A Job in Australia

I found a company in Sydney, Australia that's kind of a competitor with my old company.  So I applied for a job there early last week thinking, "Maybe they'll think I have all this special knowledge that they'll value."  In the application, you have to say if you live in Australia and if you don't, you have to answer the question "Why do you want to move to Australia?"  If I was telling the truth, the answer would be "Because you're going to pay me and I think that might be fun and it looks cool in movies and I liked Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country".  But my answer was much more boring.  I said I wanted to be close to my cousin who lives there.  Now, it's actually one of my wife's cousins that's there, but close enough, right?

I got the rejection e-mail a few days later on Thanksgiving.  At first, I was thinking, what are they doing working on Thanksgiving?  But then I remembered that this is Australia.  Supposedly, they do Thanksgiving there, but in March.  However, there isn't a wikipedia article on Thanksgiving in Australia so I'm thinking it can't be that big of a deal.  But it doesn't matter I guess.  But I think I would've really considered it if they wanted me there.  I can guarantee that I would've been on the next flight if they wanted to pay for a trip there to interview.