shaheen09

hello all,

i would like to have an idea how much is the cost of living in perth.

for example

whats the average salary
shopping
bills
car
diesel
road tax

basically everything you need for everyday life

ofcourse we will be renting at first, my son is already telling me what kind of house he would like to live in, it has to have a pool.i keep telling him its not a holiday and that we are moving there permanently.
so any ideas wil be great

thanks

asprilla

Hi Shaheen09, have a look through the site using the search function, there are quite a few detailed breakdowns of cost of living to be found !!

welcome to BE.

Mark

shaheen09

hi mark, thanks for the reply.there are so much to think about i just can't get my head round all of this planning.we have been talking about moving since last august but now we have finally made up our mind.so fingers cross.

shaheen

Dorothy

This is such an open ended question it's impossible for anyone to answer without some more input from you. As was suggested, try the search function for dozens of threads on this exact thing.

noggin

I will give u an idea..EXPENSIVE...

sj oldfield

Make that VERY EXPENSIVE!!!

Sonn

Is it really that expensive? We are planning on taking £30,000 with us to start our new life. We are renting to start withj so that money is for 2 cars and just to get a rental and poss a bit of furniture. Does that sound enough???

PoppetUK

But worth it for a lot of people

Moving your family countries is never a cheap option these days. The set up costs are scary enough.

noggin

Yeah..only one bad thing about Australia......australians..YUK!!

PoppetUK

Amazulu

COL in Australia is roughly similar to the UK.

shaheen09

you are all scaring me, don't know what to do?????????????

philnorris

This is more than enough to get started if you can find jobs within a resonable amount of time.
The definition of an 'expensive cost of living' will vary from person to person. Person A might think $450 a week is expensive, person B might think this is fine.

Personally I dont think it is an expensive place to live nor do the friends I have living in Perth.

Rastis

This link will give you an idea of food costs, on the right handside at the top of the home page is the catalogue link, if you don't know any of the postcodes in Perth just click on the forgot postcode link and select a suburb for WA.

http://www.coles.com.au/

Rastis

I've sent you a PM with a stack of links to help you work out the costs. Wasn't sure if I could post them all here as there are quite a few!