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Cost - Variance in Different Countries

The prices of every product varies in every country. I decided to do a small analysis on this. It’s based on the pay an average graduate gets to the percentage of salary he spends on regular merchandise like daily or monthly supplies. I also included the price of a sedan vehicle just give a picture of how the variance is between countries. I decided to go with three countries India, U.S and Australia.

The Pay an average graduate gets in India per month - 20,000 Rs.
The Pay an average graduate gets in U.S per month - 3750 USD.
The Pay an average graduate gets in Australia per month - 3826 AUD.

I call this the Earn-n-Spend table

ESP(Earn Spend Percentile) = (Cost/Salary)*10000

The ESP will give the percentage of earnings an average per month graduate will have to spend on the listed commodities below. One can multiply the rate with quantity required in a month to find the total amount he will be spending on that item for the month. The lower the ESP the better. The rates might differ from what i have mentioned but not much(If there is a large variance let me know). All are approximate values and may change.

Seems like U.S is a cheaper place for a graduate to live. And people say U.S is expensive. I think Australia is more expensive. Ofcourse there is a money conversion between them but I only did the table for graduates living in those specific countries and earning there.

Tags: america, Australia, cost comparison, Groceries price, india, usa
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Once upon a time in Australia

When I first stepped into my university for registration i was awe-struck with the Asian people surrounding me. It was like as if i was in China ( The place where i`d love to live might sound strange but i`ve got my reasons). I did find a few Indians too but i was under the impression i was gonna be surrounded by Germans Americans and Aussies . I learnt soon that The Asians were fourth generation here . There`s even a place called china-town here guess thats there in poplar city. I knew that it was mostly European settler here Thats the reason for my surprise.

I asked a few of the as to how they got here. And found that most of them got in as refugee from Vietnam during the war. They have interesting stories . Struggled a lot to get wherever they where now. The Person who designed The entire Monash Network Dr. Lee was a victim of the above war got in as a refugee . he had do do his degree all over again as the previous one was told invalid. From there on to one of the finest Network Engineers the world has ever seen.

I googled around a bit and found the following statistics , pretty old stats though . According to the census data collected Aug. 7, 2001, there are 19,485,300 people living in Australia. Of the 22% of the population born overseas, 11.2% were born in Europe, while 5.2% were born in Asia. Census data also revealed that Italian is the most popular language other than English spoken at home, followed by Greek, Cantonese, Arabic and Vietnamese. There are a few Italians living around my place . Gotta say some of the sweetest people you would find .

In keeping with Australia’s policy of multiculturalism, census data showed that Australians identified over 200 different ancestries.
Almost 36% of the population said they had Australian ancestry, while 33.9% nominated English. The next most popular ancestries were Irish (10.2%), Italian (4.3%), German (4%), Chinese (3%), Scottish (2.9%) and Greek (2%).Indians have very low ancestry But you would find many students all around the city. Most of the people doing masters in IT or MBA and IT related would be Indians or Asian. Other Courses Like Physiology , Physcology media etc you would find Australians Dutch British . People identifying themselves as Indigenous Australians, either Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, increased 16% from the 1996 census to about 410,000. Indigenous Australians now account for 2.2% of the overall population.

Despite all the races people seem to mingle around better not sticking to a particular flock.Guess the World will soon become a better place . I wonder if any other country or city has such a wide cultural variation. Hope i get to travel around the world to see em all , like the European tourists here most of them are in a world tour.Dint find much of American tourists though i thought mostly its the Americans who travel around the world.

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