Haroon Family Wanted Down Under Revisited

Could you convince your partner to put aside their doubts

and risk everything to move abroad, especially

if it meant giving up the life you love

for a country you've never been to?

In 2012 Harry Haroon took his wife and children to Australia to see

if his dream of a new life down under could become a reality.

One year on, where are the Haroon family now?

Harry had always dreamt of a new life for his family

but no-one shared his passion.

It is you that wants to go, remember. It's not me.

The reality of life down under came as a shock.

I expected, maybe, too much from Australia.

While the thought of leaving behind loved ones was almost

too much to bear.

I think family, kind of, belong to each other.

One year on, has Harry's dream become a reality?

I love work, family and I'm in a better place.

Australia's been a magnet for Brits seeking sun

and a better work-life balance for over 25 years.

With latest migration figures showing that just over

a quarter of all UK residents living abroad can be found there.

But of the estimated 40,000 that make the move every year,

around 11,000 return home with their dream shattered.

In 2012, the Haroon family travelled to other side of the world to

sample the Aussie lifestyle.

Harry had just one week to convince his wife Nabeela that

leaving behind her close-knit family in the UK was a sacrifice

worth making, for a better quality of life.

Today, we'll discover what happened next.

The journey to Australia was a massive 25-hour flight that

took the Haroons right to the other side of the world.

The family had never visited Oz before

but fortunately there was something familiar about Melbourne.

I feels like home because of the rain

and Manchester's always raining.

I just feel like home.

But rain or shine, Harry had just one week to

convince his family their future lay in Australia.

Back in the UK, the Haroons lived in Rochdale, near Manchester.

Along with Harry and Nabeela were five-year-old Imani and Eliza,

who was then nearly two.

Harry worked as a police officer and loved his job.

However, achieving success in his career had come at a high cost.

I've been married eight years, erm,

and most of them eight years I've spent working, constantly working.

Missing out of seeing my daughter growing up.

I've also missed out spending time with Nabeela

and building a bond together.

Desperate for change, Harry was convinced the life

he wanted could only be found in Australia.

I want my two daughters...to see and

experience things that I never have.

However, Nabeela didn't share Harry's aspirations.

It was about five years ago when he did mention going to Australia

and I thought it was just an absurd idea.

But I don't agree with him. We've got everything here.

Both Harry and Nabeela had large and close-knit families

and moving to Australia would mean leaving them behind.

It's massively important for me to have my mum around, erm,

it's good for the kids but it's good for my mum as well.

And, you know, we're very, very close.

My childhood, I didn't have a father figure. My mum brought me up.

Me and my mum are very close.

My mum has made so many sacrifices for me and my sister...

And I just hope she understands the sacrifices I'm making.

Harry knew he still had a long way to go

if he was to convince Nabeela to make the move.

I want to go but I need your support.

I don't want this all to be about, oh, it's me, you know,

Harry's doing everything, he's the one who's ordering...I want...

But it is you, it is you that wants to go, remember. It's not me.

I'm happy to stay here in the UK. I think we've got everything...

that we need here.

So, yeah, it is you that wants to...that wants to go.

Harry had just seven days to show Nabeela that Australia was

worth giving up the life she knew and loved.

The Haroons wanted to see

if Melbourne could provide everything they needed.

As a vibrant and multicultural city,

it was well suited for a young family looking to start a new life.

They spend their week in the Airport West suburb.

Close to the centre of Melbourne, it should have been the ideal base.

So, what did they make of their first taste of Australian living.

-Isn't it strange not having a bedroom?

-As soon as you walk in.

-Yeah, I'm not...

-Yeah.

-I'm not used to that.

I like this, I just don't understand now, is this the kitchen

and the living room?

Or is it the kitchen and the dining area

and they've converted it into a living room?

This is the living room, ain't it?

-So, it's open plan.

-Yeah, it's all open.

So, I can basically be sat here watching the footy

and then you can be making the food.

Yeah...we'll see.

Harry may have been teasing Nabeela

but he knew how serious the next seven days would be.

I think the realisation is hitting home that I'm here.

