Cost of Bills per month
 

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if some of you could give me an idea of how much you pay for bills per month (those who pay a mortgage), eg, electricity, gas, phone, rates (?) etc.

My parents are thinking of applying to come over here and want to know the costs.

Thanks

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For Us In WA ours are approx
Electric - $220 Monthly
Gas - $100 2 Monthly
Phone - $60 Monthly we us a phone card to Call the Uk
Rates - $960 Yearly
Water Rates $780 Yearly

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What are rates?

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Annual local council charge if you own your own property.

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We don't have that here in Ireland, if you own your property then thats it, no charges except in some areas the different councils might charge you for water.

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Yes - it was a shock for me too when we moved from Ireland 5 years ago.
But we take it for granted now, along with monthly account fees for the banks ;-)

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lucky sods!

Rates here in Sheffield are over £110 per month (more if you are in nicer areas).
Looking forward to $500 and odd for the year in OZ.

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Rates inc water $$2200 pa
Elec $1800 pa
gas don't have
Kindy ( 1 kid 5 days with min benfit of 16.79%) $11592 pa
Mortgages check www.rams.com.au us the calc there the intrest rate is around 7.65%
Landline $22.17 per month
1 x Mobile $41.79 per month
Food 2 x adults 1 x 4 year old $200 - $230 per week
Broadband $49.95


Martin

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Thanks martin will make a note of that. You have put my mind to rest about a few things on there. Thanks again.

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For home loan cost , feel free to pm me

martin

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Gas and electric combined on one bill 330 bucks per month

Petrol, large car Ford Falcon, 4.2 litre, plus a Datsun 120y about 280 bucks per month for about 1000 Kilometres combined per month.
Car Insurance/rego both cars, Ford full comp, Datsun 3rd party fire theft, circa 2000 bucks per annum.

House insurance 700 bucks P Annum
Rates 1400 per Annum.
Water rates 920 per annum.

Medical insurance 190 bucks per month.

Food/groceries Circa 1200 bucks per month, mostly Aldi now and two kids to feed.

Government School fees, including uniform, books, 13 yo daughter, Aud 2,200, this year, less next as she wont need a full new uniform.
Primary school fees for 9 Year old circa 400 Aud per annum. Kids extra cirricular stuff, Music/Soccer/ etc, circa 100 bucks per month.

Line of Credit interest (covers old car loan, and old extension) circa 400 bucks per month, lent against house and replaces mortgage.

Phone/broadband (40 gigs download at 512k) and voip 130 bucks per month, all calls included.

Foxtel 90 bucks per month.

Dont ask me about our dental costs, I'm still really peed off about them, I did spend 13,000 aud on my two kids in 18months though, without including our recent heavy costs for my wife and I.

Our combined 6 figure income barely covers the above. Thank xrist we dont have a Mortgage.

There you go

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I'm in WA also, on average my bills are:

Electric: $280 month
Gas: $180 month
Phone $80 month
Rates/water rates $2,100 year + $600 half way through.

Average...sometimes more in winter. Quite expensive i think.

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seriously you spent £5500 on 2 kids in 18 months, on teeth? ffs :blink:

has anyone else had a similar experience to this?

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His kids must have had Braces fitted at that cost. My kids were quoted 5 grand each for braces. We didn't bother as we hope to get them done in UK later.
I just took my daughter to see a skin specialist here. Cost me $150 for a 10 min check-up, then a further $70 per visit.

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Yeah looking at some of the quotes for medical costs, consultants, dentists etc.. well we have to pay for these in Ireland aswell unless you have a very good private insurance. We don't have a good system like the NHS that you have over in the UK so I guess it balances itself out regarding the rates costs.
You can't have it all I suppose.