Me and My (future)girlfriend spent around 200 dollars honestly most of it was on food. I think I got like 3 records.

The food is all reasonably priced and few venues gouge on drinks, least of all Common Grounds. Gotta give them huge props for $1 cold bottles of water. If you don't have much money, you won't have to starve yourself or anything. You just might end up with fewer mementos.

edit: Just remembered that I don't drink, so I'm not the most qualified person to judge DRINK drink prices.

Where I live the average bog-standard pint costs $9. anything below that will mean living like kings, damn hell ass kings!

You can get some kind of beer for a couple of bucks at most venues, though. A whiskey's probably about the $5 mark.

I only spent like $100 on food and beer. My hotel had the best breakfast bar so I loaded up on tons of shit and hoarded it in my room.

I was between $50 and $100 a day which included food, beer and all the mouthbreather merch that's ever existed.

I must've spent around 30-40 bucks this past Fest on beer plus the 40 or so bucks on taxis...

$2 BEERS? Beers in Australia can get up to $7 each for a decent one in a non-divey venue. Average is around $6. Therefore I need to drink 3 times as many to get rid of my money... USA, USA, USA!

are all australians millionaires or something? how does your country have a reputation for being even more alcoholic than the scottish when it's $6 for a beer?

It's all about priorities. Beer > Food.

haha. Seriously though, I've heard our minimum wage is better than yours. We don't tip here. Minimum casual rate for an adult is close to $20 an hour. BUT everything else apparently costs a lot more, (like food, music gear etc). Set of bass strings here might set you back $45 for example. So it's probably all relative.

Plus the AUS$ is worth less than the US$, think it's about AUS$1.80 to the £.

not to take this thread off-topic or anything, but i've found the aussies i've met to be pretty tame drinkers. getting anyone to go to the pub for no reason besides "its the pub" is pretty tough. maybe it's because it's so much cheaper to drink at home and stuff, but still.. I didn't realise what a truly binge-drinking bunch Brits are until moving here though:)

As the Aussie and US dollars are so close, it's going to feel like getting an incredible deal the entire time, I can't wait. I'm going to buy so many records too.

You definitely should have moved to Surbiton mate. I find it very hard to come up with a good excuse not to go to the pub!

Losers!!!

The tame drinkers you refer to are about 5 people, but they just don't drink as much as the 5 people we would go out with in the UK, mainly because they smoke weed instead. Of our closest friends one used to be straight-edge and has never been a drinker, and another can't drink because of his epilepsy medication, so i dont think they should be used as examples of the whole nation's drinking habits .

Apparently the only people who drink more than aussies are the czechs, irish and germans. Not much more than the UK though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita


And yeah, over here the minimum wage is technically $15 an hour - for teenagers i guess, but no adults get less than $20. which is $17.50 US or 11.62 in pounds (no pound sign on my keyboard). I earn more here basically doing nothing in an office admin job, than my stepmum in the UK does for managing legal contracts for a european airline. Its $8 for a decent (nice and not piss-water) beer here in W.A, but cheaper in the eastern states apparently. So its all relative, though compared to the UK the cost of living here is much much less. For example we dont have council tax, VAT (we call it GST) is 10% not 17.5% and income tax is much less too.