Wages for hospitality are higher when compared on distance to the median/indexed for COL. i.e it's a liveable wage but not a glamorous one. Prices in Australia

Wages for hospitality are higher when compared on distance to the median/indexed for COL. i.e it's a liveable wage but not a glamorous one. Prices in Australia are more evenly distributed. In the US high COL cities like San Francisco have much higher prices than butt fuck nowhere Omaha. In Australia there is still a delta but it's much much smaller. As a result prices in high COL Australian cities like Melbourne and Sydney are generally cheaper than the equivalent SF/LA/NY prices but rural areas in Australia are much more expensive than rural areas in the US.