University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)

The food and everyday expenses are generally cheaper in Australia than in France. Housing is quite expensive in Sydney, it is more expensive than what I used to pay in Reims (France), however the prices for housing between Sydney and Paris are quite similar. Nightlife is much cheaper in Australia than in France but because it is cheaper and because there are only 12 hours of university a week (not including personnal study time and assignments) one ends up going out more and therefore spending more or less the same amount of money on nightlife than back home. I spent more on travel because being in Australia was a good opportunity to visit a lot of different places and because distances within Australia as well as between Australia and anywhere else in the world are very big.

during my exchange period, the war on irak drove the dollar up, so, overall, australia was quite expensive in comparison with chile. but for europeans or northamericans, australia shuold be rather accesible, if not cheap.

apart from housing, things are not neccessarily that much more expensive, it's just that you tend to do more stuff when you're abroad

Housing in Sydney is pretty expensive. Food and going out is less expensive than Switzerland. But because I did a lot of different activities (diving, surving, travelling...) I spent more money than at home.

Housing in Sydney is extremly expensive.