Aussie Looking to emigrate to HK ASAP

[carang]

question: what is the difference between immigrate and emigrate?

Answer: What's the difference between immigration and emigration? - Yahoo! Answers

currently, the title of this thread is incorrect. he is not emigrating TO hong kong. he wants to IMMIGRATE to hong kong. he wants to emigrate FROM australia.

[Satay Sue]

I'm afraid at this stage I am going to have to use a word I loathe....




whatever...!

[justjoe86]

question: what is the difference between immigrate and emigrate?

Answer: What's the difference between immigration and emigration? - Yahoo! Answers

currently, the title of this thread is incorrect. he is not emigrating TO hong kong. he wants to IMMIGRATE to hong kong. he wants to emigrate FROM australia.

I want to emigrate (from Australia) (to HK).

The bits in the brackets are optional.

[beachball]

question: what is the difference between immigrate and emigrate?

Answer: What's the difference between immigration and emigration? - Yahoo! Answers

currently, the title of this thread is incorrect. he is not emigrating TO hong kong. he wants to IMMIGRATE to hong kong. he wants to emigrate FROM australia.

Nope. He is wants to emigrate from Australia to Hong Kong. The title of the thread is correct, if no very elegantly phrased.

From a somewhat more authoritative source than Yahoo! Answers: emigrate and immigrate.

[beachball]

I want to emigrate (from Australia) (to HK).

The bits in the brackets are optional.

+1. Exactly.

[carang]

those dang prepositional phrases....

it still sounds incorrect to me, though... to my ears, it should say "i want to immigrate to hong kong" or "i want to emigrate from australia"

[Claire ex-ax]

How about... "I want to move to Hong Kong", eh?

[justjoe86]

To me it sounds right, because he's typing from Australia (I assume). So from his point of view he wants to emigrate.

I don't really care but I like joining in with a bit of pedantry!

[justjoe86]

How about... "I want to move to Hong Kong", eh?

No... he wants to move FROM Australia. Idiot

[beachball]

those dang prepositional phrases....

it still sounds incorrect to me, though... to my ears, it should say "i want to immigrate to hong kong" or "i want to emigrate from australia"

While grammatically correct (also see the edit to my last response), I agree that it is stylistically not great, especially in this context. Would be different if the OP, say, was sitting in a bar in Oz and talking to some mates about his desire to leave Australia for Hong Kong - would sound a lot more natural in that scenario.