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1 HN user recommended this in 2011, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2011, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Having moved from California to Australia a year ago, the main thing we're finding exceptional about Australia is the high cost of living. IMO the Australian economy is currently being squeezed in a vice between the insane property bubble and the resources boom and high Australian dollar making other sectors of the economy uncompetitive. Western Australia and Queensland (i.e., the two minerals states) are the only two states showing any significant growth.
Australian retail, especially e-commerce, is completely uncompetitive compared to the U.S. Try picking a product at random from www.toysrus.com.au and compare the price on Amazon and even after international shipping it will almost always be much cheaper to just buy from Amazon.
E.g., Megatron Transformers toy: $70 in Australia (http://www.toysrus.com.au/popular-boys-toys/kre-o-transforme...) vs. $25 at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/KRE-O-30688-Transformers-MEGATRON-SET/...). It's almost as if Australian e-commerce sites depend on their customers not having heard of the internet...