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TreFitty posted:Is Australia an okay place to work as a programmer? Is the pay good and are jobs as plentiful as they seem? If you got a decent amount of experience with .NET or something like that I doubt you'd struggle to find work, and the pay rates are average -> above average
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Golbez posted:I have a question, though... why is soda so expensive there? A 20 oz equivalent Coke would run 4.50 AUD, whereas back in the states they are usually around 1.50 USD. It's not like they're being imported; the Coke was bottled in AU using actual sugar instead of HCFS. Is it a tax thing maybe? Literally the first thing we did once we cleared customs in Dallas was get a meal and bask in the glory of unlimited free refills. Real sugar isn't that cheap compared to HCFS, and fuel to transport it is also alot more expensive than in the USA, I'd say they're the 2 main factors in "soda" (they're soft drinks here by the way) being so expensive. Especially in Melbourne which is as far away from the sugar cane region in northern QLD as you can get on the mainland. Here everything costs so much for 2 reasons, taxes/excises and distance (fuel). It blew my mind to goto Vegas and get free alcoholic drinks all night (as long as you tip the waitresses!), because here anything alcoholic is hit the hardest by the taxes/excises and fuel cost rule. At any casino here, you have to pay the full $8-$10 pricetag, and you're lucky if the server brings your drink back within 1/2 an hour. It's probably the only job I would say that I saw a clear benefit from being paid by tips.
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Frogmanv2 posted:Your geography is poo poo. Bundaberg to Melbourne is roughly 1950km. Bundaberg to Perth is over twice that. ppfft if it's not on the east coast it doesn't count  Golbez posted:(Ironically, the only place Australian that I had free refills of booze and Coke was the one place where it's impossibly expensive to ship to - on Qantas over the Pacific Ocean) Hungry Jacks, aka Burger King, still does free refills last I knew! But yeah, it is more expensive to live here, but you'll also make more money even if you only work a minimum wage job and you also get alot of benefits, you can walk into any emergency room for anything at all and you'll never pay a cent. If you end up a full fledged citizen, your employer is legally obligated to pay at least 7% of your salary into a superannuation fund (the equivalent of a 401k). Also you're not expected to tip anyone here, one of my biggest gripes when visiting the states was that I never knew what something cost until I payed for it because everything is listed without state taxes or tips.
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