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Originally Posted by northernbird
bit of generalising going on there don't you think. not everyone has lower wages and higher bills and not everyone lives in an area where people are materialistic. the only people I know that are materialistic are my English friends. I recently renovated my house and my English friends wanted to know what make of this and that I had, the Australian friends didn't ask anything just said my renos were lovely.
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Wages for artisans are generally lower in Oz than the UK, that's just a fact of life unfortuatally..
Maybe we just move in different circles but the younger crowd over here want the newest phones computer, ipods, etc just like kids back in the UK..the older folk I now have the latest gadgets and nearly all strive to have a bigger fraster car or boat which I never witnessed in the UK...