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%
Voters: 46. You may not vote on this poll
Living Costs Oz vs UK
#711
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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 312
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Bananas are exceedingly cheap in the UK and always have been and apparently the UK is the biggest consumer of bananas per head of any country in the world! I learned this in an economics class at school. Apparently back in the 50s the UK government actively encouraged and subsidised British west indian farmer to grow bananas (thats the carribean to you lot). This was to discourage the rise in cannabis, which grows like wildfire out there and which was starting to find its way in to Britain.
I bought 12 decent sized bananas for a £1 the other day from the fruit and veg market trader outside my local supermarket. I love them, but my wife can't stand the sight of the things...
I bought 12 decent sized bananas for a £1 the other day from the fruit and veg market trader outside my local supermarket. I love them, but my wife can't stand the sight of the things...
#712
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Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,300
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Bananas are exceedingly cheap in the UK and always have been and apparently the UK is the biggest consumer of bananas per head of any country in the world! I learned this in an economics class at school. Apparently back in the 50s the UK government actively encouraged and subsidised British west indian farmer to grow bananas (thats the carribean to you lot). This was to discourage the rise in cannabis, which grows like wildfire out there and which was starting to find its way in to Britain.
I bought 12 decent sized bananas for a £1 the other day from the fruit and veg market trader outside my local supermarket. I love them, but my wife can't stand the sight of the things...
I bought 12 decent sized bananas for a £1 the other day from the fruit and veg market trader outside my local supermarket. I love them, but my wife can't stand the sight of the things...
#713
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not the case that one can buy only Australian bananas in Australia? If this is the case then their price it a reflection of classic market manipulation, like the books. And how many people in the mechanised age can be employed by the banana industry in Australia? In other words, everyone has to pay over the odds for bananas in Australia to keep a few banana farmers in Land Rover Discoveries.
#714
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is it not the case that one can buy only Australian bananas in Australia? If this is the case then their price it a reflection of classic market manipulation, like the books. And how many people in the mechanised age can be employed by the banana industry in Australia? In other words, everyone has to pay over the odds for bananas in Australia to keep a few banana farmers in Land Rover Discoveries.
#715
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Joined: Sep 2012
Location: UK now, Australia in 2014
Posts: 1,000
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Does anyone know how much adult massage toys cost in Australia compared to the UK?
And if we bring our own will the Australian border forces pick them up on X Ray?
And if we bring our own will the Australian border forces pick them up on X Ray?
#717
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Riverland, SA - Beds/Cambs/Nhants was home in UK
Posts: 1,503
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Range Rovers? You must be joking.
Landcruisers all the way from my experience.
And banana harvest isn't that mechanical compared to other fruit and veg.
#718
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Joined: Sep 2008
Location: Perth.
Posts: 425
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Aus / UK
2010 Hilux / 1997 Hilux
Rego - $550 / road tax - £210 (would be $400+ for the newer car).
Insurance - $500 / £600+
But I can't afford, just yet, to replace the SLK and S2000, as new cars are so expensive.
#719
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Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Posts: 16,622
Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK
Surprised me.
This is what I meant..for some, insurance is cheaper....add on rego and they're about the same....you can't say that UK 'is cheaper'.