Don't underestimate the value of family -- and Australia is a nice enough place.
Cheers Kerry in New Zealand (which he also likes very much :-) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > After a rather bleak after dinner discussion I thought I might start > this thread. I was wanting to start this discussion. > > I hope the topic may be relevant given at least 2 of the Java Posse > have gone through the process of emigrating for their careers sake. My > sister emigrated to Australia a number of years ago. One of my long > standing friends is soon to emigrate to Canada. My most trusted Java > mentor and former technical manager was trying to emigrate to Canada. > > A number of different people have been telling me that if they were my > age and in my position they would emigrate. These are not the "were > all doomed" crowed but perfectly conservative sensible people. > > I have reached a decision that I am going to apply to emigrate and > just see what happens. > > The most logical place for British people to emigrate is generally one > of the other British commonwealth countries namely Australia, Canada > and New Zealand. > > I am favouring Canada. I already have family in Australia. The Illegal > Argument Podcast is giving me serious Kiwi envy. I have nothing > against New Zealand and hear very good things about it but I hear it > is very hard to get permission to emigrate there i.e. the New Zealand > government can afford to be very picky about who they allow to > emigrate there because there is so much demand and only limited jobs. > > Pay day is on the 28th. I would like to use some of the money to pay > for processing emigration papers (probably between one and two hundred > pounds or so). I need to make a decision about which one to apply to > or end up applying to more than one. > > I care about the research I am doing but if brutal cuts to the > Universities continue then I really fear the University may just axe > it due to lack of money. If that happens I could see if another > University wanted to continue it. Even if I get to finish as planned, > emigration papers can take a long long time to process anyway and > there is no guarantee I would get approval. > > The emergency budget comes out tomorrow. Big tax hikes are expected > and big cuts everywhere. I expect the UKs best professionals who can > emigrate will get fed up and leave if they can (this isn't to crazy a > bet as historically this has happened under similar circumstances). > The UK's loss could well be other countries (particularly British > commonwealth) gain. > > I would just ask that those reading to be considerate as if you knew > how scary it can be not knowing what is going to happen and how bad > things will get it a country which feels so broken and starting to > come apart. I am not alone feeling that way from the conversations I > am having. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
