How much money cost to live in sydney for a year?
This is almost impossible to answer and depends on a lot of factors such as car ownership or using public transport, how much you eat out and cook your own meals, what kind of house/flat you live in and the cost of rent, where you shop for groceries, which area you live in (yes this is a huge factor), if you have an luxuries such as pay TV or similar, how you use utilities such as telephone (both land-line and mobile), gas and electricity. I can give you a rough idea based on my own circumstances. I live in one of the outer suburbs of Sydney and pay about $230/week in rent (3 bedroom home), $100/week for food (2 adults no kids not eating out), $50/week in petrol (40km/day non city semi rural driving), $150/month telephone (land-line includes pay TV), $90/month car insurance, $500 every 3 months for electricity and about $250 every 3 months for gas, about $700/year car registration this includes RTA (government vehicle authority similar to US DMV) fees and compulsory Greenslip (third pa