Utilities:

Electricity and water bills in Sydney are charged quarterly, with electricity costing around 145 and water around 110.

Because of Sydney's moderate climate, there are only a few days in winter and summer when you need air conditioning, so you save a lot of money on the electricity bill, but the gas bill is folded into the electricity bill, so it's still very cheap.

Water consumption is relatively large, at least every morning and evening bath, twice a week bath, should be water consumption is not small. On average, the cost of water, electricity and gas is about 90 per month.

Communication costs:

The monthly cell phone bill is 60 yuan, of which you can make a 600-minute call, unlimited text messages, no roaming charges, and no reception fees.

The landline at home has a fixed monthly charge of 30 yuan, and other calls are charged separately.

Internet fee is 50 yuan per month, broadband 36G. there is also 80 yuan 120G.

Transportation costs:

Transportation within the city relies mainly on self-driving cars and public **** transportation. Because of the high cost of parking space in the city, you usually take public transportation to work. Sydney's public transportation is well developed and there are many types of bus passes.

A red season pass allows unlimited travel on trains, buses, and ferries within a defined area. At $418 each, this season card is a convenient way to cover Sydney's six transportation zones, especially the ferries, which are the equivalent of taking a cruise on Sydney Harbour.

Car ownership:

It's cheap to own a car in Sydney, with low insurance premiums - full coverage on a 7-seater Toyota is only about $1,700 a year, registration is about $300, and a car inspection is about $30.

Gasoline is even cheaper than in Beijing, even though it's more expensive than in the US. The Toyota has a 75-liter tank capacity, and a full tank of gas never costs more than 80 yuan, even though gas prices fluctuate frequently. Due to the good quality and quantity of oil, this tank of gas can basically run a come back to Canberra.

Travel, vacation and spare time:

Flying in Australia is really cheap. Flying from Sydney to Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Hobart is usually around $79 for a discounted ticket if you fly with JETSTAR, or only $49 or sometimes $39 for a promotional ticket. If it is VERGINBLUE it will be slightly more expensive and QANTAS is the highest, which is only about $90. Because of the low cost of travel, Australians travel in large numbers.

Australia's tourist attractions are basically no charge, all the national parks in addition to parking fees, no admission fee, parking fee of 10 yuan, unlimited.

All beaches in Australia are also free of charge, however, there is a charge for swimming pools, which is $6 per visit, unlimited.

Badminton courts at the city's gymnasiums are $10 per hour and basketball courts are $15 per hour.

The golf course charges $45 per person (9 holes at MOOREPARK, which may be cheaper than that if you go to the suburbs).

Spending money on your spare time in Sydney also includes going to movies and shows. Going to the movies isn't too expensive here, any movie, there are no big or small films, the first run is on and tickets are $17 at night and $12 during the day. A day of the week is $7. It varies from theater to theater.

Tickets at the Sydney Opera House are much more expensive than movies (still low compared to home), an opera or ballet is between 70-90 for a category B ticket, and a category A ticket is about 120.

Tickets for concerts here are also between 40-100 dollars, especially if you come from home, tickets are basically between 30-80.

Clothing:

In terms of wear, most things are made in China. A pure wool suit suit is $210 and suit pants are all about $70.

If it's not a name brand, clothes in Sydney are rarely over a hundred, about 30-50 is more common.

So, whenever there is a sale season, people who buy clothes buy more than a few pieces, as if we are buying groceries.

Daily necessities:

Daily necessities are even cheaper. L'Oreal's hair coloring kit is less than $20, and shampoo and conditioning products like Pantene and Sassoon cost around ten dollars, and the quality is significantly better than at home.

Washing powder and liquid laundry detergent are basically under ten dollars, around five to six dollars.

Kitchen detergent and grease remover are basically a few dollars a bottle.

Toilet paper, toilet bowl cleaner and aromatherapy agents needed in the toilet can be bought in a big bag for less than 50 yuan.

Sunscreen is usually good for about $20 a pop.

Food:

When it comes to food, the differences are more pronounced and the more y felt. Supermarkets in Australia are on sale all year round, with something on sale every week. Here are the discounted prices:

Chicken in a suit: around $10

Beef and lamb chops: $7/kg

Chicken thighs and wings: $2.50/kg

Stuffed pork: $10/2kg (or a bit more if you buy just a kilo, and it's completely waterless)

Pork with skin (like Beijing's haunch tip): $6.5/kg

Eggs: $2.7/1 dozen (700 grams)

Fish (Blind Cao): $15/kg

Shrimp: $21/kg (only $7/kg if on sale at the supermarket)

Salmon (sashimi): $45/kg

Seafood mish-mash (small Cuttlefish, squid, shrimp, small scallops):9 yuan/bag

Lao Gan Ma chili sauce is sold here for just over a dollar, in the country may have to be 7-8 yuan

Other food prices did not pay special attention to the overall feeling that it is much more expensive than in the U.S., but it is still cheaper than at home.

