Ive been in Australia since 1988, things are expensive here. Its amazing the lack of common sense and judgement that exists here.
Lets look at some things here:
- Labour is very expensive, why? Because a lot of people are fiscally irresponsible in Australia, they acquire items that are beyond their means, when that happens, they pass the costs to the custoomers. Yes, I'm talking about brickies, tilers, sparkies, and other trades not normally associated with high-income brackets
- We won't let in foreign labour to relieve our labour shortage. A lot of overpaid and shoddy tradesmen want to keep this going so they can squeeze every last penny thy are not entitled too.
- My city, Perth, has the highest median average cost of a house in the nation, that is ridiculous considering it beating Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne which are 4 times as huge!!
- The economy is booming because of raw materials exports, that is only half the story, the economy is also proppoed by consumer consumption fueled by debt....ironic pun....debt-fueled economy.
- Dollar/Value is quite poor compared to America and Canada. Its because of labour expenses...expensive, thats why we get British tradesmen coming here, they're like Kings here!! I know, I've met em.
- Lack of direction, the government seems to be coasting along rather than develop a long term vision like Singapore, China, Malaysia and other up and coming countries.
- Innovation poorness, most of the best ideas from Auztralia go overseas because well, the environment for innovation is kinda stifled here. Best go overseas to develop ur great ideas.
- 1 million Australian are overseas expats, thats 1/20th of the population, a lot of them are professionals, experts and smart too. Thats a huge blow to the economy.
- Listed quite well on the corruption index

Plenty of my dad's workmates say that Asia is corrupted and Australia is not...the difference is that Asians know it and use it, here they live in lala-land.
- Germaine Greer....one of her sayings "old women have the right to be stimulated by young men" (paraphrased).......sick grumpy old sack.
With that said it has some positives:
- Friendly people, yes they are friendly. I want to bash with copper pipes sometimes but yes, very nice ppl.
- Australian rules football
- Australian rules football...love it
- um, we can buy guitars here...got to be a big thumbs up
- actually one of the cleanest developed countries in the world
- CHildren overboard, so funny!!
Growing up here for 19yrs, I've realised I've got to get out of this country!!!
As soon as I get some professional experience in my field, I'm outta here.
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