<blockquote rel="beth_loggins">Hi Guys,
I just read an article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/expat-money/8942489/The-true-cost-of-expat-living-in-Australia.html
staying mahal daw sa Australia, esp Sydney.
Do you guys manage to save or offset $ sa sweldo nyo?
Also, practice ba sa Aussie na mag bigay ng bonuses?</blockquote>
Mentioned this one previously... Effective net taxi namin mag-asawa dito sa Melbourne is much lesser than what we were getting sa Singapore however it seems like mas malalaki naman na set-aside namin for the rainy days and for savings.
Maybe because di na ako gumagastos ng $15/day for food - Singapore kasi, di talaga kami nagluluto while dito sa Australia, nagluto ako ng 2kilo adobo and etc. Eating out is something we do mga at most twice a week nalang. Sayang din kasi yung cost ng 1 meal ko, it is already the cost of the 2 kilo adobo, ahahah!! 🙂
Maybe because mas cheaper na ang house rental namin... 🙂
Maybe because we don't travel as much as we did before; dati kasi out of the country at least every 2 months. Once a yr we try to go somewhere far from SG like HK or Europe - that alone will have a very big dent in our savings. Ngayon, our travel would be window shopping to a seaside town in Victoria that would involve 3hr back and forth driving. Or a picnic in a football field just outside our home.
And maybe because ngayon, we are just very conscious na of our gastos especially that we are soon getting our own place and the fact that yun nga mas lesser ang take home pay namin than SG.
All these factors and more add to the fact that we are better off financially that we were in Singapore previously; did it mean that our quality of living was better before in Singapore? Big NO - ngayon kasi, we are enjoying the finer things in life that does not cost too much (sometimes even free pa nga...)