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Your reasons for emigrating
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mandrake04 wrote: »I agree with Jank, there are a lot of opportunities in Australia for the right people. Since I have been here I have also Traveled/worked in NZ, India, China and Japan something that I wouldn't have had the chance to do working in the same type of work in England/Ireland the most exotic places I went was usually was Crawley in West Sussex or maybe Germany.
Here in Oz I limit my drives to 3.5hrs any further and its FIFO same day or over night, when I was working in Ireland I used to drive from Newry to Galway or Newry to Sligo... no chance of flying and during winter that was mostly in the dark, dangerous roads and crap weather just had to put up with it.
Sure its half a world away, but really its only a day (24 hours) which is nothing considering you have 7 of those a week and 365 a year plus you usually asleep 1/3 of that anyway. Its 9 hrs to Hawaii and 14 to California and that where I am meeting my parents next year for a holiday.
Lifestyle rules here, the winter is like an Irish Summer/Spring and the summer is the type of sunshine what people in Ireland jump into a plane and fly to Spain for two weeks. I don't really drink anymore, few weeks ago was on holiday never had a drink the whole week was staying up the coast went driving on Stockton Beach and Fingal bay on the Jetski there was 4 of us including my Irish mate who was both a a big drinker and smoker when he first came to Australia and has since give both them up. Went to bed sort of early and got up early... nice fresh head. I cant understand when people say Australia does not have culture, of course it has ....it has a beach culture where in your free time you get the sand between your toes and do cool stuff witch is just a different type of culture to just drinking the face of yourself.
The other thing I like about Australia is its a very Liberal country, brothels etc are perfectly legal not that I am interested but the fact that if I wanted to go I can legally do so... In Ireland the politicians and church would be preaching from their moral stool while secretly ripping you off or covering up their own dirty secrets.
Australia is a severely over regulated place with high costs and fees for everything, the last thing I would say about it is 'it's liberal'. The people are not particularly 'liberal' either.
But it is a good spot that I know well and I would trade some freedom for a good dose of beach and barbie for a while
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Legs.Eleven wrote: »It's certainly not the backwards country people like to make it out to be either.
Our lack of extremes in politics would be very progressive in my opinon - one thing I can not abide in Spain is the "You're either left or right" thinking here and there's zero compromise between the two. It seems they do nothing but bicker and stick the knife in. Nothing will ever progress in politics with that mindset.
I think the Irish are surprisingly open-minded and outward-looking in comparison to a lot of European countries. We don't have the big country mentality that many countries would and we certainly don't look down our noses at other countries (quite the opposite, in fact
). Women are relatively equal and people are generally not very extreme in their thinking and would consider the opinions of others (I'm talking outside Boards here). We're not voting in far-right politicians into power like most other European countries either.
Perhaps things are different in rural Ireland but definitely not in urban areas.
One of my students who's a journalist lived in Ireland for 3 years and commented on all I said above saying in terms of open-mindedness, we're ahead of Spain. One thing I've realised having left Ireland is just how progressive it is for a small island and a relatively new nation.
You live in Hong Kong right now, yeah? How progressive is Hong Kong outside of business?
Well HK is an outpost for trade and finance, it has a 15% tax rate and maybe 10% if you are married or have a family. Services are efficient generally. The transport system is great to get around, (you can even check in for your flight with luggage from the city centre). Sometimes communication can be a problem, but generally people speak English ok.
I suppose what strikes me about the Hong Kongese is that they are not judgemental, and take you as they find you. People don't seem to have pre-conceived notions or prejudices, and don't butt in to your affairs or pigeon-hole you. Most get on with living rather than waste time with begrudgery or putting their neighbour down. It is the safest country I've ever been, have never seen anything even close to a fight. My wallet was found on a bus twice and was returned to me with everything in check. In this part of the world people just tend to get along(amongst Expats anyway). There doesn't seem to be many conservative, finger wagging Holy Joes' here either.
I don't want to turn this into a debate of Ireland is crap, 'insert country' is great, as that would be naive and simple minded. Everywhere has it's positives/negs.0 -
Australia is a severely over regulated place with high costs and fees for everything, the last thing I would say about it is 'it's liberal'. The people are not particularly 'liberal' either.
But it is a good spot that I know well and I would trade some freedom for a good dose of beach and barbie for a while.
This!!
Oz a fine country, but all the fees and fines(revenue raising), would put hate in your heart.:eek:0 -
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