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Meh... its not the 1st time women extracted money from me and not the last I’m sure.

Agreed :) But I think dan c nailed it as well. They will definitely try it on if they think they can get away with it. The way my waitress explained it to me is that gratuities go to the owner and tips go to her... probably not true and I don’t really care, I gave her like 40USD cash which...

10 characters. yes wasn't enough. its just a forum thing. Yeah tipping gets expensive at expensive places as they expect 10% of the total bill as a standard tip and 20% if the service was excellent

yes 10char

They always expect a tip

Mmm indeed. I know in Vegas they have this lovely mandatory gratuities thing, at one night club my mandatory gratuity came to 20% of the total bill... plus they expected a tip on top... lovely

Good post Kristine, thanks for that. I understand that everyone’s dreams are different I was trying to identify an over all dream, a control, for this experiment / discussion. For the record my dream is a penthouse close to work (southbank in Melbourne would be nice) and a small house /...

This is why we should establish what the current Australian Dream is. I think it would be something like 600sqm+ with a 3/1/1 house 30mins drive to CBD? Is that about right? 'Normal'?

well i think the big block is definitely part of the dream, proximity to CBD probably isn't, you're right in that regard

in this case it is definitely still alive!

Can we 1st define what the ‘Australian Dream’ is? Is it still 1000sqm block 10kms from CBD and beach? If so, then yes, the Australian Dream is dead...