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You are retired at a young age , what do you do for an income , i find it interesting, how can i retire younger

If you own your house and you can rent it out for $650 a week, take out expenses of $120 a week, leaves $530.00 gross, tax @ 30% as an overseas resident = $160.00 leaves $370.00 net per week. In Thailand you can live as well as you are in Sydney for $30,000 AUD a year, you would be getting $20,000 net a year from your rent in Aussie. Thats rent, food, beer, transport (you can own a car, but we all own scooters as well - so you use the scooter for 85% of transport - trust me you would). So you only need to find another $10,000 a year. You say you are a self funded retiree that tells me you must earn $70,000 a year at least to be self funded not relying on age pension. You could live like a king here for way less than in Aussie. Check out the many TH-cam channels that tell you all about living in Thailand.

Have you included tax into that

Do you have any old Australian coins, ?

that 6 thousand dollars would have been better spent on solar panels. my wife and i are off grid 34 yrs now. i have about 180 panels i bought secondhand 30 dol. each. our shower is a beer barrel with a 45 watt element out of a hair curler. it took a few days to reach max temp. it can be left on full time without a thermostat. it is only on in daylight hours and is hot enough for our daily showers. kitchen has a barrel next to sink with 2,400 watt element connected to a couple of dozen panels turned on and off as required. bath tub has the same with 250 litre tank and we get to have full bath of hot water most of the time. we have an induction cooktop and have used NO gas for about 25 yrs.if you disconnect from the grid can you be legally forced to pay line rental, since it is all privatised now i don't see how they could force you to pay it.

Hi We are 100% off-grid solar here in the Philippines. We built our new home on the 1000 sq m lot we had in Isabela province. I have worked out the ROI would be 4 years. Definitely worth it! Cheers, Simon

MY Water bill has doubled. Went to the local supermarket, inflation has hit big time.😢

I left Australia in 2000 to move to the USA. Never again will I live in Australia permanently. Visits only.

Inverters which are half the cost of the system only have 5-10 warranty

Good luck generating power on cloudy days

Hope to high hell pigeons don’t roost on your panels

Solar panels need to be cleaned regularly from dirt, dust and especially bird crap.

You solar panels will be lucky to generate at 50% of original capacity after 10 years

Solar panels deteriorate every year losing a small % generation ability every year.

Solar doesn’t work at night when we need it most. Solar reduces production during high heat. It may only be 25 degrees outside but the panels will be 40 degrees plus.

Majority of households are at work during the day and can’t take advantage of peak solar generation. Power generation sent back to the grid for nothing and you purchase your own power back at night at almost 8 x the price

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Disgusting Politicns Have Destroyed Your Country and Life and What will The Country Do when Everyone is Living in Tents IMPORT Another Country That Has The MONEY and Yhrow The AUSSIS OUT Probably.

The problem is, when you speak out about problems, most people arrogantly tell you to go live somewhere else if you don't like it. With these kind of people there is no hope.

Moved to Bangkok from Sydney. What a joke

This is part of a plan -- it's happening all over the Western World ---- Ask the UN - WEF - the Greens & Bill Gates & Co.

Sure, Australia is expensive but this is a growing problem in many other countries - UK, Canada, US are just as bad. Your costs will be similar to those countries but also consider that wages are relatively high in Australia - certainly more than Canada and the UK. Boil it down and our biggest problem is mass unskilled immigration - it's out of control. But we've voted for it as both parties are to blame for this. Next election, vote for the party that will reduce immigration the most. Your other problem is that you live in Victoria which is rapidly turning into a socialist basketcase - ever bigger government and ever increasing taxes. Again, that's what you've voted for. I live in Western Australia and my experience of living is pretty different to yours.

Prices are going up and all the greedy buggers want a piece of the action, and it snowballing. What's the government doing about it? People have to stop paying these ridiculous markups. First the housing boom made housing unaffordable, now it's food and utilities.

Solar is a scam

Australia is a corporation and its current had is CEO Albanese. If you start digging youll find the same thing with loads of evidence. Start with a mob named b i t ch u t e.

