Humanity has risen!
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I would say that for food and basic necessities it's markedly more expensive except for those that are sourced from Australia.
Canberra is a very nice place, looks like a great city to live in: quiet, clean, with friendly people. But like Corwin said it's pretty barren. There isn't much here.
To those of you who can't wait to know: It went very well. I understood most of what he said, and he at least appeared to understand what I said. No need to resort to sign language. And I only had to use my cell phone to SMS my wife.
All in all, we had a pleasant time together.
pibbur who is also happy that nobody were insulted caused by misunderstandings caused by language problems caused by Australia being far away (1 1/2 mile from the sun), eventually caused by big bang.
PS. Regarding language problems, here's a Hungarian phrasebook:
DS.