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Saw this on stuff.co.nz

Homesick Brits longing for wet weather, real ale and English fare have the chance to pop back to Mother England in a new TV show.

British television company Fever Media is looking at the differences of living on opposite sides of the world.

They want to find homesick Brits to take home for fact-finding visits, to decide whether the permanent big OE really has been such a good idea, and to make a programme for ITV1 about what happens.

continues at... http://www.stuff.co.nz/3911845a11.html

Now all I need to find is an NZ TV company willing to do this in reverse and give little ol homesick me a free ride home!

[StevieD]

Yeah, or totally fed up Pom's wanting a £10 passage like they used to be! Oh, wouldn't that be nice.

Just trying to find the wife's long lost Kiwi rellies now..... ;)

Steve

[stu70]

Hey, just like they say here in Canada (on st Paddy's day)that everyone has some Irish in'em, perhaps we could claim we have NZ blood and get a ride "back home" without these immigration hassels! :)

[StevieD]

I can't deny I am half Irish!!

[bob_the_engineer]

I always thought that was a chat up line (do you have any Irish in you,,,,,,,,, would you like some?)

Could never carry it off with my accent, but you have to try! :D I suppose being ugly didn’t help either :uhoh

As far as a free trip to the UK goes you’d have to pay me (a lot more that a free flight) to get me back there! I guess it’s a good way of getting the “homesick brigade” to paint a picture of how bad life is outside the UK. I dunno,,,, it would be more interesting if they got off their bum and travelled around asking x-pats (some) who don’t want a free ticket to the UK, how they felt. Or at least a range.

Or is it that given an entire planet to choose from, most British people would rather live on an overcrowded, crime-ridden little island, so that they have the privilege of paying loads of tax to see them live in poverty and fear in their old age, and enjoy the lovely weather.

My god, this started out quite lighthearted, sorry about the vent :uhoh



happy new year from Bob in NZ :nice1

[K&CS]

I'd be quite happy to do it as long as I didn't have to go on TV. I don't think I could handle the 10lb or whatever it's supposed to add to your weight!

[StevieD]

:laugh - 10lbs!!

And lighten up Bob!!! Not good for your health... ;)

Steve

[Tia Maria]

Flippen heck those moderators are efficient, my similar post about the same thing has disappeared into thin air.

bob the engineer wrote:

it would be more interesting if they got off their bum and travelled around asking x-pats (some) who don’t want a free ticket to the UK, how they felt.

I got the impression that there were quite a few shows already about people successfully leaving the UK to find a better life.

I would certainly be interested in hearing about those that return, and it might make some think twice about spending a lot of money and uprooting their lives either to return to the UK or to emigrate in the first place. I assume they will show some a mix of those that want to return and those that choose to stay.

I'm not homesick and I see the UK as somewhere with loads to do, great universities, very active comedy & music scene and with better wages than NZ. I see NZ as being excellent for young children, beautiful beaches and more relaxed. Maybe I've just been lucky enough to experience the best sides of both countries, which for me outweighs the negatives (of which I could also list quite a few).

A lot of us fall into this grey area and therefore deciding where to live out your life is not a simple choice, for instance we might stay in NZ while the kids are young but move back to the UK and all that Europe has to offer, once they get older.

K&CS - you could loose the 10lbs first then you'd look just like you do now!

Cheers

Tia

[Smiler]

I been watching a program that's on around 7 pm here (TV one I think) A place in Greece? This is probably an old prog for people in the UK, but I'd not seen it before.

Don't you think the tv people always pick a certain type of person or group for this kind of thing. They always seem to be so well, thoughtless (clueless, gormless) and argumentative.

Or maybe it's all a set up? You know the type of thing, they are filmed building a million $ house to find they don't have planning permission etc. Then they have to go and charm the Mayor but they don't speak the lingo and take a phrase book? :confused: Is anyone really that dumb?

[jubjub]

Or maybe it's all a set up? You know the type of thing, they are filmed building a million $ house to find they don't have planning permission etc. Then they have to go and charm the Mayor but they don't speak the lingo and take a phrase book? :confused: Is anyone really that dumb?

Wondered that myself, while we all know that emigration has its ups and downs and disasters along the way, but these folks always seem to get nearly everything thrown at them it would not be good telly otherwise, the storyline of "family gets on plane, finds house/job/car, settles in", would be awful boring every week!

[Smiler]

Wondered that myself, while we all know that emigration has its ups and downs and disasters along the way, but these folks always seem to get nearly everything thrown at them it would not be good telly otherwise, the storyline of "family gets on plane, finds house/job/car, settles in", would be awful boring every week!

Absolutely! The greek one at the moment seems so 'set up' though. It's like watching a car crash, particularly with the german lodger girl. Her tantrums seem so staged.

I don't watch the reality progs much but I'm sitting there opened mouthed at this one.

[K&CS]

I know - I watched the Greek one in the UK but it's such car crash TV that I've found myself watching it again. Especially the bit where they did the massive christmas dinner and no-one turned up!! They really are a pretty feckless lot!!

[thepiesleys]

Hey Sal - your spot on. TV bods only pick the people who will make good TV and provide us with car crash TV...It's going to far now with wife swap and holidays from hell being prime examples.

Intersting about the ex pat going home angle - gonna see if I can pick some work up out of it, at least there moving on with ideas.

I see celebrity Big Brother is starting soon in the UK. Jeez. They have that weird sex change thing who was a child antiques buff in this time. They have found the bottom of the barrell and are furiously scraping.

Dan