Singapore's success is partly due to the absence of minimum wages and also the use of migrant workers like Qatar. Take that away....
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Unlike China there are tonnes of people who want to live in Japan. The only problem is that the immigration laws are extremely restrictive. They could solve this issue today, if politics gets in the way of doing so then it's on them.
It's not bundled is it? Functionality comes with the licence. For example our teams usage is dependant on our Office 365 E5 licencing, which costs money. Word comes bundled with office yet no complaints. Google spreadsheet comes bundled with google workspace.
It's also got native integrations with SharePoint, Azure, windows and anything Microsoft. And even then the functionality and user experience is alot better than the competitors. I hate WebEx with a passion.
Funnily enough I have a region A player. From when Blu rays were quite new. I believe the newer ones are region free these days.
I remember I couldn't lend my disks to my friends as their players were region locked B. Region A had the thinner cases too which I liked.
Its definitely not an extreme it's definately already happening just at a slow pace for the housing we need. Maybe not in Brisbane but there's precedence.
Parramatta is about 23km from Sydney and will have 8 150m+ , with the tallest at maximum height 230m. Apparently that 230m was forcibly scaled down due to airport height restrictions.
Liverpool, a smaller suburb has a few lined up that is over 100m, including 2 over 1km away at the edge of the suburb. Rhodes, Macquarie Park, Chatswood, St Leonards are new suburbs that now have skyscrapers including residential skyscrapers where it didn't have even 5 years ago.
If you look here there's significant development quite a distance from the city especially if you look at the upcoming pipeline of buildings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney
And the latest news although not residential, still a step in the right direction - this is nowhere near the CBD by the way.
https://www.sydneymetro.info/article/contract-awarded-develop-norwest-metro-station-site
We definitely need more density. Sydney's new metro network is running at less than half capacity because it runs through detached housing. With a capability of 30 trains per hour it's a waste without the density I mentioned. It is currently operating at only 15 tph during peak.
In terms of planning the government here has recently switched from determining density based on how far you are from the city which is common elsewhere in Australia to density tied to amenities. Many near the station are now zoned R3/R4 which is medium to high density despite being an hour from Sydney. This is a good solution it doesn't preclude anyone from owning detached housing, but don't expect good public transport on tour doorstep.
But yes I do realise this is unique to Sydney, we've had local clusters so each council has its own commercial hub. We have a non radial transport network so travelling locally is alot easier. And we run express trains from first to last including public holidays and weekends. So some groundwork is already done to support a denser population.
Minimum density to housing.
1km from minor train station, light rail or BRT should have a building height of 50m+ to 100m
Major stations with express services minimum 100m to 150m
Metro 150m+
Problem 2 is immigration just comes to NSW and Victoria. Have different citizenship requirements depending on where someone is living.
For example something like 10 years minimum for citizenship if you've worked or lived in Sydney or Melbourne but 5 years if you haven't.
For example Spain has different citizenship requirements depending on where you're born. If you're born in Portugal, Andorra or any of their ex colonies it's only 2 years residence to get citizenship for everyone else it's 10 years.
We could apply the same principle - citizenship takes 5 times longer if you reside or have resided in Sydney or Melbourne. This will reduce the immigration demand on these two cities.
Sorry but he doesn't have citizenship, so he isn't Australian. Doesn't matter if he migrated here when he was 1 day old.
He hasn't gotten citizenship, he's a British citizenship by birth. Whilst in this case I would afford him empathy as he is on his way out, to others in a similar situation...too bad so sad, apply for a visa like every other non Australian or sell your assets and move back.
Why didn't he get his citizenship? Australia and UK both allows dual
A better way is to change travel time from private time to company time with a cap so people don't abuse it.
E.g. Sydney maximum cap 2 hours each way, Canberra would be like 45 mins. To reduce discrimination for employers to discriminate by choosing closer people, every employer pays the maximum regardless of where the employee is located to the government and the government reimburses the staff, while pocketing the difference.
Windows 10 enterprise msdn. Unfortunately it looks like eol is pretty soon. I'm not liking windows 11 at all. Surprisingly this time pro and enterprise have the same eol dates, or have I read it wrong. Microsoft usually supports enterprise for a bit longer.
LTSC is to 2027 but I think there maybe some compatibility issues as it's not really designed for being a desktop OS. Might give that a whirl a bit later.
Again not sure what foreign property would do for them when they haven't left China and have no plans to do so. They're almost at retirement age so if they haven't made any plans...
So the other half of this story was they went around to all their relatives who are based overseas and got them to "store" converted currency in GBP, USD, CAD etc. If it was me I would be converting to the place I'm interested in residing not just anything I can get my hands on.
The other relatives weren't smart enough or was too under pressure to say no. Also someone storing currency in your name rather than their own even as a relative causes tax issues at the very minimum and other issues if the money has come from a non legitimate means (I'm not inferring this is what happened just saying the worst case scenario on why you shouldn't deposit money from someone else)
Having a credit card is great for a mortgage. Put everything on your card, then pay up when the interest free period expires.
In the meantime put everything on your home loan and redraw to pay your credit card as required.