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New Zealand => Australia

Windows => Mac

Spinning rust => SSD

Of course, there are tons of technology changes that have been great. The things that have made a huge impact in my life are:

Pure techie => Learning sales

Employee => Business owner

Sales is all psychology. It totally changes your view of the world. It's not about how things should be, but about how things are regardless. A business degree didn't teach anything that mattered about that.

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I'm really surprised by the number of people that have enjoyed the move to Mac. I went to Mac for about 6 months and then ended up coming back to Windows 7. Thats not to say one is better than the other, i just found it difficult to get used to the little differences.

Although, if i was programming more often the mac would probably have been more useful.

> New Zealand => Australia

From where in NZ did you leave and where in Oz did you end up? What were the improvements you found? Do you think you would've found them moving to some country other than Australia?

Curious. :)

I moved from Auckland to Brisbane. The weather and lifestyle are better, people are generally more upbeat and opportunities are better.

New Zealand has a major case of tall poppy syndrome. Australia doesn't have this so much. Most people generally want you to succeed, and help you out.

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