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WarpedNaba posted:And so long as the market is the way it is, neither do I. Welcome to the rent forever club. Also known as the get fed up and go live in a shack in the bush club.
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Jan 6, 2018 20:20
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Jim Anderton has died 
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Jan 6, 2018 22:44
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carrionman posted:People here are dumb as poo poo with property anyway. I know of at least three people on trade wages (so say about 60-80k a year) with their partners who have built 500k + new homes and I'm like, goddammit buy something cheaper, get your dodgy mates to do some cashies doing it up then sell it to idiots who want a new looking place. But no, you live in debt the next 50 odd years... It's 2018 not 2008. You can't build a 500k home in Auckland even if you wanted to. e: 
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Jan 6, 2018 23:35
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Varkk posted:Jim Anderton has died Another one of the good ones (Kinda, I guess. He had his faults.) Xik posted:It's 2018 not 2008. You can't build a 500k home in Auckland even if you wanted to. Sure you can! Just trick yourself into believing that Pukekohe or Wellsford are in Auckland!
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Jan 6, 2018 23:46
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Pokeno! Only a short commute from the Auckland CBD!
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Jan 7, 2018 00:19
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My boss has a new place (they finished build in 2017) in Pokeno. He travels to the CBD every day by driving to the Papakura train station and then taking the train the rest of the way to CBD. It also did not cost less than 500k. e: Also, when I was in school. Pukekohe was in Franklin, not Auckland. 
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Jan 7, 2018 00:22
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If only they could buy out two or three Epsom properties and squeeze in a couple of 300+ unit apartment towers.
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Jan 7, 2018 01:43
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You can quite easily spend over a million dollars building a new house in Auckland.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:02
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I'd be happy with a two-bedroom (Three if I want capacity to host guests in addition to start a family) apartment close to the trains. My uncle has one in the complex bordering the Newmarket station and it's pretty sweet. Probably costs more than my collective organs, though.
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Jan 7, 2018 02:36
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bike tory posted:Sure you can! Just trick yourself into believing that Pukekohe or Wellsford are in Auckland! Hamilton is just a large suburb to Auckland right? It's only an hour commute at maximum legal motorway speed!
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Jan 7, 2018 03:01
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rip jim
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Jan 7, 2018 03:03
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bike tory posted:Ok so maybe I should amend what I said. Owning a rental property is the easiest money you can make so long as you do the very basic due diligence of checking your incomings will exceed your outgoings. I would've thought that was common sense. i wont try to defend my actions. we were "sucked in" with this rental property investment group called quantum strategies. the theory being that you make all your money from capital gains (when you sell), not rental income, on the presumption the capital gains (and tax breaks) will far exceed what you put into the property money wise. and in different places this works well. I think we were genuinely unlucky that where we invested just fell over really. but oh well, now its a nice new house for me to move into. i mean im pretty pissed off about the whole thing but you know lesson learned. it hasn't ended up affecting us significantly financially, apart from it was our attempt at retirement investment and so we dont have that. life goes on
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Jan 7, 2018 04:14
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plus lol im a diabetic i am kinda hoping i will have a heart attack before 50 so I doubt i will reach retirement age. at least I hope i dont (i want to die)
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Jan 7, 2018 04:16
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Can I have your house?
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Jan 7, 2018 04:28
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Dibs on his portfolio.
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Jan 7, 2018 04:33
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echinopsis posted:i wont try to defend my actions. we were "sucked in" with this rental property investment group called quantum strategies. the theory being that you make all your money from capital gains (when you sell), not rental income, on the presumption the capital gains (and tax breaks) will far exceed what you put into the property money wise. and in different places this works well. I think we were genuinely unlucky that where we invested just fell over really. but oh well, now its a nice new house for me to move into. Oh poo poo I think these guys did a presentation at our office in chch trying to convince people to buy into their thing.
