We love each other very much but I am quite distressed how difficult it is for my wife to adjust. She had a completely incorrect image of Australia before she came here. Many Ukrainian women try to come to Australia because they think it is a rich and comfortable paradise, that every Australian lives in a big comfortable brick house, drives a bid car, buys expensive clothing and has an overseas holiday each year.
Nothing is further from the truth.
Rooms in modern houses are very small. The same applies to furniture. The average age of a car in Australia is 8 years. Beauty products and cosmetics are very expensive and not extensively used by Australian women. If the foreign wife of an Australian wants to send money to her home country to support relatives or parents she will be seen as someone who only married an Australian for his money.