We are fine. We have money and one pension and no desire to love a Western expensive life. I travelled and lived in London for 23 years so I lived the life I wanted. I think if you have 2500 aud a month it's doable and that includes in hospital insurance
Greta, we are both struggling with living in Australia. We are not like some of the wealthy expats and we're middle aged (a bit beyond...) but we are trying to get DTV. It's a risk like anything in life however Australia is just going to get more expensive. We do not aspire to have a replicated Western life which would be expensive. You could teach English as a second language perhaps.