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Jan 7, 2018 05:26
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Xik posted:It's 2018 not 2008. You can't build a 500k home in Auckland even if you wanted to. True. I always forget how ridiculous it is in the cities. One benefit of my cave away from civilization I suppose
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Xik posted:It's 2018 not 2008. You can't build a 500k home in Auckland even if you wanted to. I find it weird how we do these regional stats and chch just gets lumped into Canterbury. I know Wellington also includes places like the Hutt and Porirua, Kapiti etc and Auckland includes its satellite towns too, but Canterbury is a big-rear end area with a lot more distinct towns a long way from the main centre. Makes it hard to gauge how chch compares to the other "big" cities when you get stats presented like this
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Jan 7, 2018 09:19
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xiw posted:Oh poo poo I think these guys did a presentation at our office in chch trying to convince people to buy into their thing. yeah would have been. I mean, the model isn't broken*, I just think we were very unlucky. they make money from being mortgage brokers and new house sale brokers. they spin poo poo like "oh I was thinking about buying this one" and yeah they are good at the sales pitch. when we first met them we were so excited at the prospect of making so much money from capital gains. but lol the market fell over. our accountant thinks they are ok people but they are definitely sales guys. we almost bought a second house with them, as in, started the process and pulled out under due diligence but that house did make some decent capital gains. the tax breaks have been handy  *the investment model isn't broken, the economy/society that allows this to be effective is broken Spiteski posted:Can I have your house? lol probably give it to my kids but big props for the effort
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Jan 7, 2018 10:56
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I'm the needlessly precise price for Wellington.
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Jan 8, 2018 00:53
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Didn't she get stung by that multiple times? I'm reasonably certain that someone got it more than once.
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Jan 8, 2018 01:11
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"When interviewed on the radio by Marcus Lush on 14 September 2007, she referred to the members of ACT on Campus as "left wingers"."
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Jan 8, 2018 02:13
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Kiwis explain why New Zealand sucks...           A newspaper editor decided to display ten written facts in a 50 second video slideshow.
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Jan 9, 2018 08:15
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So it's basically 'Our parents are poo poo'?
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Jan 9, 2018 08:32
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https://twitter.com/alicegalletly/status/950523396508413952 I know it's Christchurch but Christ. Eja ku rait
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spanky the dolphin posted:https://twitter.com/alicegalletly/status/950523396508413952 I’m not surprised. It’s Christchurch.
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Xik posted:Kiwis explain why New Zealand sucks...
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Jan 9, 2018 09:20
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spanky the dolphin posted:https://twitter.com/alicegalletly/status/950523396508413952 *entire restaurant bursts into laughter at this hilarious pun*
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spanky the dolphin posted:https://twitter.com/alicegalletly/status/950523396508413952 I wonder if they require you to request "dumprings" or if they'll accept a brick through their window instead
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Jan 9, 2018 10:27
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You mean a blick?
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Jan 9, 2018 10:29
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I was very surprised you could order gluten free.
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Ghostlight posted:I was very surprised you could order gluten free. Well, yeah. They don't want to exclude people.
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Ghostlight posted:I was very surprised you could order gluten free. If people are stupid enough to eat there, they're stupid enough to buy into gluten free.
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By which I meant that it wasn't gruten free.
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WarpedNaba posted:If people are stupid enough to eat there, they're stupid enough to buy into gluten free. While I am sure there are people who are just being difficult, there are a few conditions that are exacerbated by gluten. Obviously, coeliac disease is the main one, but hashimoto thyroidism is also made worse by gluten consumption. People often have both, but the majority of sufferers only have one.
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WarpedNaba posted:If people are stupid enough to eat there, they're stupid enough to buy into gluten free. OK, I'll just let my best friend, who suffers from coeliac disease, that she's just being stupid, and that she should consume all the glutens she sees. When she gets violently ill and spews everywhere, it's just her being stupid and buying into Big Gluten FreeTM, right? edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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Jan 9, 2018 20:45
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Ironically a lot of people who require gluten free are worse off now. First of all people roll their eyes if they say they are not eating gluten. Secondly so many places offer gluten free but don’t follow correct food safety procedures and can introduce gluten as a result. Since it is trendy now it usually doesn’t make a difference, but when it does matter.
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Jan 9, 2018 20:57
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Vagabundo posted:OK, I'll just let my best friend, who suffers from coeliac disease, that she's just being stupid, and that she should consume all the glutens she sees. When she gets violently ill and spews everywhere, it's just her being stupid and buying into Big Gluten FreeTM, right? I think he/she/xe was trying to make the point that stupid people bandwagon onto gluten free as if gluten were universally bad, not that there aren't legitimate cases where it's a potent immune activator (i.e diagnosed cases of coeliac disease and other edge cases) These will be the kind of people that don't want "chemicals" in their food
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It became apparent to me that 99% of people who say they are gluten free are full of poo poo when I went from working hospo in NZ to working hospo in London. In NZ I'd be asked about GF options several times a day, in London like maybe once a month? I knew it was a trendy thing for some people but holy poo poo
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