Special notice: Sydney Tower rotating restaurant to eat buffet, if it is at noon through the travel agency booking, as long as 40 yuan a person, a while ago only 36 yuan a person, the night is 68 yuan a person. The buffet includes: oysters (the famous Sydney baby oysters), kippers, roast beef, lamb, kangaroo meat, and other cold and hot dishes, ice cream, cake. Eating here is particularly worthwhile, not only for the food, but also for the views. Sydney's air quality is particularly good, with full bay and city views, but also the Blue Mountains a few dozen kilometers away. Melbourne

Fruit and Vegetables:--all in one kilo

Watermelon:1.25 AUD (now on sale mostly 85CENTS)

Apple:4.00 AUD

Pineapple:3.00 AUD

Mango:1.90 AUD

Banana:1.90 AUD

Raisin:7.98 AUD

Cherry:9.00 AUD

Kiwi:60 CENTS a piece

Pear:4.00 AUD

Cucumber:2 AUD a piece

Brussels sprouts:1.50 AUD a BRUNCH

Pumpkin:1.85 AUD

Spinach :4.00 AUD a BRUNCH

Lettuce:1.00 AUD

Western Cabbage:2.98 AUD

Cauliflower:2.00 AUD

Radish:3.00 AUD

Beet Peppers:2.00 AUD

Onions:1.98 AUD

Potatoes. 4.98 AUD

Tomatoes:3.98 AUD

Mushrooms:4.98 a BOX

Carrots:2.98 AUD

Parsnips:1.98 AUD

Meat:

Chicken Breast:6.98 AUD

Chicken Wings:3.00 AUD

Chicken thighs: 6.00 AUD

Pork products are slightly cheaper than chicken

Beef is slightly more expensive than chicken

Kangaroo meat: 4.98 AUD (very tasty, great meat for girls who love to look good, and analyzed by a nutritionist to be the meat with the least amount of fat)

Seafood is generally more expensive

Snacks:

Chocolate: 3.00 AUD

Milk: 2.00~~4.00 AUD

Yogurt: 4.00 AUD

Juice: 4.00 AUD

Macaroni: 1.00~~2.00 AUD per box

Ice cream: 3.00~~6.00 AUD per KG

Ice cream: 3.00~6.00 AUD per kg. 6.00 AUD one KG

Biscuits:2.00~~6.00 AUD

Coffee:5.00~~10.00 AUD

COKE:2.00 AUD

Instant noodle: 80 CENTS

Cake:15.00~~25.00 AUD one

Peanut :5.00 AUD 500g

Cashews:4.00 AUD 500g

Volcanic Fruit:20 AUD 1KG

Daily necessities:

Shampoo: 4.00~~7.00 AUD

Shower gel: 7.00 AUD

Socks: 5.00 AUD

Towel. :3.00 AUD

Tissue paper:2.50 AUD box

Toilet paper:4.00 AUD four tubes

Dishwashing detergent:2.00 AUD

Washing powder:6.00 AUD

Soap: 3.00 AUD

Notebook:2.00~~4.00 AUD

Pen:7.00 AUD or so

Quilt:60~~80 AUD

Pillow:20 AUD

Sheets:40~~60 AUD

Electric Blanket:30~~60 AUD

Fan:20~30 AUD

Pot:20 AUD or so

Pot Lid. 18 AUD or so

Cups: 2.00 AUD

Dishes: 16 AUD for four pairs

Lamps: 20 AUD

Chopsticks: 6.00 AUD

Knives: 6.00 AUD

Television: 200 AUD or so, the smallest 14\'\'

VCRs. 200 AUD or so

DVD player: 300 AUD or so

Kettle: 17~~40 AUD

Toaster: 20~~40 AUD

Microwave: 180~~300 AUD

Hairdryer: 40 AUD

Canberra

Found a The cost of an average Chinese student in Canberra, just for reference:

Rent:

One of the biggest expenses, living in the dormitory provided by the school, is 120 AUD per week.

The benefits of a student dormitory are: free electricity and water, close to the school, you can still make time to come back for lunch or a nap, you basically don't need to bring your own computer, basically no transportation expenses, etc.

Food:

In general, students are unlikely to have the time to meticulously cook every meal, so making several meals at once is inevitable. Such meals are of low quality, so it doesn't make practical sense to invest too much. Simply put, about 40-45 bucks a week is enough. If it's a craving and you go to a Chinese restaurant for a gourmet meal, the cost is between 10-20 dollars, which is still affordable for occasional use.

