TL;DR: between US and Australia, it's what you make of it. Pitching in, as someone who went through two 457s, permanent residency, and eventually citizenship. Oh and I'm from Brazil, which is one category before last in terms of "qualifiable background". Also, I have no degree.
The three last visas I applied for, I did it all online, on my own, with perhaps two phone calls made to the department of immigration for clarifications. Maybe, I got lucky, but I find it hard to believe I'd get lucky three times in a row with *zero* friction as far as the processes went. They were helpful and polite all the way. I'm yet to be offered more money by a US company, despite numerous job offers from there (I bet a lot of people from here get those regularly too). Not to say the offers from there were all bad, but even factoring cost of living, plus the certainty that you won't be able to live there forever even if you wanted to, I'd still come out ahead with any of the better-than-average offer from locals. And as a freelancer, all my great clients were local. Had about three good clients from overseas, though all the great ones to work with were from around here, including people being being organised with payment dates and such. So go Australia! P.S.: there are great people to work with everywhere. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Chris Aitchison <[email protected]> wrote: > "Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to work > in Australia." > > Here is the best of those grumbles! From a Lonely Planet Ruby dev (yes they > still have a Ruby dev team in Footscray) trying to get permanent residency > for himself, his Japanese wife, and half-Japanese baby born in Melbourne. > > http://gyrovague.com/2012/08/10/notarizing-your-fingerprints-for-fun-and-profit > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I've been invited to give a 5-10 minute talk about what it's like >> being a Ruby dev in Oz. It'll be at a pre-RubyKaigi meetup in Tokyo, >> which will have a fair number of Japanese and non-Japanese people. >> >> As far as I can tell, most of the capital cities have Ruby meetups, >> and possibly meetups on JavaScript, functional programming or iOS >> programming. And Sydney also has hack nights. I'll also talk about >> Railscamps, and RubyConf Australia. >> >> I'm also asked about work in Australia. Is Ruby-based work mainly >> based in small startups and/or freelancing, with more mainstream >> languages required for larger corporations? What is the work >> environment like? What kind of hours are expected? What is the pay >> like compared to the cost of living in Australia? >> >> I've heard a few grumbles about what it's like working in a large >> corporate, but is that more about what tools and processes are used, >> rather than how they treat you? >> >> Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to >> work in Australia. But is that more of a PITA rather than a >> show-stopper? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