I think Nabeela, if everything is not there, Nabeela will say,

more than likely, she's not ready for the move.

It's got to be something special, that we don't already have

back home in the UK and, for me, that is the bottom line.

It's got to be, it's got to work for the family.

In the UK, the Haroons owned a four- bedroom detached house in Rochdale.

They'd poured their hearts and souls into making it a home.

So, an Australian property would have to be able to deliver

just as much, if not more.

We're looking for a very modern house,

quite similar to this...spacious.

We need to be able to accommodate the family when they come over.

A big drive for me is the achievement that I've made,

in the property that I own

and maybe that's what I want as well in Australia.

That something that I can say that I've achieved.

We gave the Haroons a taste of Melbourne's property

market by showing them three typical options,

based upon what they wanted from an ideal Aussie home,

what they could actually afford and something in between.

Only when they had seen what each had to offer

did they find out its cost.

So, while a child minder took care of Eliza,

the Haroons went off to explore Melbourne properties.

The first stop was in Meadow Heights.

Well situated for an easy commute to the city centre,

it should have appealed to the Haroons.

It's like a living room, dining area like ours.

I'll just go into the kitchen.

Is this supposed to be the kitchen?

I don't know.

This just can't just be it,

it just doesn't feel big enough for a kitchen.

-Suddenly the house didn't look quite so attractive.

-OK, small.

Again, kitchen small, bathroom small...

-I'm not going to get upset.

-OK.

Is this the master?

It wasn't going well for Aussie housing

and the garden only made matters worse.

-What's in front of you, the main road?

-Yeah, the main road.

-Now, for me, it's about I want the quiet life.

-Yeah.

It's not what I expected from a house in Australia.

I don't know...I'm just getting a bit...

HE SIGHS

I don't know, it's just...

I don't know, I don't know.

The disappointment of the house really affected Harry.

I don't know, I just...

I expected, maybe, too much from Australia already.

His reaction showed the sheer emotional investment Harry

had put into the move and how much it meant to him.

But if the house was within their £300,000, would it help him

get over his disappointment?

£205,000.

That was £95,000 below budget but it wasn't enough.

-I can get a really nice house in the UK for that price.

-Yeah, I agree.

I'll stick with where I am

and that's what's quite disheartening now.

It had been the worst possible start for Harry.

After years of trying to persuade Nabeela on Australia,

suddenly he was losing faith in his own dream.

I feel let down.

And I feel I've sold Nabeela a dream

which is not a dream, erm,

and therefore that's making me upset

because I'm the one that's trying to drive this dream forward.

Harry and Nabeela had dropped Imani off with Eliza

and the childminder before moving on to the second property.

It was in Roxburgh Park, a newer area developed for family living.

A larger four-bedroom house with a contemporary style

but did it make up for the

disappointment of the first property?

-Oh! Nice.

-I think this looks all right.

-Yeah.

-Master bedroom, is it?

-Small room, it's like ours.

-Yeah.

So, yeah, I like this. It's OK.

Well, things were certainly looking up.

Nabeela was warming to this house and Harry was back on form.

That's nice, isn't it?

-You're not having one.

-Yeah, it's nice.

-Not having one.

Oh, nice! Nice, nice...

-It's better.

-Yeah.

-It's better.

-Yeah.

This kitchen is big enough, isn't it?

Yeah, it's big enough for people to even, you know,

gather around and have a chitchat and you know...

It's better.

This has got the wow factor, hasn't it?

I can easily picture myself in this property.

-And the kitchen...it's not that far.

-Yeah.

But you can have a chat with someone while they're cooking.

So, if I was in the kitchen and we had guests round, or something,

we could have a chat.

The Haroons seemed happier but was the house affordable?

Everything was hanging on the price.

Last time I made you do it. This time I'm a bit more confident.

OK, go for it.

The house might have been well within their £300,000 budget

but Harry still wasn't satisfied.

Everything I've seen, I'd be content and happy living here

but I want something even better.

After years of wanting to move to Australia, it was understandable

Harry didn't want to settle for a house they only just liked.

