[BITList] Oz expensive - unbelievable

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wow Dave – that’s way more expensive than the land of the free, home of the brave!
this upper crust plantation style 8 bedroom 7 bathroom house is in the most expensive part of new orleans and listed at only $995,00 – and I’m sure it can be got for less as the market is still bad.

                   

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From: David Harvey 
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:35 AM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] Oz expensive!

Wages are sky high but only in the mining sector and for the fat cats. Down payment is, or should be 10% but I have heard of nil down payments. $300,000 (200,000 pounds) will buy very small old house in an outer suburb, $ 500,000 a modest house in a modest suburb, $800,000 a good house in a good suburb,  1 to 2 million for a waterside house, two storey. But cost of living is high on top of that, electricity is through the roof, so is water, rates etc. I live in a retirement village and thankfully a lot of the costs are defrayed, being a not for profit organisation we do not pay council rates, electricity is slightly discounted, we use bore water for the gardens, but over the last 10 years the cost of a unit in this village has increased six fold. 

My step son lives in a million dollar house, not overlooking the water but in a modestly better suburb. The house is two story with four bedrooms. Each bedroom is big enough to take two double beds and have enough room to have an OGPU in. The entrance lobby takes up the two story, a huge dining area, but the garden is the size of pocket handkerchief. A complete waste of money. So the statistics are slanted.


The claim re expensive cities was made on TV about 10 days ago, must be the same report you saw. However you can still live cheaply, or in the way I am used to. I still have my beer and cheese, (I buy cheese in a farmers market, absolutely debloodylicious, the green cheese is better that stilton, the parmesan is the best I have ever had, especially the chilli one, one I bought today I have not tried before is Margaret River  pepper crumble, I know not another equivalent name) I buy local and well, run a car have a small camper, and make the occasional overseas or interstate trip (off to Thailand next month) and I have been retired 22 years, got married 12 years ago expensive!? well no, not really. the younger generation go for top row all the time. Must have their coffee breaks in up market coffee shops, buy imported boutique beer, have every latest electronic gadget on the market, two cars and a motor bike, bloody expensive golf clubs, travel business class and max out their credit. My ISP and phone cost combined is about $62 a month, my son pays a god-damn awful amount, I know not what, but he pays for downloading at some super speed to his ipad, then pays again for it to go to his computer and yet again to his phone, I don't understand the system. There is no concept of saving, THAT is what makes it expensive.

I work three days a week in a voluntary capacity and get paid generous expenses, helps with the car and that's three meals a week I don't pay for, and it keeps me off the streets, so for me Perth is not expensive, it's the lifestyle the next generation lives that is expensive, so the people who look at the statistics are looking at it the wrong way around. All the same I am glad I am not buying a house. Now its time for a beer, local and the cheapest and to my taste better than the imported beers, or so called imported beers, they are made locally under licence and the mugs pay double.

Cheers

Dave

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