Yes, long time reader, first post. I just felt I could no longer 'sit on the fence' reading so much garbage.
Everyone whinges about housing affordability. I say look at your lifestyle.
When I grew up, much like others on here I suspect, we had one t.v in the lounge room, (not one in every room) it was just a normal telly and I don't ever remember my parent's friends commenting on the size of it. We were only allowed to watch after dark, before dark we had to go outside and find something to do and we did, we rode our bikes, we hunted rabbits, we built guinnie pig cages from scrap lying around, we went fishing, kicked the footy, played cricket in the yard. All of which cost very little and used little electricity, now we buy our kids psp's and spend $100's on new games for them, our teenage kids have to have mobile phones that we pay bills on. We have to have mobiles, not only that we need to connect to the internet on our phones and have psp's connected to the internet, spend hours on the computer, in the hot or cold so we need to climatise our house to accomadate that.
Very rarley did we go out for tea, our parents friends came over and had a roast or other simple meals with a few beers (and a good time was had by all), now we have to meet at a restaurant costing $100's again for a 4 person sitting, we have to drink pre mixed drinks. If we were lucky we had fishnchips wrapped in newspaper once a week. we had to make our own sandwiches for school lunch, at saturday footy mum and dad took cans of soft drink for us (bought in bulk at the supermarket-cheap) and we were given $2 each to buy our pie and lollies, now we don't think twice about the cost, we see something and buy it
we have readily available TAB's and poker machines that we feel compelled to put $10 in after a pub meal. Hoping we win enough to pay for tea-generally we don't, when we do we usually keep pushing the button hoping now to win more, until we realise we just put another $10 in, now we we just want to win enough to get our first $10 back.
We are so caught up in material things and judge our friends on what we have better than them, it's crazy. Money comes to easily and there is so many choices to spend it on. We do it so easily on computers, mobile phones, air cons, car accesaries, games, eating out, the list goes on and on.
I don't think it is the houses that are dear for our wage, it is we already spend our wage plus some of next weeks, on crap and upgrading that crap...
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