Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Do you think we will see the OP post this back up again next year?

Place your bets please.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

a year? he does it every bloody month:rolleyes:

The asylum is busy this year.....

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Just checking up on if the rush out on one way tickets is escalating no doubt.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

I'm just here to inform people, folks. :thumbsup:

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Nah, we're all still here. :thumbup:


Information and knowledge is good. :)

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Even if it is the same information as before, just repeated :D

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I'm going on a one-way ticket this time, and I shall put Departing Permanently on the pax card................ I shall be a Statistic :thumbup:





Four weeks later I'll be back on a return ticket bought in the UK :D

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

And I am glad that you do bring your prospective to the table.

People can often get carried away with the immigration dream after watching a few eposodes of "Wanted Down Under".

However I dont think immigration is a scam as you stated in your original post, scams are designed to cheat, immigration offers people a freedom of choice, to certain people who are lucky enough to qualify to fit the bill.

I have a daunting feeling that I too will be one of those ones who may have to come back and moan about the costs etc etc, however, its still a adventure for me, still got the rose tinted specs on, allbeit with a lighter shade.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Adventures are good and if you have enough beans to pay for stuff with those beans and have a great experience along the way, then that is what counts the most.

Enjoy life and the adventure. :cool:

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

You're doing this because of the price gouging on Australian flights? If so, how long can you keep that return open for? I looked into all kinds of ways to get the same prices as everyone else on earth pays, but it started to get ridiculous.

By going on a budget plane to HK with zero consumer rights, then a regular intl to LHR, and same in reverse, which was a lot of hassle, I managed to get it down to just 20% more than a British price. Normally it's 40% - 50% higher.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Spent some time in London and the south east a few weeks back. Was surprised to see how expensive it was. Feels like everything has gone up from a few years back. So no, won't be quitting one expensive place for another. Especially when the London salary is about 0.4 on what I currently make in Oz.

Regarding those flights. If you want to do it on the cheap, get the low cost airline out of Oz then book from there. Mind you with all the hassle and the many a deal that comes on, its hardly worth it.

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We noticed that booze has got very expensive in Britain - around 50% more than five year ago. In fact, we noticed it was pushing Australian prices. Also noticed that you couldn't get single-vineyard wine in British supermarkets unless you went up to $25 and then a very small range (choice of two in M&S, iirc). But then we live an hour from dozens of the world's best vineyards, so I guess we're a bit spoilt!

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

i always fly Qantas, and go home around every 6 months so its no hassle getting the returns and booking "backwards". Pure luck this time that the UK Qantas site had dropped prices rock bottom at that moment :)

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And the Stella is down from 5% ABV to 4%
When that happened they still had masses of 5% so they dumped much of it here and it was in Dan Murphys on a great special. However it was a mere shadow of the original "Stella's for the Fellas" brew I remember from the 1970s and 80s.

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There must be no doubt that there are huge savings and offers in UK supermakets (and far more choice!) but my visit 5 years ago told me that parts of the UK compared to Australia was not necessarily cheap or cheaper in all cases.

I think it would be fair to say that I should not assume that everything is 1 pound now, without first looking for myself.

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Nearly all major Cities are expensive, we have just returned from visiting a couple in Italy (and what a beautiful country it is) and nearly fell our chairs at the prices of food, etc but as is usually the norm the "locals" will know where to go for cheaper meals etc and the suburbs where cheaper anyway. Years ago we visited Sydney and found it very expensive more so than Perth but then a few years later we visited Sydney again and found Perth was now just as expensive but the "City" salaries were not. I think that was one of the reasons we started to holiday abroad, that and wanting to have a change of culture.

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Dolphin is always cheaper in Japan versus bayside
:p

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A few years ago when we were in Yorkshire the price of meat at Asda etc was horrendous compared to Australia, until I twigged that the only people who bought meat at the supermarkets was people just picking up a tray of mince or a couple of chops on the way home.

On visiting Barnsley Market there was a meat hall that looked straight out of a Breughel painting (probably as old) and I picked up fresh roasting silverside for the equivalent of $A8 a kilo and pork for similar, and that was in the days when the dollar was only worth 43 pence at the time - if you bought where the locals bought then it was similarly priced to Australia on most items, except the bloody petrol of course.

Looking at the property market in my idle moments and comparing rentals in particular, for what you pay PCM for a wee terraced house or flat in me old Newcastle upon Tyne you'd get far better in most Australian Provincial cities outside Sydney or Melbourne.

Our current 3 bedroom, ensuite, DLUG, ducted air con, separate laundry etc villa is only about 2/3 of the rent a similar property would attract in most locations outside of the SE of England, and only one street back from the ol' Pacific Sea and a surf beach that makes Home and Away seem like a Pilot Project.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

A few hundred posts later and the same old rhetoric, bla bla....

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

yup....59 actually .......but same ole same ole:D

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We are finding many things here cheaper especially groceries, lots of things MUCH cheaper and others about the same or more. Petrol is more but running the car doesnt actually work out to be more expensive overall. On top of it being cheaper the choice and variety is enormous, we didnt leave Australia because it was expensive but the difference we are finding is certainly a bonus.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

That's probably partly due to you now having a full hybrid car, meaning lower consumption and tax disc. Have you done a like-for-like comparison of the vehicles you owned in Australia?

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Ha ha. Completely regret speaking up about my experienes of a few weeks back. Granted .... my experience was purely holiday. Eating and drinking out .... oh and rail travel between London and coast .... now that killed my wallet.

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My wife has a diesel wagon, £100 to tak instead of $600 rego, insurance no different so overall depending on miles covered of course there would be little in it. She is getting a Mini which will be the same to tax as my Prius, £30. A Prius would have been too expensive in Australia and with no Government incentive to drive one I wouldnt have bothered.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Fair does to all of that.
I'm guessing some groceries are the biggest savings.
There would be things that are quite a bit more in the UK too, or 'the same' - but not cheap.

The petrol one comes up a bit - and one thing I say is that we tend to drive a lot more economically in semi-rural Melb than in outer London.
So that makes petrol charges cheaper in Australia - for us. Labour rates are not too bad here either.

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Can someone name a list of 10 things that are cheaper in Australia than the UK. I'm struggling to think of anything apart from petrol. :unsure:

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

I could but you wouldn't be interested :lol:

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TVs

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Mitsubishi Tritons

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iPads (if you are a girl and want a fashion accessory)

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Flights to Singapore

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Fresh Prawns

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Private schools

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Car insurance

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Ugg boots

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Lamb chops

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Vegemite

That's 10 :thumbsup:

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

And you didn't list any of the things I could think of :thumbsup:

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:lol:

+ Boerewors, biltong.

:thumbup:

Re: Anyone quitting Aus due to the high cost of living
 

Indeed

11 - Fillet steak