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well if i manage to move to USA, Canada or Australia after uni then i will probably own a house in the future... if I stay i better get looking for rich boyfriend
Well i'll have a nervous breakdown if I have to spend my life in this hellhole rainy dive.
Well i'll have a nervous breakdown if I have to spend my life in this hellhole rainy dive.
I might get homesick though.
If you move out of the UK, don't go to Australia, as housing prices are insane down there too...lol. Even Canada has expensive houses, but the USA is a very large country - you could travel around it for years and still never see it all....lol.
If you move out of the UK, don't go to Australia, as housing prices are insane down there too...lol. Even Canada has expensive houses, but the USA is a very large country - you could travel around it for years and still never see it all....lol.
as for Australia, it seems expensive to outsiders... but their minimum wage is a massive $16 an hour and most basic jobs pay over $20 an hour, average weekly wage in Perth is $1600!
so if you live there and make australian money, its not as expensive as it seems for us
Don't you worry thons the last place i'll be setting foot in.
I'll immigrate but not 11,000 miles. I love my parents and I am not gonna go so far away that I can't afford regular visits. Plus I would like a winter. You know, a real winter..
as for Australia, it seems expensive to outsiders... but their minimum wage is a massive $16 an hour and most basic jobs pay over $20 an hour, average weekly wage in Perth is $1600!
so if you live there and make australian money, its not as expensive as it seems for us
True .... I stock shelves and make $20 an hour.... just for cutting a box open and placing an item on the shelf...
Sure it gets physical, as I have to deal with moving pallets around and re-stocking those massive dog food bags, potting mix and drink slabs, but still it's a mindless job and if you do **** up, no one dies. The main problem here is housing prices. It's ridiculous in the big cities, but out in the smaller towns it's way cheaper. Rent is a lot cheaper and often utilities are included so it's a compelling alternative to struggling with a mortgage for the next 3 decades.
Go on an overseas holiday with your Australian wages to most places, especially to central/eastern Europe, Asia etc, you'll be living like a king.
This is Camp Hill, a middle class suburb of Harrisburg (nowhere near a large city but Harrisburg-Carlisle metro area has 500k people). That's what almost $300k gets you. The other listings are all houses under 3000 sq. ft., about half an acre of land or less, and the houses are 20+ years old. Oh, and $5000-$6000 in property taxes (aka council tax for our British friends on here) on top of 3% income tax. My state is widely considered to be the most affordable in the Northeast (people that move here from the Midwest complain how it's so expensive to live in PA) . It is expensive living up here, but we have the highest quality of life in the country, the best school districts on average, and a large chunk of the best universities on the planet.
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Or a Cape Cod style home on Long Island. Near where I first grew up. 4 bedrooms, detached, probably around 1400 sq ft on 1/8 acre. Built in the 50s. Simple, solid house. $290k,
or you prefer the city... One bedroom in the Upper East Side for $339k. It's small (550 sq ft), appears to be in an old 4 story brick building (100 years old?). And comes with ceiling fan! No central A/C or dedicated parking, but you didn't really expect that?!
Or a Cape Cod style home on Long Island. Near where I first grew up. 4 bedrooms, detached, probably around 1400 sq ft on 1/8 acre. Built in the 50s. Simple, solid house. $290k,
or you prefer the city... One bedroom in the Upper East Side for $339k. It's small (550 sq ft), appears to be in an old 4 story brick building (100 years old?). And comes with ceiling fan! No central A/C or dedicated parking, but you didn't really expect that?!
NYC metro is just way too expensive, lol. This is what passes for middle class and affordable in SE PA. Tom77 can vouch for me. $300k is the lower end of the middle class property ladder along the "main line" suburbs. The other suburbs in Bucks and Montgomery Counties are just as expensive, or more, except in Norristown (crappy city) and Chester (ghetto)
Guessing where Cambium lives is Fairfield County, CT? Expensive there
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