My impression of Brisbane:
1. People is definitely not polite (Indonesia... very polite), in fact, they are quite terrible.
2. The workers are amateurs, you can barely get any information from them, they would probably just tell you to surf the net to get info (Indonesia... very informative you ask them anything and they will know the answer, or they will find out the answer on the spot! by phoning people, experimenting themselves if it involves equipment or ask a more superior person). Here they hardly do anything right.
3. The products are low quality and VERY expensive including the food which we eat everyday, 3 times a day. As I have been saying, food is very important. The products are low quality because here they cannot sell by volume, only cheapest product with highest profit such as from China so the supposedly cheap products but become very expensive because of the high profit taken from them... of course, you can get them very cheap too in Indonesia, with low profit, because they sell by volume.... products from China barely cost anything. plus other high quality products with low profit is sold in Indonesia, and you definitely can't get them in here.... such as from Europe, Japan and Taiwan. I wish I can say US but they hardly produce anything but movies... with lots of obscenities but good thing they are censored in Indonesia, my God I wouldn't want my children to grow up with that uncensored obscenities....
4. The country's government itself, is EXTREMELY Communist... they want everyone to be THE SAME, by imposing excessive tax. So the rich gets poorer and the poor gets richer. This is EXTREMELY unfair. The inferior is given a lot of funds and the smart is taken money (EXCESSIVELY).
So if you make 1 million dollars a year, the government will take 500 thousands. If you want to be lazy, that's fine... you can live in Australia with some government support.... but for me, I can't even start before I figure things out and it has been very hard for me just to run interviews, because of what is ahead of me.... EXCESSIVE 50 PERCENT TAX!
No matter how hard the smart ones work, they live the same way as the dumb ones. How can that be right! The smart ones need some break and given rewards too... but no rewards will ever be enough with that 50 PERCENT TAX!
Of course this only happens in Australia... because nobody thinks this to be fair! If you work hard and very smart, you should be rewarded a lot.... and if you are lazy, you don't get a reward.... that's the right thing to do...
But in Australia.... if you work hard and very smart... the government will tax you excessively... and if you are lazy... you are given money... its a perversion. the hard workers should be given extra money for incentive and the lazy ones should not be given money at all and should be punished. Of course the productivity will go out to outside Australia because there are lots of better opportunities out there! with lots of more consumers. Jakarta itself has more population than the whole Australia combined! Not counting Bandung, Cirebon, Solo, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, and so on.
And these are only cities in Java ONLY... not mentioning cities outside Java.
5. No servants and no drivers and if you are not sufficiently informed.... no technicians, you just pay them without them fixing anything at all and the government support them that we should pay them quite a lot of money for fixing nothing.... so because we are so busy being a servant, driver and technician at the same time, we do not have enough time and energy to take care jobs carefully, to prepare good food, energy to exercise, to have fun, and to dwell on mental development, which is superfluous when you live in Indonesia... people are much refreshed, informed, polite and sharp.
And at the same time being entertained by all kinds of products from all over the world. Which you can't find in here.
6. The roads are terrible they are hardly flat, you can hardly walk on them, not even on the pedestrians walking. You can hardly walk except in the shopping malls, where it is not that flat either. The road is also very hilly and uncomfortable to drive.
I enjoy walking in Indonesia much more compared to here.
7. Excessive maintenance for the road and the electricity cables. Causing very expensive spending to maintain them.
Confucius said: it is better to be frugal than to be extravagant... (if you have observed this closely via experience, you will know that Confucius is right).
8. Petrol in Brisbane is very expensive now, 150 cents. Used to be 70 cents 7 years ago. At the moment in Indonesia, after 30% increase of petrol costs, is about 60 cents (which is still cheaper than 7 years ago in Australia).
My last suggestion is, if you are Indonesian and got a Permanent Residency in Australia, don't very quickly decide to let go your Indonesian Citizenship because you may regret it living in Australia. Should choose to have the two possibilities living in both countries whenever you have the chance. This simple thing can hardly be done to most people, because they think that Western countries are better... I suggest you think again...
I know I've had it living here for 12 years, but I ain't gonna live here for the rest of my life.
But of course, I still have 5 years of Permanent Residency in Australia, I might come back again...
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