THERE'S no place like Hull.
This is certainly the case for one couple, who, after just two months, returned to their home city after starting a "dream life" in Australia.
With its white sandy beaches and blazing sunshine, the Goodfellow family could not wait to leave their home in Hull to start a new life in Australia.
However, just two months after making the move of a lifetime, Siobhan and Andrew Goodfellow and their two-year-old daughter Savannah, moved back to Britain, blaming the high price of teabags and the lack of Robinson's squash in Australia.
The couple spent £10,000 to move halfway around the world from their home in Hull to Adelaide in September last year.
Having never been to Australia and with no family and only a few friends living in the country, Mrs Goodfellow, 35, came up with the idea to move after watching the documentary series Poms In Paradise about Brits who have settled in Sydney.
She said: "I'm really impulsive and I can be quite a bully when I've made my mind up on something but this was a big decision so I left it with Andrew for a few weeks to think about. I didn't think he'd say yes. I didn't think he'd leave his mum."
The couple took the plunge and moved 10,000 miles away to Adelaide to start their new life.
They booked themselves on to a 32-hour flight leaving from Newcastle airport on September 3.
They even sent their eight- year-old Dalmatian Molly to have vaccinations and get a pet passport.
Arriving in Adelaide, the family found themselves in a two-bedroom apartment, complete with swimming pool, however, their dream life did not last long.
Mrs Goodfellow said: "We knew almost straight away that something wasn't right, but we just didn't say anything to each other.
"It just wasn't what we were expecting. You think you're going to be able to go out there and afford a great quality of life because the wages are all higher, but it's also really, really expensive."
After just two weeks in their new home the pair sat down in their apartment and had a tearful conversation, eventually deciding to come back home.
The family ended up moving back to Britain just two months after landing in Australia.
Mrs Goodfellow said: "I don't think Savannah ever realised what was happening, she just got on with it.
"We were worried about the amount of flying she'd have to do but she was always really good and never complained.
"When we tell her about this in a few years she'll probably say, 'you did what?'"
Despite their disastrous first attempt at settling in Australia, Mrs Goodfellow admits she could be tempted to try moving abroad again in the future. She said: "I would go back to Australia, to Perth or Sydney or Melbourne, but not to Adelaide."
