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Eddie Dingle

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This is as untrue as Port Adelaide Est 1997 propaganda is.
Why is it untrue?

It's his experience???

I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.

I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
 

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Why is it untrue?

It's his experience???

I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.

I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
Of course its true for some, but it is hardly universal or the majority, which is what he is suggesting.
 

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Why is it untrue?

It's his experience???

I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.

I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
Yeah look, I'm leftist by nature but all this "BAWW COST OF LIVING" shit you hear today is absolute muffcabbage.

Sure, council rates and utilities will always be an unwelcome whack for lower socio-economic types, but by the same token, there has never been greater access to welfare of all kinds (i pay tax and have kids, give me my tax back and some AND maintain health, education, roads, police and military pls) and even your average povlov is usually replete with multiple of the following: brand name clothing, Foxtel, 3 or 4 wireless devices, wi-fi, a flatscreen TV or two, a fridge full of booze, smokes, non-generic foods of all descriptions.

Having grown up poor and seen my mother work her fingers to the bone to cling to her home when interest rates were 17-18% - indirectly self-inflicted mind, because her choice of men (chiefly my father) was ****ing terrible - those roughly 35-40 and below who think this a tough economy or a capitalist dystopia are freaking kidding themselves.

As with any given generation there are genuine battlers who are struggling to keep their heads above water, but by and large it's the cost of luxuries rather than living that are the primary issue.

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Why is it untrue?

It's his experience???

I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.

I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
Yeah, those people suck. However all luxuries aside, the cost of living is a lot higher now than it was for older generations. I know plenty of people that don't live beyond their means, but live from paycheck to paycheck and can pretty well forget about saving for a deposit for a house.

Of course, there's always an answer.to people that can't make ends meet though isn't there? Go to uni, get a better job, don't have kids etc etc
 

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Of course its true for some, but it is hardly universal or the majority, which is what he is suggesting.
My intention was not to suggest it was true for everyone, well no more than the current media propaganda that all people who got houses before the current generation had it easy.

Any of my friends that bought houses during that time struggled with payments, interest rates were over 12% I remember it going to 18%. It was not all roses.

One of my kids has recently started this process and he does not find it easy but he brought where he could afford to get a foot on the ladder.
He knows later he will move when he has made improvements to his current house and so on.

Good areas have always attracted a premium and (generally) first-time buyers are priced out of that end of the market.

FWIW I think house prices are obscene, but I also think they always have been taking way too much of people's disposable income just to get a roof over their heads.
I'm just pointing out this is not new.
 

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Of course, there's always an answer.to people that can't make ends meet though isn't there? Go to uni, get a better job, don't have kids etc etc
But of course a lot of getting a better paying job is about who you know and people struggling to make ends meet will probably be time poor and can't attend uni. I can't speak for getting into the housing market but people I know years ahead of me have struggled and continue to struggle (no they aren't bogans spending all of their money on JD and Crusty Demons merch). Meanwhile many boomers sit on investment properties through little risk via negative gearing while those below them can't even get into their own homes.
 

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Can I also add, massive HD TV's are so bloody cheap these days and Ruddy bought everyone a few years ago, so no-one can make the "well you've got a $700 telly, why dont you have thirty grand for a house deposit?" argument anymore.
 

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I've got sisters and brothers-in-law that are considerably younger than my wife and I and they exhibit a lot of the attitudes towards starting at the top that 5um0F1 posted about. When I start telling them that we bought a run down old house in an, at the time, not popular suburb and worked a couple of jobs while having hand me down furniture, a tea chest with a bit of ply on top for a coffee table, no TV and one car between the two of us I get this;

 

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Why is it untrue?

It's his experience???

I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.

I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
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Having grown up poor and seen my mother work her fingers to the bone to cling to her home when interest rates were 17-18% - indirectly self-inflicted mind, because her choice of men (chiefly my father) was ****ing terrible - those roughly 35-40 and below who think this a tough economy or a capitalist dystopia are freaking kidding themselves.
Are you my brother??
 

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My intention was not to suggest it was true for everyone, well no more than the current media propaganda that all people who got houses before the current generation had it easy.

Any of my friends that bought houses during that time struggled with payments, interest rates were over 12% I remember it going to 18%. It was not all roses.

One of my kids has recently started this process and he does not find it easy but he brought where he could afford to get a foot on the ladder.
He knows later he will move when he has made improvements to his current house and so on.

Good areas have always attracted a premium and (generally) first-time buyers are priced out of that end of the market.

FWIW I think house prices are obscene, but I also think they always have been taking way too much of people's disposable income just to get a roof over their heads.
I'm just pointing out this is not new.
Affordability is at an all time low though. It is at least twice as hard. These figures (2011) have since worsened, hence my point that it is mostly untrue and unfair to say.

Mean mortgage debt to income ratio



Home ownership rate 1982-2011, in percentage terms

 

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I think, as with most things in life, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Yes housing prices are ****** and shows no signs of slowing, the job market is more competitive than ever and required prospective employees to jump through more hoops like Uni that cost $$$, the rich get richer, poor get poorer, etc, but interest rates are low, there's a lot of (optional) shit floating around these days that didn't exist 40 years ago that we don't have to spend money on, wages have also increased in line with cost of living or close to it.
 

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That's crap. My missus was single working two jobs earning maybe 55k before tax managing to pay off her 230k house alright on her own for years before we got together and I moved in and now share the budget.

It's doable if you wanna work hard enough for it.
 

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This map clearly shows that only the extreme northern suburbs are actually affordable. This is in Adelaide which is the MOST affordable capital.

Pople who complain of the affordability have a clear argument. Your basic choices are Elizabeth or the country. Which is ridiculous. This is not a normal spread, other factors are causing this to happen (negative gearing being one).
 

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That's crap. My missus was single working two jobs earning maybe 55k before tax managing to pay off her 230k house alright on her own for years before we got together and I moved in and now share the budget.

It's doable if you wanna work hard enough for it.
Kids change everything.
 
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