Presumably you had to move to Austria to be hands on with your job, therefore allowing you to make informed decisions and professional opinions. Yes?
If you were not there you would lack credibility? Non.
Surely you can appreciate the irony of your attitude when it flies in the face of 95% of those who can make first hand informed opinions on a topic then.
What do I know though... Damn my domestic employment. If only I had taken that clerical job in Valetta.