houses here are dearer than aus and nz although in relation to wages they are cheaper.
i was offered a job in nz this year (lower hutt) and started to look into schools and housing, that very day the front page of the nz herald bore the headline "nz housing overtakes aus housing for first time in history" the report said that to if you were on the average wage buying the average priced house then it would take 18 1/2 years of salary to pay for it.....thats pure salary without spending any of it on living.
that is the reason i am still here and not there, it was a good job tbh and the wage wasnt bad either but the housing situation but the block on it. house prices have risen in aus and nz just as much as here, but with higher interest rates over there most people would be worse off, this is the reason that a lot who emigrate end up coming back.
mrs b.o.g. would have to work if we went whereas here with tax credits and family alloawance she would be working for nothing, so she is able to put all her efforts into bringing up our 3 chidren, this is what they are meant for after all, we have to do without some things but are of the opinion that when you have kids you have to make sacrifices.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10487926 heres the story about nz housing being the least affordable. most of us in the uk will know someone who is thinking of emigrating and they only seem to get positive info, there are a lot of negs. too and it is wise to find them out.