Australia and New Zealand are on my bucket list, but as a person with what I assure you is an ordinary income by Western standards, it seems prohibitively expen

Australia and New Zealand are on my bucket list, but as a person with what I assure you is an ordinary income by Western standards, it seems prohibitively expensive to stay there for any prolonged length of time. Though I am aware of the working hostels in those countries, I think that option would have been far more practical back when I was unmarried and didn't have a child :-)