Planning to apply for the skilled independent visa subclass 189. Are u living in Australia or Malaysia?

Hi , anyone migrated to Australia before? Just wondering how much is the cost and the process take how long ya?

Singapore and Australia. I used a migration agent based in Melbourne to get my visa approved - that was about 15 years ago. Good luck with your journey!

15 years.....wow. How did you manage to maintain your validity of your PR all these years?!

bro u gonna stop teaching programming to move to aussieland ? :'(

Now I'm no longer teaching programming but working as software engineer. Still can apply for my age 41? Lol

Now I'm no longer teaching programming but working as software engineer. Still can apply for my age 41? Lol

It’s okay I guess. Nothing to write home about. Been here 10 years. Mostly worked in oil and gas with some mining experience.

If you’re a high tech employee you’ll have to realise quickly that Australia isn’t a high tech nation with cutting edge IT or software development. For an anglophone country it’s well behind the curve and if you want any meaningful prospects, Sydney and maybe Melbourne are the only reasonable choices.

Also for the love of god and all that is holy, don’t choose Perth unless you have a job ready for you.

hmm does that mean there is a shortage of software engineers / web developers?

these days everything needs a website/  mobile app . pretty sure they need IT folks ..

Hi , anyone migrated to Australia before? Just wondering how much is the cost and the process take how long ya?

Australia a lot of homelessness issue due to soaring rent

house price median 1.6m in sydney.

Migration is for the super rich. A couple of my dato and datin friends already migrated there. Some just send their children there to study n bought a home there but still stay here to run their biz.

Not for the newly weds.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/...ns-report-finds

Australia a lot of homelessness issue due to soaring rent

house price median 1.6m in sydney.

Migration is for the super rich. A couple of my dato and datin friends already migrated there. Some just send their children there to study n bought a home there but still stay here to run their biz.

Not for the newly weds.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/...ns-report-finds

Depends on your profession, to be honest. Australia is also in a midst of a economic downturn.

There are essentially 2 groups of migrants - broadly speaking.

The first are those awash with funds and are looking to migrate from a position of strength, on their terms, when they feel is best for themselves. A job is secondary. They are looking for things that their country of origin cannot provide: perhaps it's the weather, a different pace of life, the education system for their kids, the lifestyle. This group are immune to the economic cycles affecting their chosen country of arrival. As long as a visa is obtained, they'll go regardless whether there's a job waiting for them or not.

The second group are those that the "/ktard know-it-all-although-they've-never-done-it-themselves" expert would call the Bangla migrant. Those who are going there to compete with the host country's population for what these keyboard warrior so-called experts term a shrinking economic pie. You'll see many such comments whenever a question arises about migrating/moving to Singapore (why would you want to work there? You'll end up like sardines in the MRT and living in pigeon coops, and you'll be a Bangla), or Australia (why would you want to move there? It's so racist and you'll face hurdles getting a job because you don't look Angmo, and you'll end up a Bangla). The only common themes are: (1) these self-proclaimed experts have never done it before themselves - and it's often anecdotes heard from a friend of a friend's neighbour's daughter's tuition teacher, and (2) this weird fascination about Banglas.

Anyway, if you belong to this second group of economic migrants, then, it stands to reason that you do your sums more carefully before you pull the trigger. Compare what you're making and the cost of living, as well as your career progression and your financial returns in your home country, and then contrast that with the expected parameters in your target country. To do that, there are websites that list the median salaries of occupations in Australia (google's your best friend) - but bear in mind this: (a) it may not be possible to get a job that equates your last position (b) different cities have different cost of living (and you can find out more about that with Numbeo, from the web) and ( c) the taxes are going to be different and will need to be factored in.

Good luck!

I looked through one of my answers in this very same thread, and I'm surprised how relevant it still sounds, even after the passage of 4 or 5 years...

True bro, house prices are back on an upward trend again. I’m lucky we got in decades ago…

I don't think they going to come down anytime soon, because:

1) The rich migrants are propping up the price
2) Not enough construction of new housing
3) Even want to do (2), many housing developers in Australia, faced bankruptcy after MCO.
4) Big 5 cities super saturated, no place
5) Australia too reliant on Service, banking, mining, education and farming.
6) Australia may be big country, but 2/3 is desert, still the 1/3 is the size of Ukraine.
7) Australia match migrant to skilled jobs needed, fail.
8) Not enough political view n steps to bring down price.
9) Not enough investments in term of building of factories, new businesses to Australia.

True bro, house prices are back on an upward trend again. I’m lucky we got in decades ago…