[1q2w3e4r]

Originally Posted by NickG

Actually it's worse than you state because there's import duty too! Still that's the price we pay for living in an "enlightened" country, where - unlike the US - the poor can access respectable healthcare for example, and it doesn't cost $40,000 to put your kids thru University etc etc.
Still there's no doubt that for the well paid, the US has a far higher standard of living than us. The two greatest cost burdens for most of us are our mortgages and our cars. In the US mortgages are tax deductable, cars are the cheapest in the World, and salaries for professionals are far higher than here. Now as to quality of life ( as opposed to standard of living) that's another matter....

This doesn't detract from my earlier point though. I reckon at least $35k (maybe more) of the US/Aussie cost difference for 335i is wholly attributable to BMW global pricing strategy, bearing in mind there are also duties and taxes on cars in the US.

I doubt though that the US has a higher standard of living. A very large percentage of the population lives below the poverty line and has no access to health care.

The US gets cars cheaper simply because they are the largest market, sucks to say.

[NickG]

You are absolutely right of course, and that is why I made the same point in my post. The well off are much better off in the US; the poor are far more disadvantaged than Oz

Originally Posted by 1q2w3e4r

I doubt though that the US has a higher standard of living. A very large percentage of the population lives below the poverty line and has no access to health care.

The US gets cars cheaper simply because they are the largest market, sucks to say.

[1q2w3e4r]

Originally Posted by NickG

You are absolutely right of course, and that is why I made the same point in my post. The well off are much better off in the US; the poor are far more disadvantaged than Oz

Gotcha, little hard to follow

[moO moO nEL]

I voted.
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[astra]

old farts...

[Chris.G]

So rude ASTRA there called Senior Citizens

[astra]

ahh, you are old too chris!! atleast 6 months older then me, lol

[Chris.G]

Originally Posted by astra

ahh, you are old too chris!! atleast 6 months older then me, lol

Yeah in six months time you'll be walking around with a walking stick as well

[astra]

and you will be on life support.. i can live with it

[funky_chilli]

oh sheet
if u guys are old then the rest of us are stuffed!

[astra]

ure alread dead and burried? lol, it's ok chilli, we still like you