Phone calls:

When you're out and about, it's essential to call home, especially if you have a family. Calls back home here are billed in two parts. Local access charges and international calls. Local calls are exclusively operated by TELSTRA, but they are not expensive. An unlimited system is used. Pick up the phone and you pay the same for one minute as you do for 24 hours. International calls are made with IP cards, which are so cheap that there is no way to imagine them. The latest card is 2.5 Australian cents per minute, less than 15 cents.

Haircuts:

If you don't want to be a rock star, you have to get your hair cut on time. Two ways to do this are for people to help each other. But individuals are limited in their craft, but affordable. To the barber store, the price is more substantial, I found a Hong Kong barber, each time is 17 dollars. I'm told there are cheaper ones.

Cigarettes:

Smoking in Australia is a huge expense, especially for students. There are many ways to get cheap cigarettes, but in general they are still not cheap. A pack a day is at least 4 bucks a pack.

Canberra is not big and there are not many places to spend money. If you can fit in with the gringo scene, drinking and dancing is fine, add another 15 bucks a week to your expenses.

This expense list only applies to civilian kids. In Canberra, it's easy to want to spend money, and it's easy not to want to spend money.

Brisbane

Brisbane's spending is almost 30% lower than Sydney and Melbourne

The average couple spends about $80/week on supermarkets, $150/week on housing, and $8/hour on part-time jobs in Chinese stores.

Food:

Milk is the cheapest 2L for more than 2 dollars, orange juice is also this price.

Fruit Orange, apple is the cheapest 1.5 a kilogram, other fruits are basically more than 3 dollars.

500 grams of beef is 4~5 yuan.

Vegetables are about the same price as meat.

Rice is 1.5 yuan for 2 kilograms.

50 dollars for a week is enough to feed you.

Fare:

The bus is 2 yuan a trip, it's a district, buy a weekly ticket for about 20 a week, student tickets can be half price.

The bus is probably the first choice for students to go out, and there are many who drive their own cars, but the price of gas is very high (the lowest gas price is on the night of the 2nd of every week, and there will be a coupon in coles or woolworth when you buy more than 30 bucks of something, and it will be cheaper for you to go to the designated gas station to fill up the gas tank for 4c for 1l). In Brisbane you buy a ticket, you can take the bus, train and boat at the same time, the ticket price is divided according to the zone, at the same time according to the different time of day, there are different, there are single (one way, in 2 hours can change the same direction, any different train), offpeakdaily (9 am to 3 pm 29, after 6 pm can be used, 6 and days of the week, public holidays are off peak all day). Public holidays all day is off peak), daily (any time of the day to sit), of course, all of this is to the same zone, different zones to buy separate tickets or supplemental tickets.

Phone:

Cell phone card is 25~30 RMB per month.

Mobile phone, you bring from the country on the line, just go buy a card can be used, the big carriers have OPTUS, TELSTRA, VODAFONE and 3G, most Chinese students will use OPTUS, if your visa time is long enough (more than 24 months), you can also go to these carriers to sign a cell phone store, so it may be more cost-effective, Australia! Australia is no cost to answer the phone, and the whole country has no roaming charges, and the phone card will not be shut down when there is no money, you can still answer the phone. By the way, optus is also available in Singapore. The cell phone opening is not the same as the domestic, you get the card after there is no phone number, you have to go online or call to confirm, is to report an address name, personally I think online is better, because most of the callers are Indians, it sounds too much, you will receive a text message to inform you of the cell phone number within 24 hours after the confirmation of the good.

Internet:

If you rent a house without internet, you may have to go to open the network, Australia's landline telephone users mostly use telstra (Telstra), so broadband many people also use telstra, but my family has been using TPG, very fast, there are 10m, but also use telstra's ports, so the wait for the The time will be slower than installing telstra. Australia's broadband has a traffic limit, such as a month of 10G, a month of 30G, according to your monthly flow of different prices are not consistent, if the flow of storms, your home Internet speed will be incredibly slow, to wait for the next month, the flow of back, the speed will rise, so do not be too powerful download.

Supermarkets:

The two biggest supermarkets in Brisbane and Australia are COLES and WOOLWORTH, which have different discounts every week, and then some cakes, breads, and roasted chickens will be on sale every day before they close, and the Chinese generally like to go to Chinatown and Sunnybank to buy groceries, which is cheaper, and most of the food that can be bought in China is on sale there. Most of the Chinese can buy the food over there, Chinatown has two more famous supermarkets, one is the Bellington supermarket, next door to a Bellington butcher store, where the pork has no taste, and the sausage is the cheapest, only 5 yuan 8 Australian dollars a bag, there is also a Yuan's line, personally I think that the Bellington is cleaner, but the price of the Yuan's line is relatively low, pay special attention to the date of production, the Yuan's line is often sold expired things.

