AddictedToTravel

My husband son and I are thinking about moving to Australia. One thing I wanted to know, so we can make up a budget to see what he would need to be earning is the cheaper grocery stores in Melbourne and Sidney. Right now we shop at a Costco type place that doesn't require membership, although we don't have anything against a place that does! We buy a lot of dried beans, rice, pasta etc and frozen vegetables, as well as a weekly shop for fresh fruit, vegetables, milk and bread.

I hope someone could give me some names of shops like this so we can do a budget and see if Australia will work for us!

Thanks in advance!

Shellyj

coles

woolworths

aldi

But your first step if you haven't done so already would be to study this site DIAC before you worry about food.

Bermudashorts

Agree with Shelly. Cost of groceries is not the place to start, visa eligibility is. You need to earn GBP X about 2.5 for similar standard of living.

AddictedToTravel

We already know about the visa's, that's my husbands part of the job of our possible relocation. He also already has a number of job options.

MY job is to start putting together a budget for household things!

Thanks for the names of the shops!

Bermudashorts

Costing out vegetables as part of you immigration investigation could be a waste of time, not least because they change.

You should look for at least 2.5 times salary for similar standard of living, that does seem to be the consensus anyway.

Pollyana

Have a look back through the forum, there are some recent threads with a lot of budget details in, stuff about rent, utility bills etc


And welcome to BE

saveme

Normally I would not care about prices but, in anorak mode, I've been recording my bills and I appear to be spending about $400 per month on household stuff. That's for a single person and excludes petrol and alcohol and coffee.

This is in Sydney around the inner city - Surry Hills, Redfern and also 'posh' suburbs like Double Bay (Double PAY some say) and Rose Bay.

spottydog

I really wouldn't try to price food online apart from a really general guide, shopping here doesn't tend to be done in a single store.

You get lots of independent greengrocers here which can be much cheaper than the supermarkets (particularly if you buy in season). All my pulses I buy dried in bulk from the greengrocer along with fruit & veg (after comparing with Aldi & Woolies as they are in the same shopping centre), for chicken I go to the chicken shop and for the rest of the meat I go to the bulk meat butcher

odyssey

I love making lists and thinking of things like this so I reckon go for your life!

colesonline.com.au is fine for a good idea of what you woudl spend in a broad kind of way.

The hidden costs are in household things I think - like furnishings - random stuff seems to cost a lot. And the bills are very different.


Good luck!

simply14u

We find shopping in our area ok as there are plenty of shops around. Prices became more competitive when Aldi opened a few years ago.

I've never been to Melbourne (too cold down there for me!) but I have heard shopping is pretty good. Sydney shopping can be good, especially at Paddys Market for fresh fruit & veg............though I'd never live in Sydney! Too crowded and busy as well as expensive housing.

Costco has opened in Melbourne and Sydney now.