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TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property. The free healthcare is partia
by softveda 5y ago
TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property. The free healthcare is partially true as well.
But worse is if you lose job the unemployment benefit called jobSeeker is very low and poverty level. It was temporarily boosted in pandemic and current lockdowns but you can't realistically live on that.
- grecy 5y ago> TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property Yes, property prices are insane in Australia, though it's clear you'll do much better in Australia on Minimum wage than you will in the USA. Working class poor, multiple jobs and all that. > The free healthcare is partially true as well. In what way? My family have lived in Oz for generations, everyone gets everything free. My brothers horribly broken leg, Mum's Stage 4 lung cancer, child birth, etc. etc. Never paid a single cent out of pocket, never had a single second stress about money for healthcare. Even when people have been without jobs that doesn't change a thing. > But worse is if you lose job the unemployment benefit called jobSeeker is very low and poverty level Of course people without jobs are not living large, but they're living.