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$300 A a week. In inner Brisbane you would blow half that on accommodation in a share room alone. Further out you could get your own room.
Your own appartment in even the cheapest most out of the way places available, would burn almost all your $300.
Assuming share and had $150 for everything else. You could live on rice, two minute noodles, in season vegetables, and cheap wine. A cheap bike and public transport would get you around.
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In Sydney it would pay for about four days rent in a small apartment and nothing else. Way below the poverty line. You might be able to rent a small house in a mostly welfare area more than an hours drive from the city. It would be unrenovated and shabby.
A decently frugal single could live on $1000 a month where I live in Kansas, but it wouldn’t be much of a life. A studio could probably be found for $300. I rent single bedrooms for $450 and I’m sure there are cheaper ones. Those are good quality single bedrooms. Most things to live on are within walking distance. Not great public transport, but good enough bus system to get around. Some bars and good restaurants within walking distance. A car would probably be out of the question. Not much eating out.
In Sydney it would pay for about four days rent in a small apartment and nothing else. Way below the poverty line. You might be able to rent a small house in a mostly welfare area more than an hours drive from the city. It would be unrenovated and shabby.
The OP was talking about $US1000 a month, which equates to $300 per week in Australian dollars. Typical rent in Sydney for an apartment is about $600 a week, so $300 is half a weeks rent. We live 26 kms from the centre of Sydney and a typical rent for a house is over $1000 a week around here.
In Australia we generally pay an amount by the week for rent, not month.
The OP was talking about $US1000 a month, which equates to $300 per week in Australian dollars. Typical rent in Sydney for an apartment is about $600 a week, so $300 is half a weeks rent. We live 26 kms from the centre of Sydney and a typical rent for a house is over $1000 a week around here.
In Australia we generally pay an amount by the week for rent, not month.
You mean it’s typical to pay rent 52 times a year instead of 12 Times? That seems a little ridiculous. I’d be sick and tired of making payments. Luckily I suppose it could be done automatically now.
You mean it’s typical to pay rent 52 times a year instead of 12 Times? That seems a little ridiculous. I’d be sick and tired of making payments. Luckily I suppose it could be done automatically now.
You don't always have to pay weekly, but residential properties are almost always quoted as $ rent per week.
You mean it’s typical to pay rent 52 times a year instead of 12 Times? That seems a little ridiculous. I’d be sick and tired of making payments. Luckily I suppose it could be done automatically now.
I think most agents require it to be done electronically as is most banking now. Cheques at almost a thing of the past here. Many tenants choose to pay four weeks at a time and the bond which must be lodged in NSW is of four weeks rent.
It is just a small difference in custom. We talk about salary in either an annual figure or a weekly figure. However government payments are quoted, for some reason, in fortnightly figures.
A varied list of supermarket groceries is higher in Philiippines than in the US. A few fruits and vegetables are cheaper, but many are higher. Meat is higher, but fish is cheap. Milk, breads, processed foods, all higher. Even rice is close to US price. But eating out, like fast food, is less than half the US menu price. Three bucks will get a heavy burger meal deal. Fifty cents for a plate of rice and bowl of decent soup and drink at a market stall.
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