Please listen carefully. A huge welcome to the show we've just spent a
month in Sydney and I thought I'd share with you some of the costs of visiting
or even perhaps living in Sydney Australia. firstly if you want to get
around on public transport in Sydney they have a great bus and train service
over there if you're travelling regular you need an opal card.
Now this is a card
that allows you to travel and jump on and off. The daily allowance for that
card is around about $15 so if you travel all day it's a little expensive I
mean compared to my home city of Melbourne that seems a little bit high
but a good thing is they do have an option of just using a regular bank card
to tap on and tap off of the public transport system. I think its first time I've been on a double decker train
I think so me too. do remember all the information is below this video because
you'll need to keep up to date you might be watching this a month or even a year
on from this date. There's a great taxi service in Sydney and I think the flag
fare is about three dollars sixty and another two dollars just over per
kilometer thereafter I'll put those details down below also because that's
always changing, you can of course get around Sydney on uber and I'll put the
prices up per kilometer, links below if you need to see what the updated
rates are. Now if you want to buy your own transportation say you need a car
and you're in Sydney you can check out carsales.com got a you where you can
find new and secondhand cars. A new car is going to be anywhere from sort of
15,000 maybe up to the sky's the limit second-hand cars in my experience in
Sydney you're getting cars starting at about three to five thousand and going
up to about ten or twelve thousand gets you something that's fairly decent,
anything below that you know it's buyer beware ,you you buy at your own risk
A lot of youngsters coming to Australia will buy a car in Sydney for example and
they can buy them at a fairly low price, they'll drive them across the country to
Western Australia and sell that car in Perth and that actually is
quite a common way and then you get this sort of ping-pong effect, people buying
in New South Wales selling in Perth and then backpackers will then use that car
to come back, that often happens. Be wary that those cars are often very heavily
used so you may have additional service costs when you buy a car like that. Also
be aware when you buy a car secondhand there is a stamp duty or a further tax
you have to pay to the government and you will have to be responsible for
having that car serviced in New South Wales every year. The prices for gas or
fuel in Sydney fluctuated a great deal while we were here by the time we left
they were about 115 per litre but they were as high as about 148 a litre when
we arrived so a pretty big swing and you can expect normally to pay around about
the 120 to 130 dollars per litre, now that's the price for regular unleaded
fuel if you want to know the price of LPG or diesel I'll also put that up on
the screen now for you and you can pause it. Now if you're looking for somewhere
to stay in the centre of Sydney you can check out air B&B I'll leave a link down
below for those who that don't know it's a place where you can stay in people's
apartments sometimes it's shared accommodation sometimes you've got the
whole place, the prices can be a little hit and miss so you have to do your
research on air B&B. If you want to rent a place long-term where you've got
property.com.au and domain.com there's a few flat share sites as well
so if you want to check those out I'll leave links down below. The cost of an
apartment if you're flat sharing and you want to have just a room in the
apartment you could be paying anywhere from about 250 to 350 dollars for shared
apartment on top of that you're going to have to pay your utility costs and of
course your cost of living. If you're in it for the long haul you may want to
rent your own apartments a little expensive in Sydney in the CBD you'd be
looking starting prices around about $500 for a one or two-bedroom apartment
and they can go up as high as you like really, if you move a little further
outside the CBD central business district there are a
lot of really nice suburbs around Sydney and you can find houses or even
apartments in those areas also and they're a little cheaper, you can start
to find properties so let's start again at two-bedroom maybe from three hundred
and fifty dollars to five hundred dollars but these prices are per week in
Australia you have to remember any prices you see advertised are per week
so times that by 52 divide it by 12 if you want to work out
the monthly rental costs. Now here's a nice easy one that we can work out for
you the cost of eating and I'll start with something like McDonald's if you
look at a happy meal in Sydney it's about five dollars and fifty and a
standard Big Mac meal is around about ten Australian dollars so I don't know
how that compares to where you are maybe you can share your comments down below
if you're like Michele and I you love to go out for coffee and cake, coffee is
fantastic in Sydney there are so many cafes you're going to start at about
three dollars fifty minimum to four dollars fifty for a cup of coffee
whether that's an espresso cappuccino latte you will have to pay between $6
and $8.50 or so if you want to have some cake with that or maybe a small sandwich. Eating a meal out like anywhere in the world can fluctuate
from the very low to the high I'm going to say that you can get a fairly decent
meal in Sydney starting at around about $15 and the sky's the limit again for
the cost of eating out in Sydney now if you decide that you need to have a drink
with that and I'm talking about alcoholic drinks here it gets a little
expensive a glass of beer and that's a half-liter start around about eight
dollars fifty a glass of wine in a restaurant could easily cost you $7 to
$15 for a glass depending on which area of the market you hit. Now if unfortunately
you're a smoker in Sydney you are going to find cigarettes pretty expensive a
packet of 20 Marlboro is going to set you back at least $30 for a packet and
most brands are at least between $25 and $30 plus for one packet of cigarettes so
you might want to consider giving up before you come to Australia
Now I'm going to put a little list up here of some standard regular everyday
grocery so you can compare the cost of where you are, flies in Australia they
are going to plague you wherever you are so don't forget your cork hat. There are
a number of mobile Internet service providers in Australia the most common
ones are Telstra and Optus Telstra being the national service provider can be a
little expensive so expect a sim card to start at about $40 a month if you want a
decent internet service provider and mobile service but at this point I'm
going to recommend to you Boost Mobile it's actually under the Telstra Network
it's what I use when I'm in Australia and you can get some fairly decent
packages from boost at around about $30 a month. A really good thing when you're
flying between the cities in Australia is there's some good budget airlines out
there and you can often get between the major cities for as little as 90 to $100
so you just have to book a little bit in advance and check online to see where
the deals are I'll also leave some links down below that'll give you more
information about flights between the major cities. So there you have it there
are some of the costs of a visiting Sydney in Australia is it expensive it
depends where you're coming from so join in the discussion below this video
let people know what you think the costs are it's not a complete and definitive
guide so if you have any questions I'll try and answer them down below be good
and we will see you very shortly for another video on Steve's kitchen from
somewhere in the world if I can get rid of these flies