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All of which makes Labor's idea of investing a percentage into first home ownership for a paltry few all the more preposterous ... when people were paying 19% interest on (what were then) still modest homes, it was one helluva shock, but nothing like what awaits.
The greatest joy I had was paying it off and getting that certificate of title before I turned 37.
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(05-13-2022, 03:41 AM)capcom link Wrote:All of which makes Labor's idea of investing a percentage into first home ownership for a paltry few all the more preposterous ... when people were paying 19% interest on (what were then) still modest homes, it was one helluva shock, but nothing like what awaits.
The greatest joy I had was paying it off and getting that certificate of title before I turned 37. Paying it off?
Paying off a home. Wonder how Ill use my second million...
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(05-12-2022, 10:46 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Im only 40. Perhaps you shouldnt be dismissive sighting a bunch of crap that mostly occurred before I was born.
Ill remind you at this stage, that people my age are more than likely not going to retire but work until we cark it, and you can forget about a pension and the average house price in most of the melbourne suburbs that will leave you with an average CBD commute of roughly 1 hour in each direction will cost us 1 million dollars today.
The point is that freedoms you take for granted weren’t available to me when I was 20.
It’s also worth noting that folk today are free from TB, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, etc; all diseases that family and friends had and some of which I had.
It’s unfortunate that time travel is fictional; folk who think they’re hard done by today wouldn’t survive if they were transported back to the mid-20th century.
My children are around your age Thry. My daughter has substantial equity in her home and she and her husband have excellent superannuation. My son and his wife have just bought a house about 20km north of the CBD. They already own two apartments and are both salaried workers. They are all very angry with our Commonwealth government for its failure to address social, economic and environmental issues but acknowledge that their lives are much easier than that of their parents and grandparents.
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Okay boomer.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!
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(05-13-2022, 06:50 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Paying it off?
Paying off a home. Wonder how Ill use my second million...
The second million is easier than the first I’m told, so I’m giving up on the first million…
I got divorced in 2009, I had my work van and tools, a boat (not going… and a car to tow it)
It took me 10 years to be able to buy land again.
I don’t have a house, I live in a caravan in my (Uncoded) shed.
I’m not bragging, but we all make choices, I’ve made some stinkers but had a bit of fun along the way.
If home ownership is something you want, you can have it if you do what you need to… sacrifice, better choices and sometimes luck.
Let’s go BIG !
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(05-13-2022, 11:25 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Okay boomer.
Nice to get an intelligent comment for a change ?
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(05-13-2022, 11:26 AM)northernblue date Wrote:The second million is easier than the first I’m told, so I’m giving up on the first million…
I got divorced in 2009, I had my work van and tools, a boat (not going… and a car to tow it)
It took me 10 years to be able to buy land again.
I don’t have a house, I live in a caravan in my (Uncoded) shed.
I’m not bragging, but we all make choices, I’ve made some stinkers but had a bit of fun along the way.
If home ownership is something you want, you can have it if you do what you need to… sacrifice, better choices and sometimes luck. As I get older I put less and less stock in the material stuff, it really means nothing, and I can state this from a position of experience having roamed between 1st Class and the Back row!
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(This post was last modified: 05-13-2022, 12:32 PM by DJC.)
Our poll doesn’t come close to the most recent Morgan poll and I suspect that’s got a fair bit to do with our population.
The ALP is leading by 2% among male voters and by 16% among female voters. That’s not unexpected in the light of Scotty’s continual gaffs and inability to show any empathy towards issues of concern to female voters.
I think this could be the first election decided by one party’s refusal to acknowledge that its policies and personnel are unpalatable to the majority of female voters. That failure should also help to get some of the teal candidates over the line.
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(05-13-2022, 11:25 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Okay boomer.
That's actually a compliment. ;D
We had the best music, the best clothes, the best cars...and great haircuts. 
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Don’t get me wrong, I’d like a bit more financial security, but people who live and breathe making money, buying investments and working their balls off, always on the hustle, they just do my head in…
My other beef is people who want “wow factor” I’m a ceramic tiler and the number of people who want “wow factor” in their toilet is gob smacking… “wow” is what you say when you are busting and make it in time, it happens to all of us !
I detest the consumer society that we live in, where people buy things to impress people who if they were honest with themselves they’d admit they didn’t care for.
I’m doing a job for some sporting friends. They are building a 3 bedroom house that’s probably close to 400m2 internal with 200m2 of external tiling…
Of course there’s a “butlers pantry” ??♂️
Customer says to me “No, I don’t want tiles on that part of the splashback”
It’s next to the sink I point out, she responds with “Yeah, but it’ll never get used” ?
I couldn’t help myself and said “What’s it for then…?” ???
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God I feel better getting that out ?
People need to ask how much is enough, and everyone’s number will be different.
Let’s go BIG !
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