What is it with Jobserve?

[janey]

What puzzles me is if Australia (and NZ) is so much better than the UK, what are all these Aussies (and Kiwis) doing over here, and why do so many of them stay.

not sure why they stay... most of the kwis and aussies I know are really home sick and can't wait to get back... having said that at least one of them is in the process of buying a house over here

I know a lot of the time the initial reason for coming over here is cos the UK is a good base for traveling and also the wages here are good which means they can save loadsa money before going back and being able to buy property out right over there.

perhaps they stay cos us pommes are just so lovely and friendly?!

[janey]

I had forgotten that...that it can take a fair old while...

Yeah they would not sack you....just move you in a 'strategic resource positioning re-organisation' .....

I don't care so long as they keep paying me the great wage that I moved for!

[DimPrawn]

I've worked with a few aussies and kiwi's. Their view on the UK.

1. Like the culture (the pubs and clubs they mean )
2. The pay is good here compared with back home for IT
3. The tax system is easy to dodge here (most of them rip the tax man off with offshore bank accounts and the like).
4. It is a good base to tour Europe.
5. We speaka de English

So they come here (on some tulipty "holiday" visa), earn wonga, get pissed, see Europe, save money and avoid tax and then go home and put a big deposit on a house down under and live happily ever after.

[NickIT]

I don't care so long as they keep paying me the great wage that I moved for!

LOL yeah.....I could do with something like that right about now! LOL

[janey]

I've worked with a few aussies and kiwi's. Their view on the UK.

1. Like the culture (the pubs and clubs they mean )
2. The pay is good here compared with back home for IT
3. The tax system is easy to dodge here (most of them rip the tax man off with offshore bank accounts and the like).
4. It is a good base to tour Europe.
5. We speaka de English

So they come here (on some tulipty "holiday" visa), earn wonga, get pissed, see Europe, save money and avoid tax and then go home and put a big deposit on a house down under and live happily ever after.

yup... I'd also add to that that a lot of them don't even have to bother with the holiday visa since most of them can claim some kind of ancestry rights... ie. their parents/grandparents were british therefore we just let their sprogs/grand sprogs back in with out a word.

Whereas me, I have to work my butt off to be let into their country! not that I'm saying that the aussies have got it wrong.. in fact I think it is us that have got it oh so very wrong.

[DodgyAgent]

I've had a sucessful skills assessment, !

You passed the shoplifting test then?

[Mailman]

Whereas me, I have to work my butt off to be let into their country! not that I'm saying that the aussies have got it wrong.. in fact I think it is us that have got it oh so very wrong.

If you actually bothered to check you would find that entry requirements for either England or NZ (or the home of the criminal yobs) are pretty much the same.

And if you are over 31 then the only way you will ever get in to NZ, Australia and England is if you are highly skilled.

The only difference for England though is you can also get in if you say you are muslim or require asylum (I wouldnt try that line in Australia as you are likely to be sent to some god forsaken detention centre in the middle of nowhere (then again, probably reminds their inmates of their native homes ) or if you claim not letting you in infringes upon your human rights and that Mrs C Blair will be acting as your solicitor

Mailman

Mailman

[NickIT]

Of course we don't have detention centres in the UK do we?

[janey]

If you actually bothered to check

got out the wrong side of the bed again have you Prat?

And if you are over 31 then the only way you will ever get in to NZ, Australia and England is if you are highly skilled.

if YOU had bothered to check I think you'll find it's 30 not 31

The only difference for England though is you can also get in if you say you are muslim or require asylum (I wouldnt try that line in Australia as you are likely to be sent to some god forsaken detention centre in the middle of nowhere (then again, probably reminds their inmates of their native homes ) or if you claim not letting you in infringes upon your human rights and that Mrs C Blair will be acting as your solicitor

Mailman

Mailman

I have to admit that I dont know if people can get into Oz by claiming that their parents/grandparents came from Oz but moved away but I know for sure that is the case for Aussies coming over here... in fact my mate is one of them. It's called claiming Right of Abode