Cost of Living in Australia
#4
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Re: Cost of Living in Australia
People are saying it's now the most expensive place in the world to live.
What are the Australian people doing about it?
Zilch.
I won't be moving back.
Can't afford it.
What are the Australian people doing about it?
Zilch.
I won't be moving back.
Can't afford it.
#5
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Dont really need to do anything about it, in a country where full time supermarket check out chicks earn 50K Aud or 31k GBP and Full time Posties earn 70K Aud per year or 44K GBP eh You can afford the extra costs, it's also the reason high prices exist. Makes going anywhere overseas feel really cheap and makes one feel incredibly affluent in comparison.
Last edited by ozzieeagle; May 27th 2013 at 4:12 am.
#6
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Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Dont really need to do anything about it, in a country where full time supermarket check out chicks earn 50K Aud or 31k GBP and Full time Posties earn 70K Aud per year or 44K GBP eh You can afford the extra costs, it's also the reason high prices exist. Makes going anywhere overseas feel really cheap and makes one feel incredibly affluent in comparison.
Anywhere.... let alone Australia.
#7
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Meantime we're planning my retirement in 6 years with our combined 7 figure super payout. and our 800K house.... All done on Blue collar work .... Well one of us is a Nurse. Only issue is we'll almost certainly have too much dosh to get a Government Pension....Ah well there will be a trickle of a private pension from the UK from my previous life 33 years ago.
No country that I know of has such blue sky horizons for Blue Collar workers.
I think I'm currently a Millionaire in UK GBP paper terms .... Not many UK posties could claim that... Plenty of Aus ones could. Sure the exchange rates will move around and erode that in a little while....But currently... well I never thought I'd see the day.
Just get your head down and bum up keep working and let time do it's work.
I always laugh at these threads and the insipid effort a lot of failed migrants put in.
Last edited by ozzieeagle; May 27th 2013 at 4:40 am.
#8
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 32
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Dont really need to do anything about it, in a country where full time supermarket check out chicks earn 50K Aud or 31k GBP and Full time Posties earn 70K Aud per year or 44K GBP eh You can afford the extra costs, it's also the reason high prices exist. Makes going anywhere overseas feel really cheap and makes one feel incredibly affluent in comparison.
What if you want to retire?
What happens to your super? Does that go up at the same rate as salaries?
No.
#9
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Dont really need to do anything about it, in a country where full time supermarket check out chicks earn 50K Aud or 31k GBP and Full time Posties earn 70K Aud per year or 44K GBP eh You can afford the extra costs, it's also the reason high prices exist. Makes going anywhere overseas feel really cheap and makes one feel incredibly affluent in comparison.
What do they get in the Yoo Kay or US of A?
#12
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Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Far better than their counterparts in the UK lets put it that way
Meantime we're planning my retirement in 6 years with our combined 7 figure super payout. and our 800K house.... All done on Blue collar work .... Well one of us is a Nurse. Only issue is we'll almost certainly have too much dosh to get a Government Pension....Ah well there will be a trickle of a private pension from the UK from my previous life 33 years ago.
No country that I know of has such blue sky horizons for Blue Collar workers.
I think I'm currently a Millionaire in UK GBP paper terms .... Not many UK posties could claim that... Plenty of Aus ones could. Sure the exchange rates will move around and erode that in a little while....But currently... well I never thought I'd see the day.
Just get your head down and bum up keep working and let time do it's work.
I always laugh at these threads and the insipid effort a lot of failed migrants put in.
Meantime we're planning my retirement in 6 years with our combined 7 figure super payout. and our 800K house.... All done on Blue collar work .... Well one of us is a Nurse. Only issue is we'll almost certainly have too much dosh to get a Government Pension....Ah well there will be a trickle of a private pension from the UK from my previous life 33 years ago.
No country that I know of has such blue sky horizons for Blue Collar workers.
I think I'm currently a Millionaire in UK GBP paper terms .... Not many UK posties could claim that... Plenty of Aus ones could. Sure the exchange rates will move around and erode that in a little while....But currently... well I never thought I'd see the day.
Just get your head down and bum up keep working and let time do it's work.
I always laugh at these threads and the insipid effort a lot of failed migrants put in.
The migrants I laugh at are the ones who throw around tabloid accusations and then laugh at the Aussies when they are themselves from the same mould - another story!
#13
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Re: Cost of Living in Australia
All my Australian friends moan at the cost of living.
All retired mind you.
Some of them earn over 100k a year on their super.
All retired mind you.
Some of them earn over 100k a year on their super.
#14
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Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Mandurah
Posts: 2,269
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
I'm sure we all know people who earn considerably more than that and moan about the cost of living. Doesn't mean they don't have a nice lifestyle.
#15
Re: Cost of Living in Australia
Some people are doing well, others are struggling
That's the way it's always been and always will be