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Steve Wozniak to become an Australian citizen
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2012 Sep 25, 6:02am 1,603 views 5 comments
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Well.... seeing as how basically every Australian city is now as much or more real estate wise as the Bay Area, that's not a choice many Americans can make. In fact, neither is Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, New Zealand, France, and a few others to name a few. Those are all very expensive places to live...
freak80
2012 Sep 25, 11:28pm
Well.... seeing as how basically every Australian city is now as much or more real estate wise as the Bay Area, that's not a choice many Americans can make. In fact, neither is Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, New Zealand, France, and a few others to name a few. Those are all very expensive places to live...
I guess there's no free lunch. In America, you're a slave to the healthcare insurance racket. In other industrialized nations, you're a slave to the mortgage lenders.
Of course, in the Bay Area, you're a slave to both.
curious2
2012 Sep 26, 12:39am
another place with almost no fresh water to speak of.
...except when they have so much water that the spiders move to higher ground:
Spiders conquer Australia’s flooded lands
flooding continued across areas in three Australian states
Hopefully Woz might figure out an efficient way to store flood waters in preparation for droughts.
freak80
2012 Sep 26, 2:08am
I can't see global warming being a good thing for Australia.
Oh well. 95% of the country is already an uninhabitable wasteland, so what's another 5%?
I have been seeing some interesting shift. For decades many people in other countries wanted to come to America. For some time now I began to hear that more and more immigrants prefer to choose countries like Canada, UK, etc. Now some of our prominent citizens choose to leave.
Steve Wozniak said, "... I intend to call myself an Australian and feel an Australian, and study the history and become as much of a real citizen here as I can."
Wozniak told the Australian newspaper that his home in California was not connected to a broadband service, referring to the options available to him as a "monopoly."
Earlier this year, Facebook's (FB) co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship. Saverin is a citizen of his native country Brazil, but is a permanent resident of Singapore, where he has lived since 2009.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49159225