Perth family uproots to Bali criticising childcare costs, housing affordability and rise in shark attacks

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From shark attacks and sky-high childcare costs to surveillance and housing affordability, a Perth mum has detailed the reasons behind her family’s move to Bali.

A Perth mum has taken to social media to reveal why she is selling up her Perth home and moving her family to Bali.

In a post uploaded to her Instagram last week, Independent journalist Rebekah Barnett shared an image of her husband and child on a Bali-bound flight in which she listed the seven reasons behind the families bold move.

“I don’t hate Australia. I just want a great life for me and my family. It’s getting harder to do that here.”

Beginning with the cost of living, the journalist explained how prices “were up 25 per cent since Covid” with interest rates increasing “five times in the last year, one in three Australians experiencing food insecurity and housing affordability at an all time low”.

The mother went on to cite time as the ‘most important reason’ for their move explaining how a “higher cost of living means longer work hours, daycare for our baby, and less time together.”

She compared the cost of private nannies in Bali to Australia, claiming it was “affordable to pay a private nanny above a living wage for help at home on our own terms.”

Perhaps one of the more surprising reasons behind the move was surveillance, with Ms Barnett revealing she didn’t want her family to be “filmed everywhere we go, all the time”, branding Australia as an “over-regulated nanny state”.

“Barriers to doing business. Increasingly complex tax rules and compliance measures. You can be fined for just about anything,” she said.

“We want to live without being constantly micromanaged by incompetent middle-managers.”

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