Living in the UK advice.

First thing he needs to read up on is his rights to bring his wife in.
It isn’t automatic.

www.gov.uk

Family visas: apply, extend or switch

Get a family visa for the UK, live with your spouse or relative - eligibility, proof, renewing, financial and English language requirements.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
 
Bill Walker said:
A good mate of mine here in Oz, originally from Leicester, has decided he is homesick after 20 years of living here in Australia. He misses things like the humour and nice country pubs
He is planning to come back to live in the UK and is slowly starting to sell his belongings and preparing for the move in March....but then he told me about this video he had watched on YouTube about life in the UK presently.
He is now worried that things aren't as rosy as he is thinking and is seemingly unsure. His wife is Australian and excited about the castle's and history etc.

What I want to ask is, is this guy talking bollocks or his he being factual? I haven't lived in the UK for over 30 years so I don't really know whether he is bullshiting or not and creating a video that a lot of people will watch so he can make money on it.

I told him I would post it on here to get some fair reactions.


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Why would anyone come back to UK if living abroad in a developed country
 
Bill Walker said:
A good mate of mine here in Oz, originally from Leicester, has decided he is homesick after 20 years of living here in Australia. He misses things like the humour and nice country pubs
He is planning to come back to live in the UK and is slowly starting to sell his belongings and preparing for the move in March....but then he told me about this video he had watched on YouTube about life in the UK presently.
He is now worried that things aren't as rosy as he is thinking and is seemingly unsure. His wife is Australian and excited about the castle's and history etc.

What I want to ask is, is this guy talking bollocks or his he being factual? I haven't lived in the UK for over 30 years so I don't really know whether he is bullshiting or not and creating a video that a lot of people will watch so he can make money on it.

I told him I would post it on here to get some fair reactions.


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Tell him not to bother. I see a post replying to this saying the high streets are full of pound shops. Well actually, we’ve moved on from pound shops, now we’ve got endless amount of Turkish barbers, foreign owned vape shops and takeaway shops. The high street near me hasn’t even got a butchers anymore. The heart and soul of Britain is vanishing. The weather is wank, we’re getting more ripped off as the years go along and the weathers wank.

Did I mentioned that the weather is wank?

I’m fortunate that I’ve got a decent job and plan on fucking off when I’m 50.
 
Not sure why any of you bothering to reply. It isnt a true story, there isnt a mate coming back over who is selling his stuff off and had a bout of cold feet after seeing some internet guff. Its a bollocks thread most likely inspired the hotels thead and the ignorant bollocks being posted on the Syria thread
 
How you experience the UK (or many countries) will depend on where you live. I was born in Crumpsall and now live in a very small village in the Oxfordshire countryside - quite a contrast.

I drove to that godforsaken place Selhurst Park on Saturday and went of quite the magical mystery tour, thanks to Waze on the way home. On the way their it took me through Croydon. Another contrast and largely quite horrible.

Weather is a pain in the UK and getting worse.

I did a secondment in Nashville Tennessee back in the late 80's and sometimes wonder if I should have tried to stay there.

Supporting City has probably kept me in this country; if I was a young man now, I'd definitely consider moving abroad.
 
It's all relative. What's the budget. If you have a low level of assets and income then you are going to find the UK a dump. Same applies in Australia.
 
My advice is simple: avoid the cities. UK in the country is fine.
 

The north west is a great place to live football, music and surrounded by countryside Rossendale or the Peak District, if it was your home then this is the place to live.
Australia can’t be all that ? as I know two people returning home one on December 19th back to their home town after decades in Oz, where the pull of family life is greater than the wide open space of Canberra or Melbourne.

Manchester has changed beyond all recognition ripped apart with traffic restrictions and glass skyscrapers but it’s still home the place you were born the Victorian infrastructure round the canals, rivers, railways and the people are still the same.

Family ties in Australia then stay there, if you have family ties in the North West “welcome home”
“Where ever I lay my hat that’s my home” one of the posters had that on here I can’t remember who now
 
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