http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/to...704-21ghr.html

Yes, it's WELL exy!

I can't believe it sometimes. For example yesterday I walked past Bayswater Car hire. When I first came here 9 years ago it was $12 a day, today it's $28.

I never go to pubs because 1. it's $10 a pint plus and 2. the pubs around me a full of shaven headed pommies in football shirts looking to fight. In fact I told my mrs. she couldn't go to the Sovereign the other night which was just as well as I think there was a stabbing.

One of my neighbours has build a traditional British pub on the side of his house, that's where we always go, every Friday. It's great.

Having said that business owners do need to retain staff from going to the mines and their biggest cost will be ASTRONOMICAL rents. So it's really the property bubble that is fuelling it all IMO.

$10 a pint I'm paying just over 2 quid, bloody hell.

$15 a pint is not that unusual in perth nowadays..

At those prices, smoking is cheap in comparison.

Must be lots of peeps with cash to splash.

It's £3.80 in the City of London got up to £4.20 during the football but $15 ouch. Truly things must be good over there if people are paying $15 for a pint.

in summary: mining boom. wages in WA are high when compared to the rest of the world (and even other parts of australia) and this partly compensates for everything being expensive. there are people earning extraordinary salaries there, mainly in industries connected to the mining boom.

but obviously some not all sectors of the economy are benefitting.

Chris - you're back....

I'm off to Perth tomorrow....I'll have to take notes....

Take plenty of note$.

Its really just the mining sector that are booming and that is a very small % of the workforce.

What a queer thing to say

Actually no, totally accurate

Its wider than that, considerably, but agree it hardly across the board

Really?
Where? Not in my experience bar the Belgian Bar imported stuff and I need to know where to avoid.