Let’s not pay tolls just drive thru we already paying taxes for roads thru fuel.big saying there.

Audio is lousy

What the banksters can't take they'll get their govt slaves to take agenda 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy

Just found your channel. Can you share how you self funded at such a young age? Were you part of the FIRE movement? I love anything that helps saves money and still live well. Yes everything costs a lot these days!

I'm a true blue aussie, and it hurts to say Australia is fkd !

Adelaide mortgage of 400k from 2021 went from 40-45% of my income per week to 60% times are insane at the moment.

Scot here of Australian descent. We may think things are bad here, but some of these costs you mention do seem horrendous. If you want almost free unmetered water, etc., and can cope with 17 hours of darkness each day just now, this could be the place for you !

What are typical salaries in your area and what % tax are paid on these salaries....need this info to put your high cost of living totals in context

Australia is finished now probably most the western world and they mentioned water will double over 5 years.

Trump Make America Great Again...... albosleezy..... MADE CHINA GREAT AGAIN

God provides for all. Praise God.

It is out of control. The corporates own both sides of government and corporate CEO's are all about short term gain for companies because their have bonuses tied to stock prices, so they are squeezing their workforces and customers for every cent. Unless you are a millenial with boomer parents that have a portfolio of properties that will one day become yours you are screwed in Australia - the cost of living makes it impossible to build wealth. If you find yourself over 50 and made redundant, you have no chance of getting another job - many people are going to run out of money (super) in retirement. I have no idea how pensioners survive on the pension in Sydney.

it;s a fine time to emigrate mate. it will not get better as long as the Mafia mob in canberra are still sitting on their flat asssssss while they invest in million dollar sea side mansions

what else do you expect.. when a communist party takes over the country

I feel sorry for all the single parents as well as the retirees with little or no Superannuation, and living off the pension. These people are merely surviving, not living!

saw this coming back in 2010, so sold up and moved to thailand , I am a old age aussie pensioner living on my small farm living like a king, aus is totally fucked get out while you can !

By the time the solar panels pay for themselves they'll need replacing.

And costs will keep going up because Australians don't protest, they just "Yeah its expensive but what can ya do?" and then go about complaining but not doing anything. We are such a placid population but at the same time Australian police forces have strong anti-protest laws that basically allow them to beat the crap out of protestors and get away with it.

Council rates are insane -- we have had the usual 'cpi increase' that gets automatically approved, but our council recently sent a letter claiming that this was insufficient to cover the cost of all the things needed, so was seeking ratepayer 'feedback' on three proposals -- all three were basically to hike rates ABOVE cpi adjustment by more than 30% (as a permanent hike, as it would then continue to be increased by cpi adjustment in future years). Seems insane. Insurance has also increased massively -- but shopping around I was at least able to find an equivalent cover by a different insurer for close to the previous annual fee. Food prices have also gone up a lot more than the headline inflation rate would suggest -- some fresh foods have seen massive increases over recent years (eg. bananas used to be around $1 per kg, now are around $4.5 per kg -- so effectively a 'luxury' food item), and a lot of the canned goods have seen significant price rises AND are now sourced from China (with dubious quality standards) rather than being a local product. Fortunately I can afford rises in the cost of 'essentials', but it is still insane how price inflation has outstripped wage rises in recent years.

These are some very good points to think about. Thank you for your insight. Life is so hard for everyone right now. I don't understand the justification behind the raising of these prices. I just feel like it is unnecessary.

If you are watching in the US, remember that the Australian dollar is only about 65 cents to the US dollar. Makes a huge difference.

G'day Evelyn, watching from a small town called Bellingen on the subtropical mid north coast nsw 👋

Australia was once a great country but has gone to the dogs and run by a government that woudln't piss on us if we were on fire. Protecting their own self interests and ensuring corperate profts is all they are interested in

It’s all by design. It’s part of the plan.

Shopped at Woolworths Park Beach Plaza Coffs Harbour. My total for a family of 4. Two adults, 2 children came to $182.25.