Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Jul 25th 2010, 10:17 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
but don't let your excitement spoil the reality cos you'll be dissapointed.Good luck with the move mate
Jul 25th 2010, 10:27 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Australian houses are spacial and not 'on top' of each other like their UK equivalent. The Australian dream is a 1/4 acre lot (1012m sq.), and you could build 4 houses on that!
Jul 25th 2010, 10:36 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Australian houses are spacial and not 'on top' of each other like their UK equivalent. The Australian dream is a 1/4 acre lot (1012m sq.), and you could build 4 houses on that!
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7710/newhouses.jpg
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/7710/newhouses.jpg
From a UK report in 2009:
Average size of new houses:
206 sqm Australia
137 sqm Denmark
113 sqm France
97 sqm Spain
88 sqm Ireland
76 sqm UK
Jul 25th 2010, 10:37 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
I dip the hook and see what I can catch. 
(where's the link?)
(where's the link?)
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Jul 25th 2010, 10:43 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Here here I say
Jul 25th 2010, 11:46 am
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Jul 25th 2010, 12:06 pm
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Mark - good luck to you too . Take a trip back to the UK if you can before you make any decisions - it's a different place mate . have you been to Perth?
Jul 25th 2010, 12:13 pm
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Jul 25th 2010, 12:16 pm
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Get it while you can because I think the days of 'everything free for everyone on the NHS' are coming to an end. I reckon hospitalisation will remain free but everything else will require some kind of payment from the user.
UK can no longer afford the NHS in it's current form.
Jul 25th 2010, 11:56 pm
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
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Jul 26th 2010, 6:00 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
But as a backpacker with a lot of cash but in no hurry to spend it, it was easier to lounge around on Sydney's beaches - bit of a swim, phys etc than say to spend a day lounging around in a cold London where you might need to spend all the time in a public library...
Suppose you really were hard up - and did not have much disposable income.
Some of those beach trips really are free.
As for the cost of living, it has gone up, in some areas -but 50 bucks feeds at least 4 adults for a takeaway we find - sure it's not all you can eat - but then we are svelte - and 50 bucks might be an hour's rate for one person, and 2 for someone else so this one will always run...
Jul 26th 2010, 7:00 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
Know where you are coming from, looking at it in real terms. No m
But as a backpacker with a lot of cash but in no hurry to spend it, it was easier to lounge around on Sydney's beaches - bit of a swim, phys etc than say to spend a day lounging around in a cold London where you might need to spend all the time in a public library...
Suppose you really were hard up - and did not have much disposable income.
Some of those beach trips really are free.
As for the cost of living, it has gone up, in some areas -but 50 bucks feeds at least 4 adults for a takeaway we find - sure it's not all you can eat - but then we are svelte - and 50 bucks might be an hour's rate for one person, and 2 for someone else so this one will always run...
But as a backpacker with a lot of cash but in no hurry to spend it, it was easier to lounge around on Sydney's beaches - bit of a swim, phys etc than say to spend a day lounging around in a cold London where you might need to spend all the time in a public library...
Suppose you really were hard up - and did not have much disposable income.
Some of those beach trips really are free.
As for the cost of living, it has gone up, in some areas -but 50 bucks feeds at least 4 adults for a takeaway we find - sure it's not all you can eat - but then we are svelte - and 50 bucks might be an hour's rate for one person, and 2 for someone else so this one will always run...
Anecdotal evidence from this board seems to be suggesting that people are finding it tougher to make ends meet... and that's people earning good money as well.
Jul 26th 2010, 7:03 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
I can see how a backpacker, with zero commitment and nothing more important to do than scratch their own backside, can get by without much money. That doesn't really apply to most of us though does it.
Anecdotal evidence from this board seems to be suggesting that people are finding it tougher to make ends meet... and that's people earning good money as well.
Anecdotal evidence from this board seems to be suggesting that people are finding it tougher to make ends meet... and that's people earning good money as well.
Jul 26th 2010, 7:31 am
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Re: Is Australia really THAT expensive?
