Guess because I thought that Australia would not put a huge up-front cost on starting a taxi service (and I'm now numb to Australian prices and numbers looking

Guess because I thought that Australia would not put a huge up-front cost on starting a taxi service (and I'm now numb to Australian prices and numbers looking nonsensical from America. If the rents are in the $1000/wk, plane tickets are $5000, start losing track of "reasonable". It's Australia, multiply the normal price 5x-10x).