typo: an 's' for snake omitted in 'mulesing'

For the record Arjay; all your points are factual and up to date in relation to the current housing market and wage scales. Yabby perhaps reads a little too many Fin Reviews, The Land and Australian newspapers, views far too many international documentaries, returns to his paddocks, and is out of touch with suburban city living and costs.

In most capital cities as you and I both know as a reality Arjay, the lowest value is $370/400,000K soaring upwards. Unless a person [not a couple] has been left a property/properties or has had a guarantor starting out in life 20 years ago or is earning over $45,000K [on a sole wage]; chances are that a Bank or financial institution will not grant them a home loan. Within capital cities where the work and better paid employment exists, there are not smaller fibro or weatherboard homes or homes under $370,000.

There may be one or two decrepit homes falling down within a suburb if one is fortunate, to purchase under $350,000 [within capital cities].

For goodness sake get in touch with reality and real every day people.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/27/2910780.htm

Sheesh, the median house price is 400k in Adelaide and the poor girl can't
find a suitable house within 10% of that. The same girl who
claims that not having an overseas holiday is "doing it tough"

Never mind buying a unit or renting, or buying an old place and
doing it up. She clearly never lived through the 18% interest rate
saga of the early 90s!

High expectations is the real problem, some people have never done
it tough.

Unique, best you go and annoy the bloke who married you, for you
arn't making much sense on this thread and he, for better or for
worse, agreed to put up with you.

I have only EVER been overseas once Yabby in my lifetime [my honeymoon]; marrying a Grazier for 20 years dashed my hopes of ever travelling; you know, doing all the accountancy and admin work, the physical work running fine merinos in addition to working part-time and full-time when it was not crutching, lamb tailing or shearing times and of course just about single handedly raising my children with different health problems [the most important], battling and paying probate, crooks, et all; in the name of bleating sheep.

Overcoming all the financial obstacles; oh yes I had time to sit and flick through a womens weekly and think "isnt it tough; this month or year 'I cant enjoy an overseas holiday'". I did not ever have the luxury of the thought to dream about it.

Guess what though Yabby? My 'tough' days are over and I have left the lot in order to work full time and enjoy a camping and fishing holiday between now and the end of this year. Any Farmer or Grazier looking for a wife I'll flaming well run a mile.

Thank goodness the grazing and farming males on my side comprehend [through their children in their twenties and thirties]how people in the cities are struggling to pay their mortgages utilities and groceries; particularly those with children.

Little wonder there are the Aussie programs for Farmers [and Graziers] seeking wives! Do NOT sign up Ladies I am warning you all! Expect to work 3 or 4 jobs minus any acknowledgement or luxuries for the initial 20 or 30 years. It takes these years to build up the wool micron and battle through droughts and other obstacles.

Unless you marry a SNAG who is in touch with his feelings, not a Chauvanist and greatly appreciates the hard extra work you do as a team; love just may conquer all.

we are unique,The big issue is this new money being created by our banking systems. $78 billion pa represents 6.5% of GDP and new inflationary money.It belongs to all the people pf Austarlia.One would think that the RBA would create all this new money,but they only gave a dividend to the Govt 08/09 of just $5.9 billion.It is the private banks who borrow from the international reserve banks that have us in so much debt.We have given away our wealth to have it loaned back to us as debt.

Yabby and Pericles.They love me on the Ron Paul site and one in particlar,is thinking about implementing some of my ideas.