Why would it not work ? Taiwan has dozens of industrial towns and suburbs with their staff practically locked up in company dorms instead of adding to the community .That’s where the jobs are and the cheap housing is. Towns in Taiwan aren’t isolated like Australia . Taiwan is about 1l/80th the size of Australia ffs 
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Taiwan and Australia share almost no commonalities in this regard.
The issue—which also has been seen in Canada—is that open and democratic governments are not able to / not willing to confine or restrict the movement of its residents. So in Canada, that means newcomers hightail it to the big cities with housing crises despite applying for immigration to the depopulated provinces.
If governments start restricting movement of its residents, you’re into Xinjiang territory, and I doubt any of us would want this.
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It also gives a bunch of government people reasons to have jobs. They can go to meetings to discuss minor changes, and hire new staff to do paperwork, and hire more staff to check applications, and hire consultants to check the success of the program, which means more meetings about which consultants to hire, and more paperwork, and more meetings with the consultants…
On the surface they’ll talk a lot about global competitiveness, and some might even believe it, but the gold card is about the civil service blob reproducing itself.
I keep seeing things on my feeds about a backlash against the foreigners which is now leading to political actions, such as making citizenship harder
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I never said they can be confined to there solely anyway. That’s the other dude that said that.
All you have to do is offer some cheaper housing the jobs are there anyway. They would just live near the factories.
What I ACTUALLY said which has nothing to with Australia whatsoever.
The dumb government should make it much easier for blue collars to settle with family in hinterland towns here, would be a big economic stimulus to those areas.
Um it is largely the same pool of migrants, they want to live in shinny cities not dying towns.
It’s really only 1st world sea changers that want to move to the countryside. That is until they experience it…. Then a lot of them want to head back to shinny cities.
You can’t compare Taiwan to Australia, it doesn’t work. I’ve lived and worked in both by the way.
I was referring to the migrants… they aren’t Australians, and they act the same across the world.
Nah they won’t. If the factories are there that’s where they will continue to live and work.
If they aren’t tied to an employer for their visa, they will do uber eats etc, in a large city.
It is an interesting question isn’t it. If employees (in this case migrant workers) are tied to a specific employer, well that’s where they are tied. If you make them free agents, will they remain in b&mf^ck Miaoli County? Perhaps they would, but what RandomName and I are suggesting is that there is also a pretty fair chance they would not.
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