I'm a college student in the US of A and after I graduate (May '09), I want to go to Australia, possibly Sydney, on the working holiday
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* Rent- anywhere from $120+ depending on where you want to live * Food- meals can be found for roughly $10 at most places, obviously more if you wanted something of higher quality * Phone- we have really good deals with mobiles here. there are caps for like $29 a month and you get $120 worth of calls, or $49 a month with $280 worth of calls etc * Internet - fast internet would be at least $50 a month * Bus fares -in the city its $1.70 from one end to the other, and then it goes up from there...trains are a bit more expensive, around the city for a return trip is about $4...and goes up from there. * Entertainment - movies for an adult ticket is $15, drinks at a pub around $4, at a club the drinks are $8+, some places have cover charge, some don't, guess it depends on what else you would want to do as well. * Electricity - this one im unsure of...
Electricity for someone who isn't running a computer overnight or using Air Con/too much heating in winter was $25 per quarter. Which was shit cheap. But then I moved in with a devil-may-care, who-need-fossil-fuels friend and it was nearly four times more.
Not particularly relevant to the original poster, but: I think the energy usage of an electricity-conscious household depends largely on the hot water system (whether it's a tank system or instantaneous, and whether you're running it off the normal electricity supply, or primarily off-peak, or gas - or ideally boosted solar, but that's unlikely in an apartment). Comparatively, a refrigerator uses quite little (my LG actually uses around half of what the sticker says, assuming I don't open it all the time), and most other things only use significants amount of power when at home and awake. My hot water costs me probably $50/quarter to run off the normal supply, even set down to 65 degrees. (I can halve that by turning it off when I'm not using it, reducing energy losses from the tank, but that's clearly pretty inconvenient.)
In Australia, unlike the US, rent is always quoted on a per-week basis, although usually paid fortnightly or monthly. I think Sydney rents would give people a heart-attack if they were quoted per-month.
Also, with these capped plans where you get '$120 worth of calls for $29' that of course just means they're nominally charging you something ridiculous to start with ;) I wish they just said '120 credits worth of calls for $29', none of this stupid fake money. You have to work backwards and calculate something like '# of 3 minute calls' in order to compare plans.
* Food- meals can be found for roughly $10 at most places, obviously more if you wanted something of higher quality
* Phone- we have really good deals with mobiles here. there are caps for like $29 a month and you get $120 worth of calls, or $49 a month with $280 worth of calls etc
* Internet - fast internet would be at least $50 a month
* Bus fares -in the city its $1.70 from one end to the other, and then it goes up from there...trains are a bit more expensive, around the city for a return trip is about $4...and goes up from there.
* Entertainment - movies for an adult ticket is $15, drinks at a pub around $4, at a club the drinks are $8+, some places have cover charge, some don't, guess it depends on what else you would want to do as well.
* Electricity - this one im unsure of...
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In Australia, unlike the US, rent is always quoted on a per-week basis, although usually paid fortnightly or monthly. I think Sydney rents would give people a heart-attack if they were quoted per-month.
Also, with these capped plans where you get '$120 worth of calls for $29' that of course just means they're nominally charging you something ridiculous to start with ;) I wish they just said '120 credits worth of calls for $29', none of this stupid fake money. You have to work backwards and calculate something like '# of 3 minute calls' in order to compare plans.
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