Cost Of Living Australia

The Cost of Toys in Australia

19 December 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

A couple of years ago I did a cost comparison post between England and Australia on the price of toys. At that time, from the selected toys I looked at, Australia ended up being 11% more expensive than in the UK. You can read that post by clicking the following link: The Cost of Living [...]

Australian Cities: Most Expensive in the World?

24 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

A couple of weeks ago I did an update on the cost of living in Australia when I went grocery shopping again. I pretty much bought all of the same things I had purchased two years ago and was shocked to find that here in Australia, prices had barely changed during that time. So what’s [...]

The Cost of Living in Australia Update: Groceries

10 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

Just over two years ago I did what I referred to as “a meaningless grocery price comparison chart” comparing Australian food prices with those in the UK. If you want to know why I thought it was meaningless, read my original post called, rather imaginatively, The Cost of Living in Australia: Groceries. As you can [...]

The Cost of Living in Australia – It’s Bananas!

3 August 2011 Cost of Living - Australia

In Mondays post, about three years in Australia, I wondered whether my views would change now that I have got through the honeymoon period. As I write this, I’m fast approaching my fourth anniversary of life in Australia; will I start to see Oz in a different light? Well, there is no doubt I am [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Cost of Living in Australia: House Prices Part Four

27 October 2010 Cost of Living - Australia

The first time I compared the cost of houses between England and Australia was in February 2009 when I wrote…. Australia vs England at House Prices On that occasion there were lots of news headlines going around suggesting Australia’s houses were among the most expensive in the world. I didn’t think so, having moved from [...]