Migrating to Australia - Thoughts & Advice?

[ZuePhok]

taipei is a lovely place to live and work, not sure if you have ever considered it. communication might be a barrier, but if ang mo can live there, im sure you can as well (you are a chinese after all!)

besides, will bring significant contribution to ARP (in term of development and progress).

the little red dot is a great place to work, but life can be a quite flat here. (I already have two mushrooms growing ontop of my head)

[pyroboy1911]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Huh? 3 years? What course are you taking up??

Bachelor of Pharmacy

[ToyotaFreak]

Originally Posted by Papercut

FYI Adrian, the minimum wage for someone your age over there would be around A$12 per hour (maybe more? Ballpark figure) regardless of what you do. Hell, you could flip burgers in the daytime and run TechARP at night and make a decent living if you were so inclined

I think it's around $20 now (According to my Economics lecturer.).

[jasperchc]

Any pospect for software engineers in Australia? I wanna move to a place with cooler climate also leh

[azza-bazoo]

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

So, your family eats in all the time?

BTW, how's the public transportation? Or do you really need a vehicle?

90-plus percent of the time I eat at home or a friend's place, yes. That said, whenever I do go to a restaurant they are busy.

Australian public transport varies by city -- it's generally much better than KL though not as good as, say, Hong Kong. On a train line or major bus route, services are every 10-20 minutes and run until about midnight, but late at night or in the far-out suburbs they can be few and far between. Living without a car is definitely possible if you choose where you live carefully; Perth is (I'd argue) better than the eastern cities on this front

Originally Posted by jasperchc

Any pospect for software engineers in Australia?

In all of the major cities there's heaps of software work (I had no trouble finding a web development job), e.g. have a look at it.seek.com.au.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by ZuePhok

taipei is a lovely place to live and work, not sure if you have ever considered it. communication might be a barrier, but if ang mo can live there, im sure you can as well (you are a chinese after all!)

besides, will bring significant contribution to ARP (in term of development and progress).

the little red dot is a great place to work, but life can be a quite flat here. (I already have two mushrooms growing ontop of my head)

The little red dot = Singapore??

Surely it's not that boring!

Hmm.. Taipei. It's really not bad when I went over. they can speak Hokkien.. and I can do a little Mandarin.

But what will I do there?

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Chai

12-15C is just perfect!

That would be a nice temperature, especially if there is enough humidity.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by pyroboy1911

Bachelor of Pharmacy

SMART!!

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by ToyotaFreak

I think it's around $20 now (According to my Economics lecturer.).

That good??? I wonder how much doctors make...

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by azza-bazoo

90-plus percent of the time I eat at home or a friend's place, yes. That said, whenever I do go to a restaurant they are busy.

Australian public transport varies by city -- it's generally much better than KL though not as good as, say, Hong Kong. On a train line or major bus route, services are every 10-20 minutes and run until about midnight, but late at night or in the far-out suburbs they can be few and far between. Living without a car is definitely possible if you choose where you live carefully; Perth is (I'd argue) better than the eastern cities on this front



In all of the major cities there's heaps of software work (I had no trouble finding a web development job), e.g. have a look at it.seek.com.au.

LOL!!! You are indeed a pro-Perth guy!

Before I seriously consider migrating to Australia (or elsewhere), I will drop by a few key cities to check out the climate and living conditions. I guess Perth is a good place to check out too!