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Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2011, 2:12 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Nobody is inferior, just different views. This is what gets me about the stuck up posters, just because someone likes it here they are somehow uneducated and uncultured. Anyway, I try not to get...
Forum: Australia
Nov 3rd 2011, 12:53 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Most of the reasons for returning are subjective though don't you think. Also, why are people who are happy here that weren't in the UK in denial. Surely if you apply the same reasoning the people...
Forum: Australia
Nov 2nd 2011, 8:19 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You are doing what you tell me off for doing!!!!
Forum: Australia
Oct 30th 2011, 9:12 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I can assure you I have a great social life yet still find the time to cook, it is hardly rocket science. Each to their own though hey, I would rather eat my dogs crap than eat a ready meal but I...
Forum: Australia
Oct 30th 2011, 7:59 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Some people are such bad cooks though that they think it tastes fine, which compared to the crap they can turn out it does. Ready meals are for crap, lazy cooks, just my opinion of course ;)
Forum: Australia
Aug 30th 2011, 1:28 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Our family didn't either. We both worked full time, only paid 800 GBP per month rent and we still saved beggar all.
Forum: Australia
Jul 12th 2011, 11:58 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I wouldn't fly Air Asia so it is irrelevant but Stanstead would have been better for us.
Forum: Australia
Jul 11th 2011, 8:17 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You admiring yourself in a mirror again ;)
Forum: Australia
Jul 11th 2011, 8:00 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

If I recall correctly his son was born in the UK. However, as I can witness from members of my own family the children I come into contact with in the UK are far 'chavier' than the ones I meet here....
Forum: Australia
Jul 11th 2011, 7:01 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

He doesn't dislike poms, just the chavvy whinging ones. He :wub: me!
Forum: Australia
Jun 27th 2011, 10:18 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Ah but he got it from the horses mouth, surely that means it's true ;)
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2011, 10:42 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Only NSW and ACT have to pay those fees. All other states offer free education to 457 holders.
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2011, 2:03 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

:rofl:
Forum: Australia
Jun 23rd 2011, 1:18 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Do you have the number for Singapore Airlines, I need to book my return flights also ;)
Forum: Australia
Jun 19th 2011, 6:14 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I recently started making proper lists and a meal plan and that has reduced my bill a little. As Tesco says, Every Little Helps.
Forum: Australia
Jun 18th 2011, 8:17 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You must have been eating gold plated bananas at that price. I thought I spent a lot at $300 a week on groceries!
Forum: Australia
Jun 14th 2011, 11:37 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I did say on MY shopping habits. Not yours. When I was back last year I found some things more expensive and some things cheaper. On the whole on MY shopping I found it marginally more expensive...
Forum: Australia
Jun 14th 2011, 11:30 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Not on some of the items I looked at compared to what I pay here. I certainly don't pay the equivalent of 9.26 per kilo for chicken breast no any of the prices on meat quoted earlier in the thread. ...
Forum: Australia
Jun 14th 2011, 11:25 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I also looked on Tesco website and chicken breasts are 9.26 GBP per kilo :eek: Did a few other searches and my general opinion is that fresh produce in some instances is as expensive in the UK. ...
Forum: Australia
Jun 1st 2011, 2:48 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

My husband comes home with stories that would make your hair curl! Managers who couldn't manage an orgy in a brothel!
Forum: Australia
May 21st 2011, 7:24 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

So are you inferring that stay at home mums are employment dodgers??
Forum: Australia
May 13th 2011, 4:55 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You can't get a decent one of those here either, far superior service in the UK :)
Forum: Australia
Apr 21st 2011, 3:54 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

What can I say, we eat a lot of it. My husband takes 3 bits of fruit a day to work. The kids probably eat another 2 each a day. I use at least 3 vegetables with dinner a day.

That did include a...
Forum: Australia
Apr 21st 2011, 3:48 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

$101 at the fruit and veg place
$91 at the butchers
$39 at the fishmongers
$125 at Woolworths

This is how much I spent just this morning, bloody ridiculous!
Forum: Australia
Apr 21st 2011, 3:43 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,486
Posted By northernbird

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Pushing it a bit aren't you, I would just say ignorant cos I never laugh!
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