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Jun 15th 2011, 8:30 pm

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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I don't care who picked what, just pack it in. If you want to use language like that which I deleted, go somewhere else. Not here.

Understood. No more comments from me...Miss

Jun 17th 2011, 6:47 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...616-1g5ie.html

Another example of how expensive Australia is

Jun 17th 2011, 6:51 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Originally Posted by papilon

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...616-1g5ie.html

Another example of how expensive Australia is

NZ is even worse

Jun 17th 2011, 6:54 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Originally Posted by papilon

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...616-1g5ie.html

Another example of how expensive Australia is

And yet Aussies are amomgst the biggest users of party pills in the world...so the price obviously doesn't put them off...must be the high wages!

Jun 17th 2011, 6:55 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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And yet Aussies are amomgst the biggest users of party pills in the world...so the price obviously doesn't put them off...must be the high wages!

And high quality

Jun 17th 2011, 10:51 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Hope no one minds if I join this thread at such a late stage.
Can anyone summarise the last 106 pages?

Jun 17th 2011, 10:56 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Hope no one minds if I join this thread at such a late stage.
Can anyone summarise the last 106 pages?

The 'I am the creature from uranus' / 'Fluid36' car price chronicles are classics and have gone into the annals of literature and as such should not be precis'd

Jun 17th 2011, 11:16 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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The 'I am the creature from uranus' / 'Fluid36' car price chronicles are classics and have gone into the annals of literature and as such should not be precis'd

Yeah what is it with cars? You buy one, you sell it on, you make a profit. What is that about?

Jun 17th 2011, 11:19 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Have you heard that the price of bananas is set to go up?

Jun 17th 2011, 11:38 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Have you heard that the price of bananas is set to go up?

Well I passed a local greengrocer tonight and they were marked as on 'special' at $13.99!

Jun 17th 2011, 11:41 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Well I passed a local greengrocer tonight and they were marked as on 'special' at $13.99!

On the plus side there's probably less of them being extracted in A & E

Jun 17th 2011, 11:50 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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On the plus side there's probably less of them being extracted in A & E

Yeah, but the ones that are being extracted are being cut up and shared round at tea break, waste not want not.

Jun 17th 2011, 11:59 am

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Yeah, but the ones that are being extracted are being cut up and shared round at tea break, waste not want not.

Your world=bizarroland

Jun 17th 2011, 12:06 pm

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Your world=bizarroland

Thanks mate

Jun 17th 2011, 12:59 pm

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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

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Originally Posted by northernbird

I also looked on Tesco website and chicken breasts are 9.26 GBP per kilo

Did a few other searches and my general opinion is that fresh produce in some instances is as expensive in the UK. Where the UK is cheaper is processed stuff, convenience foods, bread and toiletries. If you have a trolley full of ready meals, biscuits, crisps then for sure you will be paying heaps more for less variety in Australia.

Yes.

Based on how we shop, we would limit our exposure -but I fear it's a losing battle and that the bill is larger here on those things we really feel we must buy. Doesn't worry me one jot seeing as my housing cost is a fraction - now we are talking! Perspective...