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Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 6:51 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

How many data points is that calculation covering? If it is opening and closing divided by 2 then it would be quite different to an average based on the daily mid rate for example.

I have looked...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 6:41 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I was referring to your comment that £30k = $46k and that therefore as you see it she had boosted her salary by $19k already.

She has still gone from over the national average to under. Another...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 6:13 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Oh dear. You must have missed the bazillions of threads warning newcomers not to assume the current, historically low exchange rate is a good way to gauge salary.

Yes if I were transferring £30k...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:22 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I agree. Maybe we are both berks.

I didn't get Ozzie's comment as he seemed to be suggesting that it was great to be able to go from ~ £30k to $65k. :D

(I was baffled by Ozze's comment, not...
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:13 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I was baffled by that comment too but decided not to comment. :D
Forum: Australia
Nov 1st 2011, 5:12 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You seem to have given up before you even got here based on a theory about potential earnings that you seem to think is a fact, but which several people now have commented is not the case for them at...
Forum: Australia
Oct 31st 2011, 6:55 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

We were both working in London in financial services in a professional capacity. I now earn ~ UK salary x 2.7 and Mr BS earns ~ UK salary x 2.5. How did you come up with this theory that everyone...
Forum: Australia
May 20th 2011, 11:11 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Sorry to be repetitive but :eek:

:p
Forum: Australia
Apr 21st 2011, 12:16 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I never really do weekly shops so I don't know what is normal, but £55 seems like a tight budget in UK. I think your problem could be that $60k is a below average salary and I can see why it would...
Forum: Australia
Apr 20th 2011, 11:41 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Are you working or living on UK funds at the moment. If you are living off UK funds then it is bound to seem very expensive at the moment. Also setting up on UK funds is expensive too, we found...
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2011, 8:53 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I didn't think anyone was being dubious. :)

I had not looked at the ? comment, it is not quite the same as it says further up the page then.

Good though, we can apply a whole six weeks earlier.
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2011, 8:39 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Yes I know this. But the citizenship calculator does not run off this date, it runs off the lawful residence date. And lawful residence is described as:

.

I would like to say that my lawful...
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2011, 6:58 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Mmm well the definition I got says you have to be resident on a valid visa.

Not much difference in my dates, just a few weeks so I will just play it safe when the time comes and use the date I...
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2011, 6:35 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

When I looked into it recently, I concluded that a two week validation trip could not be classed as lawful residence.



As such, I concluded that the date of my move was my lawful residence date.
Forum: Australia
Apr 11th 2011, 5:23 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You are correct. it is four years from when you established residency, not from when you validated your visa.
Forum: Australia
Jan 16th 2011, 3:45 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

I have seen those, we have wondered what the red wax was all about. Still wondering..
Forum: Australia
Jan 15th 2011, 10:42 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Agree, we find them more expensive than supermarkets.

I cannot comment on the banana issue, I don't think I have eaten a banana since we moved here.
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2011, 6:25 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Oh really? Well you learn something every day. :p I watched a TV program recently and there was a Canadian in USA and I assumed it was easy.
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2011, 6:23 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Only if born an Aus citizen I believe.
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2011, 6:19 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

It is easy for Canadians to get there though, that is well known isn't it. I am speaking from the point of view of a British Expat.
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2011, 6:11 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

What does that mean?

My husband was offered H1B visa last year but I would not have been able to work and it would have taken so long to get into a secure position that we decided we could not do...
Forum: Australia
Jan 6th 2011, 4:11 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

You are absolutely right, I worked in a cake factory making eccles cakes when I was a student and my nails were never better.
Forum: Australia
Jan 5th 2011, 8:23 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

we have ours with fish heads every other thursday.
Forum: Australia
Jan 4th 2011, 1:50 am
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

A poor GBP:AUD exchange rate does not make Australia a rip off, it just means there is an unfavourable exchange rate if you chose to make that comparison.

Although whenever I want to quickly get...
Forum: Australia
Dec 29th 2010, 9:14 pm
Replies: 2,449
Views: 272,656
Posted By Bermudashorts

Re: Anyone Quitting Aus due to High Cost of Living

Well mine is maybe normal then. Reasonable size house, two adults, no kids, no pool and we are out most of the day anyway.
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