Why we Left Australia after 15 years 🇦🇺

#digitalnomad #australia #travelvlog

We quit our comfortable 9-5 6 figure job, sold all our belongings to travel the world with no back up plan. Here are 10 reasons why we took such a drastic step. Keep on watching.

For anyone new here - OUR BACKSTORY 👇
We are Nabeel, Zenesta & Yara - A Bangladeshi Aussie family who recently quit our 9-5 job, sold all our belongings & bought a one-way ticket to travel the world with our child. We left our comfortable home of 15+ years in Sydney to embrace life of freedom. We curated our own adult GAP YEAR & slow travelling south east asia.

WHERE HAVE WE BEEN SO FAR✈🌍
🇲🇾 3 months Malaysia
🇹🇭 2 months Thailand
🇧🇩 1 month Bangladesh
🇻🇳 3 month Vietnam

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[MesutMilleliri]

Money actually grow on trees but only on trees that was planted by you!! These tress are referred to as investments How you diversify your investment portfolio matters.

[jennoo]

To be honest - I’m a white Australian from several generations back and I also find Aussies friendly but hard to make friends with. Unless you grew up in the same area and went to the same school. It’s a real issue.

[Dinks]

As an Aussie who has travelled extensively, I agree with you 100%. Australia was a very different country 20 years ago and it seems to have lost its way.

[loonistrex]

Most of the issues that you describe as the problems in Australia are mainly the problems in one of two cities such as Sydney or Melbourne. I have moved to Australia many years ago, and I am thankful to everything that this country has given me. I live in Perth and has not faced most of the issues that you have explained in this video.

Tolls- I have never paid any tolls in Australia ever, It might be because I have almost exclusively driven in Western Australia.

Traffic- My office is in Perth CBD. It is 40km away from my house. My work starts at 0700. If I am driving, I leave my house at 0615, reach office parking at 0645-0650 and can start work easily at 0700.


Public transport- If I catch train to work, I just need to leave at 0555 from home, Park at the railway station for $2 the whole day and easily make it to work at 0700. Trains here in Perth usually run every 5 min during office time and every 10- 15 min during other hours. During special events more trains and buses run than usual. City has got free buses which travel around Perth city all the time at a frequency of 1-2 minutes.

Taxes, Housing- You have said that tax is so high in Australia and you were paying nearly 50% of income as tax. That means you were in the highest earners in Australia. Most people pays around 32.5% in taxes, and with the tax cuts this year it has dropped to 30%. Once again the issues with house your purchase may be because of the place of your living. My self and many of my friends get into the housing market in Perth in the last 4-8 years and all of us were with moderate jobs could afford to buy/build a reasonably large hose on a block of land with relative ease. The housing market has changed now in the last 2 years, but when compared with Sydney it is still easy to buy a house in Perth.

Time to travel from Perth to Singapore is 5-5.5 hours. I travel mainly from Perth to India and if I get on the 1345 Singapore airlines flight, I could be in my home town in India before midnight. One again the geographical position of Australia might be a curse to you, but a boon to myself and several other people.

I am saying all this because most of the issues that you have faced in Australia is due to the choices you make especially in terms of the place you choose to live. A person that see your video and has never lived in Australia would think that the whole of Australia is like it, which is not true. It would have been better if your title said "Why we left Sydney/Melbourne after 15 years" rather than why we left Australia.

[miraja]

I came to Australia 38 years ago and I would never want to live anywhere else. There’s always a challenge anywhere you go. Australia has given me lots of opportunities and wealth I would never have earned anywhere else and Aussie friends and family I treasure. Good luck 🍀

[davidagiel]

I’ve spent the last ten years in Malaysia and have just returned to Australia. While the cost of living is high in Australia, the quality of life is also much higher and so are the wages. As long as you can afford it and have a decent job you will be better off in Australia. The standard, the quality of air and food, the benefits from the government and the work hours and work conditions are better. In Malaysia you work overtime and never get paid for it.

