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Forum: Australia
Nov 2nd 2011, 9:13 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

By the privilege of birth place I guess they'd argue they have more education and skill to offer the work force but there are plenty who are accepting benefits over in Australia and complaining about...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 6:24 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I can't see much of the graph on my i phone but the biggest divergence in the last 10 years is 2.94. On a quick glance it really doesn't look as though the median average is anything like as low as...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:44 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

But that implies that without the last few years currency anomaly she's valued considerably lower in Oz.
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:17 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

With the rule of thumb 2.5 cost of living comparison. Wouldn't you give up 30k in the UK only if you could see at least 2.5 that in Oz? ie 75k Am I being a berk?
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:06 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Isn't 30k Gbp better than 65k AUD?
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:04 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

In London I was on 150k Gbp - when I did the same job in Sydney (less ability to make money as the time zone sucks) - I got $186k.

I think the glass ceiling was lower for my profession and I know...
Forum: Australia
Oct 30th 2011, 9:36 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I feel some sort of BE challenge is in order.
Forum: Australia
Oct 30th 2011, 8:19 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Or for people who have a social life who would rather be out enjoying themselves.
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2011, 5:41 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

But what a slating immigrants who send money home often get! I think this recession is the first time many people have become aware of the pressures 'economic migrants' often face. I know it's the...
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 10:26 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Do you know the Ramree Island story? When around 500 Japanese soldiers were eaten by crocs in Burma escaping from the British....

(what am I saying? You were probably there!)
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 9:38 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Just because you only see one on a croc spotting trip doesn't mean there aren't plenty around. Go at night with a torch and check out how many eyes you can see in the mangrove.

We went for a...
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 12:47 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Ah - sorry for being so literal.... I like crocodiles - amazing creatures.
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 12:36 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Territory I think. The larger the population grows the more they expand their reach. I saw one on Sudbury Cay - about 30km away from the Trinity Inlet in Cairns - must have swum quite a way. They...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 11:00 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

that's true. I took a picture of a 4 metre salty on a beach up here about 3 days ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65245160@N02/5941032517/in/photostream/lightbox/
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 10:34 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I read on another thread that Townsville has a 'world class' beach. Now that's subjectivity in the extreme - bordering on the delusional! :eek:
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 8:31 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Why should it be enough to pay someone's mortgage?
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 8:14 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Bare in mind plenty of these asylum seekers become so due to the fact Australia (with its allies) hasn't respected the 'supreme and unquestionable sovereignty' of that nation.

Anyway, it's a...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 7:22 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

It irritates me that the country tolerates a government chucking money at people way beyond the amount needed to live on and clearly to people who have no intention of seeking work. However, it...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 7:11 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

It's bonkers. Next door spend half the year in Bali and work in Oz for six months as well as doing a lot of untaxed boat work for cash in hand. They don't even have to sign on or be in Australia for...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 6:29 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

The benefit system here seems pretty generous. The couple on the yacht next door have got two kids and get 400 bucks a fortnight from the government even though they have decent jobs and bring in...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 5:57 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I'm more impressed if a family are living on a single earner wage of 60k. Unless they are claiming child benefits etc
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 5:45 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I got the impression the other chaps are single?

On paper our 70k should be plenty but there always seems to be some expenditure I hadn't expected - an unfortunate toothache, burst tyre, rego,...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 1:43 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

UK property is a good bet. It's got significant population growth, is a small country with 'greenfield' sites, property prices too high for lots of people to ever buy (no point buying in Oz where...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 12:15 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Yes, it is certainly relative and I would agree that Australia is a nicer country to be poor in.

Can you pop over and train us in parsimony? I'm not making ends meet for two of us on $70k.
...
Forum: Australia
Jul 14th 2011, 11:02 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,308
Posted By Turban Explorer

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Are people just not bothering selling UK property now? The rental return in the UK can be pretty good with interest rates so low (unless you bought at the peak). Hardly anyone is going to sell their...
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