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How much cash to bring to Oz

  • 06-06-2006 11:14am
    #1
    Stacksey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭


    goin to oz for a year in Novemeber, spending first few weeks in fiji, cooks islands and new zealand, just wondering what a "comfortable" amount of cash that will do me for good while would be, i was thinking about 8 grand


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  • #2
    empirix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭empirix


    Depends what your into really, money just goes in Australia, as soon as that $50 bill comes into your hand its gone in minutes. If your looking to party and go out on the razz then you will have to restrict yourself on that budget, €8k is a nice start to set yourself up and live/travel around for about 2 months. Keep in mind all backpacker jobs are badly paid unless of course you have a trade/degree and have good experience, the 3 month visa rule can be a killer unless you have decent experience. My advice would be for you to fly into Cairns from NZ and maybe travel around the north and down the centre or do the east coast, personally i would do the north and down the centre and hang out in Cairns for a few weeks, the east coast is over touristy. When going out, we usually got the 2 litre cartons of Rose wine for $10 and havd a few swigs then hit the pubs/clubs, wine is cheap in OZ and some of the cheap stuff tastes good.

    Obviously the main cities are more expensive.

    Either way, have no worries and enjoy!


  • #3
    pixiearoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭pixiearoo


    empirix wrote:
    the 3 month visa rule can be a killer unless you have decent experience.
    THe Australian gov. have changed this, as of July 1st 2006 you can stay 6 months in a job on a working holiday visa. So chances are better paid jobs will be made available to people who are on WHV.


  • #4
    Derek B
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Derek B


    pixiearoo wrote:
    THe Australian gov. have changed this, as of July 1st 2006 you can stay 6 months in a job on a working holiday visa. So chances are better paid jobs will be made available to people who are on WHV.

    Class, see here

    Cheers for that.


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