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Forum: Australia
Oct 16th 2012, 6:53 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Now your being ridiculous. I was in the US last year. We drove from Sacramento to San Diego and inland to Vegas, before stopping off for a few nights in NYC on the way ho,e. You could buy an entire...
Forum: Australia
Oct 15th 2012, 7:21 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Bananas are exceedingly cheap in the UK and always have been and apparently the UK is the biggest consumer of bananas per head of any country in the world! I learned this in an economics class at...
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2012, 5:44 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

:rofl: That will test the suspension on his landrover!!!:rofl:
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2012, 5:36 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

[QUOTE=TheArmChairDetective;10329093]The Focus and the Golf most certainly are tiny cars, I have family members who have both and they come with a shoe horn to get in.



No Focuses really aren't...
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2012, 5:29 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Not sure what you drive, but my spacey focus is more than adequate for my needs. What do you drive a transit van?
Forum: Australia
Oct 13th 2012, 4:55 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Don't know about priuses but I've got a 3 year old focus zetec that does about 50 miles per gllon and i'm very happy with it. The wifes got a peugout 108, great little car and regularly does 60 miles...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 10:07 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Just aswell if you'd have taken a $150 k haircut in 18 months...phew!
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 8:52 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

How much did you pay?
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 8:41 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Well Beoz I suspect in any downturn property in the desirable parts of Sydney will hold their value and even continue to go up, as they have done in London. The problem will be in other places. I...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 7:43 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

maybe he needs to get out of that armchair more!:rofl:
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 7:37 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Haha I know Zen has obviously found himself a groupie. Adealide and the highlife! MI like adealide its perfectly nice place and I'm married to an Adelaidian girl, but I'm well aware of its...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 7:07 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Now Zen moving off topic having won our previous debate by some considerable margin, I would now raise a previous point (which you conveniently ignored) about the lack of investment in Australia's...
Forum: Australia
Oct 10th 2012, 5:38 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Hi Zen, Badge sums it up perfectly. Not sure why you are so defensive, but the question was posed by you that there was no equivalent to the Adelaide metropolitan area in the south of Britain and I...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2012, 10:25 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Oh yes area about the same too. Bristol luz 1600 and Adealide metopolitan Zone 1800. Not sure you can get much more comparable...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2012, 10:19 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Urban_Zones

Above may be of interest. Our friend bristol coming in at 64th with about the same population as the Adeliade metropolitan area so therefore...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2012, 10:16 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

A further direct comparison to ram the point home. Solent City as geographers sometimes refer to it: -

South Hampshire or Solent City [1][2] is a term used mainly to refer to the metropolitan area...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2012, 10:10 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Ok taking Cardiff as our example in this case. this is straight of wiki btw.

Cardiff is the capital of Wales and its largest city. It is situated in the highly urbanised area of South East Wales;...
Forum: Australia
Oct 9th 2012, 7:54 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

There you go again with your nonsense assertions. Cities like nottingham, Bristol etc have far bigger hinterlands than Adelaide, which is why Bristol city centre is far busier and better provisioned...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2012, 10:41 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

I bet it wouldn't public transport in Australia is not cheap have you been to Berlin, Amsterdam or Munich recently for a real taste of cheap, efficient citywide public transport? As for urbanisation...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2012, 10:18 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

It seems conducting a conversation with yourself requires conducting detailed internet research, which frankly I have no desire or inclination to do. I live in London so have no idea what the costs...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2012, 9:55 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Like most people with an opinion on everything you are completely ignorant of reality. There is virtually no intercity train network in Australia and what there is makes the UK rail system look...
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2012, 9:31 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

you need to get out more
Forum: Australia
Oct 8th 2012, 8:39 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

I think my earlier post explains in considerable detail, but if you don't understand the basic principles of urban classification I cannot help you. Adelaide is like the other main capitals a...
Forum: Australia
Oct 7th 2012, 9:07 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

Beoz. Sydeneys expensive, Londons expensive if you want to live somewhere decent. Its just the way it is. Supply and demand. I'd happily live in Sydney, but I don't want to be in some craphole in the...
Forum: Australia
Oct 7th 2012, 8:18 pm
Replies: 738
Views: 57,026
Posted By WestLondonWelshman

Re: Living Costs Oz vs UK

oh and please don't say hayes, west drayton etc!!
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