So DH and I are procrastinating over emigrating to Perth. We've started the ball rolling with a 189 visa. We've both been, have friends there and I've had a 'thing' about emigrating to Australia since I first visited 10 years ago. We have a son, 7 months old.
Now it's looking like it actually could happen I'm going into overdrive researching everything as that's what I do. We live in Edinburgh, have good jobs, nice life etc and are used to not having to worry about money too much, albeit helped that we still live in my flat with a mortgage of £600 a month.
So the money thing could be a big hurdle for us as I've read so much about the cost of living out there and it's likely we'd have less free cash. In an ideal world I wouldn't work but DH is likely to get a job around the $80-100k mark which probably means I'd need to aswell (I work in banking which could get me around the same salary).
I'm thinking around $500/550 a week rent but then that's the same as £1000-£1200 a month which we'd pay here for a 'decent' house and likely what our mortgage would be if we bought one. We pay £390 a month for our car lease, again, seems similar to Perth? And I went OTT and did an online Coles shop last night to compare and my 'usual' shop (I spend about £75 a week excluding nappies and formula) came in roughly the same....and I'd pay £50 a day here for nursery.
I'm not disputing it's expensive but Edinburgh can be too, especially housing, so just wondering if any expats find it comparable to a more expensive UK city??