BendigoBoy

I don't want to put *anyone* off furthering themselves; however, quite honestly, I care less about postgrad degrees when I am interviewing, and infinitely more on whether the person I am interviewing can (most importantly) communicate clearly and (almost as importantly) knows what the hell they're doing. A bit of gumption is never a bad thing in our industry, buddy. Good luck, whatever you decide to do. P.S. Monash is a good university; but I see far too many people just "chasing degrees" rather than actually learning to do a decent job. I'd rather take the grafters than the grifters.

Too easy. Look at Eynesbury, unless you have a pet cat.

Sunbury's fine (just, for the love of God, don't accidentally move to Sunshine). Got a couple of colleagues who live there, and they're quite happy. If any kids have gone missing around there and anything untoward happened, it's not made the headlines over here as far as I've seen or heard on the radio.

Neither will. Your skills, application, and interviews with employers will provide you with a job. Honestly, from what Adelaide teach on their masters courses you'd be better off doing three months of intensive self study on computational neuroscience, LLMs, fuzzy logic application etc etc than spending tens of thousands on a churnmill degree

So much for "indefinite"

I wouldn't trade Oz for the world; however, you have a solid ally here in living mortgage free. If you have indefinite leave to remain, my understanding is it doesn't expire, but on that I will yield to anyone more in the know. Whatever you decide: Good luck!

Jealous. Haven't seen a payrise in 3 years!

A nice scenic walk and free exercise!

Southgate isn't too bad if you're in early and leave after 2pm. Something like $25 a day

Which puzzles me. The R series passports are just so bloody gorgeous.

And please keep to the Western Suburbs if you do.

Coolies This is why I so very often caveat everything with my stock phrase of "I do, as always, yield to any RMA".

Although maybe give it a miss if you enjoy going for walks or jogging.

Personally? I'd be suggesting somewhere like Sunbury or the outskirts. Could probably pick up something that's a little more out in the sticks but still less than a 15 minute drive to Tullamarine, or a hop to the station to get into Southern Cross.

How long is a piece of string? That's going to be down to your lifestyle, as much as anything. $200k would be a palatial income for some, it'd barely cut it for others. Personally, I think it's a pretty darned strong number. Where you're going to have a bit of an issue is something "rural" an hour from Melbourne, if you're thinking of that being a commuting time during rush hour. I used to live in Caulfield South and it would regularly take 50 minutes to drive into the CBD at 7am. At 7pm, less than 15 minutes. You might want to look around Lilydale and such areas in the Eastern Suburbs if you want something that's a bit more countryside. But it'll hardly be rural. Last I checked, it was only 71 genders. As for drugs, you'll get those sorts of problems all over the world. Western suburbs can be particularly prone to things like ice, but you have to balance it out with the coke heads in Brighton.

Pretty sure Fire Fighter is on the SOL for 187 nomination; as @Marisawright says - definitely worth consulting a registered migration agent.

Any of the registered migration agents who post regularly on this forum would be worth consulting. In terms of cost? An absolute drop in the ocean compared to the rest of the costs you'll find associated with immigrating.

If you get a 189, you can work at anything you like as long as you can secure the job. No need to stay in any one profession.

Depends on your state, really. Neither me nor my wife have ever even sat on a motorcycle, but Vic Roads still gave us a completely unrestricted full R licence when we converted our UK licences.

A bit of an oversimplification to say pretty much everyone. In the West of Scotland, it's extremely common for students to live at home (from as far afield as Ayrshire) and commute into Glasgow to attend university. I was very much the outlier when I left the fold to go to St Andrews.

Hopefully that citizenship application is sorted out nice and quickly for you, mate. Then hopefully no need for you to concern yourself over your docos from there on out.

Last two engineers I hired, I just couldn't tolerate the arrogance of the younger folk that were sat in front of me (let alone the absurd salaries they were asking). Both of the successful applicants were a good few years older than me, had experience I could only dream of, and have been nothing less than stellar performers. Sadly, this is - in my experience - still an unusual situation in the Australian tech sector. Which is all the more insane given the number of younglings that go into the field only to burn out or quit after five years because they realise how much hard work is actually involved. Give me a dyed in the wool expert any day of the week over an uppity upstart.

Aw mate, I have no advice to offer. But I really hope you can find a resolution to this.

I'm equally confused. If you're eligible to work legally in Australia, then you're eligible for a TFN. I think this one's beyond us normies - this sounds like absolute, categorical RMA territory.

Mebbe worth giving Hargreaves Lansdown a call. I've got a couple of SIPPs with them from before moving out. I've *no* idea if they'll allow you to do a 25% withdrawal of TFC if you're overseas or not. But no harm in giving them a bell and asking. Decent platform for investments, as well.