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Japanese money is heading to Darwin. What were your reasons for choosing Japan?

See my user location. On other news, I hear that the points system for skilled migration has changed again. SOL is now different. Goalpost shift. NOW is always good to move, regardless of readiness (70-80% will do!). On the other hand, 2001 was a long time ago. I wonder how long it'll...

I'd rather let the crickets sing for themselves. Empty pots make the best vessels, I say. I recently came back from Singapore after a 4 week work posting. Of course the usual catch up on food (which, surprisingly, disappointed!), meet with some friends and relatives, and look for old haunts...

The tide's swinging to more interesting times. Sooner (rather than later) these types of Sinkies would form what I label as a "dying breed", relative to the overall SG population. Consider this: 1) FT influx and dilution. Corps are doing their darnest to hire FT's on all scales -- from the...

Dude, I've been saying that migration is easy(ier) when one "crosses the rubicon" from the sinkie mindset. I'm not entirely sure why you're singing to the choir here? I believe the scope of the discussion was pretty simple. For sinkie migrant wannabes: 1) Taking more initiatives when it...

I have absolutely no idea either. So far I'm totally confused on two fronts: 1) Inability to change name = discrimination and inability to secure jobs despite years spent in OZ? 2) CPF MMS changes 1st july 2011 = inability to withdraw CPF out 100% upon citizenship renunciation? Huh...

I beg to differ. I'm employed with the full knowledge that I'm an FT to their country. 70% of my company consist of other cultures and races, vertically and horizontally. I believe that the key in one's success across all countries (doesn't have to be western ones) is the ability to do...

What point system? You're talking about: 1) Point system by CPF? I think I didn't make myself clear enough: it doesn't matter what the 1st July 2011 MS is all about: when you provide proof of SG citizenship renunciation, you get the whole lot of CPF out. Ordinary, Special, Medicare, mothercare...

Immediately, pending paperwork completion. 1-2 months in total. Add1: Dude, you really need to read up more from CPF website itself, and past the CPF drones. Sooner or later you'd come to a part where you'd realise they will just have no choice. Where exactly did you get the >50 years from...

Well, all I can say is that you had a 8 year lead time ahead of me back then when I hit NZ (you hit OZ then), and all the two of us (me + other sinkie) did was take the plunge, with the same attitude: to hell with everything Singaporean, embrace the culture presented to us. Cheers for that. One...

False. Break the catch-22: - One needs a job offer to add sufficient points to satisfy the skilled migration PR application points system - One needs PR to obtain a job offer Break the 2nd one face to face. So what if there are no guarantees employers will offer before PR? Swamp the chances...

...then there's this bloke of mine who's still running a business out of Vancouver by bulking in CAD$0.07 spectacle frames from China and selling them for market retail (CAD$45 and up)....

Sam's done one spoon feeding. Here's another: your perception that they hire locals only is 100% incorrect. We kiwis hire face-to-face. Regardless of race. Or nationality. The biggest plunge all sinkies refuse/cannot/fail/arescared/flop to take is taking the time to come here with interviews...

Just try it this way. Migrate with a mental assumption that you're a refugee. Assume that you just made huge enemies with the MIW, or whoever (loan shark, pimp, etc). And you have no options to go back. Fight every urge to link up with any SG'eans that have any link back to this imaginary deep...

Try taking it seriously. Been there, done that. None of my friends (face to face) are Singaporeans. I now surpass cultural expectations to pass on as a kiwiborn in Australia now. Migration is not merely the act of physically rooting in another forest. If you decide to make a new home in a...

Ditto re:2011. On the plus side, I'm taking up this slack to earn AUD back. (now I appreciate what the folks from .my do in .sg). In the negative side, lifestyle has turned noisy. Currently though, the flooding of work demand in Melbourne exceed Sydney's by (well, in my particular trade) 2:1...

I think the biggest problem is not so much of how *we* need to convince you to move to NZ, but what you need to convince yourself with. True, some of the answers that we provide could possibly canvas a clearer picture, but do they feed your "push" factors, or your "pull"? Maybe it would help...

You have to realise that over here in NZ, the dominant practice for employers is to conduct face-to-face interviews. Approximately 1 of 15? 20? interviews I've conducted are not through that channel, but still involve some sort of video conference, but that's me. Most of my counterparts do...

Darwin. A large financial company wants to chase the paid services offered to the increasing OZ$-denominated asset chase by the Asians there. Just like Melbourne where immigration starves the real estate supply, so it is in NT as well.