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open24hours posted:Philistine. You can do whatever you want to the house but a good location is always a good location. Sell it down the line for a slice of Tasmanian lifestyle.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 12:48 |
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Auspol: Where if you stare at the Cartoon long enough, eventually it stares back into you. Rack me up as another 'move into isolation and start a solar-powered orchard where I can grow a huge-rear end beard and be the inspiration for a slasher film' auspoller.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 12:53 |
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Wouldn't New Zealand be a better choice for isolation?
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:10 |
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Aaronicon posted:start a solar-powered orchard where I can grow a huge-rear end beard and be the inspiration for a slasher film I'm not sure you know how beards or orchards work
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:12 |
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NTRabbit posted:I'm not sure you know how beards or orchards work Not true, Apple trees are indeed solar powered
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:25 |
Auspol March - Only poor people buy houses. The rich live and poo poo in the woods
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:35 |
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RAR'ed the Housing bubble thread here: http://www.filedropper.com/whyaustraliaisscrewed I didn't the edit the html so that each page links normally together, you'll have to click individually on each page.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:35 |
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Apart from a crash, I've been holding out hope that either I manage to get a job where I can work from home (in the Brave New Internet Gig Economy) or that society sort of shifts that way anyway over the next 10-15 years. I would no issue living in the countryside. As long as it was near mountains or the sea, gently caress moving out to the endless plains of wheat. I know that makes me sound super finicky but I was in the Dandenongs a few years ago and happened to be looking at a real estate window. I'd assumed the place would have been inflated halfway to hell by treechangers, but nope, you can still get a 5-bedroom farmhouse for $500,000. Unless it's just that I'm from WA and I'm overestimating how hungry the general public is for leafy green mountain living?
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:40 |
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The problem with leafy green mountain living in the South East of Australia is that you are surrounding yourself with fuel in the most fire prone region on the planet.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:53 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:The problem with leafy green mountain living in the South East of Australia is that you are surrounding yourself with fuel in the most fire prone region on the planet. And it will probably only get worse with the effects of climate change!
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:59 |
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Gough Suppressant posted:The problem with leafy green mountain living in the South East of Australia is that you are surrounding yourself with fuel in the most fire prone region on the planet. One of the things I checked put before moving. If you go to the right area, it's less of a worry. Of course, major bushfires tend not to occur in the same place time after time, so it's still a bit of luck. There are ways and methods of reducing your risk (don't plant eucalyptus trees that literally explode during a fire right next to your house) and other species that don't burn as much (fruit trees, succulents and the like).
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:07 |
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Frogmanv2 posted:One of the things I checked put before moving. If you go to the right area, it's less of a worry. You're going to die in a firestorm which will be found to have been avoidable if not for massive budget cuts 12 months prior.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:26 |
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Smegmatron posted:You're going to die in a firestorm which will be found to have been avoidable if not for massive budget cuts 12 months prior. I think you'll find it's greenies who cause all the fires and country road deaths by stopping trees being cut down.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:51 |
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Mountain drivers will kill you long before the bushfires do. The Dandenongs particularly combines the worst aspects of suburban Melbourne drivers and single lane roads with walls of rock on one side and cliff edges on the other.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 14:52 |
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Australia is undoubtedly the lucky country. Only through inexplicable good fortune and random chance has it reached its present prosperity, in spite of the Australians.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:08 |
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OK then maybe move to the inner "city" of one of the larger towns like Newcastle or Bendigo. You can scoff at that if you want, but I assure you, when you grow up in Western Australian country towns, the gold rush era towns in the eastern states feel like European UNESCO world heritage sites.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:26 |
I plan on buying my cheap-rear end house in the Balkans. Maybe a little holiday apartment on Lake Bled.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:46 |
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Move to Eaglehawk just north of Bendigo. You're close to bushland and yet not that far away from a major population centre. Plus they have a duck pond.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:50 |
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Zetsubou-san posted:Move to Eaglehawk just north of Bendigo. You're close to bushland and yet not that far away from a major population centre. Plus they have a duck pond. NO MOSQUE NO MOSQUE NO MOSQUE (no thnx)
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:54 |
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Zetsubou-san posted:Move to Eaglehawk just north of Bendigo. You're close to bushland and yet not that far away from a major population centre. Plus they have a duck pond. This sounds like a classic real estate over sell. I bet the duck ponds is just swarming with geese. gently caress geese.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 17:10 |
