Like all the Aussies on sunrise and 7 news moving to Bali and Thailand living in huge villas and saying life is so great and cheap compared to Australia!
Try doing that on a local wage. The only reason you can afford a villa with a chef in Bali is thanks to your Australian wages
Spare a thought for us in UK.
Our wages in Uk are lower than Oz and our houses food and cars and petrol more expensive
Not to mention your weather, miserable.
(Thatâs the weather Iâm refering to, not you.).
Even worse than I imagined when I moved here.
I choose to live In London for 3 main reasons
For these huge for me main reasons - I put up with the broken economy and bad weather. Lisbon is 2 hours and AUD$80 away
Have you done this yet?
With London traffic, youâll probably be lucky to get just to Heathrow by 8.30.
Eurostar from St Pancras.
I do it every 2 weeks.
Normally not Heathrow though.
Europe flights go out of other airports mostly
Itâs 45-60mins from my door to Heathrow, Luton, Stansted and Gatwick
Not bad
I live in Canary Wharf. To London City Airport itâs a 13 minute drive.
30 cities nonstop.
Just make sure you check before you take any dreamy choc chip biscuits on board @Radiohead
Damn straight. 
Iâve gotta say, Iâve been finding myself going to Colesworths in lieu of getting takeaway. Anyone else doing that or am I the weird one?
Iâve already eaten them 
Thatâs really cool. So do you just decide âooh, Iâm gonna go to Paris this weekendâ and then hop on a plane? I really like that idea. I admire anyone who has the drive to just do something, or go somewhere, out of nowhere. And no better place to do that from than London.
Not quite that loose! Haha. I look 4-6 weeks out for sales and discounts. You can fly to Barcelona; Lisbon, Palma; Florence; Madrid, Geneva etc for as little as A$100 round trip or 18,000 British airways Avios points.
My boss lets me work remote as long as Iâm contactable so itâs pretty easy to work from a cafe in Spain or Italy Mondays and Fridays.
I normally fly back to London early Tuesday morning and go right to the office.
This is the life I want. And why I put up with broken Britain and the weather!
Back to supermarkets before I get yelled at for going off topic!
Living in Canary Wharf is why your housing is so expensive. Come out west.
Where do you live? @TVHead
I just bought a place In Canary Wharf. I used to live in Notting Hill.
West London ainât cheap either!
Not far, in the Borough of Ealing. I have noticed a dramatic increase in grocery prices here since moving a few years ago. It was fairly cheap in 2021, now itâs the same price as it was when I left Australia, but in GBP, and as you say, lower salaries.
I still find groceries in London cheap - especially relative to salaries.
Eating out - even a shake shack or five guys is very expensive
And rent / mortgage is very expensive
My salary halved when I came here from the US. Literally halved.
especially relative to Australia.