[AnikZu]

I left Sydney for the Gold Coast and couldn't be happier! - Grocery shopping examples include $1 for a kg of Banana, Apples, Avocado, Onions etc. There are no tolls and no issues with parking. Many shopping strips are open till late or 24 hours. Housing prices are very reasonable house and land 600-700sqm within 10 mins to the airport, walk to shops and less than 5 mins to the beach are under $850, 000 (3/4 bedrooms).... a lot of the issues you faced unfortunately seem to be Sydney related and you are spot on, but there are many places in "Australia" that address a lot of the issues you faced. All the best with your travels and adventures around the world! *I still maintained my job in Sydney and my employer was happy for me to exclusively work from home giving me the best of both worlds I suppose.

[Nate.Knitig]

I’m a U.S. citizen now Aussie PR. I move out to Sydney to be with my partner in 2019. We have since started a family and went through all of the Covid years here. I agree with all of these points, and am considering myself to return back to the states. We want to buy a good house not a shoe box for 1.5 mil. 😂

[intellectualgladiata]

We left Australia permanently this year after six generations. Life in Australia now has become all about paying bills and taxes. Working hard and making sacrifices is only rewarded with more rules and taxes, very hard to build any wealth. Good luck with building a new life elsewhere. It is the best move we've made leaving. I hope Australia can wake up and return to being the place I grew up in.

[simonadams]

Australia is NOT for a beginner or someone trying to build a life, it is a place for the wealthy and well-established.
8:40 medical care is no longer free for all; every visit now costs you, no such a thing as free cover.
The cost of housing renders Australia unliveable.
It is all based on personal circumstances and resources. Australia has changed dramatically, it is no longer a place to build, dream or prosper unless you have massive foundations already setup for you.

[amitb]

So seem to be comparing your “vacation” life to the life you actually had. Many of the issues you will find in any country. Once you start living somewhere and earning only then it will be comparing apples to apples. Full disclosure- I live and have settled in the US.

[CharGorilla]

Totally agree. I was born here, but lived happily in the US for 10 years until the pandemic (when my visa was cancelled). Upon returning to Australia, it was nothing like the place I left.
Australa lost it's sense of humor, went from being laid back, to being uptight, went from young and free to an Orwellian dystopia. Crime is higher than ever before, everything's unafordable, inflation is out of control, taxation is higher than ever and the Australian Dollar is growing weaker every day.

[wilsonmung]

If you stumble upon a country that is absolutely flawless, let me know

[jf]

Australia is becoming impossible to live in for the average person.

[louisaklimentos]

Most countries have suffered rising prices and people are struggling like we are . I have been overseas and every country has it’s problems. England is the same and the USA . Even Europe . I have relatives overseas and they have been complaining about the expense of everything . It was the unnecessary lockdowns we had to endure and the rising prices . How the governments treated us was disgusting ! I hate all governments of the world . Well best of luck with your new adventure and you can come and visit Australia and visit the Kimberley region of Western Australia as tourists . Or any other part of Australia that is the real Australia !

[ashishvlogs]

I have been lived and worked in India, Qatar and now in Australia from last three years. Australia is way ahead in quality of life in south east/west countries. Work life balance is unmatched. Salary is best in industry and weather is best so the taxation. Because Australia has structured taxation they offer social benififits. My both kids study in public schools an these scrolls are better than private schools in Asia.
We are happy with schooling here. Owned our first home within two years of landing here.
Life is good in Australia compared to Asia.

But if you wants to live in a country where taxation is low, rules are not strict, without any social benefits. Then the
Choice is yours.

[victoriacorcoran]

I worked with a Chinese Malaysian in Australia who complained she couldn't get an Asian takeaway at 10.00pm because we are backward in our thinking. Right?

[vutubeify]

After 19 yrs I left australia, the housing, inflation ia ridiculously high. Joblessness is high...lots has changed in last 15yrs due to immigration. The long waiting times in hospitals and ER doctors availability was the final nail in the coffin for us

[salvatore]

the cost of living and the housing crisis in Australia has become unsustainable, it is a country for the rich, it is no longer what it used to be

[ashleybee]

I'm an Aussie who now lives in the US. I agree with everything you are saying. While the US has its own problems. I work to live now. Own a home and travel. The nanny control that Australians deal with is unreal. I never even realized how bad it was until I left. 💜 Wish you all the best!