View Poll Results: Do you find the cost of living in Oz vs UK
Much cheaper
0
0%
a bit cheaper
3
6.52%
about the same overall
9
19.57%
a bit more expensive
9
19.57%
much more expensive
25
54.35%
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Living Costs Oz vs UK
#227
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Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Having said that, I do love London pubs an awful lot and miss them.
#228
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It is an unavoidable fact of international trade, an accepted part of history and a law of economics. When the rate changed the Pom's 250k bought him a 675k house and now it buys him a 370k a house and we all have ti listen to him whine about how Australian houses suddenly got more expensive.
Obviously saying the exchange rate has "nothing to do with that" is ridiculous and you're just winding people up on here because you're bored or something.
Obviously saying the exchange rate has "nothing to do with that" is ridiculous and you're just winding people up on here because you're bored or something.
#229
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Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
It is an unavoidable fact of international trade, an accepted part of history and a law of economics. When the rate changed the Pom's 250k bought him a 675k house and now it buys him a 370k a house and we all have ti listen to him whine about how Australian houses suddenly got more expensive.
Obviously saying the exchange rate has "nothing to do with that" is ridiculous and you're just winding people up on here because you're bored or something.
Obviously saying the exchange rate has "nothing to do with that" is ridiculous and you're just winding people up on here because you're bored or something.
I could buy another house for cash in either country but will not pay the ridiculous prices here
#230
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The exchange rate has nothing to do with me.....I brought money here when the rate was 2.5....I still find houses stupidly expensive compared to what I can get in the UK....In Oxford or Cambridge (where my family are) not some northern town.
I could buy another house for cash in either country but will not pay the ridiculous prices here
I could buy another house for cash in either country but will not pay the ridiculous prices here
#232
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I will be happy wherever I am.....but stop making silly comparisons between a hick town like Adelaide and an expensive part of Britain.
House prices in any of the proper Australian cities is far higher than Most British ones
House prices in any of the proper Australian cities is far higher than Most British ones
#233
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The last British pub I was in we got told to stop tapping our hands on the table to the music. And then there was the pub in the last town I lived in in which we were totally ignored by all the locals for the entire four years we went in there. It was like something out of the League of Gentlemen.
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I really dont see how Sterling has anything to do with this unless for some odd reason Aussies are spending £'s in Coles
http://mozo.com.au/savings-accounts/...imit/801453743
It's impossible to ignore the facts "Now experts are predicting that food prices will increase sharply in 2013 – adding even more pressure to Aussies' already stretched finances.". None of this means Australia is a bad place to live, it can in fact be a wonderful place to live, albeit expensive.
http://mozo.com.au/savings-accounts/...imit/801453743
It's impossible to ignore the facts "Now experts are predicting that food prices will increase sharply in 2013 – adding even more pressure to Aussies' already stretched finances.". None of this means Australia is a bad place to live, it can in fact be a wonderful place to live, albeit expensive.
Last edited by chris955; Oct 5th 2012 at 11:50 am.
#236
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Now they go for between $220-260k. That is absurd for the size of the place and hence why I say that a large amount of houses are overpriced by 300%. I look at what they are and what they've had done to them and there selling price far outstripes there ACTUAL value.
In the UK you can still pick up properties for reasonable prices compared to 10 yrs ago. True there was a retarded period b4 the GFC where prices were stupidly high but my parents detached 4 bedroom in a nice area and nice gardens front and back was bought in the mid 80's for 37k and is now with all the nice work done to it only worth 120-140k.
House prices here have gone stupid in the last 5-6years but it's only if you can remember what they were like that you can draw a comparison. Fortunately I have a very good memory for plane fares, house prices, clothing prices etc and normal growth etc aside Oz has got very expensive very quickly.
#237
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Some small village pubs have locals that don't like 'different' in their watering hole. Always been like that.