THESHARMANS

Can anyone out there in give us a breakdown of what your monthly outgoings are (excl mortgage/car loans) ie rates, insurances (House/car) , electricity, telephone etc. Basically living expenses. We are thinking of the Brisbane area and a four bedroomed house with two cars. Trying to get a comparison with uk and an idea of what the day to day costs of living would be..

nightnurse2

If you do a search on here, you'll find loads of threads about cost of living

THESHARMANS

Have been looking but some of stuff is from a couple of years ago---plus getting square eyes from looking at computer for several hours a day !!!

KloofToo

You could look at www.aussiemove.com under Finance.........there is a breakdown for a family of four; albeit Perth. It may be some help.

Regards

nightnurse2

Don't know where you've been looking, but I found this one just now

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...cost+of+living

If you do a search of the Australia forum, you'll find loads more, takes a couple of minutes.

You've got to be a fella, cos if it's not in right in front of their eyes - it doesn't exist

chrisandvee

you mean a man look!!!!!! lol

THESHARMANS

nightnurse2...........you sound like my wife, damm gave it away, yes I will give it a manly look..... thanks

MrsDagboy

Make sure you factor in the cost of bottled water to fill your washing machine, fill your pool & flush your toilet cos that's what we'll be doing here in Brisbane soon!

THESHARMANS

Just had a look at the links very very useful. Many thanks..

Oh, one from my son, does a UK PS3 work in Australia !!!! (i.e Australian PS3 games work on a UK console and would it be compatible with n Oz tv?)

Dorothy

Friends of ours brought their PS2 and it works just fine on their new TV. However, the dad is an electronics engineer/geek, so I don't know if he did something special to get it to work.

nightnurse2

Our PS2 works fine and the games over here work too