Everyone seems to be buying luxury cars - how?

[tim510]

Looks like Dave has lost the support of the only person who agreed with him on pf. It's time to buy a house Dave :D

or at least a VK wagon.

pm muz, he might know someone

[Q]

Actually I am busy tonight, with your wife. She told me she likes to slum it to keep it real.

:p

bahahahahahahahahaha if only that were true ! :D
i could live in a cheaper bus shelter, and drive a bigger bus :D

[edo]

Thats my biggest problem too. I only do <5000kms a year.

Im in the same boat. I could go out & buy something new & shiny...but it wouldnt be that awesome if it just sat in the garage all the time like the cruiser does now. So Ive decided to invest wisely in race cars & motorbikes & holidays...they are more fun than a garaged wealth statement.

If I was driving 20k + kms a year Id be different

[tremolo]

350k only buys you total crack dens in outer metro brisbane, but some of them can be done up pretty cheaply.

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin...&tm=1221706763

Decent looking crack den 15km/25min (in peak hour) from the CBD. And you would have the honour of living near me! Cunt

[Captain_Slow]

That is utter crap, run the numbers on what it would cost you to buy the house your in now on a single wage, even substitute your 50k car for a 20k one and see if you could afford the mortgage repayments and meet all your other costs.

Maybe I should have been clearer about the sort of people I'm talking about. I'm not talking about Mr and Mrs Average struggling on the average wage to make ends meet - they are genuinely having problems buying even an average house in the outer suburbs and I have total sympathy with their problem. It's bullshit that house prices were allowed to spin out of control in the way that they did, which has meant there are plenty of people who genuinely cannot afford even an ordinary house and will be renting forever at this rate.

What I'm talking about are more your young professional types, earning good money but not good enough money to quite be able to afford to house of their dreams in a trendy or desirable location. To them I say "what's wrong with buying somewhere less nice for now and then trading up later", and I think the answer to that is snobbery. I can't afford to buy a place in Bondi but I'm too good to buy one in Campbelltown instead, so I'll rent and whinge.

It shits me to tears when I see these types of people quoted in newspaper articles about how tough it is for young people to buy houses these days when there are both options available to them if they want to buy a house, and plenty of people who genuinely can't afford to buy even the cheapest houses in our capital cities.

And, for the record, I grew up in the outer suburbs of Sydney (about 30km from the CBD I think) and I now live in the outer suburbs of Canberra (about 25km from the CBD). I have no problem with either as a place to live, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to have to live 30km from the CBD if you're looking for a reasonably priced house. You simply can't have a cheap house and also live close to the CBD, the beach, your workplace or whatever in most cases.

[Hypo]

Not wanting to be a cunt, but I'd love a dollar for every time I'm heard that kind of bullshit. Seriously, how the fuck do you plan to survive for the next 50 years on money you earned before you turned 30?

If you have 1 millions dollars in the bank you get currently 8% a year interest.

That works out at 80k a year

Move to Thailand and your become rich and don't pay tax.

When the shit turns come home and get the old age pension

I have friends who have retired at 30 to Turkey on the same plan. Admittedly they are bored in winter and run a monthly tab at the local bar

[Cal]

Heard of inflation?

[Captain_Slow]

In fact I would not raise my kids in any of the inner suburbs here.

I wouldn't raise my kids in the inner suburbs either to tell you the truth. I like where I live - lots of parks etc to play in, decent schools, lots of other kids in the neighbourhood, don't get a lungful of exhaust fumes every time you walk down the street - sounds like a good place to raise kids to me.

(Edit: obviously this doesn't apply to Canberra, where the inner suburbs are pretty much the same as the outer suburbs and aern't anything like the inner suburbs of most other cities - could happily raise my kids there)

[edo]

Heard of inflation?

Must be banned in Thailand.

[Dave]

Looks like Dave has lost the support of the only person who agreed with him on pf. It's time to buy a house Dave :D

nah, fuckyas!

[Cal]

Must be banned in Thailand.

Nothing is banned in Thailand. Well prehaps except drug trafficing. Nice change from this fucking nanny state.

[wiggah]

women with vaginas appear to be banned

[Dave]

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin...&tm=1221706763

Decent looking crack den 15km/25min (in peak hour) from the CBD. And you would have the honour of living near me! Cunt

looks quite nice, and pretty good value, I haven't been keeping my eye on the market lately. I am not cool enough to hang out with the japanese beer/latte/alfa and audi set quite yet. Anyway, not buying yet, will be moving to a high-set so we can set up a curtain workshop under the house to make cash monay to buy a decent high-set brick in everton park area (or so the plan goes). We are 18 months minimum away from buying a house with the new business idea. Prefer to get rid of debt in the mean time (and build worlds sickest VK).

[wiggah]

Weren't you gonna buy a new VE SS ute?

[Dave]

Weren't you gonna buy a new VE SS ute?

Not and get rid of debt, start a business and buy a house