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Perth australia....Is there a job opportunity for elect.engineerSignal)? |
I have a degree in ee specialising in signal & telecommunication from CWRU Cleveland Ohio,USA.I would love to work on Australia.What is the pay and cost of living? Theirs jobs for everyone in Perth at the moment as it is a boom town with all the mining in Western Australia. You will probably fin the wage compare favourably with the states and the cost of living should be cheaper. Housing costs however has zoomed in the last couple of years. Perth is a great place to live. Beautiful climate, cold beer. I have never been there but Perth is a modern small to medium city with a high standard of living and a high-class lifestyle which are not quite the same things. Climate would be roughly similar to LA. The economy is booming because it is the nearest large Australian city to the iron ore and gas extraction to the north, and I hear that coal mining is about to increase in scope just to the south of Perth. Gold mines well to the east at Kalgoorlie. Surfing and wine at Margaret River. There is no reason that there would not be work for a signal engineer. Australia has generally replaced or duplicated a lot of its microwave telecom network with optical cable and this is on-going. I do not know what pay rates are in your specialisation but you might be looking at AU$65,000 per year, after a year or so's satisfactory work, maybe more. This is above average by Australian standards. Tax on this would be about AU$17,000. Petrol (gasoline) in AU is around AU$1.30 per litre which is a lot higher than in the US but cheaper than in most Euro countries. Cars - the new Holden "Commodore" Omega (base model) by GM Australia has more interior room and luggage space than the Cadillac CTS and STS. Engine 3.6 litre V6, dohc, 24 valve, 4 speed auto. Price about $35,500 with air-con. Ford's competitor the locally designed "Falcon" is slightly smaller and cheaper. There are versions of Korean, Japanese and European models for Kia to Mercedes also available. Groceries - here's a few items from a corner shop in Canberra - not the cheapest prices you can find. All prices AU dollars 250grams matured cheese - $4.08 500gram apricot jam (jelly) - $3.73 210gram can pink salmon - $3.45 850gram bread - $2.99 500 gram butter (not marg.) - $4.29 Beef, pork, lamb prices are lower than in the USA and Australians prefer steaks, chops or roasts to hamburger. Macdonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut operate alongside local competitors. Moving to Australia Australians seem to be more relaxed about some things than Americans according to a New Orleans man who arrived here several years ago. For instance there is a lot less "fly the flag patriotism" in Australia but just because you don't see the flag at every house does not mean patriotism does not exist. Most companies do not have dress codes for staff out of the public eye since staff would tell management to get ***ed if they tried it on. Public Safety Crime rates are lower than in the US. The murder rate is a fraction of that in the USA, recently quoted as about 300 in a year on a 20.5 million population. One US criminologist here said the violence rate is actually not much lower but since Australians are rarely armed fatal injuries are rare. It used to be considered dishonourable to carry any kind of weapon. Most crime seems to be housebreaking by that ever present menace - the drug addict. Prostitution is now legal in controlled houses and some forms of gambling have always been legal so there has been little chance for organised crime to get big. Road death rates are higher than in the USA, but the difference is marginal and Australian death rates are lower than they are in some western European countries. The last heavy aircraft crash with fatalities was in 1960 and there has been no accidental loss of life among railway passengers for some years and none in Western Austraia that I know of. AIDS has a low incidence. As soon as it emerged in the 1980s the Gov鈥檛 of the day started a major public awareness campaign. Sufferers are usually male homosexuals and intravenous drug users. A few non-fatal diseases are slightly more common than average in some areas, but there are no endemic diseases. There is no malaria except among people who have brought it into the country and tuberculosis is all but unheard of. Some of the more stupid people refuse to immunise their infants and there have been a few local cases of whooping cough. The last diphtheria case was in 1992. The larger cities and towns are well supplied with doctors who are trained to international standards, or better. Hospitals range from slightly sub-optimal to good. There are government and private health insurance schemes which have varying amounts of cover depending on how much you pay. These are not operated by employers. Housing Most Australian housing vaguely resembles the California bungalow or the 鈥渞anch house鈥? There is usually only one floor and no basement. Typically houses built before about 1970 have 3 bedrooms, one bathroom. After that many houses were built with an "ensuite" which is a shower booth and water closet attached to the master bedroom with a full bathroom elsewhere. Kitchens generally are smallish but well appointed. Most houses do not have pantries or "dens". Recently though land prices have risen while the cost of building has fallen so newer houses are larger and better appointed. I have just paid yearly land tax of $758 on an 鈥渦nimproved land value鈥?of $269,666. This tax would be the same whether the house was big, small or non-existent. This tax does not include water supply or sewerage charges. Power supply is 240V 50Hz and reliable. For more details on Australian power see the following site and follow the link for type 鈥淚鈥? from the 鈥淐omment鈥?column. http://www.kropla.com/electric2.htm... There are several real estate dealers (realtors) who operate nearly Australia-wide, look for websites for "The Professionals" and "LJ Hooker" among other reputable companies. In some country towns you can get good houses for around AU$180,000 or less. It all depends on whether the population is growing and how much work there is. In a lively country town the price of a good house is likely to be more than $250,000. Rent can easily be $300 per week so it may be wiser to buy a house if you intend to stay more than a few years. Australian mobile (cellular) phone systems are going gangbusters. We are also switching from analog PAL-D TV to digital. Most of the networks transmit in digital already but there is a lot of buyer resistance here, probably because the PAL-D analog system always delivered a far better picture than the sad old US NTSC. FM radio has been around 30 years or much longer in some places. Be warned though - Perth is one of the most isolated western style cities in the world and supplies of some things can be limited. A man I know worked in electronics in Perth making up prototype devices maybe 18 years ago and he said that he had projects delayed for lack of things like headphone jacks. |
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