What's particularly annoying about living here in Oz - noticed that you're in Sydney... I'm in BrisVegas - is that despite the fact that our dollar's almost at parity with that of the States, our software prices are still horribly inflated. I remember looking at Poser 7 at Hardly Normal: AUD $700 +??
How wrong is that? particularly when our earning power is a bit less that what it is in the States, dollar for dollar.
When I first got here, I had been earnng over $90K in Calif as a cath lab nurse: here, same job, higher position (managing a cath lab here) I was making barely $50K. And this is when the Aussie dollar was right around .57 to the US dollar.
Something really not right about this. And yet, technology is heaps more expensive here.

Mind you, I wouldn't move back in a fit: even paying higher prices for everything, life here in Oz is so worth it.

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[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

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