From: Pete Yandell <pete@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T12:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [Very OT] Australia or Canada, which one is the best country for a geek?!?

Houman Dunnil wrote:

> I'm planing to immigrate to Australia or Canada, but am not sure which
> one is a better place for a hacker (As Paul Graham calls us).

Not sure of the answer, but I live in Melbourne and can give you a data 
point:

The developer community here is excellent. We have monthly Ruby 
developer meetings with about 30 people showing up on average, and last 
month we had a Ruby Nuby Night which pulled 60-70 people without much 
promotion. All the Ruby/Rails contractors here are finding plenty of work.

Melbourne is also (in my biased opinion) a lovely place to live. Low 
cost of living, great culture, brilliant food, mild climate.

So you can mark me down as one happy Ruby developer from Australia. :)

Pete Yandell
http://notahat.com/