www.heraldsun.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
... is titled: "Sydney claims the title of Australia's most expensive city for expats".
Me question is: what do expats have to do with the article or the survey??
Like, isn't the price of living in Sydney the same for any outsiders, like people coming from the country or immigrants, say? Or inter-city?
I don't get it... what do expats have to do with the article?
Also, the article does not mention its source for the survey, that I can see.
Signed: a baffled expat.
I'd imagine that expats have higher lodging costs and would tend to eat out more often, have a rented or leased car, and typically live the so-called high life.
Perhaps expats are given as an example as they would mostly rent and the rents over here are very high.
....and when they arrive they're living on a currency that is not the AUD.
My parents came over to Perth from the UK in March and could not believe how expensive it was living on GBP. I'm in the UK at the moment living on AUD and boy is it CHEAP. The only thing that's not cheaper is fuel.
Meanwhile electricity is going (gouging) up about 20% next month in NSW ontop of heaps of price rises over the last few years. What a bloody rip off when millions of tonnes of coal is exported from NSW.
I know what you'z saying, but expats no better or worse than someone coming from say Wangaratta or Goldburn or Wagga or Lithgow and moving in the city. Say I sold a house in NY or London or Toronto to move to Sydney, am I that much worse off? I don't think so - at all.
And anyways, did they really actually interviewed expats for this? Sounds pretty unlikely. How do I find expats to ask they what they think of the living costs in Sydney or Melbourne?
No biggies...
