Lol by no means like it, we just roll with it!

They're not normally this long, 2-6 hours are the norm, so solar for the hot water, UPS for the WiFi and electronics, gas for cooking or just make a fire!

this year has been good though, only had like 3 major outages! But prices have skyrocketted thats for sure! But still way cheaper than first world! When i look at the cost of living in other countries and the taxes, I die inside, maybe the math I am doing doesn't reflect the standard of living upgrade, you dont know what you don't know, but man am I a cheap bastard

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If it were me, I would just get excited about there being a problem worth solving rather than complaining about how another country might be better. At least in regards to anything not related to politics and actually solvable with engineering.

I think you're priorities are just fine

Getting used to it might be even worse than dealing with it.

I get that you have to, but I hadn’t considered that all the rich Boomers will probably do that here when outages become the norm and then shame everyone else for not doing so to save “mother earth” like they are, until you wrote this.

Victoria has banned new gas connections so new homes will be shit out of luck on that front..

Last quarter our electricity bill was $1100 dollarydoos and gas (for hot water and cooking) was $200 - how does that compare to you?

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Geezus! My electricity bill is $56 per month, thanks to the solar, normal households spend about $200-220 per month, water and rates are around $83, gas I pay $20 for a 9kg tank for cooking and that can last me like 6 months! Then armed response security for the house is about $19 per month, internet is $33 for a 40MB line

Petrol I spend about $80-90 per month for the car hence why I think despite everything i'm getting a good deal!