Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

[Kieren Diment]

On 15/12/2011, at 2:52, Travis Basevi <travis at cricinfo.com> wrote:

> On 14/12/2011 09:39, Kieren Diment wrote:
> 
>> (I've got to concur with Toby btw. Australia is a pretty good option
>> in a lot of respects. Outside of Melbourne, Perl jobs (as opposed to
>> jobs with some perl) are a bit thin on the ground...
> 
> Not that I'm necessarily in a hurry to move back just yet, but by "outside of Melbourne" do you mean in the areas just outside of Melbourne, or are you including the rest of Australia in that and implying that Melbourne is some sort of IT hot-bed?
> 

To my mind there seems to be much more Perl going on in Melbourne than elsewhere (possibly the influence of Monash University). Although if you do a search for perl on com.au a fair bit of stuff usually comes up.