But now everything stood or fell on the last property.

It was also in the Roxburgh Park area.

This modern-style house was bigger than the last one

and set in a more scenic location.

-It's massive!

-Yeah.

-Absolutely massive.

-It is so big, isn't it?

It's got the wow factor, I think. It's what we wanted.

-I've definitely come around to the concept of open plan.

-Yeah.

At last, the Haroons had found a house that exited both of them.

-Oh, wow!

-It's massive. Forget master, it's massive!

Massive master bedroom.!

It's so spacious, isn't it?

Come in here.

SHE GASPS

Wow! Wow, wow, wow!

And the garden was the final piece in Harry's

vision of life down under.

This is what I expected from a house in Australia,

that you have a big, massive house,

a porch area where you serve...

Even if it starts raining, I think it'll be OK, won't I?

I doesn't rain in Melbourne.

It does, it rained on the first day we got here, Harry.

It was a house they loved

but there was one aspect Harry just couldn't bear to face.

-I'm not going to even look at it.

-OK.

I'm not looking at it.

-I want you to look at it.

-I don't want to look at it.

I just want you to be happy.

-Are you going to look at it now?

-No.

-No!

-SHE LAUGHS

-No!

-Yeah.

Can you believe that?

Oh, my gosh!

I think I need to sit down.

With this house bang on their £300,000 budget,

it looked like the Haroons might have found the perfect home.

The first house left Harry in a terrible state

and questioning his dream.

The second gave them

hope that a home they liked could be within reach.

And the third property had the space and style to wow them both.

But after a day of raw emotions,

had anyone been convinced by Australian houses?

Based on our experiences of Australian properties,

we're voting for...

TOGETHER: Australia!

Let's have a look.

Yes!

Australia!

-I've got to be honest, before this house I was undecided.

-Yeah.

And now, finding the house for me, Australia! You?

It's that final house that did it.

If we hadn't been shown that final house, yeah...

In the UK, Harry was a policeman.

It's a career he loved and wanted to continue down under.

In Australia, there are two types of police force,

state police for each region

and Federal Police, covering the whole of the country.

Harry desperately wanted to join the Federal Police,

but, as a new citizen, he'd have to spend a year working for the

state police, before he'd be able to apply for jobs as a federal officer.

We arranged for him to spend the morning

with Federal Agent Aaron Thompson,

who started off by showing Harry around the Melbourne headquarters.

So, this is just an outdoor area

-we can use for fitness training.

-Wow!

It sort of shows you again what a great position

we are in Melbourne.

-In the heart.

-In the heart of the city.

Across town, Nabeela was on her own fact-finding mission.

She was worried that leaving her life in the UK would mean

losing contact with her Muslim roots.

So she spent the day exploring Melbourne with

Tanya Kubitza, who had moved there from Germany six years ago.

You find very mixed ethnicities here. It's great.

I love it. It's a nice place.

You've got a good selection of...

Yes, lots of places to stop by with the kids.

You don't have to worry about finding halal food.

Party wear and Asian weddings.

Yeah, as well, the CBD has got lots as well.

The city road is great.

Back at the station, Harry was keen to learn if

Australian police life would give him everything he was looking for.

For me, the most important thing is

trying to find that work-life balance.

Generally speaking, the AFP operates for the core business hours

of eight till four every day and I've certainly have

no complaints from my family about being away too much.

I think they understand that it's an important job that we do,

but at the same token, 90% of the time, I'm home on time.

Harry looked happy with those hours, but what about the pay?

As a probationary constable, straight out of the police academy,

you'd be looking in the vicinity of about 65,000 Australian a year.

And that obviously progresses. Each year, you get a raise.

And promotions would increase that even higher later on in your career.

That starting salary was nearly

£10,000 more than Harry earned in the UK.

But Nabeela was still addressing her biggest concerns.

I believe that... I feel that we've got everything back home in England.

We've got our family, our friends.

I understand where you're coming from,

because I had to go through the same.

I was very fortunate to meet really lovely people here

right from the beginning.

-So that helped me a lot.

