Cost of Living – Australia

The Cost of Living “Comfortably” in Australia

27 June 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

Today, I want you to meet Hilda…… …..and talk about living comfortably in Australia. But what is comfort? As you know, we like a good survey here at BobinOz. Sometimes we even like bad surveys, like the one that said Adelaide was the best city in Australia. But what has that got to do with [...]

Queensland: The Cost of Living Crisis!

25 May 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

What cost of living crisis? I was going to tell you about pokies today, but something else has cropped up. In a change of plan, pokies will be next week, today it’s pollies, or politicians. You’ll see why in a minute. So what happened? As you all know, I have an entire category about the [...]

A Night Out in the West End of Brisbane

2 May 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

I’ve been robbed! It was my own fault; I shouldn’t have gone in there. I mean, look at it, from the outside, it looks dark and dingy. In fact, this place didn’t even dare call it self anything, there’s no name above it at all. Inside, there was no service at the bar, just waitress [...]

Australia’s Free Stuff and School Holidays

20 April 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

If I walk out of my front door and turn left, then left again and keep going for about 500 km, I get to a town called Roma, which is in the western Darling Downs. The town of Roma has a population of just under 7,000 people, and it is to those people that I [...]

A Night Out At The Comedy Club, Brisbane

18 February 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

Last week, me and three of my pals had a night out over at the comedy club in Albion. Albion is a suburb just a 10 minute taxi drive north of the city of Brisbane. Actually, the evening was billed as an “Adult Magic” night, but from where I was sitting, it was 90% adult [...]

An Afternoon at the Theatre in Brisbane

10 January 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

A while ago I wrote a post about what to do with your kids during the school holidays when it’s raining all the time. That was in September, when it was raining, and here we are in January, and it’s still raining. Except worse! Not only is it raining more, but there’s more of a [...]

The Cost of Living: Australia and the US Compared

8 December 2010 Cost of Living - Australia

I would imagine most of us from both Australia and the UK have, on occasions, glanced enviously over to the USA because, well, everything is so cheap there, isn’t it? Houses are cheaper, petrol is cheaper, electricity is cheaper and so are electrical goods and many other regular household items. Here in Australia, unlike the [...]

Hard Yakka

1 December 2010 Cost of Living - Australia

Current Rates Aussie yakka: One hour of hard yakka buys $32.80 of stuff. The UK yakka: One hour of hard yakka buys £15.06 of stuff. Allow me to explain…. Here in Australia it’s called hard yakka and back in England we used to call it hard graft. What is it? Yes, its work. That thing [...]

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I'm BobinOz and I moved to Australia in November 2007 after living in England for a very long time. Why did I move and what's it like here? All this and more answered right here at Bobinoz. Click here to read more on my about me page.