It's true that house prices in Australia, especially Sydney, are so high right now they are on par with the Bay Area. Other financial details are harder to calc

It's true that house prices in Australia, especially Sydney, are so high right now they are on par with the Bay Area. Other financial details are harder to calculate: Your lifetime medical costs, for example. And also a lack of bonuses or pay raises. A number of times my US-citizen colleagues were offered money to stay in jobs when I, as a visa worker, was offered none. Companies believe that visa workers are unable to quit, and abuse it (regardless of who you are). (Disclaimer: not Netflix, they truly treat their visa workers well.)