Brett Evans
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Always.
And it's either geopolitical change, which is what we've seen out of Hong Kong, you know, pre certainly the handover in 97.
Yeah, it was pretty hard not to bump into an Aussie, even post handover.
It was still an amazing place.
Then we saw that geopolitical change.
Ructions with Yellow Umbrella Brigade and all that happened through COVID sort of took the shine off Hong Kong, certainly put the shine back on Singapore.
But that as a result of Singapore certainly became very popular, became very expensive.
And quite often it priced out a lot of expats and they also had the localization rules where
You couldn't just hire an expat.
You had to try and hire a Singaporean first.
And then if you couldn't hire a Singaporean, then you'd hire an expat.
So it became a bit more difficult.
So, but look, Hong Kong, Singapore is still popular.
Certainly London has always been a rite of passage, pulling pints in the pubs and so forth.
But we have seen a lot of changes in the last 12 months with respect to the nom-nom laws.
So what that essentially meant was up until previously, you could hold assets outside of the country that would tax you on the assets inside of the country and off you go.
But now they're changing those laws so that once you cross a four-year threshold, you
then your worldwide assets become accessible from a tax point of view.
So it's taken a bit of that.
To me, the two most popular ones have been Middle East and the United States.