What the fuck.
Cost of living is a joke in Aus. Plenty of drug and alcohol related issues, sun that gives you skin cancer and cataracts, debilitating heat all summer, twats in utes and Holdens everywhere, a nation that actually takes less holiday days than most, imported over priced shit including food, water that tastes like fish due to desalination, slow as fuck roads, massively racist even though the main inhabitants now are immigrants, kids growing up so distant from the idea of travelling that they go fucking bat shit crazy when they do get the opportunity, dog shit build quality of properties, the requirement for a decent education dwindling due to FIFO work being so ridiculously lucrative that there's no need to aspire beyond that, but what really made me come back to Europe was the horrific lack of culture, art, physical history and such.
I do agree with the filth comment though.
Each to their own, but it does my head in when either side of the argument put forward such a biased view as though it's to convince themselves they made the right choice and are sticking with it.
As for London not being an attractive place to live for footballers - you are very wrong. Given you lived there for 40 years, you are clearly at a very different end of the spectrum of what you're looking for in life.
Perhaps sounding presumptuous, but pushing retirement age past times differ massively from those of millionaire footballers in their 20s.
Oh, and they cheat at cricket. Cunts.