Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #486 –
I keep in contact with an English lady and she's "confined to quarters" as a Type 1 diabetic and in a very manner of fact manner, wants to sell up and come here. She's smart enough to know our wide open spaces afford her a level of protection she can't get at home.
If they move to the right areas and are completely self supporting, it might work out well.
It hasn't in the past
She's almost zero chance of getting in, even before COVID-19.
I know several high profile self-made millionaires from the UK who all wanted to semi-retire to Oz. As part of the deal they had to make offers to invest large sums of money to start companies and employ locals, one offered to start a high tech laser business, another an aviation/aerospace company, one is even a top of the line science researcher specialising in bespoke imaging devices for medical and industrial purposes, he wanted to set up device manufacturing in Tasmania because he loves fly fishing. Projects costing and eventually worth millions of dollars and dozens or hundreds of jobs.
All were rejected as too old, they are in their 60s and 70s, rejected on the basis that they would be a burden on the health system.
What really pisses them off is that elderly Asians are arriving in droves while investing relatively nothing in comparison, the Poms think it's a corrupt system.
Two of the three have settled in NZ basically doing there exactly what they offered to do here! It's bullcrap, if you're a Chinese mobster and a friend of Packer or Murdoch you're in like Flynn and you'll build a Chinese restaurant and a high rise death trap with dodgy cladding!