Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
#302
Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
I knew buying that mansion and my toys was a waste of money, but I just couldn't help splashing the moolah around as I glugged on my Moet.
#303
Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
When we moved out here in 2001 it was cheap as but a bugger to find work.
Now the UK is cheaper but a bugger to find work.
Can't have your cake and eat it.
Now the UK is cheaper but a bugger to find work.
Can't have your cake and eat it.
Sometimes I think I would like to move there but I think at the moment the country is a rip off.
Brits spend thousands getting visas, emmigrate, stay for a couple of years and struggle because of no or low paid work.
Extortionate housing and food and living costs eat away at savings.
So what if the weather is better all year round is it worth it if it is financial suicide.
After a couple of years they leave and a new platoon of immigrants come over the hill to replace them.
To me Immigration is a scam. And Australia makes millions out of it.
People need to wake up and think about the nightmare and not the dream.
Brits spend thousands getting visas, emmigrate, stay for a couple of years and struggle because of no or low paid work.
Extortionate housing and food and living costs eat away at savings.
So what if the weather is better all year round is it worth it if it is financial suicide.
After a couple of years they leave and a new platoon of immigrants come over the hill to replace them.
To me Immigration is a scam. And Australia makes millions out of it.
People need to wake up and think about the nightmare and not the dream.
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Whilst we are talking about focus - back to COL.
It's meaningless. My 1992 guide to living in Australia I saw at a friend's house made me laugh the other day: it stated that prices had changed excessively in the 80s. Anyone who has lived as an adult from 1980 would have seen doubling etc in prices several times over. I would not expect prices to be anything like 2000 in 2011...was 1980 anything like 1990? food for thought...this forum will wring it's hands...
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It got close to those prices when Cyclone Larry also wiped out the banana crop, but then, when they were replanted, the prices dropped right down again. They were 69c a kg round here last week. I've got used to anything over $1 a kg being a high price !
2008: After Cyclone Larry, banana prices across all retailers skyrocketed, peaking at $15 a kilogram before falling back to $2 a kilogram nine months later.
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Just glad that Woolworths and Coles don't have a monopoly in Meat, Fruit and Veg
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If it really was double or treble, how do the average people manage so easily, when wages only rise about 5% per year ?.
One of the most commonly talked about highest increased costs is electricity, yet the real increases are not that high.
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And your many examples are ?
If it really was double or treble, how do the average people manage so easily, when wages only rise about 5% per year ?.
One of the most commonly talked about highest increased costs is electricity, yet the real increases are not that high.
If it really was double or treble, how do the average people manage so easily, when wages only rise about 5% per year ?.
One of the most commonly talked about highest increased costs is electricity, yet the real increases are not that high.
#309
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My electric has doubled. The rest of of my bills have perhaps increased by 35%. My husbands salary sure as hell hasn't gone up that much. As much as I love it here if I was coming now with the knowledge I have about the price of things, I wouldn't definitely not be coming.
I'd hate to think we were coming over now with the lousy exchange rate from UK to Aus and the hike in costs that we've experienced. Aus is fantastic but the cost of things is shite
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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, By: Natalie Haynes
Published: 04 Nov 2010 Format: Hardback
UK price £11.94 (AUD$20.24)
Aus Bookshop price $ $22.95
The top listed book in the Best of 2010 was:
The Help, By: Kathryn Stockett Published: 13 May 2010, Format: Paperback
UK price £7.91 (AUD$13.41)
Aus Bookshop price $10.97
ARE books all massively more expensive in Australia, or do people think that this has not changed recently ?
#311
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Just looked at the bookdepository top editor picks and this book is number one:
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, By: Natalie Haynes
Published: 04 Nov 2010 Format: Hardback
UK price £11.94 (AUD$20.24)
Aus Bookshop price $ $22.95
The top listed book in the Best of 2010 was:
The Help, By: Kathryn Stockett Published: 13 May 2010, Format: Paperback
UK price £7.91 (AUD$13.41)
Aus Bookshop price $10.97
ARE books all massively more expensive in Australia, or do people think that this has not changed recently ?
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, By: Natalie Haynes
Published: 04 Nov 2010 Format: Hardback
UK price £11.94 (AUD$20.24)
Aus Bookshop price $ $22.95
The top listed book in the Best of 2010 was:
The Help, By: Kathryn Stockett Published: 13 May 2010, Format: Paperback
UK price £7.91 (AUD$13.41)
Aus Bookshop price $10.97
ARE books all massively more expensive in Australia, or do people think that this has not changed recently ?
#312
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I got my kids their english novels from BD and they were cheaper than 2nd hand ones. However that said e bay is great for second hand books
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
My electric has doubled. The rest of of my bills have perhaps increased by 35%. My husbands salary sure as hell hasn't gone up that much. As much as I love it here if I was coming now with the knowledge I have about the price of things, I wouldn't definitely not be coming.
2003 average male full time wage $1,034.10
2010 average male full time wage $1,414.50
That's a 36.7% increase over 7 years
Consumer Price Index
Sep-2003 142.1
Sep-2010 173.3
That's a 21.2% increase over 7 years
My Council rates
My 2003 rates were $888.90
My 2010 rates were $1,228.74
An increase of 38.2% over 7 years
My electric costs (Average Kwh unit)
2003 was $0.114
2010 was $0.175
An increase of 53.5% over 7 years
We arrived in QLD in 2003.
Car Rego
2003 Rego on our Daewoo was $584.80
In 2010 it was $655.25
An increase of 12% over 7 years (same car)
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I don't know about works of fiction, as I never seem to have time to read them. If I'm on holiday I go to a paperback exchange for a book, or sometimes get the kids a book from Big W. I did use Book Depository for my uni textbooks, though, and it cost about 50% of the Australian price for them.
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Wages
2003 average male full time wage $1,034.10
2010 average male full time wage $1,414.50
That's a 36.7% increase over 7 years
Consumer Price Index
Sep-2003 142.1
Sep-2010 173.3
That's a 21.2% increase over 7 years
My Council rates
My 2003 rates were $888.90
My 2010 rates were $1,228.74
An increase of 38.2% over 7 years
My electric costs (Average Kwh unit)
2003 was $0.114
2010 was $0.175
An increase of 53.5% over 7 years
We arrived in QLD in 2003.
Car Rego
2003 Rego on our Daewoo was $584.80
In 2010 it was $655.25
An increase of 12% over 7 years (same car)
2003 average male full time wage $1,034.10
2010 average male full time wage $1,414.50
That's a 36.7% increase over 7 years
Consumer Price Index
Sep-2003 142.1
Sep-2010 173.3
That's a 21.2% increase over 7 years
My Council rates
My 2003 rates were $888.90
My 2010 rates were $1,228.74
An increase of 38.2% over 7 years
My electric costs (Average Kwh unit)
2003 was $0.114
2010 was $0.175
An increase of 53.5% over 7 years
We arrived in QLD in 2003.
Car Rego
2003 Rego on our Daewoo was $584.80
In 2010 it was $655.25
An increase of 12% over 7 years (same car)
the above show an average wage but a lot of people are not on that so they are already on borderline wages. Any increase in costs can cripple them. Also interest rates for mortgages have increased substantially, petrol has gone up so has food and household bills - it has really made a difference, much more than the increse in wages...
At one time every other car seemed to have a boat attached as they all went out fishing for the weekend but these were the first luxury that people got rid of. The boat yards are now empty yet at one time the boats were overspilling onto the roads cos they couldn't get them in the yards and there were always people buying. Not no more.....
Forget what it says on paper mate. Lots of people are struggling big time