How expensive is Australia, can you give examples??
OZ I would say is about 20% more expensive then here between exchange rate about $1 = 75 euro cents and just generally expensive. My 4th time there is just over 10 years it used to be cheap.
Examples milk local shop not Supermarket $3.20 per litre on Central coast
Clothes and food shopping alot more expensive then here.
Non BYO resturant wine cheapest $42 this in a country that produces its own wine- this happened in 2 resturants but generally a bit more pricey then here..
Schooner = 3/4 pint is fancy enough pub $10 - even slabs of beer pretty pricey.
Taxi in 2008 to airport from North Shore Sydney $50 Taxi 2011 from 10km closer $90
Even in Newcastle which would not be a tourist trap it was alot more expensive then ever before - you would expect it in downtown Sydney.
Rent and Buying property is silly money.
You can get some decent value in some things like their food courts are excellent so much variety and cheap especially Asian/Japanese food.
To be fair their wages would be pretty good there at the moment and it is great not to hear about recession every 2 minutes.
Bangkok stayed in a nice 4 star hotel which was cheap- got a meal in the hotel we had 2 courses and a few drinks, kids had meal and soft drinks came to half the price for the 4 of us that we paid for one lunch for one of us in Manly a couple of week prior there was wine with the lunch. Alcohol bar wine is pretty cheap.