-Right.

What's it like for you living in Melbourne as a Muslim woman?

Actually, I find it much easier. The community is very diverse.

-And you think the kids would fit in, as well?

-Oh, yes.

They are so gorgeous. I think they'll make friends really quickly.

With her reassuring words in mind,

Nabeela headed across town to see

how Harry had got on and, after a day filled with good news,

was there ever any doubt which way Harry would vote?

Based on my job experience in Australia today, I'm voting for...

UK!

No, it's Australia! I wanted to see your reaction.

It's Australia. Were you surprised?

-No.

-See?

-No.

Am I predictable?

Yes.

It's Australia.

To see if they could afford a life in Australia,

the Haroons needed to take a closer look at their finances.

To help them, we drew up comparisons

of their living costs in the UK and in Australia.

-It's £10 more, just for cucumbers.

-Yeah.

Australia is renowned for its high food prices,

but what about the rest of the family outgoings?

Oh, my God.

It's actually less than the UK.

Why would the cost of living be cheaper here than in the UK?

Here, in Australia,

I don't have to put into the pension fund,

because the police pay into the pension for me.

However, without family to help with childcare in Australia,

Nabeela would give up her job in administration

and stay at home until the children settled into their new life.

In the UK, we'd have £8,400 left over.

In Australia, we've got less.

We're £3,500 worse off a year.

-In Australia?

-In Australia.

Lower living costs, but also a lower income.

So did their calculations sell them on life down under?

Based on the reality check, we are voting for...

-Australia!

-Undecided.

-Why?

-Because, we're still better off in the UK.

No, the figures don't say that.

-They don't.

-What do the figures say, then?

The difference, you haven't worked that whole year.

So, for one year and £3,500 difference,

I think the figures show we're better off in Australia.

Well, that's why I'm undecided.

I still don't get it.

-Don't argue with me. That's my choice.

-OK, that's your choice.

-I'm Australia.

-I'm undecided.

Back in the UK, shift patterns and long working hours

meant Harry missed out on time with his family.

He hoped emigrating down under would offer the lifestyle he craved.

I think, going to Australia is all about family

and spending time with my daughters.

It's about actually, when we are together, doing something together.

When he's there, he's really good with them.

He does spend quality time with them when he gets that opportunity.

But, yeah, to be able to do this more often, it would be nice.

So, in their trial week, the Haroons joined an activity group

for young families to sample outdoor living Melbourne style.

-ALL:

-One, two, three!

I'm not sure who was enjoying it more, Harry or the children.

And, once the fun slowed down,

there was a chance to speak to other expats who'd also made the move.

What's it like raising children in Melbourne?

I think it's really good, actually, because there's lots of sport.

I think sport's a really big thing here for children, in particular.

I found that, if I met some mums, you chat a bit,

and if you went back the next week, they knew you by name.

They knew a lot about you, they remember things about you.

And then you just sort of make friends like that.

Australians are very friendly people.

It certainly seems like Harry had heard just what he wanted to hear.

Then, the Haroons were off for a whole new experience.

-I think this is the first time she's seen sand.

-Yeah.

It's the first time we've ever had a picnic on a beach, isn't it?

Yeah, but this... You don't throw the sand on the food!

This is what I wanted, honestly.

This is what I always thought Australia was all about.

The sun, the sand and the peace and quiet.

It's nice.

It was exactly the kind of lifestyle that had motivated

Harry's desire to emigrate.

However, it didn't seem to have had the same effect on Nabeela.

What is stopping us doing this back home?

Why do you have to come to the other side of the world

to appreciate a beach, a picnic on the beach?

No, we don't have to move to the other side of the world.

But that's what you're asking us to do, aren't you?

I'm not. I'm just saying...

The experience that we're getting here

is a brilliant experience

and maybe, yes, we could have this closer to home,

but overall, I think this is a picture-perfect situation.

What you don't get here is to get grandparents to come along,

Imani's cousins, Imani's grandma

to come along and have a picnic with us.

Can you see it from that point of view?

