If a country's TV schedules reflect its preoccupations, Britain's must be bake-offs, island love and migration to the southern hemisphere
“Wanted Down Under” is a survivor. A daytime fixture that has just finished its 13th season, thedocumentary follows Britons contemplating relocating to Australia or New Zealand. Equal parts travel, property and life-makeover programme, it has a rival, “A New Life in Oz”, on Channel 5. If a country’sschedules reflect its preoccupations, Britain’s must be bake-offs, island love and migration to the southern hemisphere.
Although stories about immigration make the front pages, Britain has a long-standing emigration habit. It was a net exporter of people until 1979. And when Britons migrate, they most often go down under. No country has received more poms than Australia in the past three decades, in which an average of 30,000 a year have moved there for the long term . The second-favourite destination in the latest year, Spain, got little more than half as many.
Yet fewer Britons now have that dream. In 2017 only 19,000 made the hemispheric swap, down from a recent peak of 49,000 in 2006. These official figures have a high margin of error. But the decline has been fairly steady. It partly mirrors a slowdown in the total rate of emigration among Britons, which fell by 38% in the same period, as weak global economic growth provided fewer temptations to move. Australia’s economy has fared well, but its stronger currency has made moving pricier.
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