have been ones with no real family ties to speak of back in the UK. The ones who have been close are the people we know that have struggled. i have never heard it better said bout your heart being broken that is exactly exactly how i felt in oz. are you still in oz? I moved to Sydney in Aug 2011 because my wife is from Sydney. At the beginning I was very excited and looking forward to migrating escpecially as I enjoyed my holidays in Australia. As my wife was not keen on moving to Uk I agreed to migrate to Sydney. Now over 1 year I can't wait to get back to Uk and have started the moving process by shipping some of my items back to UK. The first lot will be shipped next month. I have come to the conclusion that while I like coming on holidays to Australia I just feel that I am not suited to the living in Autralia. From my experiences in living for over one year I have found: 1) Customer service is crap if not non-existent - I have had bad experiences with many public and private organisations such as ANZ, Audi, Virgin mobile, Mercedes-Benz. They think they are doing you a favour even though you are paying for the services. 2) Most of the people are rude and have no concept of what an "orderely queue" is? Just jump and free for all 3) Sydney driver (can't really