$80k was a good salary 10 years ago. I don’t know how you could raise a family on it, today. And half of Australia is making less than that!
You can do it, but:
- You can’t live within 1.5 hours of capital cities or major regional cities.
- You can’t live in a mining town.
- You can’t live in a tourist town.
Unfortunately all the left over places have shit job opportunities, shit services, and are generally classified as shit areas as a result.
So until you advance enough in a career that you can pull a tree change to somewhere less pricey and still keep your income, you’re screwed.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
But that’s subjective yeah ? I’m hear visiting my 83yr old mother on the Sunshine Coast over Christmas, this place is to me a literal “shit hole”. It’s mostly a sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with acres of concrete and asphalt with a car needed to do anything and zero redeeming qualities. For a few days prior I visited my sister in Brisbane, another sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with zero redeeming features.
I used to live in an apartment I owned on the 10th floor with an ocean view on the Gold Coast, cool beezes, a walk to swimmable broadwater and a tram and train were some compensation.
The tiny rural town in Tasmania I now live in to me is comparative nirvana. There are basic houses near me for sale starting with a 3 and quite nice ones starting with a 4. We have a little van, as for sure u need a car occasionally but we mostly walk or cycke. I filled it up in August and it’s still on 1/2 a tank.