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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:36:33 +1000
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- Subject: Re: Early morning blues...
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- > Is that pounds sterling? The cost of living must be high where you are
- > because my income has been about half that for the past three years and
- > we've been living comfortably..... all six of us.
- >
- >Got room for one more?
-
- Not at the moment.... I've only just got my dining room back after Tim moved
- out. Officially this is only a two bedroom house which I bought for $25K in
- 1980 (pre- Kevin and Helen). As the boys grew older, I converted the sunroom
- and the dining room and later the storage room under the house into bedrooms
- for them, so they could have some privacy. Our accomodation is not luxurious
- but it is comfortable.... and my monthly mortgage payments are only $241 @
- month.
-
- >My tiny little 1-room flat costs between 600
- >and 450 pounds depending on the mortgage rate. (A month) Yes, cost
-
- Ouch! Perhaps you should think about emigrating.... a three bedroom house
- only costs about $100 a week and single accomodation is around the $50-$60
- @ week mark to rent..... cheaper if you want to share which most students do.
-
- >of living here is *very* high. Sending out for a pizza costs about
- >10 pounds, if that's a better yardstick for you. 4 or 5 times as much
- >as the equivalent in the US.
- >
- >G
-
- We normally get two large pizzas on Mondays to Wednesdays for $20.... on other
- nights they're $15 to $18 each. I guess that's more expensive than the US, but
- how does it compare to the British variety? The Aussie dollar usually
- fluctuates around the 70 cent US mark, but I don't recall what the exchange
- rate is with the British pound.
-
- Carolyn
-