Well said BIK!!
BTW Huggy - getting over here is cheaper to NZ - 3yrs on a residency visa and you can apply for citizenship, which because of the Trans Tasman agreement, means you can freely work in either NZ or Oz (so long as you don't want to claim benefits)
Perhaps you should have a look somewhere more opem minded than the UK (and I am British!) - the Euro springs to mind here....