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Originally posted by Fledz I know you'll be surprised but Perth is cheap compared to Sydney.

Everywhere in Australia is cheap compared to Sydney

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Everywhere in Australia is cheap compared to Sydney

It keeps the riff-raff out.

In terms of human-development Australia has been in the top 5 countries for a fairly long time, which is an education, life expectancy and income index by the UN and seems to come 2nd to Norway (they don't factor in the weather ) as the place to be.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk Everywhere in Australia is cheap compared to Sydney

This is true, but surely Melbourne is close? It's mental how expensive Sydney is though, it really is. People keep going "ooooh you must find it really expensive here in Canada" and I almost roll on the floor laughing. You could earn $40k in Toronto and live comfortably. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

On my books, the lowest rental I have is a 1-br unit for $360 a week, which is slightly below average because its a got a good tenant. Upper end will run you $1800 a week for a couple of 3-4br houses I have on the lower north shore.

/resident slum-lord.

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Originally posted by Lilith a 1-br unit for $360 a week, which is slightly below average

We rent a 3 bedroom house with huge deck and a pool for $470 a week.

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Originally posted by Fledz This is true, but surely Melbourne is close? It's mental how expensive Sydney is though, it really is. People keep going "ooooh you must find it really expensive here in Canada" and I almost roll on the floor laughing. You could earn $40k in Toronto and live comfortably. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Problem is that people here don't think $40k is enough, because of how extravagant the North American lifestyle is

But I totally agree with you, considering your view is mostly of a European one (I assume? lol hopefully i'm right), where public transit and spending money on useful/needed things is the norm

If Torontonians stopped spending money on useless things, they would see that their income is pretty great, considering they are living in a metropolitan North American city.

Don't forget, a lot of that 'useless stuff' they dump money into is actually part of Canada's economy, (just like most others) which in turn props up jobs in other sectors.
Hit them with a big enough financial crisis and they'll poke their heads in their shells and go into saving mode... or sell cheap meds across the boarder to the yanks on the side.

You've got Fleds now, he knows all about peddling that stuff if you need some tips.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk We rent a 3 bedroom house with huge deck and a pool for $470 a week.

Yes, aside from mega-floods of mass destruction and plagues of yobbos I would actually like to live in Queensland because the warmer weather is kinder to my skinny arse. However, its not all about me and hasn't been for some years, so it'll get vetoed on the mere mention.
Last time I visited a few years ago and simply 'suggested' it, resulted in some unhappy days...

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Originally posted by Lilith It keeps the riff-raff out.

HAHA you're not serious are you

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Originally posted by FuzzQi HAHA you're not serious are you

Oh very, until such time as its legal to shoot riff raff in my suburb I am extremely serious!

I'm just kidding. We priced them all out into the western suburbs and down south where they can shoot each other.

Come to think about it, there's still actually quite a few successful riff raff that occasionally get topped by their competitors from coke deals gone wrong and other arguments concerning certain Kings Cross establishments.

You're more or less right but there is a BIG class of riff raff with a lot of cash these days

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Originally posted by Fledz Try Sydney or Melbourne and then come back and say that. Rent in Sydney alone would eat up at least $400 a week. I know you'll be surprised but Perth is cheap compared to Sydney.

Thanks for the heads up, know exactly where not to live now :P

Still to come back to the title of the topic : How much do you make and how much do you keep where you are right now? Here I make ~1k$ a month and barely break even, in Australia it was easy to keep well over half after each payday. Luxurious lifestyle excluded, snobs be snobs, ye?

Brisbane has big city problems without the redeeming features of Melbourne and Sydney. $400 is pretty standard in our inner suburbs actually. If not more. If you go way out you can get a McMansion for like $350. If you're sharing with others and don't want to live in a shitty house you'll be lucky to find something under $150 for a room.

Well to think about it now, had I been in the east while in aussie I would have scrammed quite fast - you get all sorts of natural disasters from A to Z on a regular basis. During the time I was in Perth, there was only 1 time where a hurricane in the north touched Perth with its edge.
No joke it's expensive, damages damages damages.

Reasons we can't have nice things...



...damn it

Fucks sake. How do these idiots get into politics?

Amazing

She's withdrawn now, it seems.


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...0810-2rocq.html

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Originally posted by Fledz Fucks sake. How do these idiots get into politics?

I hear they only prevent from running for office people with Islamic passports.

In other news, Hobart was voted the 2nd friendliest city in the world. Hmm... could a grumpy someone have taken it off the first spot? Nah

(Also, Florianópolis is great, totally the friendliest city I've ever been to)

That's a really weird list you've found Lira, I guess PKC was out of town when they did the survey.

now now, don't be like that kids! i think the locals here ARE pretty nice. small-city mentality i guess. oh, and seriously low IQs.

Low IQ's are everywhere, especially in the voting season when we get to pick the least dysfunctional of them to carry the future of the country...



...on any other day, this man would be sorting recycling in a sheltered workshop :/

I despair when someone who's even more of a chocco migrant than my chocco migrant self supports such a stance, but doesn't even have the brain cells to know what they're actually representing.

STOP THE BOATS!!!

STOP THE BOATS!!

STOP THE BOATS!!!

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Originally posted by narcism STOP THE BOATS!!! STOP THE BOATS!! STOP THE BOATS!!!

All of my facepalms.

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Originally posted by Lilith Then there's also Milo, which is basically malted, canned chocolate that you put in milk, up until now... now I'm not quite sure.

We're talking about the goatse there, right?

Well duh. GOSH JENNY.

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