Amazulu

I used to commute into and out of London Bridge station - a lovely part of the world! I once got asked for money by a tramp who had a can of Tennants in one hand and a hospital drip (on a stand) stuck in the other!

xzibit

He was pouring the Tennants into the drip presumably?

Amazulu

You do know we have a system called Medicare? There is no need for medical insurance if you so wish, many people get by perfectly well without it.

spartacus

OK, I admit, that wasn't one of my best days.

Turban Explorer

Medical bills are expensive even with the medicare card. My partners needs a cpap machine - $2000 (UK free for exact same machine), his prescription and mine $60 per month - Uk 12 quid. Renewed my contraception device yesterday - $225 - UK free.

Turban Explorer

I can almost smell the greasy cafe on that undercover walk way up to London Bridge... yuck. The amount of times the stench of hot lard almost unleashed my own pavement pizza when staggering up there hungover from Sarf London in my younger years...

evomedia

@spartacus

As I said in comparison with the UK, when you here just on holiday or when your in that first month when your living on your last UK wage before your first Aussie one its expensive, your UK pound will only buy you a third of the food as back home...

For anyone asking about aussie prices they have to compare using the exchange rates, if your a brit its about how much your UK money buys you in Australia...

So as a newly arrived brit using his last UK wage its a very very expensive month, but as I did say when I get my first wage the prices will be comparible. You did actually read my reply didn't you as that's just repeating what I already said mate

Bix

That seems expensive.
What drink was it?

jad n rich

The wait times are a problem too.

Our local public hospital has over 8000 people waiting for an outpatients appointment

My sons got an ENT appointment in brissie. I tried to change it, he'd got a rare place on a gifted & talented course - anyway the clerk at the hosp went nuts at me " Dont you know there are over 400 kids waiting for an appointment at that one clinic!!

Amazulu

Fair enough. My prescription is about the same as it would be in the UK. It will be interesting to see how long longer the NHS will remain free - I doubt that it will.

evomedia

Probably doesn't help that work put my in a place in Paddington, so I'm probably not in the best priced area anyway, still pay day is almost here are I can stop stressing about the price of broccoli and cheese

xzibit

But you pay far more towards it in the UK out of your pay in your NI.

DeadVim

I think I use more petrol than 'cans of drink', if I don't then 'home' it is.

Bix

Don't forget the NHS is already partially funded from NICs.

Bix

Snap!