Expats

[Mich the Tester]

My point being that people who emigrate from this country are losers and that the people who come here are people of substance.

You’re trying to provoke me aren’t you DA?

[AtW]

My point being that people who emigrate from this country are losers and that the people who come here are people of substance.

[sasguru]

Crap argument DA. Can't think of any Australian who's made an impact on the UK.
Can think of a Kiwi though: physicist Rutherford who won the Nobel prize.

[Mich the Tester]

Crap argument DA. Can't think of any Australian who's made an impact on the UK.
Can think of a Kiwi though: physicist Rutherford who won the Nobel prize.

Rolf Harris gave us one of the greatest drinking songs of all time.

[Moscow Mule]

Rolf Harris gave us one of the greatest drinking songs of all time.

Does that make up for all of those crap "can you tell what it is yet" cartoons?

[Mich the Tester]

Does that make up for all of those crap "can you tell what it is yet" cartoons?

Only just, but yes.

[DodgyAgent]

You’re trying to provoke me aren’t you DA?

Would I?

[Gonzo]

On reading this article and in particular the last para I wondered which brits had emigrated to Australia and have actually achieved anything. My point being that people who emigrate from this country are losers and that the people who come here are people of substance.

I seem to remember hearing Leo Sayer on the radio talking about how he had moved to Australia because he got fed up of being told he couldn't do anything in the UK because he was a seventies star whose time had been and gone and preferred the can-do, go-for-it attitude that he found over there.

I don't think that you are comparing like with like though. Australia is a country that over the last twenty years or so has really been on an ascendent path, like Britain used to be in the nineteenth century, while Britain is on a slow path downwards. That is a shame but happens to everyone. Look at Rome now.

Australia is not now the cultural vacuum that it was even twenty years ago and I am sure that in our lifetimes we will see the relative positions between the UK and Australia reversed and Australia will be the place that Britons aspire to go to, not the other way around.

[snaw]

I seem to remember hearing Leo Sayer on the radio talking about how he had moved to Australia because he got fed up of being told he couldn't do anything in the UK because he was a seventies star whose time had been and gone and preferred the can-do, go-for-it attitude that he found over there.

I don't think that you are comparing like with like though. Australia is a country that over the last twenty years or so has really been on an ascendent path, like Britain used to be in the nineteenth century, while Britain is on a slow path downwards. That is a shame but happens to everyone. Look at Rome now.

Australia is not now the cultural vacuum that it was even twenty years ago and I am sure that in our lifetimes we will see the relative positions between the UK and Australia reversed and Australia will be the place that Britons aspire to go to, not the other way around.

You could apply the same argument to the UK and America and it'd hold as much water.

Bigger pond here, more opportunities etc etc.

I'd say as a rule that outside of celeb types and super achievers that you're average person who emigrates (In either direction) is usually more of a can do, go getter type than those who don't.

I'm not saying the ones who don't emigrate are bad or worse, just that there's something inherent about people who're willing to pack it all up and go that's seems to go hand and hand with that kind of attitude.

[tay]

I did it for the money.