Selling meat is COCO\'S, coco\'s also sell vegetables and fruits in front of the store, inside the eggs cheap and good, often go to buy! Buy your own words to relatively cheap a lot, outside to eat or more expensive, and every week 6 in the west end has a market, vegetables and fruits are cheaper, brisbane market every week 6 morning are open, inside are big wholesale, the price is very cheap, can be a few friends to go together, but it is best to have a car. It's not very expensive, and you should be able to afford it.

Haircut:

It is more expensive, boys are usually 20 Australian dollars a time, girls will be higher, cut hair, shampoo are separate money, so generally best to cut hair before washing their own hair at home, in the city there is a Korean open, cheap and good.

To see a doctor:

Appointments are required to see a doctor, if it is an emergency, go directly to the hospital, if you are a student, before entering the country, you should have bought health insurance, so see and do not have to worry about spending money, and after seeing the bill to go to the school, will help you to reimbursement, but the insurance does not cover dental and eye, the specifics of matters sent to you on the pamphlet should be there. See the doctor and buy medicine are separate, medicine you can buy in the general drugstore, there are over-the-counter and prescription drugs, I personally recommend that before you go to prepare more medicine, cold medicine ah, anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-allergy drugs, etc., entry as long as the declaration is good, do not bring traditional Chinese medicine (here refers to the kind of traditional Chinese medicine that you have to go to the boil).

Restaurant recommendations:

In Chinatown, Yuan's line next to a barbecue restaurant, marinara and barbecue are very good, as well as the wonton, but only open until 3:00 p.m. every day. There is also a Thai restaurant in Chinatown that is good, and next door there is a Taiwanese owned simple food place that has very good pearl milk tea and laksa, which is also cheaper. There is a small alley next to the city's commonwealth, which has a store pearl milk tea is also very tasty, and much cheaper than the leisure station. city has two Korean restaurants are very famous, one is the Korean canteen, in queenstreet, open late every day, every week 2 rest (seems to be, a little bit don't remember), the other is in elizabethstreet, the other is a Korean restaurant. Elizabethstreet, there are barbecue meat to eat, speaking of barbecue, China Town also has a self-service barbecue restaurant, but a little distance from china town, a lot of kinds of meat, that is, the fruit is only the same, that is, oranges. The most famous self-service restaurant is sizzler, I don't like it very much, because it's all salads and fruits, steak is also available, you need to order another. In sunnybank plaza food court inside there is a Chinese buffet, a lot of things, and seafood on weekends, the taste is okay. In city, through the food court on Elizabeth Street, turn left, opposite the festival tower, there is a Vietnamese rice noodle store, although not as good as the one in sunnybank, but also wrong, can satisfy the craving of the moment, the festival tower upstairs there is nando\'s, is a unique flavor of the grilled chicken store. If you love tea, city queen street's Jin Man Lou and Bali Ping's Fu Yao are good choices.

In front of the casino in city, you can take a free bus, which is a free loop, around Brisbane's CBD, Monday to Friday, 10-15 minutes a bus.

Brisbane's main shopping street is queensstreet, there are myer and david jones, there are also a lot of various specialty stores.

Adelaide

Because of transportation, so prices are high, the city is too quiet, there are few pastimes, relatively lonely, so suitable for learning, the weather extremes of hot and cold similar to Melbourne, there are very few job opportunities, and even less suitable for non-English-speaking people to survive.

Spending in Adelaide is mainly for food, accommodation, transportation, daily necessities and entertainment.

The latest figures from the Economist magazine show it would cost 18 percent more to live in Sydney, 17 percent more in Melbourne and 6 percent more in Perth and Brisbane.

The cost of living is affected by whether you live alone or in a house share, and the location of your home. Higher cost areas such as beaches and city centers are more expensive.

The following guide shows what the average student pays before and after arriving in Australia for basic weekly expenses and common items. All prices are in Australian dollars.

Rent: 100-250

Food: 50-80

Gas and electricity: 15-25

Transportation: 15-20

Entertainment, clothing: 35-40

Telephone, postage: 20-30

Weekly spending: 275-445, annual spending: 14,300- 22880

Perth

Before I came to Australia, I thought Melbourne, the big city, has high prices. In fact, the opposite is true. From Perth to Melbourne, I realized that the daily necessities in Melbourne are at least 5-10% cheaper than Perth. The reason is because Perth does not have any industry (except mining), almost most of the things, including food, daily necessities have to be shipped from the east. Perth's natural distance of 3500km from the east coast is a major factor. At least Perth has high incomes.

House prices and rents are about the same, and for transportation, Perth is cheaper than Melbourne, especially for students, at $1.80 after discount.