It didn't look like Harry and Nabeela

were seeing eye to eye on this.

So, when it came to the vote, what was the impact on Harry's dream?

-Australia!

-Undecided.

Mine's Australia. Why are you undecided?

We can do this back in England

-if the weather permits.

-You can't do this,

-what we've got here, in the UK.

-You can.

And there's no way I can change our mind?

For now, it's undecided.

Before making their final decision

and with the girls looked after by a childminder, Harry and Nabeela

sat down to watch a DVD of messages from friends and family back home.

-OK, are you ready for this?

-No.

Would this be the deciding factor?

It's hard to describe Harry.

He's quite a force.

He's got a massive heart. It's this big.

HARRY LAUGHS

Harry's a very close-knit family person.

He's obviously grown up with

just a sister and his mum.

He's the only brother I've got.

And he's my brother,

my sister, everything.

He's loving, he's caring and my sister-in-law is just the same

and the two princesses, the two girls are just everything to me.

It's quite difficult to imagine that they are going to

be going just so far away.

I think family kind of belong to each other.

That's what family is.

You know, I can't imagine him

not being here for Christmas or for Eid

or for one of the birthdays.

And watching the kids grow up.

It's not all about Harry. It's not all about Nabeela.

It's really about being part of their family life.

We're expecting our second child,

so I think Harry not being here

is going to be a bit upsetting,

because then he won't be able to see the baby grow up and...

I'll be honest with you, Harry.

A routine will happen inevitably where, you know,

we just get used to not speaking to you,

and I don't want to accept that, but that's what will happen.

No, I don't want him to go.

I think he knows that we're going to miss them.

It goes almost without saying. But...

..he might be surprised just how much it affects us

if we think about it.

We need you as much as you probably need us

and without you guys here,

there's a part of us that going to be really lost.

You know that I love you so much, you're my little sister

and everything and Eliza and Imani,

you know how much I adore them.

I know you want the best for the girls,

but, at the same time,

I hope you can think about us too,

that we will miss you a lot.

I will really, really miss you,

because you're a very special brother.

I don't know.

These are the family that our kids will lose touch with.

I know moving here is the right thing to do for me...

You don't know that, Harry.

There's no way you could know that.

You think, you hope,

it would be the right thing to do.

I'm just looking at Imani

and just thinking, "What am I taking...?"

Away from her is grandparents,

aunties, uncles, cousins.

Hearing messages from loved ones is never easy,

but Harry took it especially hard.

So, after an emotional week,

did Harry and Nabeela choose to

spend their future in Australia or back home?

'I've built Australia up to be this dream that I've got.'

Once I get my heart set on something,

I try to achieve that goal.

And maybe sometimes I need to...

..not have tunnel vision, but look at the bigger picture.

And that, if I'm being honest,

I've not done on previous occasions.

I think, if they had said, "Go,"

it would have been easier.

But it's the fact that they weren't saying that.

The fear that I have is my dream to live in Australia,

my dream for a better life for my children,

could drag me apart from my family that I love back at home.

There's a possibility that we could vote the same or

we could vote differently.

I'm not really sure where we'd go from there.

We've had an amazing time here in Australia this week.

Based on our experiences, the country that

we're going to live in is...

-Australia!

-UK!

-What did you vote?

-UK.

It's made me realise how much we have back home

that we don't appreciate.

I've always said I want this

because of what's best for the family.

And the last thing I want

is me forcing something on you that you are not happy with.

I just want you to open your heart,

open your mind to the possibility

of what this wonderful place

could be to you, me and our two daughters.

'A few weeks after they returned to the UK in 2012,

'I went to see how the family

'were getting on.'

Well, last time we saw you, it was a 50-50 split vote, wasn't it?

Harry, surprise surprise, loved Australia and Australia

-was where you wanted to go.

-Unbelievable.

-Nabeela, you voted for the UK, didn't you?

-Yes, I did.

I started imagining us living there, whilst we were out there.

And then it made me realise how much family meant to me

when they weren't there.

So I just felt it wasn't the right time for us to go.

I have realised that.

