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Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 6:49 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

There are a lot worse places to work. In most large mines you cant tell the difference that you arent in a large mine anywhere else in the world. I can where i work - but i do green field exploration...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:39 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Actually most mining prffessionals are a lot better off working in the UK and doing fifo to Africa. Salaries are 50-75% more than Oz and tax free
Forum: Australia
Jul 29th 2011, 7:20 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Love Dawesville and if we ever did come back would probably head back there. I dont travel every day - one way each week to the airport.

We have lived in major cities around the world and i cant...
Forum: Australia
Jul 29th 2011, 7:13 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Worked in Africa before and like it. Most of my friends prefer it to Oz. I dont like it more or less. It has its ups and downs. Only know one guy who has had any disease and some have been in Africa...
Forum: Australia
Jul 29th 2011, 6:56 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

It depends on the individual. For us it is financial suicide to stay. We cant find a house in a reasonable area in our budget and if we dont get on the housing ladder soon then i am going to be faced...
Forum: Australia
Jul 29th 2011, 6:41 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Not sure where you get them figures for for whisky, but i just looked it up on the Tesco web site and put it through xe.com and i get $26.80 based on a web price of 17.99 pounds for Jhnonny Red and...
Forum: Australia
Jul 17th 2011, 2:15 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I agree. The river and city scape from Kings Park are stunning views. But that makes up a tiny fraction of the city and most people dont live with such nice views. A lot hardy ever see them unless...
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 8:57 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I am. I spent a fair bit of my life in some big council estates and if the worst happend financialy i could go back and not be too unhappy. But i would rather slit my wrists than live in one of the...
Forum: Australia
Jul 16th 2011, 12:32 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Well, not sure what a "world class" city is. But other than in population i dont see how Perth could be compared to places like London, New York or HK in any way. Perth is just a big version of...
Forum: Australia
Jul 15th 2011, 8:11 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

It will vary a lot on lifestyle, but there is no escaping the fact that Perth house prices are waaaayyy overboard compared to the UK. Yes, i know that they are on a par with central London, but Perth...
Forum: Australia
Jul 6th 2011, 11:53 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Actually Apple was in the news this week for this very thing. Over charging in Australia. Even the aps are being over charged
Forum: Australia
Jun 22nd 2011, 8:38 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

We are a YES as well. Just not till next year. Got to save a few more $$$ for the move
Forum: Australia
Jun 20th 2011, 12:02 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Agree. For cost of living differences we use a figure of x2.5 between being in the UK spending pounds and here spending AUS$. I think that figure though is a bit personal based on lifestyle.
Forum: Australia
Jun 19th 2011, 11:42 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Because for some of us it is still important. I am on a temp visa and here earn AUS$ but everywhere else i work, including back in the UK i earn US$. So exchange rates are important for me....
Forum: Australia
Jun 19th 2011, 7:55 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

The same thing applies with Margaret River. People go down there and talk about the amazing produce when really its pretty ordinary. Did take me a couple of visits to realise it though. Was sat in...
Forum: Australia
Jun 6th 2011, 4:33 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

So you have paid 108 pounds for the month. Which on a quarter basis is 324 pounds. But you paid 180 pounds in the UK. You are now paying 144 pounds more per quarter. Not happy days. :thumbdown:
Forum: Australia
Jun 6th 2011, 3:11 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Its nothing new. I have always read Jerermy Clarckson review in the weekend Australian and it gives the price in pounds and what it will be available for in Australia and the cost for any premium car...
Forum: Australia
Jun 6th 2011, 1:08 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

$70-80K in Perth or Sydney would be pretty tight. You would need to have a fair bit of commission in order to have a good lifestyle. In Perth, a lot of the recruiters specialise in mining. The plus...
Forum: Australia
May 22nd 2011, 12:36 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I think homelessness is a bigger issue in Australia than most realise. It is a very hidden problem.
We will be spending Chritmas Day this year at Mission Australia serving christmas day lunch to...
Forum: Australia
May 21st 2011, 8:32 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I felt the same, but thats what the paper reported as figures from one of the big homeless charities. Though in many ways i am not the shocked. The support mechanism here are no where near what they...
Forum: Australia
May 21st 2011, 8:16 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Australia actually has a massive hidden group in poverty. Some may have heard about the family in Mandurah killed in a burning tent the other week. I was shocked to read there circumstances. But what...
Forum: Australia
May 21st 2011, 3:02 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You could "afford to live here, but as to if you would be financialy better off would depend on your lifestyle now. I would say at a guess that you would be worse off. Your salary would give a...
Forum: Australia
May 19th 2011, 11:51 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

There are a fair few people who come here though with the intent of moving on somewhere else or back to blighty at some point in the future. I am one and most of the brits i know here are in this...
Forum: Australia
Apr 21st 2011, 1:25 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Australia has its fair share of kids that behave just like the UK. I used to commute from the office home by bus and if i was unlucky enough to hit the school run the girls on the bus - from "good"...
Forum: Australia
Apr 12th 2011, 8:41 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 273,482
Posted By verystormy

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Sometimes using exchange is usefull. Particularly for myself as even if i was back in the UK i would be paid in US$, which is a close proxy and as my job would earn about the same here as there then...
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