Hrmph something I never got about these tv programmes.......

There's another one called "Place in the Sun Down Under". Easy to guess what the aim of the show is - families thinking of emigrating to Australia are followed on a trial holiday, where they get to meet potential employers, are shown around houses they could buy and are introduced to people already living there.

Well, if you've seen this show (Some on here must have done), you'll know something they do at points throughout the show, is give the families little card flags - Aussie flag on one side, UK flag on the other - and they each hold up which side they prefer. So after seeing the houses say, they hold up their flags and say where they preferred to buy a property. After meeting employers they held up which employment prospects they preferred. Easy so far.....

Well the bit I just didn't get, is that on this show, family after family after family would decide they didn't like the locals, didn't like the houses, realised they wouldn't be getting paid too much.........but still at the end, they all gleefully shouted they chose Australia.

Riiiiight

You have to have seen the show maybe to get where I'm coming from here, and the fact you just knew that even the ones who the trial holiday made realise life in Australia wasn't for them - they still insisted on going.

Maybe some people just need to get something out of their system - be it emigrating or whatever.

Maybe it's like the time years ago someone got my phone number after I part exchanged a car, and phoned me to ask what the car had been like as they were thinking of buying it.
Well even though I told them it had been costing me average £250 a month in repair bills for the last 6 months or more, they still said "so it's a good car then, we'll buy it". Some people just need saving from themselves