If I take anything back,

it's family and friends and what they mean.

OK. So, if you've got to make a decision -

Australia, new life,

or being with all your loved ones?

Loved ones. Whatever happens.

At this present time, UK,

but for the future, it's sort of undecided.

So, it's not UK forever.

So that flag's slightly moving!

And that's more than enough.

Well, we wish you all the very best of luck,

wherever it is, be the UK or Australia.

Last time we caught up with the Haroons, Harry had agreed

family should always come first.

But his dream was still there.

And even Nabeela admitted a move down under could still be possible.

So, where are they now?

One year on, the Haroons are currently living in...

the UK.

But, despite not finding themselves on Australian soil,

it's been a momentous year for the family

and it was Australia that started it all.

The whole experience was life-changing.

For Harry, Australia had been everything he'd dreamed of and more.

I've never been before, so I didn't know what to expect.

Maybe I expected a lot, but if I did, it achieved everything.

My experience in Australia,

I think it was above and beyond what my expectations were.

Absolutely loved it.

And Nabeela was surprised by how much

she enjoyed the country.

I mean, that week, it was brilliant.

Every day brought something different and, as the week progressed,

I started enjoying it more and more.

And I could picture myself living there.

But, despite the golden sands and beautiful weather Australia

could offer them, there was something

Nabeela just couldn't ignore.

I just thought, "I can't do this. Not at this present time.

"I can't make this decision, because I'm leaving too much behind."

So I just thought at the time it wasn't the right decision.

I think I was expecting her to vote the UK.

I always knew that her heart wasn't in it.

I think she was... I think it was my dream.

I think she was happy with life here, surrounded by family.

I remember being on the beach with Harry and he said,

"Oh, look, look at the view!"

-Peace and quiet.

-"This is tranquil. Look at the view.

"And we're on the beach, on the other side of the world."

And I think I struck a chord with him

when I said something along the lines of,

"Well, we don't have to move to the other side of the world

"to appreciate a beach."

Them words were quite strong

and they had an impact on my way of thinking

and I think that was a key moment where I had to say,

"Actually, yeah, you've got a point, Nabeela.

"I don't need to send all of us to the

"other side of the world to spend quality time together."

Nabeela's perspective had a huge impact on Harry

but giving up his dream wouldn't be easy.

When I came back, for the first week, I was upset.

I was in tears, very emotional.

I was emotional when I was listening to messages, watching houses,

but all of them made me a stronger person.

Coming back, I think maybe it was a realisation of that dream fading

and that's what hit home.

Harry sort of saw it from my point of view,

it explained it to him,

and he completely understood

and we went under the agreement that we don't have to go to the

other side of the world to spend quality time with the family

and so we came to that decision together, it was a joint decision.

And coming to this conclusion brought Harry

and Nabeela closer together.

I always wanted to go to Australia, she didn't,

and I think that drove us apart.

Now, that we've experienced it together

and we've made a decision together, we're doing things together.

Whereas it was just me, me, me,

now, everything that we've done after Australia has been decisions

to go out and spend time, it's all as a family and being together,

therefore me and Nabeela are now closer together as well.

Before we went to Australia, we used to have a lot of arguments where

Harry was pushing to go and I was really sort of, you know,

I'd become really defensive and say,

"Look, I don't want us to go" but now, I think it's made us

stronger after going there

and coming to the agreement that we should just wait and see.

Despite this, for Harry,

it was still hard to forget about his Australian dream.

That is until he got caught up in a fever that was sweeping the nation.

This is my Olympic torch.

I carried this, I still remember the date, 24th of June, 2012,

in Skipton Town Centre.

So, I had the best 2012, I think.

The whole of that year changed my life for the better.

Being able to finally go and visit my dream country, Australia,

and then be part of history in carrying the Olympic torch

and being part of history.

It was an amazing year

and something that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

To see Harry carrying the Olympic torch was a very proud moment, both

for myself and for my two daughters. They were both very, very proud.

Proud of their dad, yeah, and so was I.

It was a really proud moment for us all.

Harry's Olympic experience has made him realise just how much

he's valued by his community and, more importantly, his family.

