Monday, September 25, 2006
Get A New Life
A recent Dutch article that I read stated that the number one reason for Dutch to move abroad is the Dutch weather. Granted it is quite dreadful, but it made me think of this one reality show on TV. There's this one show in which families relocate from the UK to Australia. The first reason these people give for moving to Australia is the weather and how it is so much better that the weather in the UK...And most of the people they have on this show move back to the UK after a few months. From the remarks that these people make on the show ("Weird types these Australians", "They won't even allow me to work because I need a certificate for bar tending here and how can they not let me I was a bar tender in the UK") I get the impression that these people are so not prepared at all. Of course I am not sure how realistic the show is, after all it is reality TV, but still. It all comes down to proper preparation. Or in this case, a lack of preparation.
Proper preparation is definitely what "Get A New Life" is all about. "Get a New Life" is the title of a BBC show that I used to watch. The program is about families that have plans to move abroad. Families can sign up for the program and when they are selected they are given a two weeks notice and basicallly have to pack their bags within these two weeks and relocate to the country of choice. The two hosts of the show will join the family to the new country and help them get settled in during the first month. They assist in finding housing and help them land jobs. Sometimes a family will actually have a nice house and job within a month, sometimes it takes longer to land a job. After the first month families are given the choice to stay and continue their new life in their new country, or to use their return ticket and go back to the UK. I think I only saw one family actually use the return ticket, and that was for a family emergency. All the other families stayed in the new country.
I always liked this show. As far as I know, the show will only select candidates who have thoroughly thought the whole immigration process through, and have been working on it for years but for some reason have not gotten around to actually executing the plan yet. The program also provides tips and tricks for all people wanting to relocate. It always came across to me as a very serious program in which it is actually about making sure people succesfully relocate. It's a reality show, but it stays real and has nothing to do with being sensational.
Another thing the Dutch article stated was that on the whole only 5% of people that relocate, return to the Netherlands. Of these returning 5%, half decide to re-migrate to the new country after a while and thus leave the Netherlands again. So technically only 2.5% actually return to the Netherlands, meaning 97.5% have sucessfully relocated to a different country. I definitely like these odds.
I wonder how many of these 2.5% that return to the Netherlands, had the Dutch weather as their number 1 reason to start the reloaction process and move to a different country...
Proper preparation is definitely what "Get A New Life" is all about. "Get a New Life" is the title of a BBC show that I used to watch. The program is about families that have plans to move abroad. Families can sign up for the program and when they are selected they are given a two weeks notice and basicallly have to pack their bags within these two weeks and relocate to the country of choice. The two hosts of the show will join the family to the new country and help them get settled in during the first month. They assist in finding housing and help them land jobs. Sometimes a family will actually have a nice house and job within a month, sometimes it takes longer to land a job. After the first month families are given the choice to stay and continue their new life in their new country, or to use their return ticket and go back to the UK. I think I only saw one family actually use the return ticket, and that was for a family emergency. All the other families stayed in the new country.
I always liked this show. As far as I know, the show will only select candidates who have thoroughly thought the whole immigration process through, and have been working on it for years but for some reason have not gotten around to actually executing the plan yet. The program also provides tips and tricks for all people wanting to relocate. It always came across to me as a very serious program in which it is actually about making sure people succesfully relocate. It's a reality show, but it stays real and has nothing to do with being sensational.
Another thing the Dutch article stated was that on the whole only 5% of people that relocate, return to the Netherlands. Of these returning 5%, half decide to re-migrate to the new country after a while and thus leave the Netherlands again. So technically only 2.5% actually return to the Netherlands, meaning 97.5% have sucessfully relocated to a different country. I definitely like these odds.
I wonder how many of these 2.5% that return to the Netherlands, had the Dutch weather as their number 1 reason to start the reloaction process and move to a different country...
# posted by USA2007 @ 12:06 PM 
