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Hi Katie
Pinhead is right, SE Melbourne is nice. I'm in Bentleigh if you're looking for a 3 bedroom place you can pay anything from $400-$800 p/w for a nice place - depends what you want.
Like Pinhead said, check out realestate.com.au - it's really handy.
I can't tell you too much about price comparisions at the moment - we haven't had many bills come through but for a rough idea my mobile phone package is $29 a month which gives me $130 worth of calls (about).
Food shopping is not cheap - there are several other threads about this on here with many people giving their opinion. My opinion is that it's great quality fruit and veg but more expensive than the UK, meat and fish is also more pricey.
Eating out works out the same pound for dollar so it you'd pay £15 for a meal in the UK it'd be $15 here which is great value and there are loads of options for places to eat!!!
There are lots of dollar stores, like poundland and pound stretcher in London so you can find cheap bits and pieces that you may need.
Plus there's always Ikea which is in Richmond - I guess it'll become your furniture shop! From where I live it only took me about 30 mins to drive to Ikea. Most places are really near although look far on a map.
Feel free to ask more questions, there's always someone here who is able to help!
Good luck with it all.
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