$300 take home pay was above average wages in 1985. Mate, come to Cairns. You can buy a starter one bedroom flat for $85.000 or a 2 bedroom flat for 130,000. My first house was in the country, well away from major cities. Gippsland. All products in retail stores are cheaper to buy now than in the 80's. If fact I would say the prices now are what they were in the 80's. Around Cairns people are career parents with massive payments from Centrelink with Access housing too. Why work. Life is so much easier for the young now. They are too busy in social media to realise it.
