For all who is considering migration,

Migrating to another country is a tough thing to do. You'll need to start all over again, it helps if you have friends and family there.

For most people, the full benefits of migration will be felt only by the second generation, i.e. if you migrate, your children will benefit the most. You will have to work very hard to get used to the new environment, culture and build up your foundations in a new nation.

Personally I feel that even though we are seeing a new political era in Malaysia, there are deep uncertainties about the future of this country. Also, based on my personal assessments of Malaysia, I feel that this country has little chance of becoming like Singapore, South Korea, Japan or other European nations, primarily because of a lack of vision but also heavily influenced by other factors.

Australia is a good place to go if you wish to start up a family in a relatively similar environment. Similar at least when compared to mainland Europe or the United States.

However, I feel that Australia as a nation isn't on the cutting edge of stuff. By that I mean Australia to me seems like a little bit of a laid back nation as opposed to nations like European countries (UK included), Japan and United States. Europe, Japan and US is where all the latest and greatest happens in terms of education, technology, finance, politics and almost every other field you can think of, so it's absolutely fantastic to live there if you're into those kinds of stuff, but competition in these nations are incredible and you've got to really work for it or you get left behind.

All in all, I would conclude that Australia is a good choice, certainly much better than Malaysia in the foreseeable future.

(I know, I'm terribly un-patriotic, I'm just being realistic)

This post has been edited by DeniseLau: Mar 19 2008, 06:08 PM