Bigmac, I think you carry a broad brush and like to generalise. You ask my wife where she want's to be... she will tell you outright, she wants to be with me. She has never once told me she needs to or wants to come to the UK, she tells me she we can survive anywhere. The reason so many immigrants come to the UK is because we have become the joke of the world, bending to this policy and agreeing to opening our pockets to all who need /don't need hand outs. You may now be in your retirement and well off but not everyone is in your situation and life is harder now than it has ever been. There was no way I could bring my wife here and afford a house and bills, so sometimes you have to make other arrangements, and my wife is more than happy and is not disappointed that she has not made it to the UK.