Huat AH! Singapore is more expensive then Sydney!

[Ash007]

Looks like you guys are living in a more expensive city then Sydney.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-11thpriciest-city-in-world-according-to-crowdsourced-comparison-20140105-30bwf.html

Sydney 11th-priciest city in world, according to crowdsourced comparison
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January 6, 2014
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Sydney a 'cheap' international city
It might be the most expensive city in the nation yet the Harbour City is ranked as the 11th-priciest city in world. Nine News.
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Most expensive cities: What you'd pay around the world

While city dwellers and expats alike enjoy complaining about how much a coffee costs in Sydney, an exercise in crowdsourcing shows the city is cheap when compared with rivals including New York, Paris, London and Singapore.

Sydney is the 11th-priciest city in the world and 25 per cent cheaper than first-placed London, based on groceries, electronics, rent and other everyday items, according to expatistan.com.

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Cost of living: Sydney is found to be 25 per cent cheaper than London, the most expensive city in the world.
The website sources information from almost 200,000 users to calculate the average price of drinks, food and accommodation, claiming to cover 1600 cities around the world. While the data is, by definition, movable and the website FAQs leave it to users to fix figures that are wrong - it relies on daily input from its users - the founder of the site, Gerardo Robledillo, claims a degree of fidelity.

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''The index is updated every time that a user enters a new price for any city,'' he said. ''As a reference, we get between 500 and 1000 new prices every day.''

Priyanka Bhatia, 28, a lawyer from Kenya, attended university in London and has recently moved to Sydney. She said Sydney's supermarket items, especially meat and seafood, cost more compared with her home town of Nairobi, where she could buy freshly caught parrotfish or kingfish for less than one Australian dollar.

''In London, comparing rentals, surprisingly I found Sydney a little bit more expensive,'' she said. ''I was paying £1100 [$2017] a month in central London. In Pyrmont now, we're paying $700 a week.''

Ms Bhatia used to convert Australian prices into British pounds and Kenyan shillings but does not any more.

''I feel like it's quite upsetting to do that, especially coming from Kenya, so I stopped doing the conversions,'' she said. ''I guess the salaries here are a lot higher so it balances out.''

Australian Patrick O'Meara, 28, has lived in San Francisco, Colombia and Tokyo and misses the cheap price of concerts and entertainment when he returns to his homeland.

''It was a shock when I first got over there [San Francisco] but now it's a shock to come back,'' he said. ''Once you pay for taxis and go to a few bars, you could spend $200 easily.''

Digital marketing associate Beth Nelan, 23, said her quality of life was better in Sydney as she pays the same amount of rent in Washington but has taken a $17,000 pay cut.

''Sydney is expensive but I feel it is entirely justified,'' she said. ''Comparatively, cost of living in Vancouver and [Washington] DC is pretty justifiable … but rent is way too high for the average income.''

Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens wants to see the value of the Australian dollar fall further, which would make the price of petrol and other imported products rise, said Stephen Halmarick, head of economic and market research at Colonial First State Global Asset Management. ''People who are exporting overseas [will] benefit from the weaker dollar and that will increase national income.

''It's really a bit of a transfer of costs and benefits across the economy. It's all part of a transition of the economy away from being dominated by mining capital spending to other sources of growth.''



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[HTOLAS]

This demonstrates the success of the PAPzis' policy of asset enhancement, their assets' enhancement.

 

[Ash007]

Yes, and SWISS standard of living apparently.

This demonstrates the success of the PAPzis' policy of asset enhancement, their assets' enhancement.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

This is Swiss standard of living?

 

[Ash007]

Swiss standard of living implies swiss standard of living cost also. The cost part must have been left out.

This is Swiss standard of living?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Swiss standard of living implies swiss standard of living cost also. The cost part must have been left out.

I see Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne all above sinkieland's no7 spot....so apparently we are not there yet. Good exuse for vile pappies to crank up cost of living further....

 

[potter]

Nasi padang still $2.50.

 

[Leongsam]

The comparison isn't apples to apples. For example the cuppuccino in Sydney costs AUD3.75 at a roadside takeaway kiosk. In Singapore, SGD6 is for a cuppuccino in a fancy boutique cafe or a hotel coffee house.

I have lived in both Sydney and Singapore and I can assure that Singapore living expenses are far lower simply because there are so many cheap options if you want to save money. In Sydney, there is no $1 coffee or $7 taxi ride or $5 lunch. You pay $4 for a coffee, $40 for a short taxi trip and $12 for a measly sandwich.

 

[johnny333]

The comparison isn't apples to apples. For example the cuppuccino in Sydney costs AUD3.75 at a roadside takeaway kiosk. In Singapore, SGD6 is for a cuppuccino in a fancy boutique cafe or a hotel coffee house.

I have lived in both Sydney and Singapore and I can assure that Singapore living expenses are far lower simply because there are so many cheap options if you want to save money. In Sydney, there is no $1 coffee or $7 taxi ride or $5 lunch. You pay $4 for a coffee, $40 for a short taxi trip and $12 for a measly sandwich.

Have you factored in the low wages earned in Spore

There is no minimum wage in Spore. Added to that is the gov't which the importation of labour from the 3rd world to drive wages down.

 

[Ash007]

If you have bothered RTFA you would have seen the following about the cappuccino.

In 'expat area' of the city.

