I had to spend about 700/week as basic expenses: rent, food, cigs, petrol which isn't that much at all I think, I lived in Perth CBD to boot which is expensive as a mutherfker. Of course I Could have stayed at a hostel and payed max 200/w for rent, but who'd want to stay in a hostel for too long ^^

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.

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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!

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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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