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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
And we are also one of the costliest places to live.
Its all relative
( Why do you reckon you were all overseas  )
Andrew |
Hi Andrew,
I spent three months in one of the relatively wealthy regions of northern Italy last year. Pretty much everything there, except for potato chips, peanuts, spirits, liqueurs, cigarettes and Pepsi, is significantly dearer than here. And their typical wages are significantly lower than here. I kept scratching my head on how they made ends meet.
And after three days of driving around in Switzerland, I decided it was way dearer than Italy, and got out of there.
And that was at a time when our dollar was really high (70 Euro cents to the AUD). I've been there when it was 48 Euro cents to the AUD, and that was a case of ouch.
There are plenty of costlier places to live, than in Australia.
Cheers,
Renato