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Friday, 3 April 2015
quote [ EVER THOUGHT YOUR LIFE is too expensive? Well, if you?re living in the western world, it probably is, but it?s probably not as expensive as life in Switzerland. Movehub, an international moving company, put together this incredible infographic to show you where the cheapest places in the world are, and where the most expensive are, with a bit of info on every country in between as well. ]
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one_inch said @ 10:32am GMT on 5th April
Property is the worst, it's hard to get a first home in Sydney for less than half a million anyone. 2 bedroom apartments selling for over that amount is not uncommon, and not just inner-city where you would expect it but 30+ kilometres into the suburbs. Very hard for young people to get into the market. Negative gearing and baby bloomers tend to get the blame but there is a shortage of land for new developments and despite all the space most of us live in one of 5 cities which puts demand on stock.
Courtesy of a duopoly on our national supermarkets, groceries are very expensive. I was in London last year and it was considerably cheaper there for a basket of groceries. They are also killing off our farmers through their predatory practices like $1 litre of milk etc and encouraging importing of produce for lowest cost.
Petrol is ok, more than US but less than Europe, about AU$1.35/L at the moment. Electricity is more expensive than it should be given we produce most the world's coal...
Eating and drinking out is expensive, it's not uncommon today over $9 for a corona at a bar (I use that as a comparison as I assume you have corona where you are.)
But Sydney is pretty and I'm lucky that my office looks over the harbour so can't complain too much.
one_inch said @ 6:32am GMT on 5th April
Property is the worst, it's hard to get a first home in Sydney for less than half a million anywhere. 2 bedroom apartments selling for over that amount is not uncommon, and not just inner-city where you would expect it but 30+ kilometres into the suburbs. Very hard for young people to get into the market. Negative gearing and baby bloomers tend to get the blame but there is a shortage of land for new developments and despite all the space most of us live in one of 5 cities which puts demand on stock.
Courtesy of a duopoly on our national supermarkets, groceries are very expensive. I was in London last year and it was considerably cheaper there for a basket of groceries. They are also killing off our farmers through their predatory practices like $1 litre of milk etc and encouraging importing of produce for lowest cost.
Petrol is ok, more than US but less than Europe, about AU$1.35/L at the moment. Electricity is more expensive than it should be given we produce most the world's coal...
Eating and drinking out is expensive, it's not uncommon today over $9 for a corona at a bar (I use that as a comparison as I assume you have corona where you are.)
But Sydney is pretty and I'm lucky that my office looks over the harbour so can't complain too much.
one_inch said @ 6:34am GMT on 5th April
Property is the worst, it's hard to get a first home in Sydney for less than half a million anywhere. 2 bedroom apartments selling for over that amount is not uncommon, and not just inner-city where you would expect it but 30+ kilometres into the suburbs. Very hard for young people to get into the market. Negative gearing and baby bloomers tend to get the blame but there is a shortage of land for new developments and despite all the space most of us live in one of 5 cities which puts demand on stock.
Courtesy of a duopoly on our national supermarkets, groceries are very expensive. I was in London last year and it was considerably cheaper there for a basket of groceries. They are also killing off our farmers through their predatory practices like $1 litre of milk etc and encouraging importing of produce for lowest cost.
Petrol is ok, more than US but less than Europe, about AU$1.35/L at the moment. Electricity is more expensive than it should be given we produce most the world's coal...
Eating and drinking out is expensive, it's not uncommon to pay over $9 for a corona at a bar (I use that as a comparison as I assume you have corona where you are.)
But Sydney is pretty and I'm lucky that my office looks over the harbour so can't complain too much.
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one_inch said @ 10:32am GMT on 5th April [Score:1 Informative]
Property is the worst, it's hard to get a first home in Sydney for less than half a million anywhere. 2 bedroom apartments selling for over that amount is not uncommon, and not just inner-city where you would expect it but 30+ kilometres into the suburbs. Very hard for young people to get into the market. Negative gearing and baby bloomers tend to get the blame but there is a shortage of land for new developments and despite all the space most of us live in one of 5 cities which puts demand on stock.
Courtesy of a duopoly on our national supermarkets, groceries are very expensive. I was in London last year and it was considerably cheaper there for a basket of groceries. They are also killing off our farmers through their predatory practices like $1 litre of milk etc and encouraging importing of produce for lowest cost.
Petrol is ok, more than US but less than Europe, about AU$1.35/L at the moment. Electricity is more expensive than it should be given we produce most the world's coal...
Eating and drinking out is expensive, it's not uncommon to pay over $9 for a corona at a bar (I use that as a comparison as I assume you have corona where you are.)
But Sydney is pretty and I'm lucky that my office looks over the harbour so can't complain too much.
