No amount of money, tax free or otherwise, replaces the quality of life that comes with an established community in a democratic country.
Sure you may be able to buy all the toys you want (although you wont have any money left) but try and join your kid up to the local football competition. Sure you can get a beer, but going to a 5 star pub everytime you want a drink is not quite the same as your local.
Try and lobby you local MP to get a speed hump outside your school.
Classic article in yesterdays paper about workers safety. The government reply, as always, is "but we have laws". Sure they have lots of laws, like the ones that say you can't drive dangerously, but they are never enforced. So while they (the government) can claim to be doing their bit to improve things, in reality they are doing nothing. People are dying on the roads and in the workplace because the goverment fails to enforce the law.
As I said, try to see things how they really are. It is not the same as living at home and having a tax free salary. And to answer your question, yes you are missing the point.
To come here you need to be in a position that you can stay for 5-10 years and walk away. If you are in that position then it is great. What has happened to many here is that they came with that expectation, but once here realise that it is likely they will be here for the rest of their career if they want to accumulate the sort of money they expected. As this realisation dawns on people, so too does the fact that conditions are always changing for the worse (like most places) and that the dream of putting a few bucks away and enjoying an early retirement somewhere nice is quickly slipping away.
Last edited by Vorsicht; 23rd Jun 2006 at 15:52.