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Well clearly all those renters should stop wasting all that money and just buy houses. You don't have to be RIGHT in the city centre you know, you can buy 15-20 minutes out where it's affordable.
Buy with what money?
Show me the reputable bank that will loan the entire cost of a house, to someone who obviously can never pay off that loan on their current income. And I'll show you a bank that's going to collapse from unserviced debts.
It's pretty sad that this kind of ridiculous advice is so prevalent that my comment wasn't recognised for the obvious satire that it was.
Definitely Poe's law coming in here. There's too many idiots on the internet so it's generally good to add a /s to be clear.
Yes, those “totally affordable” HOUSES 15-20 minutes out of the CBD. There’s millions of them, I have to swerve like a maniac on my commute into the office to avoid them scattered all over the road like bird droppings.
Duh, why didn’t I think of that?
Just do like I do and have one of your chauffeurs take you to work in the helicopter instead.
just crash on your rich friends house close to work.
Lol wtf where do u live that it is affordable just 15-20 Minutes away from the city. In germany even an hour outside of metropolitan areas it is still expensive af. If you want affordable housing in germany u need to live in the middle of nowhere where u would need to commute like 2 hours by car or sth like that.
It was sarcasm. In Australia even the middle of nowhere is unaffordable. But older generations love giving us advice like that.
Clearly the solution is for people to stop buying food! Do you know howuch money you save when you stop eating?
But in all seriousness you raise an important point. Housing unaffordability has been raised as an emerging issue in healthcare. Housing costs are pricing healthcare staff out of the suburbs their facilities are in, creating issues with on-call times for emergencies. Hospitals only have a small amount of on-call rooms available so it isn't feasible for everyone on-call to stay at work.
Family of four, our weekly groceries are coming in at around $500/week. You jest, but food is genuinely a significant cost.
We rarely eat out. Because when we do, even a modest meal somewhere cheap and cheerful is going to set us back over $120.