Chapter 364 Flight to the Other Country

Chapter 364 Flight to the Other Country

Chapter 364 Flight to the Other Country

2030, April 6.

Sydney, southeast Australia in the southern hemisphere.

A Boeing passenger plane slowly landed on the runway of the airport.

Coming out of the airport, Gao Wenfan and his family pulled their suitcases.

It was cloudy and rainy outside, with the temperature around 17 or 18 degrees Celsius. A moderate west wind was blowing on the faces and hair of the family.

The younger daughter Gina came from the Netherlands in the summer to Sydney in the winter and couldn't help but tighten her down jacket: "Dad, are we going to live here from now on?"

Gao Wen held an umbrella and gently touched his daughter's light golden curls: "Yes, little Gina."

After calling a taxi, the family went to the house they had purchased earlier. His wife had come here early last month to buy the house and take care of some things.

The house they bought was not in the old district of Sydney, but in the new western district of Sydney, located between the old town of Sydney and Orange City.

More than an hour later, the Gao Wen family left the airport and arrived in Sydney's western new district.

Looking at the city outside the car window, Gao Wen also showed a hint of surprise.

The brown-skinned taxi driver asked curiously through the translator: "Are you here for tourism, Mr. Gao Wen?"

"No, I came here to settle down."

"Oh? It's really rare to see people from Europe coming here to settle down." The taxi driver looked surprised, and at the same time, he gently turned the steering wheel and turned to another street.

Gao Wen asked in confusion, "Are there few Europeans coming here?"

"There are more Asians in Xixin District. After Australia opened up immigration visas to Asian communities last year, many Asian immigrants concentrated here."

Hearing this, Gao Wen frowned and couldn't help but worry in his heart: "Will we white people have any trouble living in Xixin District?"

“Don’t worry about that.” The driver shook his head. “There are quite a few white people here too. It’s just their eating habits and stuff. It depends on whether you can accept them or not.”

“Is it just a dietary habit?”

"Ah."

"Then I feel relieved. I can accept Asian eating habits." Gao Wen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then I wish you a happy life."

"How many people are here now?"

"Here? Um... probably about a hundred thousand!"

While the questions and answers were going on, the taxi had already arrived at the gate of a residential area.

After saying goodbye to the taxi driver, Gawain held the hand of his youngest daughter Gina, while his eldest daughter Anna and the second oldest son Marcus followed him, each pulling their own suitcases.

After some inquiries, I finally arrived at the house that my wife had purchased in advance, a 150-square-meter house with a 500-square-meter balcony green space.

At first glance, you can tell that this is a new type of residence that adopts Seris craftsmanship and design concepts.

Ding dong…

As the door opens.

"Long time no see, dear!"

"Jenny."

Gawain and Jenny kissed each other gently on the cheek.

Then Jenny took her husband's suitcase and looked at the three children: "Come in! Children, I have prepared lunch."

"That's great, Mom."

"Mom, what do you want to eat?"

"I want fried chicken."

Jenny arranged the children in three rooms before taking them to the table for dinner.

On the dining table, there were disposable aluminum foil boxes wrapped in tin foil. Jenny tore off the tin foil and said with a smile:

"These are the dishes I ordered from a nearby Chinese restaurant. I've been busy buying furniture and cleaning the house these days, so I've been eating takeout. Their food is pretty good."

After opening the tin foil, the dishes in the six boxes were revealed: Kung Pao Chicken, Shredded Cabbage, Stir-fried Beef, Poached Chicken, Grilled Eel, and Tiger Peppers.

Then, Jenny took out three boxes of seafood fried rice from the oven and divided them into five portions, one for each of the five members of the family.

"Ouch~ It's so hot..."

Jenny sternly scolded her son Marcus, "Marcus, eat slowly. Eating something too hot is bad for your mouth."

"Uh... ok, Mom." Marcus slowed down, eating slowly with a spoon and fork.

Chi! Gao Wen opened a can of beer and took a sip: "Huh... Jenny, why did you choose a house here? I heard that all the people here are Asian."

"Of course it's because this is a new district! If it were an old district, the infrastructure would be too old, and the prices wouldn't be that good, and our budget is limited!"

“How much is the house price here?”

