Oceania
🇦🇺 Australia
Melbourne and Sydney are Oceania’s big nomad-and-expat magnets, café culture, English, and lifestyle, at premium cost of living and with visa routes that reward planning (especially Working Holiday eligibility).
Australia in short
We cover 2 cities in Australia. A mid-range solo month runs from about $2,900 in Melbourne to about $3,200 in Sydney (our planning estimates, method). No remote-work scheme for Australia is in the audited visa tracker yet, so plan around the ordinary visitor rules and check them with the official immigration authority before you book.
Australia cities compared Planning estimates, see method
Sorted from cheapest. Monthly cost is a mid-range solo scenario in US dollars; housing is the accommodation line of the same scenario. Wifi and safety are planning figures, not measurements.
How this page is built: visa rows are read from the audited tracker, which links each figure to an official page and dates the check; city figures are editorial planning estimates (method). Rules change, so confirm with the authority before you apply. Researched from official immigration pages and the site's cost dataset.
Earlier summary of the visa route
Scheme
Visitor / Working Holiday (age-limited) / other work visas
Maximum stay
Visitor often 3 months; WHV up to 1–3 years if eligible
Income or savings
Varies by visa subclass
Difficulty
Moderate
These summary figures were carried over from the earlier site and are not individually dated. This country is not in the audited tracker yet, so treat them as a starting point only.
Cities in Australia
Figures are planning estimates. Method
