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by emilssolmanis
3636 days ago
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To be honest, I haven't studied the visa types that deep (i.e., I probably know everything there is to know about the US ones, almost nothing about the Australian ones). I'm an EU (Latvian) citizen looking to get away from the clusterfuck that is post-brexit London to somewhere I haven't been an annoying number of times before. Australia is on the shortlist of places I'm considering, so I'm not sure about the "see your future" part. It does generally sound nice and aligned with my views of the world, and it's definitely not a 1 year thing, so that sounds plausible. From what I could find just now, a 457 does sound like the easiest path legally. That sort of answers my question as well then I suppose, since the laws are stricter than what I found at first and contracting right away is a legal minefield. |
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Australia is a great place to live, and although I still get homesick (been here 5 years), I'm not in any hurry to move back to the UK - even less so after the Brexit mess.
Melbourne has some recent new arrivals in the form of Stripe, Slack, Xero and Zendesk opening up offices. It's probably a better all-round place to live and I find it more interesting, but it doesn't have any nearby nice beaches and the weather is pretty temperamental (47C in the summer, -2C in the winter)
Sydney is probably more financial companies but does have some big companies here, Atlassian, HomeAway, Freelancer and Airbnb have offices here. Get ready to pay insane rent and lots of weird rules, but the tradeoff is better climate, beaches everywhere and on a nice day, Sydney truly is a beautiful city.