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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: The Towns Where A Pub Steak Costs $45. Reply #45 - Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:00pm People can't help the way they were born. Why are you so cruel?
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Take the plan, spin it sideways Posts: 7057 Gender:	Re: The Towns Where A Pub Steak Costs $45. Reply #48 - Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:05pm freediver wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:03pm: life please change you avatar to something a bit more subtle Yeah, Life. Far out. Take the mask off.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74548 Gender:	Re: The Towns Where A Pub Steak Costs $45. Reply #49 - Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:08pm freediver wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 9:49pm: You've never seen a mining camp have you? nope ...
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49030 At my desk.	Re: The Towns Where A Pub Steak Costs $45. Reply #50 - Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:25pm That's a nice lava lamp. John, I thought the idea was not to impact upon the town. I'm pretty sure the locals are not complaining about selling $9 coke bottles and $45 steaks to cashed up miners. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault.
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Reply #51 - Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:31pm

freediver wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:25pm:

That's a nice lava lamp.

John, I thought the idea was not to impact upon the town. I'm pretty sure the locals are not complaining about selling $9 coke bottles and $45 steaks to cashed up miners. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault.

what about the local supermarket chick, who now has to pay $9 for a bottle of coke or $7 for water? her rent has gone up from $200 per week to $1500 .... how does she survive? that is one example. .. there would be thousands ... the busness owners may do alright out of it, but anyone on a fixed wage will suffer for it.

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Reply #52 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:11pm

KJT1981 wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 8:04pm:

Good try but wrong.

Try Mosman NSW.

Well I just Googled it. Take a look for yourself:
http://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-mosman%2c+nsw+2088/list-2

You can get three bedrooms for $750 per week.

Perhaps the original claim of three times was a bit on the high side, but you can certainly get much better value in Mosman NSW than in Moranbah.

What exactly is it meant to be anyway? Looks like a pawn from a pink chess set. (lol - just looked at the hyperlink Embarrassed

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Reply #53 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:17pm

John Smith wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:31pm:

freediver wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:25pm:

That's a nice lava lamp.

John, I thought the idea was not to impact upon the town. I'm pretty sure the locals are not complaining about selling $9 coke bottles and $45 steaks to cashed up miners. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault.

what about the local supermarket chick, who now has to pay $9 for a bottle of coke or $7 for water? her rent has gone up from $200 per week to $1500 .... how does she survive? that is one example. .. there would be thousands ... the busness owners may do alright out of it, but anyone on a fixed wage will suffer for it.

If she works in a supermarket, it should not be that hard for her to figure out where she could get a coke for under $9 from. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault. Anyone working for minimum wage in a town with a massive mining boom happening has rocks in their head. Some of the larger boom towns have to get fly in fly out managers for the local maccas. More than half the town would be raking it in. The rest are just lazy whingers or people who don't actually live in these towns but want to whinge on anyone's behalf. Even fruit towns have trouble getting pickers in these days.

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Reply #54 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:38pm

freediver wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:17pm:

John Smith wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:31pm:

freediver wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 10:25pm:

That's a nice lava lamp.

John, I thought the idea was not to impact upon the town. I'm pretty sure the locals are not complaining about selling $9 coke bottles and $45 steaks to cashed up miners. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault.

what about the local supermarket chick, who now has to pay $9 for a bottle of coke or $7 for water? her rent has gone up from $200 per week to $1500 .... how does she survive? that is one example. .. there would be thousands ... the busness owners may do alright out of it, but anyone on a fixed wage will suffer for it.

If she works in a supermarket, it should not be that hard for her to figure out where she could get a coke for under $9 from. If you can't see a way to benefit from that situation it is your own fault. Anyone working for minimum wage in a town with a massive mining boom happening has rocks in their head. Some of the larger boom towns have to get fly in fly out managers for the local maccas. More than half the town would be raking it in. The rest are just lazy whingers or people who don't actually live in these towns but want to whinge on anyone's behalf. Even fruit towns have trouble getting pickers in these days.

From what I've been told, once the miners are in town, prices skyrocket everywhere ... usually these towns have only 1 or 2 shops ... if you were the shop keeper would you keep your prices down for locals? Your not talking about a new town that is set up for miners, you are talking about an existing town where people have jobs and homes long before the miners came .... you want them all to drop everything to try and cash in? someone has to serve you at the shop ... otherwise it won't matter how much the coke costs ....

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Reply #55 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:47pm

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you want them all to drop everything to try and cash in?

It's not my choice. It's theirs. They can sit back and whinge instead if they want. Someone always gets left behind.

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someone has to serve you at the shop ... otherwise it won't matter how much the coke costs ....

I've been to little shops in these towns. The sort of cafe's and bakeries that often go bankrupt and shut down completely in other small towns. In the boomtowns there is a queue for food from 5am and 3 or 4 employees working madly to serve everyone (some people are smart enough to cash in). The food is the same price as everywhere else and competition still does it's thing. They just sell 20 times as much. I'd be complaining more about the new rush hour and queueing up with a dozen tradies for a pie.

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Reply #56 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 6:23pm

The supermarkets in the mining towns have the same prices as any other supermarket in a major city. In fact, having lived in a mining town for 7 years, I usually found you could often get more bargains there than in the bigger centres, and you could eat out reasonably inexpensively at the services club.

The supermarkets at peak times provide jobs for local school kids. In Queensland, Moranbah is only 200k from Mackay. Moura is about the same from Gladstone or Rockhampton, and most of the rest of them (Tieri, Middlemount, Clermont and Capella) are close to Emerald, which has reasonable facilities, so most people don't think anything of driving to one of these bigger centres.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74548 Gender:	Re: The Towns Where A Pub Steak Costs $45. Reply #57 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 7:20pm well as I said previously I was going by what I've been told by a tenant of mine .. I've never been in one of these towns so I have no firsthand experience. .. given that, I cannot argue with you or Muso ...
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Reply #58 - Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 10:31pm

muso wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 6:23pm:

The supermarkets in the mining towns have the same prices as any other supermarket in a major city. In fact, having lived in a mining town for 7 years, I usually found you could often get more bargains there than in the bigger centres, and you could eat out reasonably inexpensively at the services club.

Thats interesting, thats certainly not the case in WA mining towns where the price of everything is roughly at least double. Wonder what the difference is between QLD and WA.

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Reply #59 - Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 1:22am

muso wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 5:11pm:

KJT1981 wrote on Mar 1^st, 2013 at 8:04pm:

Good try but wrong.

Try Mosman NSW.

Well I just Googled it. Take a look for yourself:
http://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-mosman%2c+nsw+2088/list-2

You can get three bedrooms for $750 per week.

Perhaps the original claim of three times was a bit on the high side, but you can certainly get much better value in Mosman NSW than in Moranbah.

What exactly is it meant to be anyway? Looks like a pawn from a pink chess set. (lol - just looked at the hyperlink Embarrassed

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There is Mosman and then there is Mosman.

What happened to the house with panoramic water views for $790 a week that you used as an example?

There are eight units in Parramatta for rent all over $700 per week, the dearest being $945 per week, one at $850, six from $700 to $850 per week so it is all relevant.

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