Australia - what you need to know
Jan 25th 2010, 8:49 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
If you are unhappy with your present bank take your business elsewhere. As I pointed out in my post, it's quite possible to bank entirely free of charges.
I don't feel it's fair to blame the 'guvment' for your apparent refusal to own your own problem. If you dislike paying interest fees so much don't borrow money. Simple really'
I don't feel it's fair to blame the 'guvment' for your apparent refusal to own your own problem. If you dislike paying interest fees so much don't borrow money. Simple really'
I'm not talking about individual banks in general. St. George (previously Advance) were pretty good but now it's consolidated back to 3-4. It's the fact, as shown last year, that the banks collectively do what they want, and hold the Australian public hostage with varous rate increases above & beyond any RBA increases. The Govt. have no balls, Swann etc. lame responses.
If you can afford it great, but I do think the banks have people over a barrel, this is a sentiment echoed by most I think. Very few people have a high opinion of the various banks regardless of how often they try to re-brand themselves.
If you can afford it great, but I do think the banks have people over a barrel, this is a sentiment echoed by most I think. Very few people have a high opinion of the various banks regardless of how often they try to re-brand themselves.
Jan 25th 2010, 9:06 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
wow Mono really has a bee in his/her bonnet, and also tries to quote but makes a complete ass of themselves 
if you dont like Oz then why are you there? if it really grinds your gears that much then go home. you've tried at didn't like it so move on.
sydney may have expensive rents but compare the equivalent properties to london and im sure they'll be comparable.
if you dont like Oz then why are you there? if it really grinds your gears that much then go home. you've tried at didn't like it so move on.
sydney may have expensive rents but compare the equivalent properties to london and im sure they'll be comparable.
Jan 25th 2010, 9:09 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
I don't know where some of you are living in Australia but I own a property in one of the most expensive seaside suburbs in Adelaide and the rent and morgages are not even close to what you are on about! After living in the UK for a year I also don't understand how you can think Australia is more expensive? The cost of living is HUGE in the UK and you do not get much for your money as far as housing goes, we were paying a massive amount to rent a studio apartment and the utilities were crazy! The thing is that we were expecting it, so after the initial shock we got over it and just made the most of it. I think that as long as you go somewhere with an open mind and be realisitic it's a lot easier to adjust.
Australia is a wonderful place to live but so is the UK, for very different reasons.
Australia is a wonderful place to live but so is the UK, for very different reasons.
Jan 25th 2010, 9:09 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
Actually I'm living on the shores of beautiful Lake Macquarie, not actually on the shore you understand but within easy walking distance. You seem to be fixated with rents in Sydney and Melbourne and appear to have little knowledge of rents outside these areas.
Personally I love living here by the lake, with the wattagan mountains as a backdrop and the beaches and vineyards an easy twenty minute drive away, but if you would rather pay an arm and a leg to chew traffic fumes every day and live in an overgrown rats nest, then that is your choice.
Your choice of accommodation and the price you are willing to pay for it, is just like your choice of banks......entirely yours. Best not too spend too much time whining about the result of your free choices though, people could consider it unmanly.
Your reference to " rickets " is both interesting and confusing, was that a Freudian slip, or a repressed childhood memory ?
Personally I love living here by the lake, with the wattagan mountains as a backdrop and the beaches and vineyards an easy twenty minute drive away, but if you would rather pay an arm and a leg to chew traffic fumes every day and live in an overgrown rats nest, then that is your choice.
Your choice of accommodation and the price you are willing to pay for it, is just like your choice of banks......entirely yours. Best not too spend too much time whining about the result of your free choices though, people could consider it unmanly.
Your reference to " rickets " is both interesting and confusing, was that a Freudian slip, or a repressed childhood memory ?
[Super expensive rents ???
I'm presently paying $160 a week for a one bed roomed unit close to town, with ground maintenance, water and hot water charges thrown in. My previous unit was two bed roomed, again within easy walking distance to town with a double garage and ground maintenance and cost $200 per week.
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You must be living in the bush somewhere Dorothy's husband if your paying $160\wk certainely not Sydney or Melbourne where rents start at $400+\wk or a rabbit hutch. Enjoy your bedsit .. sounds awesome, is rickets inclusive of the rent
I'm presently paying $160 a week for a one bed roomed unit close to town, with ground maintenance, water and hot water charges thrown in. My previous unit was two bed roomed, again within easy walking distance to town with a double garage and ground maintenance and cost $200 per week.
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You must be living in the bush somewhere Dorothy's husband if your paying $160\wk certainely not Sydney or Melbourne where rents start at $400+\wk or a rabbit hutch. Enjoy your bedsit .. sounds awesome, is rickets inclusive of the rent
Jan 25th 2010, 9:22 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
Latent racism alive and kicking in SE England too, especially London which is becoming tense to say the least.....
Jan 25th 2010, 9:47 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
Not sure where you got the idea that my husband posted anything on here about our rent. Particuarly because 1) my husband has never posted a single word on this site and 2) we don't rent; we pay a mortgage.
Jan 25th 2010, 10:02 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
So to sum the thread up...
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
Jan 25th 2010, 10:17 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
So to sum the thread up...
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
And, obviously, the sarcastic response to that which also adds nothing and, if anything, is more self-congratulatory than the one it is meant to mock.
Jan 25th 2010, 10:19 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
Jan 25th 2010, 10:41 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
So to sum the thread up...
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
We have the views of somebody who's been here 20 years being rubbished by the views of somebody who's been here 5min... and everybody is rushing to congratulate the newbie because he's running his own, one man, "I'm backing Oz" campaign. This includes folks still in the UK who have never even lived here.
Excellent. Keep up the good work folks.
Par for the course innit.
Jan 25th 2010, 11:30 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
Sounds like it is time to increase the rent for some people.... 2 bed place in Sydney West currently around $180 pw.
Jan 25th 2010, 11:40 pm
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
If you are unhappy with your present bank take your business elsewhere. As I pointed out in my post, it's quite possible to bank entirely free of charges.
I don't feel it's fair to blame the 'guvment' for your apparent refusal to own your own problem. If you dislike paying interest fees so much don't borrow money. Simple really'
I don't feel it's fair to blame the 'guvment' for your apparent refusal to own your own problem. If you dislike paying interest fees so much don't borrow money. Simple really'
Jan 26th 2010, 12:03 am
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Re: Australia - what you need to know
I pay Comm Bank $300pa flat fee to cover all banking. I also get half a percent off my mortgage rate because I pay that fee. So the $300 knocks about $1000 a year off my payments. Seemed like a good deal to me.
Jan 26th 2010, 12:27 am
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It's hysterical the way soo many aussies jump on this forum for a spot of pommie bashing. Skippy - it's for UK expats only. We get enough of your BS during the day mate. Now take off your flip flops and walk down the street barefoot, strap on your beligerent attitude and take the week off for austraaalia day or as many sickies as you can chuck 