Reply to: AUDGBP aussielong 1.45

[kingcook]

I was getting 18 dollars an hour for working behind a bar in 2001.

I was paying $9 for each pint drank on the other side of the bar last year in 2012

[DimPrawn]

A bit like ours since we stopped mining coal

You mean stopped selling houses to each other at ever increasing prices. That basically was our whole economy.

[doodab]

Once the Chinese have extracted all Oz's mineral wealth it'll return to the sleepy 3rd rate provincial economic backwater it is.
The Ozzies are a bit like Arabs, their economy is nothing without their natural resources.

A bit like ours since we stopped mining coal

[administrator]

Far better than relying on bankers IMHO.

WLES! And at least they get a bit of sunshine over there. Not too keen on the poisonous beasties but at least it's warm

[lilelvis2000]

Once the Chinese have extracted all Oz's mineral wealth it'll return to the sleepy 3rd rate provincial economic backwater it is.
The Ozzies are a bit like Arabs, their economy is nothing without their natural resources.

Far better than relying on bankers IMHO.

[suityou01]

Do you know 1/3 of the worlds uranium is under the ground in Oz, and yet largely untapped. India wants it. But I suppose you could be right.

Twat is right I'm afraid.

[aussielong]

Once the Chinese have extracted all Oz's mineral wealth it'll return to the sleepy 3rd rate provincial economic backwater it is.
The Ozzies are a bit like Arabs, their economy is nothing without their natural resources.

Do you know 1/3 of the worlds uranium is under the ground in Oz, and yet largely untapped. India wants it. But I suppose you could be right.

[swamp]

I was making AUD 65 an hour coding some crap in Perl in Sydney in 2000.

It was 3.2 AUD/GP to the pound then. I though I was being ripped off.

[Doggy Styles]

I remember the Aussie government taking the p1ss out of us three or four years ago, about our spendthrift ways and our growing deficit, while they were trying to keep theirs down.

They were right of course.

Amazing. Aussies being right.

[DodgyAgent]

If it falls much further it will reach parity with the average IQ of a contractor

[sasguru]

Once the Chinese have extracted all Oz's mineral wealth it'll return to the sleepy 3rd rate provincial economic backwater it is.
The Ozzies are a bit like Arabs, their economy is nothing without their natural resources.

[lilelvis2000]

its pretty funny watching 'wanted down under' when the prospective migrants see the price of houses in Sterling. Mostly they are in denial about the value of the houses...no idiots its the fall of Sterling!

Should be even funnier now. Might even be one who faints.

[minestrone]

I was getting 18 dollars an hour for working behind a bar in 2001.

[Ketchup]

I read an article saying for example lemons are £3 each and even "low paid" menial jobs pay equivalent of £20/hr. Such is the weakness of GBP.

I saw that article too...

BBC News - Australia: Where the good life comes at a price

[DimPrawn]

I read an article saying for example lemons are £3 each and even "low paid" menial jobs pay equivalent of £20/hr. Such is the weakness of GBP.