The personal cost of Sam Burgess's decision to go for gold in the cold is the loss of his permanent residence in Australia, and the end of his current path to Australian citizenship. You cannot live overseas and retain permanent residence in Australia, even if you are famous testicle twister. That means the end of his current application for Australian citizenship as well.

Now if Sam Burgess decided he wanted to come back to Australia, and regain permanent residence, he would have to reapply to Australia's Department of Immigration, with a job offer. Which means, since he is not a nuclear scientist or a world acclaimed pianist, he would need a multi-year job offer from an NRL club. But what if he suffers a long term injury playing in rugby union? He might then have trouble finding an NRL club willing to gamble big money on his recovery.

At that point, at age 27, his dreams of playboy status and being media darling Down Under could be shot to ribbons. He is putting his hopes for a good "life after rugby league" hostage to good fortune.

You've out done yourself here, everything you've wrote is wrong.

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So you are saying Burgess IS a qualified nuclear scientist and world acclaimed pianist?

as a Brit with permanent Aussie residence status... I can honestly say
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What a complete load of twaddle... This is so wrong it could have come straight from wikipedia!

We don't need another Sam Burgess thread