{"id":43547,"date":"2025-12-27T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-the-dream-move-from-the-uk-to-australia-still-alive\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:00:34","slug":"is-the-dream-move-from-the-uk-to-australia-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-the-dream-move-from-the-uk-to-australia-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the dream move from the UK to Australia still alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Australian Dream has become a reality for many young Brits in recent years as they go in search of a &#8220;better&#8221; life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC Wales reporter Charlie Buckland experienced this herself when her sister, Chanel, left three years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Chanel says people often underestimate the challenges of such a move and, as the nation grapples with its own cost of living crisis, questions have been raised about whether it is as glossy as it appears on people&#8217;s Instagram posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Australian Dream originated after World War Two and coincides with the &#8220;Ten Pound Poms&#8221; of the 1950s when Brits moved down under with the promise of a home, new job prospects and a greater quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"video-filmed-and-edited-by-terel-edmunds\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Video filmed and edited by Terel Edmunds<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvgjyrzz8xeo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Dream has become a reality for many young Brits in recent years as they go in search of a &#8220;better&#8221; life. BBC Wales reporter Charlie Buckland experienced this herself when her sister, Chanel, left three years ago. Chanel says people often underestimate the challenges of such a move and, as the nation grapples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[2380,409,4607,1126],"class_list":["post-43547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-alive","tag-australia","tag-dream","tag-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43549,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43547\/revisions\/43549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}