Thousands of Australians have left their homeland to try their luck in the world's richest country, where the rewards for succeeding are immense: multi-million dollar salaries, celebrity status, and tremendous professional fulfillment. Yet is it worth it? In this book by the former New York Correspondent for The Australian Financial Review, our top professionals in the United States explain what makes them tick: why they left their homeland, the cultural shock of living in America, and their anguish about whether they will ever return to Australia. Career success, it seems, comes at a price.
