skippy.
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Quantum wrote on Aug 28 th, 2013 at 11:26am: skippy. wrote on Aug 28 th, 2013 at 11:10am: Quantum wrote on Aug 28 th, 2013 at 11:00am: warrigal wrote on Aug 28 th, 2013 at 10:44am: and who the hell can live well on $1000 a week. Who the hell couldn't live on $52,000 a year? You can rent a fairly decent unit in most suburbs of Sydney for about 20,000 a year ($25,000 will get you a real nice one). After $20,000 for a unit, does it really cost $32,000 a year for clothes, electricity, petrol, etc? Yes you will not be able to get a $1,000,000 mortgage and drive a Mercedes, but $52,000 a year is a lot of money, even if you have a kid to pay for. Have people lost all sense of the value of money and what is needed to live a comfortable life? If you earn 52 grand a year you don't get a thousand a week, we have this thing called income tax that takes around thirty percent of that. If you read the context of the conversation we weren't talking gross we were talking net. It is a thousand a week after tax. Quote:As for renting a unit in Sydney for 400 bucks a week ,good luck, some dump in the western burbs if you're lucky. bugger Sydney, if you want to survive on a low income move to the bush. $400 a week will get you a fairly good unit in many southern and northern suburbs as well. Of course you won't get a unit right in the middle of the CBD for that money, but considering most people live in the North, South, and West of the city the point stands. $52,000 is more than enough for any one person to live on, even if they have a child. Oops, sorry.
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