Brett Evans

I mean, in two years, the cost of moving your furniture, flights, just the chaos that goes around both relocating to and fro.

You need an ROI on that investment, time and money to do it.

So 100%, five to seven years, I think is that sort of perfect sort of timeframe for those folks who don't want to go forever, but want to really enjoy their time and have a chance to let their cash flows normalize.

You know, it's like when you move overseas, you're buying everything from you.

So after five years, you own everything you need and your cashflow is normalized and then you can save and put money away and make the most of your time away.

i think 10 years ago it was people seeking it out themselves so they wanted the adventure they wanted the experience living overseas 10 20 30 years ago what we've seen in the last 10 years has been obviously the digitization of the workforce so now you could be sitting away just having your nine to five job in australia and a recruiter reaches out from overseas to say hey james we'd like to offer you this money to come and do this role in this country are you interested

So that's what's changed a lot.

That opportunity is now coming to people as opposed to people seeking it.

There still is a lot of people seeking those opportunities, but I think you can sort of cut the expat market into three areas.

So you've got the economic refugees who are just doing it to try and get ahead.

And they're trying to shoehorn what they do right now with what they want to do overseas.

Second one is obviously those looking to seek adventure or

Maybe the role they're going for doesn't exist in Australia, so they have to go out and find it.

And the last one would be the reverse, people being actively recruited in Australia to move overseas.

Look,

Four years ago, Dubai was a bit of an oasis and a utopia because the prices hadn't changed, but it was becoming popular, more and more popular.

And with that surge, I think a thousand people a day over the last 12 months have been moving to Dubai.

So with that comes that inflation that builds everything up.

So rent and school prices and everything came through.

To me,