see Australia as being simply too far away from the rest of the world and that's understandable - it IS a h**l of a long way from most other places and if your work and interests are in the northern hemisphere it makes sense to stay there.

Personally, I've never had any inclination to live in the UK for more than a few dismal weeks and have always made my base in far more congenial places.

Just one other point. Another reason that some move is that Australians are very well educated and very switched on and employers over there make them offers that are impossible to refuse. No matter how wonderful Australia is, it's an inescapable fact that we only have 21 or so million people and the salaries on offer in the lower and middle levels of some industries (IT, finance etc.) in much larger employment markets are higher than in the smaller Australian market - but they still usually come back once they've moved up the ladder when they can expect to earn very high salaries in Australia.

Re your OT remarks - I looked at the Australian travel advisories for Canada and they seem reasonable. Compare them to the TAs for other countries and you'll see that they're simply trying to alert our travellers to possible threats. I'll probably be castigated for saying this, but Australia is such an incredibly safe country to live in, that first time Australian travellers can be somewhat naive and need to be alerted to how things can be in other places. We have no terrorist threats to speak of, a very low crime rate, no guns generally available, no earthquakes etc. and like it or not, the dangers of those things are higher in other places - even in Canada. Our government is simply trying to open the eyes of innocents abroad.

Answer 4

The UK is the mother country.

What Australian that might go back generations, but has not got distant relations in the old dart?

Watch the Bazza McKenzie movie to see that. LOL

Since the 1960's it was like a right of passage to adulthood to go to England for a year or so.

There was even a television mini series on exactly this phenomenon called Kangaroo Palace starred

Jacqueline McKenzie, John Polson, Rebecca Gibney in 1997