Yarra Prm, Southbank, VIC 3006

Hi melbournefan,
Just curious -- what’s the cost of living in your part of the globe? How much is the petrol there?

Cost of living is getting high, average house prices would be about $400,000 with most people living on quarter acre blocks in the suburbs .The closer you get to the city the prices skyrocket. Homes within a few kilometres of the city exceed $1 million. Apartment living in Melbourne is starting to take off but you can get some smaller ones around $300-$500k. (unlike New York or other international cities city living is only a recent development here). You can pay up to $10 million for penthouses in the 90 storey Eureka Tower.

Melbourne is a hidden gem though, featured in a few films lately - Nicholas Cage is here now filming. Ghostrider was filmed here.

Petrol is getting very high, we pay about $1.70 per litre (not sure what that converts to gallon).

Thanks for the fellow-up information.

Your pictures reminded me of how much I miss city living as I currently live in a very rural part of the USA!

The housing market here in the US is suffering double-digit declines in many markets and the economist claim it’s the worst housing slump since the Great Depression, it’s not expected to get better anytime soon…

Gas here on average is over 4.00 per gallon & seems to go up daily along with food costs.

Indeed ~*~ we all have to take one day at a time!!!

http://www.streetadvisor.com/address/united_states/maryland/sharptown/elzey_brown_loop_road/overview/default.aspx