It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia
These articles take the wrong perspective - it's not that Australia is much more expensive in tech matters, it's that the US is much more cheap. I don't know where the recent Australia-specific articles are coming from, but it's been like this since as long as I can remember - that the US is much more cheap than any other country I'm familiar with for tech stuff, including Australia, but also almost every other country.<p>For example in Europe, the same suite mentioned in the article costs USD 4552.14, or $200 more expensive even than Australia.