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Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing

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Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>> Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote

>>>>>>> Anthony Albanese
>>>>>>> (then Opposition Leader, now Australian Prime Minister).
>>>>>>> In a December 2021 tweet (@AlboMP), he wrote:

>>>>>>> “Australians who work-full time should be able to afford a house or
>>>>>>> cover the rent. We need to tackle housing affordability.”

>>>>>> You don't even need that now

>>>>>>> Less children now DINKWAD (Dual Income, No Kids, With A Dog)

>>>>>> More bullshit as the census will prove

>>>>>>> What Australia has now

>>>>>>> If Australians can't afford children because incomes have fallen to
>>>>>>> low

>>>>>> Incomes have not fallen

>>>>>>> why would the government think the mass immigrants will be able to
>>>>>>> afford children?

>>>>>> There are no mass immigrants

>>>>>> The skilled migrants won't even be allowed to bring family

>>>>>>> Still won't stop them aging either and increase a problem of not
>>>>>>> enough income earners that we are having now!

>>>>>> We don't have that problem now

>>>>> Might pay to call your family in Sydney they maybe OK?

>>>> I don't have any family in Sydney

>>>> I was talking to my mate in sydney just days ago

>>>>> But a "How's it going" "just thought I'd ask" call is warranted IMO,

>>>> No need, I was talking to my mate in sydney just days ago

>>> Glad to hear they are ok, Sydney has changed since you rocket shipped
>>> them out of Griffith to Sydney.
>>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/hilda-survey-2026/107185914

>> Been talking to them almost every week since then
>> and actually bought their investment house in
>> griffith at auction for them with them on the phone
>> and them paying for it

And it has more than DOUBLED in value since then

>> And they don't earn anything even remotely like
>> your stupid ignorant $400K income, live very well
>> and can easily afford their annual trip back to china
>> over xmas and have amost teenager and a dog and
>> a cat and have a oropery they live in in sydney which
>> they bought something like 15 years ago now

> 2015 seemed to start a boom inproperties really accereating in growth,

Regional property value work completely
differently to state capital property values

> which was not surprisyng as private sector declined

Bullshit anything like that happened

> housing sector was   growing.

> Griffith not yet inpacted

And won't be, regional property value work completely
differently to state capital property values

> not enofe sales

Wrong, as always

> and not a housing investment   area.

Wrong, as always

> People buy there to work and live with few as investment properties.

Wrong, as always

You don't have a fucking clue about our property market

> Luxury homes in Sydney are not bought as investmenthomes, they to are    
> bought by wealthy for living in.

Just as true of all luxury houses, they are useless as investments

> The Rental market homes, were investment properties.

> Not now under latest CGT rules

Wrong, as always

The new rules actually benefit some property investors

> $400K income is needed as you move closer to Sydney where homes are
> more expensive.

They don't earn anything even remotely like
that and live much closer in than you do

> $200K income is more innerwest/inner southwest where homes are less
> expensive.

They don't earn that either

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anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-09-25 12:09 +0200
  Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 07:41 +1000
    Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 08:14 +1000
      Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 09:25 +1000
        Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 10:22 +1000
          Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 11:04 +1000
            Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 11:33 +1000
              Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 11:59 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 12:34 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 12:46 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 15:04 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 16:16 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 16:36 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 17:33 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 22:11 +1000
                Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-27 03:10 +1000
    Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-09-26 08:37 +1000
      Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 15:08 +1000
        Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 16:21 +1000
      Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> - 2026-09-26 17:25 +0800
        Re: anyone working 40 hr/week should be able to afford housing Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-09-28 06:55 +1000

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