Can anyone who is already out there give me a more realistic cost of how much things are in Adelaide. I've read alot of info but I would love to hear from someone who is there and is having to spend hard earned cash on everyday items. housing tax, petrol, food, rent, electricity, gas, water - all that type of thing.

Thanks :(

Sasha

Hi Snappy

As you can imagine, it would take us a long time to keep answering all the different questions that are popping up on a daily basis now. Within the next couple of weeks we will have a website set up with heaps of information, guides, and tips for Adelaide. Please bare with us whilst we get the ball rolling. If you dont see what you are looking for on the new website, let us know and we will do our best to find it for you.

Best wishes

Podgy

Ok then Sasha here goes....

Petrol varies from week to week around 86 cents a litre to nearly a dollar a litre, it seems to go up just before the weekend and drops mid week. Woolworths "supermarket" gives you 4 cents off a litre when you spend over $30.

Housing tax ? do you mean what you pay to the government when buying a house ? This is a % of the value of the house plus all the other extra's, conveyancers fee's, water rates, council rates, emergency levy, land tax, stamp duty on transfer, registration on transfer plus more GST. Looking on the bright side though you do get a $7,000 Government first time owners grant "which paid our taxes all but $1,000 we had to pay"

Rent - depends where you rent and how big the property is most are around $200 - $270 a week, but you could get one for less if you don't mind where you live.

Electricity - supply charge $27.31 for 88 days, 17 cents per unit used

Gas - supply charge $23.61 a quarter 1.65 per mj.

Phone - paid monthly not quarterly here ! AAPT is $24.09 service and line rental plus what you use 16 cents a local call and you chat for as long as you want. Internation calls $2.50 per half hour.

Water - You pay for what you use plus the supply charge each quarter, this goes on the value of your house as to does the council rates.

Shopping - Well you spend as much or as little as you need, I'd say on the whole I probably spend the same as I did in the UK but I'm buying much more meat than I ever did there. Milk and bread are about the same price as in the UK but many more things are cheaper.

Well Sasha hope that helps you, good luck
Juls :spin:

Is this the adelaide poms website? I can tell you now that every newie would love a website that explains everything - even all the silly little bits of info that is hard to find.

What I meant by the above was the property tax like the council tax you have in the UK.

Anyway thanks for the info everyone.

Sasha :D

I'm not quite sure whether the landlord pays the council tax when you rent, we brought our house and didn't rent privately.

Juls :mr man:

Hi Sasha, it is no use trying to compare prices with England. I have been here almost six years now, when we first came out we thought food was really cheap compared to what you could buy with sterling in England, but here you earn dollars which in value to sterling is less. However, we have a lot better standard of living here, we are able to manage off one nurses income quite well. (something we could not do in England). We have more here than we had in England, a bigger mortgage, a four bedroomed house with pool, more garden,we eat far better (heaps more meat and fruit and beer). The education is better even though we have to pay for things that you never paid for in england like health stuff, education and government taxes when buying houses etc. but comparing the standard of living or how far your money will go,you get more here. I hope you understand my point?

Love Melanie xxx
:medium smiley:

I know what you are trying to say Melanie. I think that is the key thing I wanted to know. Hopefully we will be able to come out with a bit of dosh so we wouldn't have a mortgage but it did worry me that we would have to pay for some things that we are used to having for free over here. The ever rising costs of council tax is the most annoying thing over here and it worried me that I would be just struggling in another country trying to pay all the usual bills as we do over here, therefore not bettering ourselves, if you know what I mean!

We're still at the early stages of migration so I'm afraid by the time we get out there you will all be sick to death of my constant questions! :loopy:

Sasha

I've just found a webpage that sums the cost of living (I've put it in the main links section on AdelaideBrits).

http://www.immigration.sa.gov.au/site/index.cfm

I'm sure I've been on this website before but I can't remember every seeing this factsheet, so just for anyone else who might be interested I thought I'd put it up for them to read. :thumbs up:

Sasha

And up it goes!

Here's one Kev, but not yet the one I remembered...

Elaine

I think I have just found it--------BILLS......

Hi Melanie,
you've answered my question before I've even asked it, how good is that :yeehah: I'm a nurse and will be coming over to Oz soon, I hope, and I was concerned about being able to live on a nurses wage, so it's reassuring to know others are managing. Are nursing jobs in Adelaide hard to come by? thanks, Alexandra