The cost of living.

[Dog_ger]

Do you ever think about it.

Are we all just working to pay our utilities bills.

Electricity, gas, water & sewage, council rates, emergency services levy, save the murray fund, levy here, levy there, drivers licence, rego.

Lets not forget the price of petrol.

And food.

Let's slip booze in there somewhere.

And tobacco if you smoke.

Fines for speeding etc.

Late payment fees.

Then you have insurance payments on everything you own.

You could probably add to the list.

Blimey Charley.

My super makes me look wealthy but I am poor.

[mighty_tiger_79]

We live to work not work to live

[LaughingKookaburra]

Just moved back from Perth to Adelaide. Chalk and cheese in terms of cost of living.

In rent alone I was paying $2000 per month for a 3x2 30kms out of the city in an average suburb and consuming anything outside your house is a disgrace in terms of prices. All due to mining inflating the economy.

About the only thing that's cheaper is rego and speeding fines.

We have it good here.

[Hazbeen]

Don't forget health insurance, another "luxury" that's sky rocketed the last few years

[Psyber]

Don't forget health insurance, another "luxury" that's sky rocketed the last few years

Mine would have only risen by about 10% over the last few years had not, in the last financial year, my income exceeded the limit for the rebate.
I notice Medicare and BUPA seem a bit expensive for what you get compared with some others - NIB looked OK last year when I looked for a friend.
My industry fund (formerly AMA Heath Fund) doesn't include odds and ends like Chiropractors, herbalists, etc. and that keeps costs down.

[Q.]

My super makes me look wealthy but I am poor.

No, you're not. In fact, I doubt you know what it is to be poor.

[Ron Burgundy]

So many positives to country living. Where I live owning a house is very affordable. My council rates are **** all. Still pay utilities at the same rate obviously. Spend a lot of my time on the river, which is cheap, and a golf membership is next to nothing in comparison to the city.

I'm still just getting by, but the dollar goes so much further.

[heater31]

So many positives to country living. Where I live owning a house is very affordable. My council rates are **** all. Still pay utilities at the same rate obviously. Spend a lot of my time on the river, which is cheap, and a golf membership is next to nothing in comparison to the city.

I'm still just getting by, but the dollar goes so much further.

Get screwed over on some costs for goods and services....fuel in particular

[woodublieve12]

I've heard sydney is a very expensive place to live

[dedja]

Yes, million dollar footballers are living in poverty ...

[wristwatcher]

Good thread. I have become very organised with the new job, fixed income and recent home purchase.

I keep my bills in one of those clear plastic A4 folders and the bloody folder is full, every last page. I now pay more in bills than what I earnt in the previous ten years. The addition of private health is a rediculously large expense and then the emergency services levy, I never even knew what that was. The bastards just keep coming at me. At least I know when to expect them now.