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One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds (www.abc.net.au)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$80k was a good salary 10 years ago. I don't know how you could raise a family on it, today. And half of Australia is making less than that!

You can do it, but:

  • You can't live within 1.5 hours of capital cities or major regional cities.
  • You can't live in a mining town.
  • You can't live in a tourist town.

Unfortunately all the left over places have shit job opportunities, shit services, and are generally classified as shit areas as a result.

So until you advance enough in a career that you can pull a tree change to somewhere less pricey and still keep your income, you're screwed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

and are generally classified as shit areas as a result.

But that's subjective yeah ? I'm hear visiting my 83yr old mother on the Sunshine Coast over Christmas, this place is to me a literal "shit hole". It's mostly a sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with acres of concrete and asphalt with a car needed to do anything and zero redeeming qualities. For a few days prior I visited my sister in Brisbane, another sprawling mess of hot terrible housing with zero redeeming features.

I used to live in an apartment I owned on the 10th floor with an ocean view on the Gold Coast, cool beezes, a walk to swimmable broadwater and a tram and train were some compensation.

The tiny rural town in Tasmania I now live in to me is comparative nirvana. There are basic houses near me for sale starting with a 3 and quite nice ones starting with a 4. We have a little van, as for sure u need a car occasionally but we mostly walk or cycke. I filled it up in August and it's still on 1/2 a tank.