COST OF LIVING COMPARISION
Jul 17th 2010, 11:01 pm
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Re: COST OF LIVING COMPARISION
It is also about the cost of living, not about the cost of moving, and how far your UK capital in £ will last.
There is a big difference between a person living in Australia and being paid in A$ to the person working here on assignment and being paid in GBP, with an extra GBP allowance to cover the exchange rate changes.
There is a big difference between a person living in Australia and being paid in A$ to the person working here on assignment and being paid in GBP, with an extra GBP allowance to cover the exchange rate changes.
Jul 18th 2010, 8:40 am
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Re: COST OF LIVING COMPARISION
We lived in Sydney and moved to Perth. Overall we find Perth a fair bit more expensive. The rent is about the same - we pay less now but dont live anywhere near the city. But pretty much everything else is higher. My salary is about the same and our lifestyle about the same but we pay a lot more for it
Jul 18th 2010, 1:23 pm
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Quite frankly the cost of living in australia at the moment is massive. Food, housing, although more to do outside for free. It's certainly putting us off even if the exchange rate was up, still blood expensive, big shock when we visited. Supermarket was like shopping in Harrods
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Jul 18th 2010, 10:29 pm
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Quite frankly the cost of living in australia at the moment is massive. Food, housing, although more to do outside for free. It's certainly putting us off even if the exchange rate was up, still blood expensive, big shock when we visited. Supermarket was like shopping in Harrods. It ain't all moonlight and roses
Jane
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Jul 19th 2010, 5:37 am
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Its a bit more expensive than UK, but never 2.5x more 
Rents are similar.
Food, beer, transport is about 30% more expensive I'd say. Although if you go to markets food can be much cheaper.
Internet + mobile phone is a lot more - about 50% more at least.
I've found my energy bills to be less as we are out more and have the heating on less, although unit for unit it may be more, havent worked it out.
This is comparing London to Sydney btw
Rents are similar.
Food, beer, transport is about 30% more expensive I'd say. Although if you go to markets food can be much cheaper.
Internet + mobile phone is a lot more - about 50% more at least.
I've found my energy bills to be less as we are out more and have the heating on less, although unit for unit it may be more, havent worked it out.
This is comparing London to Sydney btw
Jul 19th 2010, 5:42 am
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Which means that for those comming from say northern England it will be a massive shock and easily 2.5x. We came from Leicester and reckon its about double.
Jul 19th 2010, 5:44 am
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If you were moving to London instead of Australia, things would also be more expensive.
Jul 19th 2010, 7:29 am
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Ianda and ABC are right. We moved here 2 months ago and its bloody expensive. I just went to the cobblers to put some soles on my shoes - $43 and thats just for the fronts - not for the heels!!
Everything is expensive. But I'd still rather be here. Galba's comparison at the start was very interesting and sounded about right
And finally uranus is right too. The lazy get who started this post should do a search instead of asking stupid questions - there's millions of threads about this
Everything is expensive. But I'd still rather be here. Galba's comparison at the start was very interesting and sounded about right
And finally uranus is right too. The lazy get who started this post should do a search instead of asking stupid questions - there's millions of threads about this
Jul 19th 2010, 10:47 am
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Rural Australia is more expensive in food and goods than the Cities, costs more because of transport, les competition. The further you go away from the cities, the more expensive
Jul 19th 2010, 11:00 am
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Bollox! I live in a small town in Central Queensland and my local coles is cheaper than a one I just visited in Perth.
Jul 19th 2010, 11:30 am
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Can't compare the different cities but can give you an idea if comparing UK and OZ (Perth).
We are international expats, so we move around every 2-3 years. As part of the package we are given a Commodities & Services (C&S) allowance which covers the difference in living costs between the UK and whatever country we are in. There are companies out there that work this all out and feed the numbers back to the companies employing expats. Living costs include such things as clothing, petrol, food etc.
When we arrived in Perth in August 2007 we received nothing - this means that the UK was rated above or the same as OZ but in the last 3 years this allowance has gone up and up so that we now receive over £13,000 a year. So, in theory, the UK is much, much cheaper than OZ in relation to everyday costs.
We are international expats, so we move around every 2-3 years. As part of the package we are given a Commodities & Services (C&S) allowance which covers the difference in living costs between the UK and whatever country we are in. There are companies out there that work this all out and feed the numbers back to the companies employing expats. Living costs include such things as clothing, petrol, food etc.
When we arrived in Perth in August 2007 we received nothing - this means that the UK was rated above or the same as OZ but in the last 3 years this allowance has gone up and up so that we now receive over £13,000 a year. So, in theory, the UK is much, much cheaper than OZ in relation to everyday costs.
Jul 19th 2010, 11:39 am
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My car was written off because of the hail damage in Perth. I spent ages trying to find a 2nd hand car, if I'd gotten it over east I could have saved myself approx $4000, needless to say I decided to get ripped-off locally. Not sure about insurances but I suspect WA doesn't have the cheapest either.
Jul 19th 2010, 11:48 am
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