Amazulu

Use the quote system!

I get on well with all my neighbours - some of whom are even 'professionals'. I find the people where I live to, generally, be very friendly

A lot of people from the western suburbs can be really up themselves

Amazulu

I also sort of agree with you. I don't think I could live in one of those cookie-cutter, legoland outer suburbs that make up too much of urban Australia. Saying that, there are a lot of suburbs that I would not wanted to have lived in the UK too

pomtastic

Nothing wrong in living in a sprawling lego land suburb with no trees with identikit cheaply built houses BUT paying the average going price of $500K is a complete piss take. The outer suburbs have SFA going for them other than the beach. Facilities are minimal, shopping centres all the same, Maccas planted everywhere.

Ph-UK-Au

This is a spot on view. We've been working out our matrices base on different scenarios and this is what we actually got.

With our kind of lifestyle, the years under 457 will be good. But as we can't risk extending more than 2 years staying under temporary visa, we'd have to move to PR, and so the LAFHA will be given up --- that's when we'll feel the big difference. He'd be going back to the employer with all his comments on the contract and we'd see how it would go.

Thanks for the comments and I'd definitely give an update.

Cheers,
Ph-UK-(Au)

EvannTel

I havent read the whole thread but my opinion would be that for 80K GBP I;d want 200K AUD

bradfordlad

I'm after some 7 and 8 x 16 Fuchs please.

Fluid36

No way.

Family of 3

Opinions on architecture are obviously subjective, but I thought people called Perth dull because they thought there was nothing to do.

Surely ANY British town/city has its fair share of boring/ugly (again, subjective) housing. If having a proportion of boring/ugly housing is what makes a place dull then, in my opinion, London is pretty dull too.

floss in dubai

I find it sad that you have such a distorted/low view on Perth 'locals'. I'm a Perth local (kind of) and I don't live in the 'outer suburbs' but I have friends all over Perth. I'm heading out to Alexander Heights to visit our closest friends as we speak and I'm not an exception. Most people I know have friends from all over. Living in one area doesn't prohibit them from being friends. Jesus, we're not living in West Side Story, we're adults.

BTW, I wouldn't like to move from 81k in the UK to $130K in Perth. Just my opinion.

Family of 3

I always think of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, when I put on my posh frock and leave the outer suburbs to go into the big city for the day.

the troubadour

Don't myself find Weebie's remarks in any way distorted. By and large Perth folk keep themselves to themselves and prefer to maintain a distance from their neighbours.

Do agree though on your second point. No way would i move out here if on 81,000k in UK. Far better off staying there.

the troubadour

Dull is not the term i would use to describe London..not in same way folk use that word to describe Perth,at any rate.

Turban Explorer

So true.........
By some intensive pikeying around on the internet I've just scored a $300 trip to KL from Coolangatta, two weeks in Borneo ($60 to Kota Kinabalu from KL) , fly from KL to Colombo in Sri Lanka ($88) 1 week Sri Lanka then Sri Lanka air to London 125 quid. It's all there if you are flexible and willing to rough it - but to be fair unless you take business class all flights are rubbish anyway.

Last time I paid for extra leg room on Qantas I was mortified to discover I was sitting in the baby section - after 10 hours of screaming, puke, relentless cooing and a bottle of breast milk dripping on me I realise I'd rather have been taped to a wing.

Family of 3

Me neither. But I don't think Perth's dull either.

But people were saying Perth's known as Dullsville because some of the housing is a bit boring. My point was that some of the housing is a bit boring in most places, including London.

Turban Explorer

I'm with the againsts. I think $130k from £80K in the UK would be a considerable drop in living standard. It might be a decent wage for Australia but people generally are not happy when their life style takes a step downhill. Check out the price of shopping, decent cars, house prices and it sticks out a mile that you would need 2.2 to 2.5 times to equate to a similar standard of living. Beaches, sun and sea are nice, I agree, but they soon lose their 'must have' appeal and I, for one, would swap them for some culture, pubs with atmosphere, decent food and shopping any day of the week. Why not take a sabbatical year and travel around. That probably would have been plenty for us but we're committed for at least another 12 months...