Weebie

Plenty of people like off 20k in London so 60k should be no problems.

moneypenny20

As is your post, excepting the funny bit.

simo71

We are in Jannali at the moment but if we decide to stay we are moving closer to the city(I know,more expensive!but the Shire is not for us!).
I don't think that £55 weekly food shopping was thight (at least didn't feel like that to us!).It was your average shopping from Sainsburys ,meat,fruit ,vegetables,milk,yoghurt and treats for us and the kid,toilettries etc. (no wine or beers ,we don't drink).
As far as thinking to go back to London after 4 weeks I can only say that I don't like to waste time especially if I want my kid to go back to his old school.

Wol

I've just been trolling this thread and here's my two pen'north.

Many of the older people on here rely on UK funds coming out, so at least for them the exchange rate is extremely relevant: their income has gone down by around 40% over the last eighteen months or so.

More to the general point, the mafia-like importer cartel mindset does make many things EXTREMELY expensive in whatever terms you care to use. I'm not talking 10 or 20 percent - but multiples.

Two examples of things I have bought recently: a replacement irrigation sprinkler cost $62.70 in my local irrigation shop (that's the recommended manufacturer's price) and it is recommended at US$11.95 in the US, available online for US$9.95. Australian price, even allowing for US sales tax, six times the US price for the same part no.

Another item: I bought velcro at IIRC about $6.95 per metre: the identical product on a US site was US$0.65 plus tax. The Australian cost: ten times the US price.

One can quibble about transport costs, taxes, etc etc but the fact remains that the Australian prices are big multiples of the prices abroad - and the bovine population here doesn't know or doesn't care that they are being ripped off big time on an hourly basis.

Don't get me started on the cost of fruit and veg

hevs

Thats what I say everytime i read one of your posts, strangely enough

northernbird

Pushing it a bit aren't you, I would just say ignorant cos I never laugh!

MarkMC

just got back from Woollies...red bell peppers (the locals call them something stupid beginning with C) $9 a kilo AND the whole box on display were rotten, squashed and split

I did have a better experience a the super butcher though

northernbird

$101 at the fruit and veg place
$91 at the butchers
$39 at the fishmongers
$125 at Woolworths

This is how much I spent just this morning, bloody ridiculous!

paulry

That's what makes me very mad about the situation. The goods are so expensive that they're rotting on the shelf

hevs

Yeah, true...its more of one of those humh, through the nose type laughs IYKWIM?

hevs

HTF did you spend a hundred bucks on fruit and veg

northernbird

What can I say, we eat a lot of it. My husband takes 3 bits of fruit a day to work. The kids probably eat another 2 each a day. I use at least 3 vegetables with dinner a day.

That did include a lettuce and 2 bananas so that probably accounts for $50 of that bill

ozzieeagle

Must have bought a couple of Bananas

Edit.... told you so

Freaky part about that fruit and veg price.. this is the cheap time of year !

paulry

Pears are affordable ATM. And there's nothing like a juicy pear

simo71

I'm also shocked at the price of croissants/muffins ($3.40 each!),do they have gold in the flour?