Jenny picked up a piece of boiled chicken with chopsticks. "It's about 6000 yuan per square meter. At the current exchange rate, it's about 1578 euros per square meter. Our house is 150 square meters, with a 500 square meter balcony green space. The total is 236700 euros."

Gao Wen took another sip of beer and said, "I have to find a job as soon as possible, otherwise the tuition for the children may not be enough."

"Don't worry! I'll keep an eye out for you, you can come and take a look later." Jenny not only came here early to buy a house, she also found a job in Australia. After all, as a doctor of law, it is relatively easy to find a job in Australia.

"Is your work going well?"

"It's OK. Our company's business has been pretty good recently."

The company Jenny joined was a Seres company that came to Australia to invest, called New World Real Estate.

There are 5 real estate projects in Sydney’s western new district that were developed by their company, and the houses here are currently selling well.

After all, as Australia's White Australia Policy was completely eradicated, a large number of Asian immigrants continued to pour into Australia, and the local real estate industry also received a considerable boost.

New districts like Sydney's Western New District are springing up around cities across Australia.

In the past two years, the number of Asian immigrants who have poured into Australia is about 479 million, while the number of European and North American immigrants who have entered Australia is only 24.

Moreover, this so-called Asian immigration is only limited to the Asian Community. It is difficult for immigrants from other Asian regions to enter Australia, especially for immigrant visas from India, which are almost rejected immediately by Australia.

The root cause of this situation.

On the one hand, the Asian community is too powerful.

On the other hand, immigrants from other regions need to be screened for quality, especially those from India, who are complete pests. Once they arrive in a place, they like to take the initiative, do whatever they want, form cliques, and have very bad living habits.

Therefore, the Asian Community secretly hinted to Australia to set strict entry conditions for Indian immigrants.

In recent years, the number of Indians immigrating to Australia has been almost zero.

In fact, most Asian immigrants to Australia are on work visas. For example, the iron ore mining area in Western Australia needs a large number of miners, but there are not enough local Australian employees, so they can only be introduced from the Asian consortium.

In addition, there are desalination plants along the coast of Western Australia and South Australia, and photovoltaic airships floating over Australia, all of which require a large number of workers.

These workers brought their families with them to work, and thus a large number of new residential areas were quickly formed.

...

After the family had eaten and drunk their fill.

As it was raining outside, Gao Wen gave up the idea of ​​going out and stayed at home looking at the local Australian job advertisements collected by his wife Jenny.

Jenny arranged the rooms for the children.

Looking at the contents of the folder, Gao Wen raised his glasses and thought about the job that suits him.

First, he ruled out positions that required working outside the city, leaving only about seven positions to consider.

"Teacher? Xixin District Vocational and Technical College? This doesn't quite meet my requirements..."

Open the details of the next position.

Gao Wen thought about his education and work experience, and had some ideas about this position: "Researcher at the Sydney Climate Research Institute in Australia? I can consider this..."

I then entered the relevant account information on my laptop, found the official website of the Sydney Climate Institute, and sent a resume to the human resources department.

After submitting his resume, Gao Wen held his head in his hands, looked at the drizzle outside the window, and suddenly his mind emptied.

After a while.

He then logged into some Australian social media platforms and discovered that the influence of the Asian Community in Australia was growing day by day.

Because he saw a lot of Seris social software, six of them, namely Note, Little Red Shu, Weibo, Penguin, Green Bubble and Fantasy World, were among the top ten social platforms in Australia.

Among them, Fantasy World, this social platform only appeared in 2028, and its parent company is the famous Hailufeng Group.

The Huanjie platform is actually a long video platform similar to Bilibili, but it is more comprehensive.

It includes six sub-sections: long videos, movies, animation, novels, forums, and live broadcasts.

The background for the emergence of this platform is actually an investment made by Hailufeng Group to promote its own products and enter the cultural and entertainment industry.

Compared with other platforms, the revenue from creative content such as videos, novels, and forums on Fantasy World is relatively high. After all, it is easy to gain shade when you lean on a big tree.

The direct advertising expenses invested by Hailufeng Group in Fantasy World are about 20 billion every year. In addition, the commission rate for various paid content is also relatively high. Therefore, the quality of Fantasy World's related content is also among the best on the Internet in the Asian Federation.

Especially all kinds of bizarre science fiction novels, science fiction movies, science fiction animations, etc., which are the more famous label content in the fantasy world.

