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My parents on pretty damn mediocre wages (book keeping and factory labouring) never had to save to the point where they couldn't afford two kids, the latest TV, PlayStation, etc, renovations (including a pool...luxury!) and the occasional holiday. Neither of them went to uni. Why are millenials being asked to live without luxury? It's 2016 in a developed nation ffs.

Aside from the insanely rich living on their forefathers who got wealthy hundreds of years ago, no one starts with wealth. No one. You have to start scrubbing the toilets before you can sit behind the mahogany desk.
 
My mother and father had a family business they ran together. My mother had to raise four children under 18 when my father died at age 46 (I was 10), and continue to run a flagging business on her own in the process. She worked 7am-10pm every day and I never saw her, but she ensured we had a house and a half decent school to attend. I don't have a big attachment to her because we never spent any time together as she was too busy providing for the lot of us but I know that I'll never ****ing let her down, ever.
 

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The $8,000 trip to London to drink at the Walkabout and take selfies at Nelson's Column couldn't have gone towards a deposit?

The Instagram Duvet is nice, granted.
Wife and I drove the Great Ocean Road staying in inexpensive motels for our honeymoon. Fast forward almost 20 years and sister-in-law and her hubby spend two weeks in a resort in Thailand for their honeymoon and then complain about being broke when they get back. o_O

Expectations change with each generation expecting more than the previous generation. My parents spent the first few years of their marriage living with an auntie and didn't own a car until they'd been married almost 10 years.
 
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Wife and I drove the Great Ocean Road staying in inexpensive motels for our honeymoon. Fast forward almost 20 years and sister-in-law and her hubby spend two weeks in a resort in Thailand for their honeymoon and then complain about being broke when they get back. o_O

Expectations change with each generation expecting more than the previous generation. My parents spent the first few years of their marriage living with an auntie and didn't own a car until they been married almost 10 years.

And each generation always scorns the next as being entitled and selfish.
 
The $8,000 trip to London to drink at the Walkabout and take selfies at Nelson's Column couldn't have gone towards a deposit?

The Instagram Duvet is nice, granted.

lol, so much this. I've not been overseas since my parents took me there when I was like 7. Only times I go interstate is if I drive or for work. All of my holidays have been on the cheap, and they've been ****ing fantastic. Drove to Uluru in 2013 with a bunch of mates and the misses in a motorcade. We swagged it at various rest stops for a few bucks a night then stayed in a cabin at Ulara for like 50 bucks each. It's the best trip I've ever done - and I completely remember my overseas trips.

This trip only came about after I had saved and took out a loan to buy my car. The other cars in the group were a dilapidated hilux and a half wrecked triton. Good times.
 
When I say luxury I mean living beyond just working and being a miserable piece of shit. Again, developed nations should be asking for more than just being wage slaves in order to have a roof.

Confirmed not gonna make it.
 

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The $8,000 trip to London to drink at the Walkabout and take selfies at Nelson's Column couldn't have gone towards a deposit?

The Instagram Duvet is nice, granted.
Facts please, figures please. Not John and Jane Hipster's lifestyle choices.
 
lol, so much this. I've not been overseas since my parents took me there when I was like 7. Only times I go interstate is if I drive or for work. All of my holidays have been on the cheap, and they've been ******* fantastic. Drove to Uluru in 2013 with a bunch of mates and the misses in a motorcade. We swagged it at various rest stops for a few bucks a night then stayed in a cabin at Ulara for like 50 bucks each. It's the best trip I've ever done - and I completely remember my overseas trips.

This trip only came about after I had saved and took out a loan to buy my car. The other cars in the group were a dilapidated hilux and a half wrecked triton. Good times.
Amazing how many people have seen **** all of their own country too isn't it.. but BALI CHEAP BOOK NOW!! far ken
 
I hope we win this week. This thread could get savage.
 

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Get $%^& campaigner :tonguewink:
We all go on expensive holidays we can't afford for instagram gratification youse borrowed too much money that you couldn't afford for your 50th investment property so now the economy is ****ed.
 
Amazing how many people have seen **** all of their own country too isn't it.. but BALI CHEAP BOOK NOW!! far ken

Very true. Miss feel and I made a pact that we would not visit overseas until we had seen most of what Australia has to offer. Uluru, kata tjuta and kings canyon are seriously amazing.
 
We all go on expensive holidays we can't afford for instagram gratification youse borrowed too much money that you couldn't afford for your 50th investment property so now the economy is stuffed.

This is what millenials actually believe.
 
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