Quote Originally Posted by Sky Shadow View Post
Pay rates in Australia have been better than the UK for a long time, 5FDP, even when the pound was stronger. This is how they stand now: http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/10153/au...part-two-2012/ Minimum wages are also much higher in Aus than the UK, which is one of the reasons for higher retail prices, because Aussie companies have to pay the shop staff. And there's a UK wage freeze now, so the gulf between Aus and UK is likely to continue to grow.
I don't know what to tell you. We all worked in the same industry and still do - Telecommunications, and they relocated to the UK to perform the exact same roles but at a higher pay. I would have made the move myself if it weren't for the fact that I'm married and had a child on the way at the time. Put it this way - they wouldn't have relocated all the way to the UK if they were going to be worse off financially I guess you just have to be in the right industry.

The last part of my comment was a mere observation based on what I have paid for Transformers in the last 10 years of collecting and not necessarily in relation to the first part of my comment.