Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!snewsf0.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Unemployment in Australia now at 4.6%... WHAT ABOUT EUROPE?? Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe,fj.life.in-japan,alt.politics.economics,aus.politics References: <4577b14b$0$5749$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <4577ef9c$0$5745$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1negn2596gu3srag5b9r2bepcd3fv6ruoe@4ax.com> <1165511404.417791.89420@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <0k1hn2ts1n9fnvcionsapiocq1vocsp0dj@4ax.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5G2eh.4440$HU.1143@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:51:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.191.226.86 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1165539073 124.191.226.86 (Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:51:13 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:51:13 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164733 Apud Alan S (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus: >On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:30:26 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician > wrote: >>>I've met many Australians all over the world, from Tokyo to London to >>>New York, and most of them say life is great in Oz. >> >>Pre-bloody-cisely. Australians love Australia, but they are happiest >>when living somewhere else. Kiwis are the same. Well, at any point of time about 5% of Australian citizens and permanent residents, i.e. approx 1M, are living/working outside the country. I think the proportion of New Zealanders living/working elsewhere is a bit higher. Are they doing that because they are "happier"? Maybe; maybe not. When I've been working elsewhere (Japan and France in my case) it wasn't exactly in the pursuit in happiness. Are 95% at home in a state of reduced happiness? Who knows. My impression of the reasons Australians and New Zealanders travel and work in other countries in greater proportions than, say, Brits and Americans include things like a tradition of doing it (it's a sort-of rite of passage) and greater opportunities for varied work and experiences. The opportunities in a country of 20M people are invariably more limited than in one of 300M. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学