The European Financial Crisis

[Jonesy55]

Originally Posted by Mornnb

The people who usually say strewth, are I believe as you say in Britain, chavs.

But yes, Perth is very expensive, but then wages are also dramatically higher.
From the ABS, the average wage in each state, from Q3 2011, is as follows:

Tasmania $60,518
South Australia $63.305
Victoria $65,608
Queensland $66,882
New South Wales $69,514
Northern Territory $72,602
Capital Territory $79,513
Western Australia $79,934

Yeah, I guess that does make up for it. By contrast the mean average for full-time workers in the UK given current Aussie to Sterling exchange rates is around A$70k in London, A$50-60k in the Southeast and East regions and $42-50k in the rest of the country. So it's a good job we have lower prices too!

Originally Posted by Ultimate Hater

Not true.

The establishment in question calls itself a "bar and bistro".

If it's anything like here the actual title doesn't mean that much, we have pubs that serve excellent food and are more expensive and better quality than some places that call themselves restaurants, then again there are other pubs that serve crap.

But either way A$36 (£22.50) is a hell of a lot for pie and mash I think

[MPJK]

Is Australia the Norway of the South?

[Jonesy55]

Originally Posted by MPJK

Is Australia the Norway of the South?

Yeah, something like that, very expensive but also well paid...

Here are the latest unemployment rates for all the EU countries.

[tayser]

Austria's the place to be it looks like