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BTS
18 yrs ago
Hi there, I'm trying to put together a rough monthly budget and I'm wondering if someone can give me an idea of how much Electricity/Gas/Phone cost in HK? With Air Con running alot of the time I imagine it's quite high. Can anyone help with this?
Thank You.
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Just wrote you a long PM and lost it so I will help you out with this instead.
We spend on average $1000HK pm on bills (Water, phone, broadband tv and internet, gas and power) but in the height of summer our power alone can came to $900 one month in January though the power was less than $100. We work all day so if you were home it would be alot more but we do run the aircon in our bedroom all night for about 9 months a year and in summer we have it on in the lounge every minute we are home. You would need to run it in your daughters room too at night. Our apt is new so the aircon is good but after a year it really needed a clean and I think having it clean helps with the costs. Compared to NZ bills are a bargain. Some things have quite hefty deposits at the start but then they just deduct it from future bills.
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BTS
18 yrs ago
thank you so much. I'll give them a rough guide of say 3000 per month - that's actually about 200 pounds which is comparable to London I think. I guess we do have central heating running for 5 months out of the year!!
Thank you both you've been a big help.
TBS
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Our (2 adults only) monthly electric bill comes out at max $500/month--this is during the height of winter when we have heaters running. With the present climate, we don't use ac nor heater so our latest bill was only $240/month..
Water bill is less than $200/6 months--yes for 6 months. Towngas is $300/2 months.
Broadband and cable at $300/month, mobile phone is $250 excluding phone cards to call home
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when doing your sums make sure you take into account the rental deposit. That is something you should talk to your husbands company about helping with. You have to pay 2 months bond, half a month as the agents fee and the first month in advance so on the 25k property you are looking for that is 87.5k in one hit plus furniture and your utility deposits so you are looking at a start up cost of around $100k. Our company paid it and deducted it from our salary over the next 6 months till it was paid back, some companies just pay it and get the 2 months bond back at the end.
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BTS
18 yrs ago
Ahhh yes good point! I'll pass that on to my hubby just in case he hasn't thought of it.
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saikunga - i lived in london on my oe so quite a basic short term existence and before that as a student so it was only in nz before hk that I had to pay for everything and also lived well and now i realise just how expensive nz is. Not only is tax 30-40% you need private healthcare, many opt for private education, you need a car and and random crime is so much worse. We paid hk250 pm just for the phone 300 for cable tv and 150 for dial up internet 1000+ for power no gas can't remember the water so more than double for the same stuff as we have here and we didn't need aircon.
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