What is the ratio of the cost-of-living indices for Bedford UK and Perth Australia?

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Clarification of Question by apomcalledtom-ga on 21 Aug 2006 09:25 PDT

It may not be necessary to find a table wherein both Bedford and Perth
are contained - a ratio between Bedford and London, and then between
London and Perth may suffice. Ideally, the statistics would be  no
more than 1 year old since the cost of living in Perth is (I am told)
increasing fairly rapidly.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 22 Aug 2006 14:40 PDT

According to an international salary-comparison service, the current
salary comparison between London, UK and Perth, AU (no listing for
Bedford was available) is:

A salary of $74,830 in Perth is essentially equivalent -- that is, can
support the same lifestyle -- as a salary of $100,000 in London.

Does that sort of comparison help?  What additional information would
you like to have to make for a complete answer to your question?

Let me know what you think,

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by apomcalledtom-ga on 23 Aug 2006 10:05 PDT

Sorry, just getting the hang of this - I posted a couple of
clarifications as comments by mistake - please refer to these.

I was unable to find Bedford, UK in the databases that I have access
to. The one place where Bedford turned up was missing Perth,
Australia. Hopefully another researcher can better assist you.

tisme-ga

The info about the salary equivalence between Perth and London is
useful if it can be dated to within one year, and the source can be
referenced. The cost of living in London is I understand significantly
higher than in Bedford UK. Hence a separatre comparison between
Bedford and London, also dated and sourced, will be necessary to
complete the comparison.

Bedford is in a county called Bedfordshire in the UK is approx 40
miles north of north London.

I actually live in Bedford (which is about 50 miles north of
London)and the cost of living here is significantly less than London
(but by how much I don't know. I know that a cost-of-living index is
available for various towns and cities, and I know that a few years
ago London was given a value of about 1.2 and Birmingham (about 60
miles north-west of Bedford) was given a value of 0.8. Perth Australia
was then given a value of about 0.72. However, these values change
with time, especially when property prices are on the move, as they
are both in the UK and Perth. Hence these values have a significant
margin of error as they are old. The cost-of-living index is a
somewhat arbitrary means of comparison, it being based on the local
price of a standardised list of items and services, but it is accepted
as the best if not only means of such comparison. Therefore, what I
require are up-to-date figures from a reliable source for the
cost-of-living index (or salary equivalents) that can be dated within
one year and the origin of these statistics referenced for future
quotation. Obviously I haven't found these yet hence I need help.

this seems to have gone dry so i'm cancelling the question