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4% |
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9% |
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4% |
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21% |
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12% |
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12% |
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2% |
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12% |
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19% |
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camel96
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
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Cameron Highlands in Malaysia.
Granted I was only there for a few months but I loved it.
It's in the hills so it's not hot, there's great hiking and the Brits shipped in thousands of Indians to work the tea plantations so it's pretty multicultural...and the food is brilliant. |
Hmm.. I like the sound of that place.. I might have to look into that one.. |
Actually as I typed that I got thinking about that place again and might spend a few months back there after I finish in Korea. Better get there soon also. The Malaysian Government in all their wisdom has decided to build a highway from Ipoh - Malaysia's second biggest city- to the Highlands so in the next coulple of years the whole place is going to have a big fat noisy highway running through the middle of it.
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: |
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andie, you can pick "other" meaning "mother's basement".
HTH |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Korea as long as it doesn't involve working.
And Cameron Highlands for a break from Korea. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Australia. Very relaxed atmosphere, easy to escape masses of people, yet not backwards as all get-out. I can get REAL CHEESE and REAL DELI MEATS. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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India was good... plan to go there again soon. (Soon as my debts are paid)
Papua New Guinea was wonderful - except for the bullets...
How come Australia didn't get a mention on the poll? |
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camel96
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| hojucandy wrote: |
| How come Australia didn't get a mention on the poll? |
I think Australia's classified as far Eastern Europe...  |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Oops, I forgot about Oz.
But, I do have a question. It seems more and more Aussies are leaving Down Under for other economic opportunities, and Australia has also been called an economic basketcase like Canada. So is it really hard to make it there or what? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The Man known as The Man wrote: |
andie, you can pick "other" meaning "mother's basement".
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Pretty damned close, but no cigar. I've never been fortunate enough to live in a basement.... 
Caribbean wasn't listed, hence 'other'.
I miss my morning swim to the reef. Wake up, throw on swimsuit, walk across street, jump in, 2 min. swim to the reef. One morning I saw a Jewfish; another a blue-spotted coronetfish- both rare. Went over to the brac to visit a buddy- we went snorkelling out to the drop-off (8000' vertical) and had a school of 2 dozen or so Yellowfin Tuna swim up off the wall to check us out- thrill of a lifetime.
Not pretty, but at 6' and a couple hundred pounds it's quite impressive to see when rounding a coral head in front of you. |
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hojucandy
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
Location: In a better place
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| It seems more and more Aussies are leaving Down Under for other economic opportunities, and Australia has also been called an economic basketcase like Canada. So is it really hard to make it there or what? |
good question. i's like to hear what other ozzies have to say. for myself, after graduating i worked in australia for more than ten years, then went to papua new guinea where i worked another ten years. after all that time living the expat life i found the prospect of returning to australia boring so i came here. so - i'm here for the interest, not to find a job. was offered work recently in NZ and turned it down because of the boredom factor. |
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syclick
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Good ol' El Dorado County, CA. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| But, I do have a question. It seems more and more Aussies are leaving Down Under for other economic opportunities, and Australia has also been called an economic basketcase like Canada. So is it really hard to make it there or what? |
I was asking my mum about this over the weekend as I'm planning to go back to Oz for a year or two to do some further TESOL related study. I was wondering how the job market was these days. She says the unemployment is the lowest it's been since about 1990... around 6% perhaps a fraction under.
Australia, despite its large mass, is quite a small country and to use the words of an ex-PM, the arse-end of the world. I guess it all depends on what you're looking for in life and career wise, what's important to you, where your interests lie and where the best place to be is to mesh all of the above ...
I think a lot of young Australians have been leaving Australia since the sixties, mostly going to Europe. No research to back me up here (perhaps too much Clive James?), just a hunch. I don't particularly think it's any different today.
I used to work in multimedia and loads of my ex-colleagues have moved overseas, some starting up their own IT related businesses others, studying or like me, teaching English. |
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mo
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: A place where messageboards aren't life.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| The Emirates: the lifestyle was a million times better than either the UK or Korea (Korea especially). Tight expat community, good climate, far more welcoming people, most expats have wads of cash, etc. |
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Sweet Zombie Jesus
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
| It seems more and more Aussies are leaving Down Under for other economic opportunities, and Australia has also been called an economic basketcase like Canada. So is it really hard to make it there or what? |
Well, I was talking to my friend last night about why I'm leaving Australia, and he was telling me about many people he works with have two jobs, and so does their wife/husband, just so they save the large amount of money needed to buy some crap house in the western suburbs of Sydney. And when I told my dad I'm going to Korea, he said "That's great! Why would you want to stay here? There's nothing here for you".
Maybe it's better in other parts, but Sydney at least is a hole. I'm glad to be leaving. |
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Howard Roark
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Turkey. I'm going back after this contract. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Sweet Zombie Jesus wrote: |
Well, I was talking to my friend last night about why I'm leaving Australia, and he was telling me about many people he works with have two jobs, and so does their wife/husband, just so they save the large amount of money needed to buy some crap house in the western suburbs of Sydney. And when I told my dad I'm going to Korea, he said "That's great! Why would you want to stay here? There's nothing here for you".
Maybe it's better in other parts, but Sydney at least is a hole. I'm glad to be leaving. |
Interesting. Sydney is a major world city and the residents think like that? Consider that many Koreans consider Oz as an emigration destination, too. |
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