The UK is so cheap for food clothes beauty products and medication. If you have been living is oz for a while this may be a surprise.
You can go to places like LIDAL, ASDA and Tescos and buy everything you need for cheap, from clothes to garden furniture to TVs. Most of your daily needs such as crisps, milk, 1l coke are ONE POUND!! the superstores are always at war and although a lot of their deals are cons...it is way cheaper than oz.
Im moving to oz in July and I'm in the process of packing and organising things to send over to oz.
we are expecting a baby and so I have been comparing prices on things and the majority of things i have bought here.
for example the baby monitor we have 100 pounds in oz 357 dollars. nurofen for babies 3pound same bottle in coles is 17dollars.
the only things we are buying in oz are the pram and cot just because the prices are so similar.
I have NO IDEA why the ozzies are ripped off so badly. people have said its because of the distance and things needing to be exported but as most things are made in china....surely the UK is further.
people can say you earn more but a bottle of nurofen should not be 3 times the price and the weekly shop should not be so expensive. Even sun tan lotion is cheaper in the UK and we hardly ever get to use it.
Saying that its just something I will have to get used to and accept.