It actually made me realise that on a momentous day that I carried it,

my immediate family were there and they were proud.

And when my daughter said, "Daddy, I'm proud of you",

it actually made me realise that I don't need to go to Australia

to better myself for the family to be proud of me.

And his friends are seeing the difference too.

Harry, since he came back from Australia,

he has become more family-orientated and,

most importantly, he's going around taking ownership

and getting his friends together more often.

Saying, "We've got to meet up."

We have our busy lives, professional lives,

but he still makes sure that we all get together and look,

today as well, another opportunity - we're all together.

My whole experience of Australia has made me realise what family meant.

I never knew that I had...

Well, that I was regarded in high esteem with them.

'It was like I never knew I meant that much to them

'and that really, really hit home.

'For me, I was worrying about what people thought of me

'and to then watch people say how much I mean to them, it was just...

'That was surreal cos I never thought that way,'

I never knew I had that impact on people's lives.

Harry's home life had suffered due to long working hours,

an issue he'd been keen to address in Oz.

However, the last year has shown him

he doesn't need to move thousands of miles away to achieve his goal.

In the last year, work has changed completely.

I've moved so whereas before I'd be working shifts, night shifts,

responding to 999 calls or emergency calls,

I'm now working as a neighbourhood beat officer.

Since then, he's been less stressed about work and he tends to,

more often than not, come home on time and he just seems happier

and I think, maybe on one or two occasions,

he has turned overtime down which I was quite proud of him, actually.

So, yeah, it's all good.

And Harry's work is giving him a whole new perspective.

Working as a, like the good old days,

bobby-on-the-beat or what we call now a neighbourhood beat officer,

I deal with a lot of families and that's made me realise

that family is really important so I think I've got now

the understanding of what a work-life balance is,

making sure, yes, I'm at work helping people but at the same

time, making sure that I'm at home helping my own family.

More regular hours means more quality time with Imani and Eliza.

Oh, great catch, Imani. Caught up in the air.

Oh, great catch.

Bottom line is they want their dad around and that's what

I need to give them - daddy time.

It might not have seemed like it at the time but Nabeela's final

turn of the card in Australia has had an upside for everyone.

Nabeela, since she's returned to the UK, I think has improved

and made our family life a lot better.

I think Harry has definitely taken on board that you do not have to

go to the other side of the world to spend quality time as a family.

I think that has been the big change for us.

We're spending more time as a family now

and it's the little things that make a big difference.

And that's meant a difference in how Harry sees the UK.

Because of that realisation that work can be brilliant

and the realisation of family and how important they are,

the two things that were taking me

away have made realise, actually, you've got it good here.

This is not such a bad place.

This time a year ago,

Harry was desperately trying to convince Nabeela that

a move down under would change their lives for the better

but events of the last 12 months have cast

Australia in a different light for him.

There's a saying that the grass isn't always greener

and I believe that.

I'm really happy in Rochdale. I was born here, bred here.

I love Rochdale.

I love work, family and I'm in a better place but maybe one day.

Maybe one day.

So, does Nabeela feel the same way?

I'm not saying never, I've never said to him we're never going to go,

I've just said to him that I don't think right now

or in the very near future would be the right time.

Harry's making all the right noises and seems happy at home

but has he really given up on his dream?

I think Harry secretly still harbours dreams to go to Australia.

He might not admit it to me

but I know he does secretly still want to go and I think tomorrow

if I said, "Yeah, let's move", we would literally just do it.

I seriously still have aspirations that Nabeela will one day just say,

"Come on, let's go to Australia." Nothing will change that.

The experience of Australia was amazing.

I know now the most important thing is my family

but I secretly hope that, out of nowhere, Nabeela says,

"Come on, let's go to Australia", and that's my aspiration.

Well, Harry, never say never.

Harry and Nabeela came through an incredible year.

Their experience down under left them

divided over where their future lay but Harry's outlook on life

has changed dramatically and as a family, they're closer than ever.

The UK has given them a great life so far and looks set to do

so for many years to come.