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InDilemma   
11 Jul 2018
Australia / Software professional moving from Poland to Australia - good idea? [5]

Hi everyone. I and my Polish partner are considering moving to Melbourne under the points-based PR visa program. We're both software professionals and have a combined net income of about 16.5K here in Lodz, Poland. Our income allows us to live a very comfortable lifestyle and feed our (expensive) hobbies. On doing research, we found that it might not be the case in Australia where everything is very expensive. We're now in dilemma if moving to Australia while leaving a comfortable lifestyle here is a good idea after all. Both of us would only like to move if our lifestyle can at least remain the same or increase, and that is frequent travels, snowboarding, scuba diving, nice apartment and cars. Does anyone have any insights to it? Thanks in advance!
InDilemma   
11 Jul 2018
Australia / Software professional moving from Poland to Australia - good idea? [5]

I can elaborate if you are more specific.

Well I've been looking up the kinds of jobs they have for software developers and 4k-5k AUD/month seems to be the normal. I also found out that there's no guarantee that we'll even land a job paying dollars in the range I've mentioned. My partner is interested in cars and drives a nice one here, whereas in Australia at least in the major cities, maintaining a car itself seems to take a chunk out of your earning. Not to mention the astronomical rental prices and daily costs. I know I am being vague but the gist of the matter is: we'd consider moving only if software developers over there are paid enough to allow them to travel frequently, own/rent a nice living space and live an active/exciting lifestyle without worrying about the finances - a state that we've already reached over here.