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What is it about Oz that shits you to tears?

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Old Jan 18th 2011, 8:28 pm
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Originally Posted by unfair dinkum
Well thought out response, but really pretty meaningless when you find yourself paying $200 plus for groceries for a family of 4. The prices are cripplingly expensive. Not just supermarket stuff either. Bottleshops, bakeries, and WTF is it with milk bars? Pie/coke/crisps last week (look it was Friday and I was too knackered to take lunch to work, ok?) cost nearly 9 bucks!!
You see at the moment it is the exchange rate that kills it. When I was working in London before I moved to Australia in 2005, I would easily spend 5 GBP on a lunch including a drink at the deli round the corner. Todays exchange rate makes that pretty cheap compared to your quote but at 2.5 when I arrived that makes your lunch sound pretty cheap. A lot of things have gone up and I agree that Australia is no longer the cheap place it used to be but not all things are equal and to suggest that Australia is across the board a lot more expensive than the UK is misleading IMO.
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Originally Posted by northernbird
You see at the moment it is the exchange rate that kills it. When I was working in London before I moved to Australia in 2005, I would easily spend 5 GBP on a lunch including a drink at the deli round the corner. Todays exchange rate makes that pretty cheap compared to your quote but at 2.5 when I arrived that makes your lunch sound pretty cheap. A lot of things have gone up and I agree that Australia is no longer the cheap place it used to be but not all things are equal and to suggest that Australia is across the board a lot more expensive than the UK is misleading IMO.
Most Aussies would agree that groceries are getting more expensive. The comparison to other countries doesnt really matter to the ordinary Australian.
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Old Jan 18th 2011, 8:35 pm
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Most Aussies would agree that groceries are getting more expensive. The comparison to other countries doesnt really matter to the ordinary Australian.
They are for sure, when I arrived in 05 my bill was around $200. Guaranteed now I have a greedy teenage daughter to feed instead of the 8 year old I arrived with. Still last weeks shopping cost me $380! I don't buy anything different really and that is 2 adults (1 of whom has been lap-banded!) and a 13 and 8 year old.
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Originally Posted by Officer Dibble
Most Aussies would agree that groceries are getting more expensive. The comparison to other countries doesnt really matter to the ordinary Australian.
Ordinary Australian? No such animal!

We are all either bronzed hunks or super shielas as a brief reccie around The Hyperdome will prove.

Aussies, best in the world, mate.
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Ordinary Australian? No such animal!

We are all either bronzed hunks or super shielas as a brief reccie around The Hyperdome will prove.

Aussies, best in the world, mate.
Sorry. I meant "Mainstream Aussie".

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Originally Posted by northernbird
You see at the moment it is the exchange rate that kills it. When I was working in London before I moved to Australia in 2005, I would easily spend 5 GBP on a lunch including a drink at the deli round the corner. Todays exchange rate makes that pretty cheap compared to your quote but at 2.5 when I arrived that makes your lunch sound pretty cheap. A lot of things have gone up and I agree that Australia is no longer the cheap place it used to be but not all things are equal and to suggest that Australia is across the board a lot more expensive than the UK is misleading IMO.
Parking a car is cheaper. Butternut squash and pumpkin are cheaper but to be fair I'd rather eat cat shit. Rent is probably cheaper - at least in the 'smart' state I am located. Most things have a lot to do with the exchange rate - with sterling swinging like a swollen colostomy bag - but its always been spenny in Oz for pretty average food...

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Originally Posted by northernbird
They are for sure, when I arrived in 05 my bill was around $200. Guaranteed now I have a greedy teenage daughter to feed instead of the 8 year old I arrived with. Still last weeks shopping cost me $380! I don't buy anything different really and that is 2 adults (1 of whom has been lap-banded!) and a 13 and 8 year old.
I cant complain as I buy the same things week in, week out and have a decent income but I feel that the elderly on their limited pensions are often the best indicators of what costs are going up or down.
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Sorry. I meant "Mainstream Aussie".

Australia....f**k yeah!
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Originally Posted by northernbird
When I was working in London before I moved to Australia in 2005, I would easily spend 5 GBP on a lunch including a drink at the deli round the corner.
And that same lunch in Manchester or anywhere else outside of London would be about 2.5 GBP.
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Old Jan 18th 2011, 9:26 pm
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Australia! - Putting the 'R' back into Redneck!

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If I was going to be pedantic I would point out that can't be Australian as it is left hand drive truck!
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As a redneck vehicle its made of riveted together VB crates, a tarp and tins of economy dog food - the steering wheel is stuck on with hummus and utterly side interchangeable
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As a redneck vehicle its made of riveted together VB crates, a tarp and tins of economy dog food - the steering wheel is stuck on with hummus and utterly side interchangeable
I can't be the only one admiring the pool ute can I?
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