If you want total dictatorship, a company controlling your every bit of lifestyle, no job protection, pitiful super scheme and abhorent inflation, then make your move.
As I have said before each to their own, but firstly, "total dictatorship"?? As a Western expat here, if you live within certain cultural limits (which are pretty relaxed in my opinion) you have a very free and rewarding life here. I would take the ruling family here any day over Johnny Howard and his mates. When you consider Income tax, GST, Superannuation surcharge, Capital gains tax, stamp duty, medicare levy, astronomical tax on cigarettes, alcohol and petrol, you will find 50% of salary on tax is a very conservative estimate.
As far as your comment on "abhorent inflation"??? Cars are still dirt cheap here, even with the recent increase in fuel prices, fuel is dirt cheap. Accomodation provided for by company so increase in housing is not my concern. In the 2 years I have been here have not seen much of an increase in price in most things. The worsening US dollar has had an effect but that is cyclical and you take the good with the bad.
To give a positive, "glass half full" outlook, other than 4 months of the year, the weather here is perfect, the nightlife is great fun, the restaurants are world class, the hotels are amazing (and during those bad 4 months of the year, hotels are dirt cheap). Unlike Oz, you are within 8 hrs flight time to basically the rest of the world, as far as travel goes (the Americas and Australia obviously being the exceptions). The education for your kids while, yes expensive (although in my case again paid for by company), is first class. Crime here as far as burglary, assault, rape, car theft is almost non-existent, and certainly much lower than even Australia. A couple of hours drive Nth or East and you have great snorkelling, diving and fishing. Best of all you get to live in a different culture, and if you embrace that you come away much richer for the experience.
So yes there are negatives, but I found living under the John Howard regime, watching innocent desperate people locked up like animals in Woomera etc. a huge negative and embarrasement when in Australia. But as I said each to their own. All I will say is anyone considering coming here to work and live, try and visit before and come with an open mind knowing it is not Australia, but that can be a good thing.