The great oxymoron in Australia - affordable housing - unless you are rich/elite
'Affordable housing' in now the 'great Australian dream' replacing the former one being just 'housing'.
I was very, very, very (x 100 more 'very's) lucky to get my place in late 2023. There are people working in essential services like health/medical, emergency services, etc. who have to commute up to 120 minutes each way to/from their jobs to afford somewhere to live in Sydney.
I don't live in Sydney, but I couldn't have afforded to buy a house *anywhere* in Sydney with the funds I could access in 2023.
Many reasons for this - Covid plandemic effects being a key one.
Are you able to afford to live close to where you work in your part of the world or do you have a long (in time and/or distance) commute to your work (and back to where you can afford to live?
I live 30 km from work and it can take as little as 30 minutes (at 2 am) or as much as 90 minutes (between 8 and 10 am and 2 to 4 pm) to get to work, and similar time variations for the reverse journey depending when I need to travel to/from work. I have to drive - there is no public transport available because my job is a 24/7/365 operation.
I was very, very, very (x 100 more 'very's) lucky to get my place in late 2023. There are people working in essential services like health/medical, emergency services, etc. who have to commute up to 120 minutes each way to/from their jobs to afford somewhere to live in Sydney.
I don't live in Sydney, but I couldn't have afforded to buy a house *anywhere* in Sydney with the funds I could access in 2023.
Many reasons for this - Covid plandemic effects being a key one.
Are you able to afford to live close to where you work in your part of the world or do you have a long (in time and/or distance) commute to your work (and back to where you can afford to live?
I live 30 km from work and it can take as little as 30 minutes (at 2 am) or as much as 90 minutes (between 8 and 10 am and 2 to 4 pm) to get to work, and similar time variations for the reverse journey depending when I need to travel to/from work. I have to drive - there is no public transport available because my job is a 24/7/365 operation.
