Apartments are built up, they fit more people in on a small block of land. They bring in money for the investors.
But is it necessarily a good thing for people to be living in such conditions? I think we were meant to live beside and next to each other, not above/below. Although the sizes of apartments appeal to me, I'm uneasy about sharing a common wall with others. Especially if a neighbour happens to be a smoker. I hate smokers, they irk me to no end. I don't know how those people can live with the stench of decaying smoke clinging to their clothes and skin. It's sickening. So, I don't want to live next door to someone who smells like that and whose stench might invade my personal space by way of the common wall we share. So, a house it is for me.
I'll get there one day. Never mind the costs of everything going north. I do wonder though, candles vs electricity? Which works out better cost wise?
Anyway, back to my original thought. If everyone had a small parcel of land, say 100m2, then we could build out and not up. Granted the government here needs to get off its backside and do some work for a change and get the public transport fixed. I don't question the difficulty of it all, I'm sure its all complex and all that but let's get real here. NSW is sorely lacking in many things. It's going to take a strong person to make change happen and its evidently not Gillard.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
You've earnt my scorn, whoever you are DC
This is for the person who left a comment on an article in the SMH either yesterday or Friday, he went by the name DC and called himself an "Australian Battler" including the quotation marks.
I tried to find the article again, but I couldn't find it. Most likely because I remember the comment more than the article. He said he was an Australian Battler on 150k a year and doing it tough. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this!
How can someone who earns 150k a year be crying poor? I invite him to come meet us and raise him this question, "If he is an Australian Battler, what does that make us?"
We're a family of four living on a single income which is supposed to be roughly 50 to 55k a year. But that's not right, with only 1300 coming in every fortnight and our rent eating up half of that, we are left with 650 a fortnight to cover bills, childcare costs, petrol, groceries and every now and again clothes etc and yet we are able to set aside a measly sum of that income. And for what? I'm not sure yet, not with the price of everything set to head north.
I could go back to being a stay-at-home mum and save on childcare costs but for the sake of my sanity, childcare is a small price to pay until D2's old enough to go to school with D1.
$150k a year = Australian Battler, I only have one thing to say PFFT.
I tried to find the article again, but I couldn't find it. Most likely because I remember the comment more than the article. He said he was an Australian Battler on 150k a year and doing it tough. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this!
How can someone who earns 150k a year be crying poor? I invite him to come meet us and raise him this question, "If he is an Australian Battler, what does that make us?"
We're a family of four living on a single income which is supposed to be roughly 50 to 55k a year. But that's not right, with only 1300 coming in every fortnight and our rent eating up half of that, we are left with 650 a fortnight to cover bills, childcare costs, petrol, groceries and every now and again clothes etc and yet we are able to set aside a measly sum of that income. And for what? I'm not sure yet, not with the price of everything set to head north.
I could go back to being a stay-at-home mum and save on childcare costs but for the sake of my sanity, childcare is a small price to pay until D2's old enough to go to school with D1.
$150k a year = Australian Battler, I only have one thing to say PFFT.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Cheap land comes with catches
Apparently, you can get land as cheap as $15,500 and all for 879m2. Pretty good deal, only catch is there are no services to the land, no building of any kind on the land, oh and it's in Katoomba which means the land slopes and is covered in bush. I forgot to mention there's no roads to said land.
Land nearby costs somewhat upward of $99,000. So if you want, sealed road access, services and a reasonably level land. You can expect to pay anywhere north of $99,000 unless you want to go further into the country.
It would have been nice if that land had services, road access and didn't slope so much. Could just put it on my visa just like the advertisement said. Meh.
Granted 879m2 is a bit too much land for what I want, but I wouldn't mind it. More room for the kids to play on. After all my house is only going to be less than 52m2.
Land nearby costs somewhat upward of $99,000. So if you want, sealed road access, services and a reasonably level land. You can expect to pay anywhere north of $99,000 unless you want to go further into the country.
It would have been nice if that land had services, road access and didn't slope so much. Could just put it on my visa just like the advertisement said. Meh.
Granted 879m2 is a bit too much land for what I want, but I wouldn't mind it. More room for the kids to play on. After all my house is only going to be less than 52m2.
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