The comparison isn't apples to apples. For example the cuppuccino in Sydney costs AUD3.75 at a roadside takeaway kiosk. In Singapore, SGD6 is for a cuppuccino in a fancy boutique cafe or a hotel coffee house.

I have lived in both Sydney and Singapore and I can assure that Singapore living expenses are far lower simply because there are so many cheap options if you want to save money. In Sydney, there is no $1 coffee or $7 taxi ride or $5 lunch. You pay $4 for a coffee, $40 for a short taxi trip and $12 for a measly sandwich.

 

[laksaboy]

Swiss standard of living implies swiss standard of living cost also. The cost part must have been left out.

The cost is 'Swiss standard' but the quality is nowhere up there.

In other words, we're ripped off.

 

[shittypore]

With Pappies, Head they win Tail Sinkies Lose.

 

[tanwahtiu]

you cannt compare like that leh!

$5 lunch is only 1/2 or 1/3 portion of a Sydney meal. U need to eat 2 bowls in Singapore. Orso 1 meal in Syney can last you whole day 7hrs before you go hungry.

Taxi is expensive and this is because Taxi is also an important service and deserve to be paid well like scumbag lawyers profession-my-arse.

In Singapore scumbag lawyers think they are super human and deserved to be paid well and when come to take taxi, taxi Ah Pek don't deserved to be paid well too, agree?

So many cheap option? Sure?

They are cheap because 600 ++ PAP GLCs are paying peanuts wages hiring FWs which is now known FWs have to pay agent fees to another PAP GLCs to work in doggy PAP Singapore.

The comparison isn't apples to apples. For example the cuppuccino in Sydney costs AUD3.75 at a roadside takeaway kiosk. In Singapore, SGD6 is for a cuppuccino in a fancy boutique cafe or a hotel coffee house.

I have lived in both Sydney and Singapore and I can assure that Singapore living expenses are far lower simply because there are so many cheap options if you want to save money. In Sydney, there is no $1 coffee or $7 taxi ride or $5 lunch. You pay $4 for a coffee, $40 for a short taxi trip and $12 for a measly sandwich.

 

[Leongsam]

Have you factored in the low wages earned in Spore

There is no minimum wage in Spore. Added to that is the gov't which the importation of labour from the 3rd world to drive wages down.

Low wage earners lead hard lives in any country. They shouldn't be eating out.

 

[nutbush]

it's good being an employee in australia, their pay is much higher. my friend who is an electrician is paid AUD$100/- per hour. and they are either paid weekly or fornightly. $30 per hour if you work in the casino and if you work weekends, you are paid 1.5 times. my childhood friend 's mum who is a bus driver cum instructor is making more than my accountant friend.

now, please compare sydney and sinkieland again...

The comparison isn't apples to apples. For example the cuppuccino in Sydney costs AUD3.75 at a roadside takeaway kiosk. In Singapore, SGD6 is for a cuppuccino in a fancy boutique cafe or a hotel coffee house.

I have lived in both Sydney and Singapore and I can assure that Singapore living expenses are far lower simply because there are so many cheap options if you want to save money. In Sydney, there is no $1 coffee or $7 taxi ride or $5 lunch. You pay $4 for a coffee, $40 for a short taxi trip and $12 for a measly sandwich.

 

[Equalisation]

it's good being an employee in australia, their pay is much higher. my friend who is an electrician is paid AUD$100/- per hour. and they are either paid weekly or fornightly. $30 per hour if you work in the casino and if you work weekends, you are paid 1.5 times. my childhood friend 's mum who is a bus driver cum instructor is making more than my accountant friend.

now, please compare sydney and sinkieland again...

Hi nut,

Jeram said you never dis-infect his nail-clipper !:o

 

[nutbush]

i already told you i given to my dog as x'mas present...

Hi nut,

Jeram said you never dis-infect his nail-clipper !:o

 

[Froggy]

Once again ladies and gentlemen, Sinkapore if lumber one in Asia in the list.

 

[yellowarse]

Yes, and SWISS standard of living apparently.

Wrong. Cost of living ≠ Standard of living

Generally for a fixed per capita GDP, standard of living varies inversely with cost. Higher costs ➝ lower std; lower cost ➝ higher std.

We have attained the Swiss cost of living, but our standard of living – no thanks to low wages – is just slightly higher than Malaysia's. We have the lowest domestic purchasing power of wages (DPP) in the developed world, even though our per capita GDP is one of the highest (higher than Switzerland on a ppp basis).

 

[Leongsam]

it's good being an employee in australia, their pay is much higher. my friend who is an electrician is paid AUD$100/- per hour.

You'd have to be very experienced to earn that sort of wages. The norm would be $40 to $60 per hour plus you have to be aware that most trades people in OZ have to pay for their own tools, equipment and transport so the profit from a one hour job could be far less than the hourly rate you pay them.

You also forget that the high hourly rate that tradespeople charge may be advantageous for them but it's a rip off when you're on the receiving end of their bill which is far more likely to be the case.

I used to have to pay AUD400 every time I serviced my car in AU. If I needed a plumber urgently, the after hours call out was AUD200 minimum. A full time maid at your beck and call 24/7 would cost at least $30 per hour, 1.5 times after hours and weekends. Work it out for yourself. If you paid your Indo maid the OZ rate, she'd be earning 10 times what you earned.

As always, the devil is in the details when you make comparisons.