She said her pay will be doubled if she works on weekends and night shifts in Australia.
The political reason is a turning point. She said that the social movements took place in 2019 and 2020 and caused a wave of emigration.
She was referring to a series of protests that began in June 2019 over plans that would have allowed extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China.
The demonstrations later spread to reflect wider demands for democratic reform and an inquiry into police brutality.
Laura is one of many in her generation who have found themselves at a crossroads after the social unrest.
It is not just the locals who are looking for greener pastures.
Foreigners, who make up 10 percent of Hong Kong's population, started to leave the city over the extended COVID 19 restrictions. The effects were seen in the rental market.
Luxury rents fell by 2.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2022 in the expat enclave of Discovery Bay, as demand fell on the back of tenants leaving.
From January to September 2022, 90 per cent of his firm's clients were outbound compared to 10 per cent inbound, a departure from previous years, according to Patrick Groth, general manager of Hong Kong and Taiwan at Santa Fe Relocation.
He said that this started to shift towards the end of 2020 because of the fact that inbound relocation versus outbound in our business will usually be 50 - 50 pre-pandemic.
It really peaked in 2022. Peak moving season usually takes place during the school break before the epidemic, from June to August.
When he took office, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee pledged to raise the city's competitiveness, a goal that China said was pivotal to the development of the Greater Bay Area.
The heat is on as 140,000 people drop out of Hong Kong's workforce in the last two years.
In October of last year the city rolled out an aggressive talent trawling campaign to attract graduates from the top 100 universities in the world? If you have a salary of about US $320,000, that's a good salary.
They can come to Hong Kong without any job offer. There were 92 per cent of the nearly 8,400 applicants through as of February.
The Immigration Department said it does not collect industry specific data, but recruiters are seeing demand for jobs in the financial sector.
Finance is the main bread and butter in Hong Kong. I think finance will pick up first. Eventually, once the financial market has picked up, there will be more businesses for consulting, said Arnaldo Oliveira, founder and CEO at Orion Executive Search International Limited.
He added that seasoned candidates have shown more interest in moving to Hong Kong because it's easier to get a work visa with more years of experience.
The answer could be further downstream as more non-local students are enrolling in Hong Kong universities.
The majority of the population are from the mainland. Other foreign students also had a moderate increase.
There's been a three-year drop in those staying on after graduation. The city is trying to reduce the time limit for students to stay and look for jobs after graduation, from one to two years.
Jessica Sharmi is one of the few who have stayed on.
The job hunt was not without challenges, according to the medical affairs associate at Pfizer, partly because many job advertisements sought candidates fluent in Cantonese, which she is not.