I’m a US-UK dual citizen but my partner is Australian. I’m collecting the whole Anglosphere.

But when looking at living there, the wages/housing prices seemed like a poor trade off even compared to California. Although of course it’s a great place to live in many other ways.

I’ve heard of some of those but haven’t looked up their pay bands, not sure Afterpay has a moat though…

Having recently looked at wages/housing in the same anglosphere, Canada was way ahead of Australia. I know several folks who have left Australia for Canada in the last five years because of exactly this.

Xero is from New Zealand

Like Crowded House and pavlova, Australians will claim anything good originating in New Zealand as our own :-p

Red Hat and (Maybe apple still) have engineering teams in Australia.

Google maps is from Australia

Google Photos is from Australia. I thought Maps was US and Japan but am not up to date on that.

Maps originated in Australia, originally developed by an Australian company Where 2 Technologies employing two Danish brothers in Sydney.

> Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution.[9] In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google Inc.[10] where it transformed into the web application Google Maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions