Hi I hope everybody is well
As I am one of the fools taking my family to the other side of the world for a big real terms pay cut and a shocking exchange rate, I am going to have to nail the family budget to the floor and try and dig a life out of nothing again. Sooo, is there a Martin Lewis smith Aussie equivalent with an accompanying misers website and forum?

This is a serious question so I can have a scout around and save as much as possible early days so e can bring as little money over as possible given the derisory exchange rate

Thanks in advance for your replys

I totally understand the comment about the exchange rate and the fact it is currently unfavourable but I dont get the pay cut comment as virtually every job I have looked at appears more lucrative than the UK, unless you are factoring in the higher cost of living.......

I know what it costs to live in the UK and I know what I can expect to earn, In Oz my earning power roughly triples so unless the cost of living is 3 times higher than home I should be better off

Sorry but I dont know of any such "money saving" type websites

I can't help with the website either. Perhaps google can help.

Why would one come to Oz for a pay cut. Did someone lure a 'lifestyle is better' carrot?

Bad exchange rate, what ! You still get $1.50 for your £1.

Where?? My post office sold at 1.32 this week!

Where?

I don't believe there is anything similar. Probably BE is your best bet. The internet hasn't really caught on in Australia.

There's no compare the market type sites at all??

My friend is a web developer etc who moved to Oz last year. Sold his web hosting company in the UK for several millions (the git). Maybe I should get him to look at this path!! We could have the Meerkats in Oz!! Haha!!

Don;t listen to the doom-sayers mate, it's all worth it. Good luck.

Gone are the days of one pound buying $2.85

http://au.pfinance.yahoo.com/our-experts/david-koch/

Might be for you, it is for me. Doesn't mean it will be for someone else. Personally people should listen to all advice, including that from 'doom-sayers' .

FFS, well obviously. I'm just trying to redress the balance a bit. It's getting a bit like Poms in oz around here. 10 negative posts to every positive one and then a reminder after a positive post that it's not like that for everyone.

RinkerDink, I think most people that made it work are too busy enjoying their life now to bother posting anything useful on a forum where they're outnumbered by these people.

Thanks, that realisation dawned on me some time ago. It does take a bit of sifting but there are always some good valuable responses, as a qualifier before the patronisation squad descend I do realise its not the land of milk and honey and do take on board the less positive posts but I take as large a pinch of salt with the good ones as the bad!

Thanks for the replys it seems The sifting on here may have to continue but its a shame because I love over investigating everything before I sign up to or buy anything, perhaps a less anal approach will be the order of the day down under.

what is it you think Australia offers to make up for the large pay cut?