the cost of compliance with the ridiculous amounts of fees and forced spending on transport for a 50cc motorcycle, and the fact that they limit electric scooters to 200W (which is almost slower than walking) and my need to run around the suburbs delivering my advertising was a very big factor in what led me to leave australia

i was able to get a pretty good hit rate, about 1% of my ads led to at least one hour of work, but the hill i had to climb to get to the point where i could absorb the cost of having transport made it impossible for me to ever expand my clientele enough to make a living out of being a call-out computer tech support guy, even in fancy suburbs around Wynnum and Bayside areas

there was no bitcoin back then and even still i had just discovered it due to Silk Road and simply there was no way for me to accumulate enough money on a welfare payment with small supplement of my tech support work... australian government does everything it can to stop economic mobility, to keep the industry lobbies showering the pollies with money