<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Other than a few things that Kat said below, this is a possible reason why Canada may not be looking so good:</div><div><br></div><div>Unemployment is currently at 7.8% <a href="http://www.hrmguide.net/canada/jobmarket/canadian-unemployment.htm">http://www.hrmguide.net/canada/jobmarket/canadian-unemployment.htm</a></div><div>Their Deficit in the 2010 budget is $49.2 Billion (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canadian_federal_budget">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canadian_federal_budget</a>) (They've been running deficits since 2008 and the total debts are up at $500-600 million now) </div><div><br></div><div>The Harper government is conservative and is less likely to approve such tax cuts than the current australian layout (mainly because of the large influence the greens and independents have - it's likely they will sell said cuts to the independents as something that could be shoved out in the bush (a.la the bunbury technology park that's happening here in WA))</div><div><br></div><div>Another thing to remember is: These companies don't, generally, make the majority of their income in Australia. They make it overseas - they don't pay *all* that much of their tax here. </div><div><br></div><div>As for Kat's comments below: Hey, at least it's only really hot for 2 months of the year, the rest of it's pretty good :) Most people would take 40 above for a few days instead of 40 below for weeks :P (Of course Vancouver isn't like this..)</div><div><br></div><div>And I second the big ups to Nick, Minh and the LMG/OneTwenty Crew! </div><br><div><div>On 10/03/2011, at 10:20 , Kat Black wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>If it weren't for the horrible hot weather, I'd say there's no better<br>place in the world to be if you want to be an inde developer.</div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Big ups to you, Nick, Minh and the others who have helped to make that happen<br>over the past decade or so in Perth.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>