Dont forget average salary for fresh grad is AUD35k per year before tax vs RM36k... a freshie would have to be spending 1/2 month of his salary on that jacket.

Also depends where.
If Tasmania or Adelaide, probably can live like a king.
If Sydney with 90k family income before tax, unless you brought a property 5-10 years ago, you will be struggling with mortgage.
Although there are lot of families with 60-70k income, they apply for cheap housing, and other gov benefits.

The salary can be difference can be between 5-15k and also jobs might be a lot less at certain area depending on the industry. But if work at fastfood joint or wash dishes, then its the same. Sometimes also depend on luck, if not much applicant for that role then you might get a better offer.

Example
Developer for .Net
NSW ACT VIC QLD WA SA
100 85 80 90 90 85

Developer for Java
90 95 85 90 85 85

- based on the salary Median from Salary Survey 2016

Also depends if you can stay in a layback town where everything closes at 5.pm vs a more busy Asian like city.

Usually the poorer Aussies and kids fly to Bali using budget flights and other shit holes.... for the middle, upper class, they usually go Europe, US or go on a cruises and lot of Asians will go HK, Japan, etc as well

Everyone got their own preference. Relative and friends who had migrated to UK loves it there. I reckon that the weather there sucks big time.

Friend who had work both in UK and Australia for years say Sydney is safer and much more better then London. For short stay 2-3 years, London is good. He dislike that the fact people are smoking every where in London. Cost of things are about the same, but hifi and high end branded stuffs is a lot cheaper in UK, but then everything is Australia is more expensive compare to the rest of the world (US/UK/etc).

Sydney/Melbourne's sky high property is the one thing causing residents spending power to be low, but if you have a few properties bought before the boom 10 years ago, you would probably be smiling from ear to ear

This post has been edited by Virlution: Feb 3 2017, 02:00 PM

It due to the supply cannot meet demand. PRC does help push it slightly upwards as well, but nowadays foreigners can only purchase brand new properties and banks have tighten their lending as well.