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    Sounds like the OP's assistant along with her hubby will be very comfortable in one of Melb/Syd's leafy inner city suburbs, and likely will be employed by a professional firm that would adhere to state governments workplace anti discrimination/harassment laws which tend to have extremely sharp teeth if you get caught up in a complaint. People have been sacked for as something as simple as an inappropriate email....

    Interesting to note that the Chinese have existed in Australia since the first fleet, via the spice/tea trade to Botany Bay when the colony was first set up. Melbourne has had two Chinese Mayors, one that was sworn in and did a great Job, my mate John So, and a very old family friends father, who unfortunately died before he was officially sworn in as what would have been Melbourne's first Chinese Mayor in the late 70's.

    The Chinese community have done very well in Melbourne/Bendigo/Ballarat and they have integrated very well thanks to some of its better known members via the Australian Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and a few that make appearances on Morning Television cooking shows etc etc and have done for many years. Anybody who says that Chinese get a tough time in Melbourne is full of shit in my experienced opinion.

    Majority of my AUSborn and Hongkie Chinese friends who work in Melbourne, work for very large corps like IBM, PWC, Toyota etc etc etc, a couple of them own very well known Chinese restaurants, one owns a Chinese medical clinic that specialises in acupressure / acupuncture and a couple of pharmacists.


    They'll be fine once they figure out where best to live in relationship to where they'll be working and proximity to schools etc if they have children. Cost of living might be a bit of a shocker at first, but once they get over that, things should be all good.

    If they are considering Melbourne, areas I would highly recommend to them that will be comfy / nice upper middle to upper class suburbs that are easy to access the CBD by car/train/tram would be as follows. In order of more expensive very established inner city areas to 'outer' eastern suburbs...

    Williamstown
    St Kilda
    South Melbourne
    Port Melbourne
    Albert Park
    Middle Park
    Parkville
    Carlton
    Richmond
    Toorak
    South Yarra
    Armadale
    Prahran
    Malvern
    Kew junction
    Studley Park
    Balwyn
    Canterbury
    Surrey Hills
    Boxhill
    Forest Hill/Blackburn
    Glen Waverley
    Mount Waverley

    Titus, your friends will figure it out, the HK birdcage isn't going to be everybody's cup of tea, even amongst members of the Chinese community who have a more open/adaptive/enthusiastic view of the world. Quite fortunate that your friends are upwardly mobile ( financially ) so they can leave for a better quality life elsewhere, it would suck to be trapped here as a low income earner with no other option.

    Last edited by Skyhook; 04-04-2014 at 02:29 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    Sounds like the OP's assistant along with her hubby will be very comfortable in one of Melb/Syd's leafy inner city suburbs, and likely will be employed by a professional firm that would adhere to state governments workplace anti discrimination/harassment laws which tend to have extremely sharp teeth if you get caught up in a complaint. People have been sacked for as something as simple as an inappropriate email....

    Interesting to note that the Chinese have existed in Australia since the first fleet, via the spice/tea trade to Botany Bay when the colony was first set up. Melbourne has had two Chinese Mayors, one that was sworn in and did a great Job, my mate John So, and a very old family friends father, who unfortunately died before he was officially sworn in as what would have been Melbourne's first Chinese Mayor in the late 70's.

    The Chinese community have done very well in Melbourne/Bendigo/Ballarat and they have integrated very well thanks to some of its better known members via the Australian Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and a few that make appearances on Morning Television cooking shows etc etc and have done for many years. Anybody who says that Chinese get a tough time in Melbourne is full of shit in my experienced opinion.

    Majority of my AUSborn and Hongkie Chinese friends who work in Melbourne, work for very large corps like IBM, PWC, Toyota etc etc etc, a couple of them own very well known Chinese restaurants, one owns a Chinese medical clinic that specialises in acupressure / acupuncture and a couple of pharmacists.


    They'll be fine once they figure out where best to live in relationship to where they'll be working and proximity to schools etc if they have children. Cost of living might be a bit of a shocker at first, but once they get over that, things should be all good.

    If they are considering Melbourne, areas I would highly recommend to them that will be comfy / nice upper middle to upper class suburbs that are easy to access the CBD by car/train/tram would be as follows. In order of more expensive very established inner city areas to 'outer' eastern suburbs...

    Williamstown
    St Kilda
    South Melbourne
    Port Melbourne
    Albert Park
    Middle Park
    Parkville
    Carlton
    Richmond
    Toorak
    South Yarra
    Armadale
    Prahran
    Malvern
    Kew junction
    Studley Park
    Balwyn
    Canterbury
    Surrey Hills
    Boxhill
    Forest Hill/Blackburn
    Glen Waverley
    Mount Waverley

    Titus, your friends will figure it out, the HK birdcage isn't going to be everybody's cup of tea, even amongst members of the Chinese community who have a more open/adaptive/enthusiastic view of the world. Quite fortunate that your friends are upwardly mobile ( financially ) so they can leave for a better quality life elsewhere, it would suck to be trapped here as a low income earner with no other option.
    Thanks buddy! I'll pass those recommendation onto him!
    Very interesting background on Melbourne; I did not know about the ethnic Chinese mayors

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    Quote Originally Posted by Titus:
    Thanks buddy! I'll pass those recommendation onto him!
    Very interesting background on Melbourne; I did not know about the ethnic Chinese mayors
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    Quote Originally Posted by Titus:
    I hope they know they are also dragging young talent out with them as well to Australia that's welcoming them with open arms as professional immigrants. I hope those myopic people are happy when they stand alone as they finally "reclaimed" Hong Kong all to themselves.
    I don't think Australians welcome them with open arms...

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    This thread has been a fascinating after-lunch read for a number of reasons

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    So fascinating that you didn't bother to list the reasons?!

    BTW where are you going to, Huja?


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    Quote Originally Posted by iliketurtles:
    So fascinating that you didn't bother to list the reasons?!

    BTW where are you going to, Huja?
    I just find it fascinating each poster's take on the situation in particular and the views of Mainlanders in general. Made me reflect on my own views.
    Where am I going? I left HKG two years ago for north of the border so I guess you could say I'm a reverse locust. Soon I will be leaving Asia all together.

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    Plenty of evidence that Chinese people (as well as Indonesian and Malaysian people) were regular visitors to Australia long before Europeans. Google it yourself, it's fascinating.

    Some of Australia's best loved national heroes are of Chinese descent:

    Victor Chang and Cathy Freeman spring to mind and there are many others...


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    P.S. I'm currently in Taipei where students are protesting policy and agreements that open the door to more Mainland money, people and influence into Taiwan. The topic of the impact of Mainlanders on neighboring countries has been on my mind, I suppose.

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    Second Skyhook's Melbourne recommendations. Although it's a long time since I lived there, when I did one of the things I loved was the ethnic vibrancy of the city.

    And people mostly just seemed to get along and enjoy what the other groups brought to the place, which seemed to be mostly excellent food, from Greek to Italian to Veitnamese to Chinese.

    I'm sure there will be problems sometimes, but it certainly didn't seem obvious. Apart from the Kiwi jokes of course.