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I often hear South Africans who either have moved to Australia and don't like it or who are stating that they would prefer not to move to Australia often give the following reasons:
A. Australia is overregulated.
B. Australia is conformist.
C. Australia is about staying in a job niche, rather then being entrepreneurial.
All true. South Africans are inclined to come to Australia for a better future for their kids. Crime is also a consideration in certain parts.
Having been in South Africa recently didn't meet a single person thinking of going to Australia. Some had been but found it not for them for in part the reasons given.
I often hear South Africans who either have moved to Australia and don't like it or who are stating that they would prefer not to move to Australia often give the following reasons:
A. Australia is overregulated.
B. Australia is conformist.
C. Australia is about staying in a job niche, rather then being entrepreneurial.
D. Australia is a bland nanny state.
What do they mean by these complaints?
Thanks
And yet Australia continues to chug along at a good rate.
All these points could be spun the other way as to reasons why Australia runs smoothly.
In 2006, Australian politician Michael O'Brien was serving as the totally official and not-made-up-sounding Shadow Minister for Gaming. In 2010, O'Brien was promoted to For-Realsies Gaming Minister (actual title). And he found that the limelight, she burned.
Apparently Michael O'Brien liked life in the shadows; he just wasn't crazy about that whole "public" part of "public office." Mostly because, much to O'Brien's shock and absolutely nobody else's, he found that some people in politics were big fat meanies. To combat this, when changes were being made to the Gambling Regulation Act in 2011, the Gaming Minister stuck an amendment in there that made it illegal to insult the Gaming Minister. If you, for example, were to call Michael O'Brien a suckling mama's boy with skin so thin that you can see through it, you would have to pony up 100 penalty units. For those of you who aren't up on obscure conversions, that's about $11,945. That's right: In Australia, it costs nearly $12,000 just to say that Michael O'Brien is the new name for the sand that gets in your vagina.
I think that list would fit a lot of countries and they are not all necessary bad.
Agreed.
Here in the US it is often the opposite as everyone ******* about their "amendments" and "rights" which often lead to people doing what they want at others expense.
Funniest part, one of the most regulated states is California (where I live) and some people complain about the regulations but if they moved elsewhere to somewhere like Texas (many religious based laws, lots of guns, bad drivers etc) they would be quick to move back :P
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