How does Sydney have so much higher pay with lower prices

Okay straight off the bat I'm not talking about rent or housing costs, I'm just here on holiday so I don't know those.

But everything else way cheaper, I'm in central city and I got my coffee for $4, this is $5 and frequently now up to $6 in New Zealand.

Food costs are way less , mains at most Asian places are around $15-$18, instead of $22-$28 like NZ. I had an amazing eggs Benedict at a popular and up market looking place for $16.50, that would have been $22-$25 in NZ.

For beers my 500ml Heineken was $12, I just had that in New Zealand and it was $16, and this was at a very average bar.

On top of that Australian get so much better pay than NZers for these types of jobs, $60k - $100k.

Everywhere is so busy compared to in NZ, I assume that the lower costs and higher wages meany people can actually afford to go out and that's good for everyone.

Was interesting to see, I remember coming over 6 years ago and feeling like our costs were the same but no longer.