Living costs in WA
May 12th 2017 | 2:28 pm
#16
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Re: Living costs in WA
Hi. My wife and I live in the UK, are in our 60's in relatively good health and have a daughter living in the UK, a son living in Australia with his Australian wife and our only Grandchild. We have been to Australia 12 times now in 6 years and wish to spend more time there with our 6 year old Grandson before he gets too old to tolerate doting Grandparents!
We are considering downsizing in the UK to free up some cash and buying a 3 x 2 x 2 house in Busselton WA where they live. We intend to spend 7 months in the UK and 5 months in Australia using a 6 or12 month eVisitor (subclass 651) visa each year, .... Firstly is it possible to get that visa every year?
Leaving the cost of buying the house aside as I think I understand the process and costs, I now need to estimate what monthly / Quarterly / Yearly bills will be in Australia. We are a pretty frugal couple and would live in Australia during November to march so would probably not need heating but probably Air conditioning. As we would be running 2 households on fixed incomes I need to make sure we can survive without making our lives impossible financially.
So just the 2 of us living in Australia for the summer months excluding food and Petrol, can anyone tell me the average costs of the following:-
Rates
Water (Drinking)...Standing charge ?? consumption
Waste water charge ???
Electricity...Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Gas... Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Internet without phone or
Mobile broadband dongle
Rego for a used car value $7000
Buildings / contents insurance
Anything else I have forgotten or dont know about?
Thanks
We are considering downsizing in the UK to free up some cash and buying a 3 x 2 x 2 house in Busselton WA where they live. We intend to spend 7 months in the UK and 5 months in Australia using a 6 or12 month eVisitor (subclass 651) visa each year, .... Firstly is it possible to get that visa every year?
Leaving the cost of buying the house aside as I think I understand the process and costs, I now need to estimate what monthly / Quarterly / Yearly bills will be in Australia. We are a pretty frugal couple and would live in Australia during November to march so would probably not need heating but probably Air conditioning. As we would be running 2 households on fixed incomes I need to make sure we can survive without making our lives impossible financially.
So just the 2 of us living in Australia for the summer months excluding food and Petrol, can anyone tell me the average costs of the following:-
Rates
Water (Drinking)...Standing charge ?? consumption
Waste water charge ???
Electricity...Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Gas... Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Internet without phone or
Mobile broadband dongle
Rego for a used car value $7000
Buildings / contents insurance
Anything else I have forgotten or dont know about?
Thanks
May 12th 2017 | 5:28 pm
#17
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Re: Living costs in WA
Hi. My wife and I live in the UK, are in our 60's in relatively good health and have a daughter living in the UK, a son living in Australia with his Australian wife and our only Grandchild. We have been to Australia 12 times now in 6 years and wish to spend more time there with our 6 year old Grandson before he gets too old to tolerate doting Grandparents!
We are considering downsizing in the UK to free up some cash and buying a 3 x 2 x 2 house in Busselton WA where they live. We intend to spend 7 months in the UK and 5 months in Australia using a 6 or12 month eVisitor (subclass 651) visa each year, .... Firstly is it possible to get that visa every year?
Leaving the cost of buying the house aside as I think I understand the process and costs, I now need to estimate what monthly / Quarterly / Yearly bills will be in Australia. We are a pretty frugal couple and would live in Australia during November to march so would probably not need heating but probably Air conditioning. As we would be running 2 households on fixed incomes I need to make sure we can survive without making our lives impossible financially.
So just the 2 of us living in Australia for the summer months excluding food and Petrol, can anyone tell me the average costs of the following:-
Rates
Water (Drinking)...Standing charge ?? consumption
Waste water charge ???
Electricity...Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Gas... Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Internet without phone or
Mobile broadband dongle
Rego for a used car value $7000
Buildings / contents insurance
Anything else I have forgotten or dont know about?
Thanks
We are considering downsizing in the UK to free up some cash and buying a 3 x 2 x 2 house in Busselton WA where they live. We intend to spend 7 months in the UK and 5 months in Australia using a 6 or12 month eVisitor (subclass 651) visa each year, .... Firstly is it possible to get that visa every year?
Leaving the cost of buying the house aside as I think I understand the process and costs, I now need to estimate what monthly / Quarterly / Yearly bills will be in Australia. We are a pretty frugal couple and would live in Australia during November to march so would probably not need heating but probably Air conditioning. As we would be running 2 households on fixed incomes I need to make sure we can survive without making our lives impossible financially.
So just the 2 of us living in Australia for the summer months excluding food and Petrol, can anyone tell me the average costs of the following:-
Rates
Water (Drinking)...Standing charge ?? consumption
Waste water charge ???
Electricity...Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Gas... Standing Charge ?? Consumption
Internet without phone or
Mobile broadband dongle
Rego for a used car value $7000
Buildings / contents insurance
Anything else I have forgotten or dont know about?
Thanks
Numbeo is a good website to compare costs. Some of the prices on there are bullshit (milk in Australia is $1/l, not $1.50/t. Chicken breast is not $11.20/kg but $8.50/kg etc) but gives a good overall picture. What I like about Numbeo is that it gives you a local purchasing power comparison. This is important as a city may have high prices but usually wages are higher and therefore purchasing power is better. For instance, Oslo is crazy expensive but people living there earn high salaries so therefore can afford it and have a very high standard of living
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
May 13th 2017 | 12:34 am
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Re: Living costs in WA
Hi carcajou Thanks for your reply. No not fretting about rates or rego I just need to be as informed as possible before taking the leap of faith. Yes your right, most people seriously undershoot their costs so I am also going to add in a monthly contingency as belt and braces. My pensions are index linked but I am not naive enough to think that a UK index linking will safeguard us in an Australian economy, especially as the Australian Government seem to have a levy for everything you buy, rent or build.
geoff52, yes my son has filled me in with a lot of the costs but until now he has been renting in Australia so has no idea of rates or water and also has Solar PV which mitigates Gas and Electricity use. So I wanted to get other peoples opinions of Living costs, as Amazulu states everybody buys and uses things differently.
Amazulu Thanks for your reply and the link to Numbeo, some useful information there. I think with everyone's input I now have a fairly accurate idea of what our monthly, yearly and ongoing costs will be.
geoff52, yes my son has filled me in with a lot of the costs but until now he has been renting in Australia so has no idea of rates or water and also has Solar PV which mitigates Gas and Electricity use. So I wanted to get other peoples opinions of Living costs, as Amazulu states everybody buys and uses things differently.
Amazulu Thanks for your reply and the link to Numbeo, some useful information there. I think with everyone's input I now have a fairly accurate idea of what our monthly, yearly and ongoing costs will be.
May 13th 2017 | 1:28 am
#19
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 14,040
Re: Living costs in WA
Numbero is a pretty good indicator. Its actually is closest thing you will find to opinions on BE. Its not an exact science. You will never work it out to the cent and it will send you to the shrink trying to figure it out.