The Fantasy World platform spends approximately 80 million yuan each year on various science fiction competitions held every year, with the main expenditure being various rewards for the winners of the competitions.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

The high profits of the platform, coupled with the fact that the median income of residents in the Asian Union has reached a relatively high level in recent years, and the official efforts to combat piracy have increased several times compared to the golden age, with the use of AI monitoring technology. Now piracy on the Internet has almost disappeared.

After all, people's incomes have generally increased, and they are beginning to care less about the little money saved by watching pirated movies.

Under pressure from all sides, the living space of pirated content is naturally being squeezed out.

Gao Wen was reading the English version of Fantasy World at the moment. Following the platform's instructions, he spent more than ten minutes to register an account.

As a climate scientist, he prefers science fiction content.

"Huh? This forum..." He found a forum called Antarctic Scientific Expedition on the Fantasy World platform. After entering the forum, he saw many researchers working in Antarctica, sharing their daily work and some discoveries that could be made public on the forum.

Then Gao Wen saw a lot of very valuable content.

In terms of academic professionalism, among all the social platforms, Huanjie Platform is the best one.

Therefore, many scholars prefer to surf the Fantasy World platform. After all, the Fantasy World platform will not just delete the remarks of those anti-intellectuals and rumor-mongers. If the situation is serious, the legal department of the Fantasy World will send a lawyer's letter.

Under such strict management, the Fantasy World platform is also a relatively pure social platform, although this has resulted in a relatively low growth rate of its overall registered users, with only 1.7 million users to date.

You should know that the shopping website Hailufeng Store currently has more than 3 million registered users.

It can be seen from this that the Fantasy World platform is also a relatively niche social platform among many social platforms.

However, the profitability of Fantasy World is very good, second only to Penguin and Note. Among the major social platforms within the Asian Federation, its net profit ranks third, making it a small, specialized and strong platform.

Gawain surfed the fantasy world for more than an hour.

In addition to being attracted by various science fiction videos, he also saw that the Fiery Sun Science Fiction Competition being held this summer was soliciting entries from the entire Internet.

After reading the requirements for the contest, he recalled the fantasy inspiration pieces he had written when he was in college.

He took out an old leather notebook from the suitcase. After opening it, he reread the immature words on it, feeling embarrassed and ashamed.

An afternoon passed.

Gao Wen reorganized the fantasy fragments from his college days and compiled a new folder on his laptop.

"Let's call it the Year Without Summer!"

Letters were typed out one by one on the file board. The reason why he planned to write a few short science fiction novels was, on the one hand, because he had no job recently and had a lot of free time; on the other hand, it was to fulfill his dream.

Gao Wen doesn't really care whether he can win the prize in the competition or not.

However, when writing science fiction nowadays, there is a very high possibility of being stabbed in the back by the times.

In recent years, many science fiction novels that have just been published have been backstabbed by real technology within just one or two years.

Therefore, many science fiction writers have to surf the science and technology forums in the fantasy world before they start writing, so as to quickly understand the recent cutting-edge fields.

For example, the controlled nuclear fusion technology that is still being written about in many science fiction novels today, if it were not for the confidentiality requirements, it would no longer be science fiction, but a real practical technology, it’s just that most people don’t know about it.

Fortunately, Gao Wen’s writing style tends to be more humanistic science fiction, and the design of technology is not very physical, so it may be difficult to realize this technology in reality.

However, those science fiction technology concepts that are more in line with physics, chemistry and biology are likely to be backstabbed by the development of reality.

In fact, this is related to the huge investment in scientific research in the Platinum Age. With such huge resource support, it would be a waste of these resources if technology does not explode.

Various technologies are springing up like mushrooms after rain, and breakthrough technologies may appear every day.

This is also the fundamental reason why Gao Wen decided to immigrate to Australia after visiting Seris.

Because he felt that the North Atlantic Union was developing too slowly, even slower than Seris in the Golden Age. How could it fight against the Asian Union in the Platinum Age?

One that is stagnant.

A hurricane-force advance.

Anyone with a clear mind will make the right choice.

It's not that Gawain doesn't want to change the Netherlands and Europe, but he is powerless. As a small person, facing the North Atlantic Alliance with a bunch of pig teammates, Gawain has long been extremely disappointed with it. This made him make up his mind to immigrate to Australia.

(End of this chapter)