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Majestic posted:My wife and I have just bought our first home, though our experience is highly atypical, since my mum left me a large chunk of money when she passed away a couple of years ago. We've been able to buy a good sized house in a high end area, and we're actually paying less per month than we were in rent. I may well just be an example of the cognitive bias Sulla mentioned, but I have to say that there are definitely some strong emotional positives to owning a home. Sorry to jump back like a dozen pages but I don't get to check the thread too frequently. What you mentioned about your mother leaving you a bit of money, sadly, and I don't know if it's considered wrong to think this, but when my mother dies my brother and I will inherit a really decent rural property that either of us could quite comfortably live on, or make investments from afterwards even with capital gains tax considered. I don't know if it's a bad way of thinking to rely on this happening in the future? Granted it probably won't happen for another 25-30 years (hell, my mum will probably outlive me anyway). But honestly with so much information coming from both sides of the 'to buy or not to buy' is it really a safe thing to consider just sitting on my hands floating around and waiting for that to happen? In Sulla's post with pros+cons of home ownership (also to the person who lol'd @ "Ownership" in the name) honestly the cons seem to far outweigh the pros. A lot of my friends have all bought into the sprawl of the outer western Suburbs in Melbourne and a couple of them have even got bought their second property, but their mortgages are loving huge and I have a small suspicion they're just doing the "BUYBUYBUY" thing because it's the thing to do. Idk, at the end of a 12 hour shift and I'm probably rambling. Honestly the whole thing scares the living poo poo out of me.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 17:23 |
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dr_rat posted:This sounds like a classic real estate over sell. I bet the duck ponds is just swarming with geese. ducks. and swans.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 18:14 |
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Julie Bishop apparently offered a prisoner swap deal to Indonesia for Chan and Sukumuran, offering to send over some Indonesians in jail in Australia for an even bigger drug bust. In what loving parallel world does something as stupid as this actually get floated officially to another country? Jesus Christ.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:41 |
Wouldn't those Indonesians in Aussie jails essentially be murdered by Indonesia, then? I mean, executed? What the gently caress is wrong with the liberal party
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:43 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Wouldn't those Indonesians in Aussie jails essentially be murdered by Indonesia, then? I mean, executed? They aren't even Australian though.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:55 |
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Wouldn't those Indonesians in Aussie jails essentially be murdered by Indonesia, then? I mean, executed? Who the gently caress even knows? The impetus behind it seems to be Bishops belief that Indonesia loves executing people, just loving loves it, doesn't matter who, which I would imagine Indonesia finds pretty loving offensive. Also there's the fact that the people concerned haven't been found guilty in courts in the country they would be sent to. Australia does not do extradition to jurisdictions where people may face the death penalty unless a letter of understanding is sought(which apparently it is being, which makes it even more bizarre) Just what in the gently caress does she imagine Indonesia sees as the value of the proposition. That's not even considering the fact that prisoner swaps are generally what you talk about with terrorist groups or states you are at war with, with the intention of prisoner release.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:56 |
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Zenithe posted:They aren't even Australian though. gently caress I forgot about this fuckwit nation
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:56 |
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Reminder: this is the same Julie Bishop who got moved from shadow treasurer because she is less competent than joe loving hockey
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:57 |
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I don't understand what she thinks Indonesia is getting from this.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:01 |
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Shut up, shut up, shut up
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:04 |
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So what is people's advice for those who are interested in buying larger plots of land? If renting is so great, are there places to rent at around the 1 hectare size?
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:15 |
We want Barabbas
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:17 |
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Sludge Tank posted:Sorry to jump back like a dozen pages but I don't get to check the thread too frequently. Its pretty much the only way anyone our age is hoping to pay off their homes.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:28 |
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Guy Sebastian's off to Eurovision, the Intergenerational Report Into Please Don't Mention Climate Change is out at noon, and Ricky Muir is speaking in the Senate. Interesting day in Auspol.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:51 |
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That TISM petition got us nowhere. Slacktivism is dead to me.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:58 |
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Guy Sebastian's off to Eurovision OH GET hosed GET ABSOLUTELY hosed.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:58 |
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lol
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 00:01 |
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Eurovision is one of things that is so bad it's just bad. I like kitsch as much as the next guy, but Eurovision is just a tragedy and if you enjoy it, ironically or not, you are a bad person.
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 00:01 |
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Nam Taf posted:OH GET hosed GET ABSOLUTELY hosed. Can we trade Guy Sebastian to Indonesia for the drug smugglers?
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