Originally Posted by Dreamy (Post 9468217)

We're a one wage family too.

We're so poor I'm thinking about hitting the streets.

But what the hell do you do with a bag full of 5c pieces?

Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9468281)

You could use it as an improvised cosh and go on a vigilante rampage ala Charles Bronson in the original Deathwish . . . although he didn't use a bag, it was a sock, and I don't think they were 5 cent pieces, possibly nickels or dimes or maybe quarters . . . but let's not get hungup on the details.

Originally Posted by Dreamy (Post 9468294)

I was thinking more along the lines of shaving off all my hair, glueing the coins all over my body and releasing a world wide top selling single.

Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 9467367)

Even if you came back to Aus on your previous offer a few years back your still not going to be living a flash lifestyle. To really get ahead in Australia you need two incomes, People who only have 1 forever live with the pesants and never get ahead. England is a much nicer place to be living off 1 income than Australia.

Originally Posted by Kris_Rocks (Post 9467501)

Who are the pesants anyway - I might be one and not realise!

Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 9467983)

I didn't mean the pesants call literally I'm just saying. At least people who are on low incomes in Australia get a free house and benefits.

There are reasons why childcare is a such a huge industry in Australia. Doesn't matter on your income even if it's reasonable high you'll always struggle if its not 2.

Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9468310)

I didn't know you could sing!

Originally Posted by daunted (Post 9468319)

Well having lived in both places on 1 income I disagree! My income is less than $55k a year and I am most certainly NOT living amongst pesants - I'm living in my own house with 2 teenage children in a newly developed estate in a rapidly growing area of WA!
If you really want something you cut your cloth accordingly!

Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 9468520)

big difference between Australind and Sydney.

Originally Posted by Beedubya (Post 9468489)

I lived in Australia for 30 years and I don't know of even one single person who lives in free housing..............:unsure:

Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 9468592)

Yeah, but do you know any peasants? Or pesants? They get free housing.

Originally Posted by Weebie (Post 9467367)

Even if you came back to Aus on your previous offer a few years back your still not going to be living a flash lifestyle. To really get ahead in Australia you need two incomes, People who only have 1 forever live with the pesants and never get ahead. England is a much nicer place to be living off 1 income than Australia.

Originally Posted by Fluid36 (Post 9468126)

It's peasant, not pesant, you peasant!

Originally Posted by spartacus (Post 9468618)

I want that one.

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