I second that. City slickers eat too much rubbish foods, have been brain washed by the processed food companies.

Australia lives on junk food and exports anything worth eatiing to your masters the Japs .
The home market has the second class products in the supermarkets , the meat is on a par with me shoe soles and the fresh fruit and veg is second rate.
Sod it off to Hungery Jacks .


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As your memory is quite temporary I'll remind you we have covered this ground. Glad you have not put your paws on the good stuff yet.

Things must be tough out there - I've just seen a load of well-paid UK celebrities on TV living in the Australian rainforest and all they had to eat were the local insects.

What???...Ray Martin and Dick Smith eaten...Thank God for that...send more UK celebrities now...:eek:

Hi,
Good thread, I would like to thank Kiwi Paul in particular for his articulate response to the original post, the likes of my partner and I who are due to come out to Brisbane in approx. 10 weeks the grocery price list was invaluable. My partner will be on about 50k and myself dunno! I have experience in the meat trade and hold a degree in food industry management, some sales experience and also do a bit of disc jockeying, so we will see what comes up! Clare is a Radiographer and has been sponsored by an agency. The thing is a standard of living is down to an individuals perception, the old adage "what youv'e never had youll never miss springs to mind".

Some of the threads in my opinion have bordered on "scaremongering", if an individual is happy to merely be in Oz because of other reasons than money or career development, then good luck to them! Our careers are not the reason for our decision, Sun, Sea and Sand not available in Manchester!

AVE IT!!!!!

Gary & Clare

There's a comparative grocery price list in most monthly Australian Outlooks. http://www.consylpublishing.co.uk/ao.htm

Some of the threads in my opinion have bordered on "scaremongering", if an individual is happy to merely be in Oz because of other reasons than money or career development, then good luck to them! Our careers are not the reason for our decision, Sun, Sea and Sand not available in Manchester!

AVE IT!!!!!

Gary & Clare [/QUOTE]


Unfortunately sun, sea and sand is not edible. Australia may look cheap when converted into sterling, but less so when paid in dollars

Unfortunately sun, sea and sand is not edible. Australia may look cheap when converted into sterling, but less so when paid in dollars [/QUOTE]


Very deep and far to true , I have asked this before is Manchester now a goast town , nearly every other person I know is from Manchester and the rest from Liverpool.


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Celebrities ? second rate has beens. !!


Manchester now full of "loft apartments" and Liverpool nothing left to pinch !!

So all the cons and brickies have left for Australia then , wondered why the houses here had started to look like bolt holes.
The metal shutter guys are working flatout with the home alarm fitters.




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Some of the poster here are trying to scare people who want accurate information about Australia with there own prejuices against Australia.

PB advised he spends $25 dollar on a take away. That would mean his typical meal is 4 big macs meals. I would then have to agree he couldn't live on $50 groceries a week, but how many average people each more than one fast food meal deal at a go let alone 4.

JAYR advise to the origional poster DOUBLE IT. The origional poster I assume was obviously quoting a single salary as I would def agree $40,000 is too low for a combine salary for 2 people working. But to advise that you need $80,000 is totally inappropiate as I would guess that would put you in the top 5% to 10% of wage earners in Australia.

BASICALLY if you want to make your fortune stick to the UK, if you want an incomparable lifestyle, of beaches , tropical islands, stunning scenery in a friendly, safe English speaking country try Oz or NZ.

Kiwi

I have no prejudices against Australia, I like it a lot, I am a realist. Your idea of a takeaway meal is not mine, a Big Mac may be taken away but is not a meal. I regularly (well weekly) spend $50 on a takeaway Indian for two, I happen to think that is pretty good value. Takeway Pizzas will cost $15 -$25 for two, excellent value. Chinese for two around $30.

I have no wish to scare people about the costs of things in Oz. I would not however, like to bring up a family on $40k, though many have to. I would also not like to live on $50 of food and groceries a week, the starvation would not make up for the great environment you rightly describe.

Never eat Big Macs or that kind of junk food but have a taste for a Chinese or an Indian and $25 for 2 is cheap ,I wish this Guy could explain to my good wife how to live on $50 per person per week.
We earn over $100k between us and that only puts us in the top 20% according my bank manager.
Forget the bollocks at the end of your Email never seen so many break-ins and tossers in my life as in Australia , the beaches are dull the only tropical island in WA is Rottnest its the pits.
As for the brown dried out scenery around here you keep it , give me the UK or Europe anytime.

Best view of rotten Island , $35 dollars each for the short ferry ride over then a landing fee , it used to be an Abo prison Island best use for it.



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Cost of living
 

My view from living in Sydney.

I got relocated by work and so earn equivalent to my UK salary which is very good by Aussie standards. My girlfriend also works and also earns a good salary. We have no kids/pets etc and we live in central Sydney. I say this to qualify my outlook.

I think you need to earn the equivalent to your UK salary to maintain the same standard of living.

General costs are a bit cheaper in Oz.

Housing, basic foods, petrol, beer, eating out etc are cheaper. Most things imported - electricals, branded clothing, cars etc are more expensive.

However, tax is significantly higher at all levels.

Which means that when balancing cheaper living with higher taxation you will probably come out around equal.

I know I am not representative of all on here but I think it is dangerous for people to think that maintaining the same standard of living in Oz is significantly cheaper than in he UK. It builds unrealistic expectations.

Cheers,
Bob