Hi, currently an A-level student studying in a university in KL. I have been having thoughts on studying in EU (and also thoughts on doing my final year in software engineering or something else from IT, haven't actually decided on a major, in Australia)

but now I am having thoughts.. I wonder if the EU would be a nicer place to be at than Australia? I've never had the privilege to visit any of the EU nations but I've always been fascinated with the idea of studying in a European country (a number of my friends from a forum I was active in years ago whom I still keep in touch with are Swedes, actually)

To be honest I am no longer surprised by how fluent many of my European friends are when it comes to the English language, in fact I can't recall any of them who have been having difficulties in conversing in English.


.... Anyway, I'm posting here only because I'm having all these thoughts, would appreciate it if i could get some feedback on this.

1. Fees are... well considerably cheaper than anywhere else, I've always been aware that education is cheaper in EU but I've always had the impression that this only applies to EU nationals?

2. I know it was mentioned in the first post, but will my A-levels really be useless should I wish to enter degree straight?

3. Am I really royally screwed if I were to not get a job in Nederlands within a year of graduation?

4. How are the car prices there? I remember this LYN member who lives in Germany who was a 28 year old fresh graduate and bought himself a BM 'cuz YOLO.

5. Which university do you think you'd recommend me to check out on for Software Engineering?

6. I know Scandinavians are open as hell, but what about Dutch people? Only know that Amsterdam is the weed capital of the world..

7. Is Dutch hard to learn?

8. Will my proficiency in Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese help me in at least a little bit there? Job wise.

9. I believe the discrimination against Asians are far less than Australians against Asians?