Andrew,
I'm from the US and have worked in Boston, San Francisco and Seattle doing
Rails since Rails was in beta. Before that I was a windows .net Borg but
resistance proved far from futile and I split that collective the second
Rails was viable. I've been at this game for about 20 years. I've
Oh, and I suspect there's a few grumbles about getting permission to work in
Australia.
Here is the best of those grumbles! From a Lonely Planet Ruby dev (yes they
still have a Ruby dev team in Footscray) trying to get permanent residency for
himself, his Japanese wife, and half-Japanese baby
TL;DR: between US and Australia, it's what you make of it.
Pitching in, as someone who went through two 457s, permanent
residency, and eventually citizenship. Oh and I'm from Brazil, which
is one category before last in terms of qualifiable background.
Also, I have no degree.
The three last
* Working in Oz was simple for me - I'm on a 457 sponsored visa with
reInteractive.net. It has limitations though - I can only work for my
sponsor - if things don't work out I have 28 days to leave the country.
After 2 years I can apply for residency. Because the US doesn't have
nationwide
After having relocated a fair number of candidates from the US to Australia I
can say that you should be looking for a 30% lift in salary from what you are
would be paid in San Francisco to have the same standard of living in Sydney.
If you are coming from somewhere like Austin to Sydney you
