After 22 years in Australia, we have decided to leave and move to Canada. Australia is now "the world's most rip-off country", living cost is so expensive, you can find out by checking out grocery / supermarkets websites. I just came back from USA & Canada; living cost in Australia is at least 50% more than Canada (esp. food), and other items like Computers / electronics can be 2 to 3 times more expensive than USA. Petrol here is automatically 30% more because of the tax. There are many hidden costs in Australia many do not know, tax here and tax there. Inflation is a real problem here, and climate is really bad, very long summers and electricity can be very expensive. Water is going to jump 30% next year.
I laughed at Canadians when they complained that full-day parking is $24 in Vancouver Downtown now, that's our 1 hour parking in Sydney Downtown during weekdays, during weekends, you can get it for $15 to $20 a day, but in Vancouver, you can park for free!
Education quality is going down in Australia, the standard is pretty poor. Australia used to be a much better place, but over the past 5 years, things have gotten much worse, due to drought (food inflation), bad racial attacks (hurting their reputation) and loss of a large number of professionals to US, Canada, UK and Asia (avg. 70,000 Professionals leaving Australia each year), there are many new migrants, but they are mostly unskilled. We are losing doctors, accountants, financial managers, engineers..it's also a hard place to run a business because the market is too small.
Seriously, US offers the best education options & quality, Canada is a good place, as it is just next to US and living environment is quite good, I found Canadians and Americans much more "Globally minded" as well.