Hello. I’m looking to move from the United States to Australia after I graduate from college. I’m a recreation and tourism major. I’ve spent time in Australia and I absolutely loved it. I’m meeting up with some travel buddies from England next summer I met while we were working on a conservation volunteer project through Australia. Even though we did get to travel last time, we want to go back and just travel and be tourists, since last time we were doing conservation work much of the time.
I figure this would be the best time for me to move: I don’t really have any possessions in my name such as a house, and I don’t have any outstanding loans since I got scholarships for college and my car is paid off. Most of my personal value is in savings accounts and not in material items that I’d want to take with me. It also helps that I’m not married and don’t have any children too. And I have a sincere interest in Australia; I’m not one of these people leaving the U.S. because of being mad at the president or economic situation.
I’m looking for some suggestions and advice. Not so much about residency visas and other forms of legal requirements since I’ll be reading in on them, but more personal observations. If you moved to Australia or have even lived in both countries, what did you notice about the two countries? Such as noticing taxes or the cost of living was much higher in one country than the other, cultural differences, things to be aware of, or the job market.
Also, I understand you must have professional skills to be able to contribute to the workforce to get into the country. I’m a recreation and tourism major. I’ve worked for the U.S. National Park Service now for three years, and probably will for two more years. I’ve just worked building trails and maintenance, but next year I’m going to move over to the park ranger crew. I have to do an internship for my college requirements and I’m going to do mine on a U.S. military base as a civilian working for their recreation department on base. Do you think this would be good experience or do you think I should stay and work for either the park service or military for several years before migrating to Australia? Any insite you can give me on any of this would be much appreciated.

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November 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 am
Because you are just leaving college, I would suggest you try the working holiday to Australia. It is something they have just started. Maybe after a year of being here you can decide for yourself.
But all the info you need can be found at
www.immi.gov.au