I'll be moving down from Sydney to Melbourne. I was wondering if anyone knew of any cheap removalist?
I'm mainly looking to move a few things (e.g. queen size bed, office desk, office chair and lounge down). If it's too costly, I may as well buy these items new in Melbourne and sell these items I have in Sydney.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I found websites such as: AusPods or backloads that some people on OzBargain recommended.
It feels like that's probs the best thing, removalist only really makes sense if you have super expensive items that you're transporting.
AGREE
Great opportunity to do a clean out and update
Are you driving down with all your other stuff (clothes and personal effects)?
Planning to get that stuff checked in when I fly down/hand carry!
That negates what my suggestion would have been. If you were driving then trailer rental might have been an option.
I used AirTasker six years ago, and it was much cheaper than all the quotes I obtained from moving companies. Can’t guarantee this is still the case these days, but it’s free to post on AirTasker, so no harm posting there and see if anyone get back to you.
melb is full of stuff just get it from fbmp when you move down
Moving from Sydney to Melbourne
You like paying more taxes than any other state?
The biggest taxes people pay are income tax, capital gains tax, and GST, which are all federal taxes and identical no matter where you live.
The only state taxes people pay are payroll tax, stamp duty, and land tax, and if you did your research, you'd realise that differences between states are not significant.
For payroll tax, in VIC it is 4.85% (metro), whereas in NSW, it is 5.45%, however, this is irrelevant for most people who are PAYG, or small business owners who fall below the payroll tax threshold.
For stamp duty, VIC is higher, for a $1m property, stamp duty is around $55,000 in VIC, whereas it's around $40,000 in NSW. However, important to note that this is only a one-off tax payable upon purchasing a property. Given the average holding period for property in Australia is around 10 years, this difference would be worth around $1,500 per year (if you were to purchase a $1m property, which is around the median in Melbourne).
In VIC, land tax is also higher, however, there are a few caveats. Firstly, land tax is just not a lot - for an average $1m property, with 60% land value (which is probably already on the high side), it would be $2,475 (vs. $0 in NSW). The other caveat, however, is land tax is irrelevant for choosing where you live because it's levied on your investment properties. In other words, you could live in VIC and buy an investment property in NSW if you were concerned about land tax, or alternatively you could live in NSW, but still have to pay VIC land tax rates if you bought an investment in VIC.
The biggest taxes people pay are
yeah, we all pay those, but then on top of that Vic has been creating extra ones because of the monstrous debt they are creating…
What are those extra taxes?
Too many to list here
In other words, you don't know.
One of the more recent new ones was the tax to penalise farmers…
Is OP a farmer? If not, why should a tax on farmers inform where they live?
In other words, I listed one example for you…
You listed "the tax to penalise farmers", which, given that OP has not said they are a farmer (and the likelihood is low, given that less than 0.1% of Australians are farmers), would not apply to them.
You have not proven your original statement, which is "You like paying more taxes than any other state?".
You mean pay their way.
They already pay a levy, this is an additional tax that disproportially penalises farmers that may have dozens of different titles for the one farm…
You should do some research before making stupid comments.
Jacinta is only targetting them because they are soft targets and it's not going to cost her any votes because farmers would never vote for her anyway…
Maybe the farmers should boycott providing her any food…
@jv: Vic is one of the state with lowest cost for public service cost. You sound like a neoliberal whiner never living in another state and have no idea how expensive NSW is. Of course with few assets here and there you're the perfect candidate for the state to fix its budget blackhole. But if you have the ball to move and live the capitalist way then why not?
Vic is one of the state with lowest cost for public service cost.
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Maybe they are an ALP policy adviser moving in with Dan,Jacinta and Albo. Luckily you have plenty of spare space.
Hire a removal truck and ask a couple of islander boys if they want to do a cashy? Best movers around, if you self supervise and feed them well.
Not sure it's worth it if you don't have that much stuff though I've used AusPods previously and found them really good. Involves doing it yourself though for me that was the point, avoiding dodgy removalists.
I'm mainly looking to move a few things (e.g. queen size bed, office desk, office chair and lounge down). If it's too costly, I may as well buy these items new in Melbourne and sell these items I have in Sydney.
Just put them on Facebook Marketplace, and you can usually find similar things in Melbourne on Facebook Marketplace for the same price. Even if you wanted to buy new, the likely cost differential would not make bringing them down worth it. Also a good opportunity to upgrade some stuff if you were inclined.
Dispose and buy new ones.