Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Jan 5th 2011, 12:19 pm
#421
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Just to add, as this thread is now turning into a discussion about loaves, I eat white bread, I'm happy to eat white bread, I don't think it tastes like "floppy plastic" and, given that most bread sold is still your average white bread, I think you lot are a bunch of snobby liars 
Jan 5th 2011, 12:54 pm
#422
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Jan 5th 2011, 1:47 pm
#424
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
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.
We battled for 5 years in the rental market, trying to save to buy a house, and my hubby suffered 2 redundancies in 2 years. We moved here, and within 2 years we both got well paid jobs (same industry, yet i'm on 3times the salary I was on in UK) we had a mortgage on a house, and had 2 cars.
I am so lucky to be here, in this situation, and it was worth every penny!
When I leave the house at 7am, and the sky is pure blue, with no clouds, and it's already 25 degrees - no-one can stop me smiling about it. Life is good, and we are happy, and this would not have been the case if we had spent the last 3 years in the UK.
We're in Adelaide, so housing is very cheap. I agree supermarkets aren't especially cheap, and I would say that alot of costs are on a par with UK - however they money doesnt buy fantastic weather.
We're going back for a hol to UK in August for 4 weeks, and i look forward to seeing my friends and family. But afterwards, I will also look forward to coming home to my 4 bedroom house and huge garden, knowing that it cost me less than their tiny poky 3 bedroom semi detached place
Jan 5th 2011, 3:04 pm
#425
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Read in the news today that prices of daily use household things are expected to surge further northwards due to Queensland floods. For sooks - The worst is yet to come.
Jan 5th 2011, 3:33 pm
#426
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
thanks guys for the tiger bread info 
Jan 5th 2011, 3:47 pm
#427
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
What's wrong with you people using bread makers? 
Buy flour and yeast and make your own! There is nothing quite as therapeutic as kneading bread dough.
I bake at least 2 loaves of bread per week - all hand made (don't own a breadmaker) and have never made just plain white. My husband's favourite it cheese & onion loaf and I like sundried tomato with herbs.
Buy flour and yeast and make your own! There is nothing quite as therapeutic as kneading bread dough.I bake at least 2 loaves of bread per week - all hand made (don't own a breadmaker) and have never made just plain white. My husband's favourite it cheese & onion loaf and I like sundried tomato with herbs.
Jan 5th 2011, 4:11 pm
#431
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
You are absolutely right, I worked in a cake factory making eccles cakes when I was a student and my nails were never better.
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Jan 5th 2011, 4:44 pm
#432
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Not quitting Aus yet, although I have found living costs to be truly extortionate! Am on holiday now and find most things are hugely over priced, not just 30-40% higher but in some cases over-priced 4-5 times!!
Plan to stick it out for another 4-5 years and then eventually move to the US.
Plan to stick it out for another 4-5 years and then eventually move to the US.
Jan 5th 2011, 5:10 pm
#433
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Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living
Not quitting Aus yet, although I have found living costs to be truly extortionate! Am on holiday now and find most things are hugely over priced, not just 30-40% higher but in some cases over-priced 4-5 times!!
Plan to stick it out for another 4-5 years and then eventually move to the US.
Plan to stick it out for another 4-5 years and then eventually move to the US.
Jan 5th 2011, 5:19 pm
#434
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