[aussieguy1234]

With this change, I'll bet alot of the worlds best talent is coming to Australia. Perhaps we'll be able to set up our own rival Silicon Valley?

The only downside is for the countries these people come from - these countries don't have an immigration problem. Their issue is a much bigger brain drain problem.

[GrifMD]

Maybe? The Australian tech seen has always felt fairly small to me, at least in Sydney. We've got Atlassian and Canva as the local darlings, and then Google, Amazon, FB, and Salesforce have their offices, though I don't think much real engineering work gets done here. I'm not trying to throw shade at any engineers in Sydney of course, especially at those companies, I just never got the since that the engineering teams were large here.

Maybe I'm too insular, but is there much of a startup seen here, @aussieguy1234? If there is I'd love to hear about it

[princevegeta89]

No thank you - we already face enough racism in the USA. We don't want to deal with something that's 4 times as bad.

[GrifMD]

A recent survey revealed that 30% of Australians are casually racist... https://youtu.be/DHQRZXM-4xI?si=gsVaLimUuW_g0c6d&t=72

[somanyphotons]

> Australia

Why there, why not Vancouver which keeps the same timezone as SV?