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Originally Posted by jim1606
Yeah but the conversion works out to be 29 quid so really it aint to much of a transition
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Yea Jim, agreed, I'm originally from Slough, lived in Burnham and Taplow mainly, been in Oz for 20 years, was in NZ for 10 years before coming here, anyway.....I guess what I was referring to is that in the UK everyone generally gets paid quantifiably more than what one would for carrying out the same occupation here in Oz, therefore 29 pounds to you or most other Brits is literally nothing, but to the average Aussie especially after taking into account the value of the pound against the much weaker Oz dollar it actually works out to be a fair bit more in "practice", $75.00 can work out to be a bit of a chunk out of some Aussie pay packets, whereas the equivalent 29 quid is probably a few lagers down the local of an evening for you or any other Brit, this is why in general the cost of living in Oz is substantially cheaper than it is in the UK, the cost of housing, petrol, groceries and so on.........we simply get paid less, the flip side is of course that anyone emigrating from the UK and has been earning Pounds Sterling and paying off their mortgage on their UK property for some time, can after converting their money into Oz dollars effectively live very nicely off here in Oz, Iv'e met many English people here who were just your "average Joe's" in the UK, but after taking the plunge and emigrating are indeed living like "Kings an' Queens" over here courtesy of the monetory exchange rate working in their favor......and bloody good luck to em' I say.