I want to emigrate to Aus, but I'm so scared of being labelled a whinging pom!
In my research of emigration websites, there do seem to be lot of forums where people just complain about everything, it makes you wonder what they expected when they went over there, do these people not do their research before they upend their lives and travel across the entire globe?

Idiots. It's a shame we all get tarred by the same brush. Although having said that, the last thread I started was complaining about stuff and it wasn't even 9am....
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 10:49, 3 replies)

You have to remember that most people are idiots
probably the same people who go to Spain and only go in "English Pubs"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 10:51, closed)

oh god I hate those people!
I was looking up reviews for places to go in Tenerife next week and there was a whole section devoted to 'Anglophiles' with fish and chip shops, English pubs and English shops. There was even an English-only swimming pool.

The reputation we Brits have is so embarrassing, I was watching Sun, Sea and A&E a bit ago and it's just awful! I think if I do emigrate I'll deny all knowledge of my heritage for a while.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 10:59, closed)

Complain away!
It is never too early for complaints or a gin and tonic. Do come, just so long as you are not an Afghani or Sri Lankan and on a boat. Then you will be locked up in the desert and sent back home after three years.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 10:58, closed)

I could not be any paler so I think I'll be safe
although that will probably reveal my pomminess!

I'm going to visit next year, I can't wait. Whereabouts do you live?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:01, closed)

I'm in Tasmania
It is so English, or so I imagine it to be after watching a lot of Grand Designs, that you will feel right at home. The website I pasted - check what they have to say about Tassie. I think it is funny and quite a bit true.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:03, closed)

pfft - you will be embraced. everyone gets a gentle ribbing for something. right of passage. it means youre welcome.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:29, closed)

I have read
that there is an official Olympic pamphlet which gives hints that when Aussies start talking about poms, take it as affectionate. I didn't realise that there may be people out there who don't get our kind of welcome.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:37, closed)