nanna8 what gets on my nerves about Australia is that I couldn't just plonk myself there because my family are there, I'd have to go through a rigmarole of questions and at 80 chances are I wouldn't be accepted.
I've been livid seeing all and sundry coming here, no questions asked for that reason. I should, along with everyone else who has family there, be free to choose there or here in the UK.
I remember writing to the then Oz PM, Keating at the time, airing my grievances on being unable to settle in Oz without any red-tape involved, because I have family there. He did reply, or rather someone on his behalf but he signed the letter.
I'll be encouraging my GGC to emigrate when they're old enough because there's nothing in this country for them.