One week just isn't enough time to decide. We moved from the USA to Melbourne, lived and worked there for two years due to a company transfer. Maybe a family from the UK would be more tolerant of the prices - but ultimately that broke us and we decided to return to the 'States. $5 for an avocado, $8 a gallon for milk (and we have a toddler) and rent that was literally three times what our mortgage cost us per month in the USA. I'd move back in a heartbeat. We loved Australia and every person we met. But we'd have to win the lottery first or both become brain surgeons.
+Thomas Webb Australia does offer much to ordinary brits, but it can't compete with America. It's the complexity of American immigration laws that keep most brits from coming to the U.S.
The problem in Australia is the real estate industry has stalled federal and state government land releases for decades, and manipulated the market to create a housing shortage that over-inflated prices and commissions. The land values need to be deflated but greedy investors don't want any adjustments that reduce land values on properties they over-paid for. Nothing will change because politicians in Australia also invest their own money into real estate too, and resetting property values to their actual value would directly reduce their own wealth.
+3506Dodge Not sure what you guys are basing that on? Australia is far more prosperous than the USA with a significantly higher standard of living. Median Wealth; USA: $USD 55,876. AUST: $USD 195,417. Minimum hourly rate; USA: $USD 7.26. AUST: $USD 13.60. Minimum weekly rate; USA $USD 275. AUST: $USD 516.80. Australia is the only developed nation that not only weathered the Global Financial Crisis but actually profited from it. I'm sure the USA is a great place to live, I'm not disputing that at all, but per capita Australia is a much richer nation.
it's quite common in aus to first find the block of land you like buy it and use the land as deposit for the house you like and build it on the your land
was watching a earlier and noticed gooseberrys there been in aus over 50 years never seen them since leaving england anyway why don't you buy fresh pineapples , mangoes, custard apples, kiwi fruit , passion fruit
It's a difficult decision for anyone, I was lucky to have grown up in South Africa lived and worked for many years in the UK , but now in Australia I would never look back at any other country. Yes it's expensive, but it's as close to SA lifestyle as you will ever get.... given SA today is written off politically. Having said that Australia is very American today in every context, it has little appreciation for its legacy. I know how these people fell in love with the modern homes, I remember the same, but grow up later.... when the dreaming stopped.
