Yak,I don't mean to shrug the question you ask, but it would be...

Yak,
I don't mean to shrug the question you ask, but it would be better answered by my father ( KKHANN ).

I am using his loggin as it is the only one we have betwwen us.

He will be back next week as he has been O/S on work and holiday.
As for me, I came here as an 8 year old .
I don't even remember the place where we came from.

Yak, you have to understand that the circumstances in which my father came here to Australia are probably not the norm.

If you ask him about where he came from and why, you will soon realise he has no ill feelings ( far from it ) for leaving the country of his birth.

Having said that I will leave it to him to reply to your question.