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After 22+ years here it does feel like home, why should I move? My 34 year old car, like a good horse, can find it's way home from town, with out me even thinking about, & my roads are safer than any suburban nightmare I can imagine.

I have just one 27 year old stallion left of our show jumpers, & he gave us all so much pleasure, he has a home for life. I have to stay until he goes, or I could not live with myself.

The asset test applies to all but the 2.5 acres around the house. If you think 2.5 acres is anything but a cost you know very little about producing on the land. Any extra land is an asset for pension & asset tests, just as with a bankrupt. This only stops when you have lived on the property for 20 years, a reasonable arrangement, which allows retirees living out their time on their own property. Surely this is fair, when they have provided the public housing where many bludgers are living out their lives. What is your bitch.

My whole property is worth about the same as a nice home in a reasonable suburb, not anywhere near a million, however what business is it of yours? You did nothing to pay for it, although I did quite a bit to subsidise the rent of millions in the past.

I have thought of selling up, & moving into a house in a village somewhere. Once done it would be an easier life, but the actual moving would be a nightmare for me with my physical restrictions.

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I see nothing wrong with a reverse mortgage system. I have no objection to using some of the assets I have accumulated to provide for my retirement. I see no reason for the tax payer to support me to preserve my kids inheritance. That seems as wrong as my kids having to support so many ne'er-do-well drop kicks on the dole, & the rorted disability pension, & in public housing.

I am sick to death of hearing about the "needy", & the "underprivileged". This in most instances is code for drop kicks, on the bludge. It is definitely time to kick them out of public housing, long before you start kicking pensioners, who have paid their own way, out of their family homes

I never suggested that pensioners make a killing Hasbeen, just a tidy sum on the side, given they used their wealth to set up a few acres of glass houses?
You could still invest in say a couple of fodder factories, to make as much feed with just 1-2% of the water, as sixty acres of graze.
Which would then enable you to make a few dollars on the side, resting urban horses, for people who still love their animals, but just don't have the graze or room?
And yes, I did spend some time on the farm, doing the usual dawn to dark gut-bust.
Try hand loading hand stacking fifty sixty acres of green lucerne hay and staking it by hand, four times a year, to understand the nature of real work!
I was forced to retire a forty, with a back broken in five places! You?
A mate just south of the border at Crystal Creek, set himself up with a few glasshouses, and then setting up a few dozen trays on sawhorses.
Which then allowed him to sell glasshouse grown radishes, and for which he had an exclusive market, as the most reliable Gold Coast supplier, able to provide this zesty quick growing salad vegetable, harvested monthly, the year round.
And although he didn't get rich, he was able to pay off all the debts, and make a tidy living.
I don't have a problem with you and yours Has; just a few poker machine playing, Collins street farmers, who use property to write off tax, make a few dollars on the side, then take annual holidays, paid for by the tax payer!
Yes I supposed I bludged a bit; but then I couldn't find a single employer, (save self) willing to employ a forty something male with a history of quite severe back injury, and multiple major spinal surgery!
And I was stiffed by the courts and the compensation board, who claimed I had a preexisting injury.
Certainly not one that was visible to the full medical board, that was a prerequisite to military service!
Rhrosty.