Yes, you're right about how things are in Oman now. It wasn't always like this. Now there's too much traffic, the cost of living has gone crazy, property owners have got greedy for more money to rent out their houses and are evicting people so they can put in people who pay higher rent, everyone is rushing about and many are quite arrogant now. Also the place is dirtier and littered, which it wasn't before and there's so much building going on that the amount of dust that comes into the house every day is unbelievable. We first came here for a holiday in 1999 and things were very different. It is a beautiful place but there's not much to do here, so everyone rides around in their cars or crowds into the shopping malls. You're also right about 'it's not what you know but who you know'.
NZ won't be a 'get rich quick' country and it's quite difficult to get in there because you have to be granted a long term visa to be able to stay. You need to have special skills to qualify and if you don't have these it isn't easy to get in. Wages in Australia are supposed to be better than in NZ but the cost of housing has gone up a lot. Also Australia is hard to get into, like NZ. Perhaps it's time to do some research on the Internet to find a country that you can go to that doesn't have such strict entry regulations. We are older and will hope to retire to NZ but, if they won't have us, it won't be so difficult for us because we don't have to worry about working in another country.
I don't know if anyone on here will have any ideas about other countries you could try because most of them are trying to get out of their own countries and into NZ so they are focused in that direction.
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