> Not sure if this is always true, but I would
> think that migrants have no expectation that
> someone would support them, would bale them
> out if things got tough. They have total
> self-reliance.

Can't say what Australia's immigration laws are because I have never bothered looking at them - after all, I live here. But both the US and the UK have rules that, if enforced, prevent any social welfare cases. That is... prevent someone just lobbing up on the doorstep and going on welfare.

There are also age restrictions on work permits with vacations. They figure above a certain age and you aren't on vacation, you are looking to settle. So they won't give you a vacation work permit.

> Someone said it on a tape I once heard
> called "Ten reasons why most people
> fail financially". One of them was

> "a crippling sense of entitlement"

True. Do you recall anything else that might have applied to why an immigrant would succeed and a natural born not?

Michael Ross