MYR7K? that would be less than AUD2.5k. Can survive?? rental already can reach 2k a month.

manage to find job in less than a months time is quite amazing. 

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chro...ng%20apartments

fully furnished
1 night in apartment min 150
1 week, let's assume it is 600
1 month, round it up 2.4k

probably can get cheaper with lower quality

but then, living in melbourne is not cheap, is it?

should be the low-kind not solid one...alot dodgy kind of jobs..

Managed to spend a lofty 6 dollars today!
Depends on what kind of construction you're into. If you're into the basics like commercial buildings and residential, like shit lorh.

If you're into infrastructure, LNG and OnG construction, there are still tons of jobs.
2.5k AUD? Eat what? Air issit?

Why would anyone even migrate for such rubbish pay? Better save money stay in KL.

I can never understand this kind of logic. x3 more than Malaysia salary but the expenses also x3 right?!? Actually expenses even more than x3, so your friend is even worse off in AU than he was in MY.

2k will get you a 3 room house for rent in the outer suburbs.

But if you're in the middle of Melbourne expect to pay about 250 a week for a room inclusive of power and gas.
He certainly seems easy to please. Kudos to him.

If I got 25k AUD a year I would have quit and flown home ages ago.

yeah. rental is not cheap here.
you earn is big..say a pay about 17/hr or so. But it all depends on you how you use the 17/hr pay. Prices of stuff varies and depend alot on your expenditure. If you are the type who, earn so much and spend on expensive stuff. then its no different being here.

Price of meal roughly 10/20 per dish or so.
enjoy? im sure there`s something he have to do to get it.

u wanna join?

aww.. here got lots of garden for dogs n walking path fifi looks cute 

U shouldn't convert. Earn locally, spend locally.
AUD700 a week (RM2100 a week) is just barely enough to eke out a comfortable existence.

Of course it would sound like a lot to you cos u r comparing with M'sian wages.

If you can imagine, you work in a supermarket, u earn AUD25 per hour or AUD3.5K nett per month after tax.

But then you buy a sandwich and coffee, or a plate of char kuey teow is AUD10 per serve.

Buffets can range from AUD15 for the cheap & nasty, normally sponsored by jackpot machines, to AUD100 in uber luxury 5 star hotels.

The main expenses would be rental, which is AUD200 per week for a room, or AUD866 month. So 24% of income goes to rent..

Obviously you will struggle to raise a family, let alone buy a family sized house on this income.