We have been here for 3 months now after emigrating from the UK and are starting to get a good idea of the cost of things.
Overall I'm a bit disappointed at the cost of living everyone tells you how much cheaper it is in Australia, but its not hugely cheaper.
Weekly shopping bill.
Ours is quite similar to the UK, bread is rather expensive, season fruit/veg is slightly cheaper than the uk, supermarkets don't sell Alcohol so theres not the same competition as there is in the UK but you can still pick up some tasty local wine for $6 if you hunt it out.
Transport
Trains are much cheaper, probably half the price, buses are cheap too, petrol is also half the cost of the uk.
Finance.
Mortgage rate is higher 8%+ and the best rate I could get on a car loan was 13.7% which is massive compared to the rates you get in the UK.
Rent.
We are renting a 4 bed house with a pool in a quite expensive area for $550 a week, the house is quite rundown though, theres no rates or water to pay, just electricity and phone.
Phone is $29 a month for line rental so a bit more than the uk.
Internet is expensive, we got a package deal with iinet for I think $69 a month which includes phone rental and 30Gig a month allowance, the allowances in oz are quite stingy and that 30 gig is actually only 10 gig peak time (1 noon until 2:00 am is peak time)
Eating out is a lot cheaper , although a chinese takeaway is about the same as the uk.
Pizza is really cheap, we get 6 large pizza's now and again for $42 (Tuesday night special). Fish and chips for 7 comes to about $45 and comes with more fish than chips (local fresh caught fish, delicious)
Cinema is slightly more than the UK.
foxtel (cable tv) costs about the same as sky did and has a fraction of the number of channels. It comes to about $100 a month with all channels and IQ (this is basically sky+ same remote too)
Electrical, we bought a big American style fridge freezer for $1200 which is about the same as we paid in the uk but we really had to shop around and I think the one in the uk was better (it had ice maker and plumbed in water dispenser)
Mike.
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