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Title: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: c10250 on February 02, 2010, 11:26:54 am
Why in the heck are homes so much in Australia??  I was looking at some home prices and couldn't believe it!!!  Any city I chose was like San Francisco prices.  Heck, a tiny home in Perth went for over a million US dollars.  Crazy.

How do you guys afford it?  Honey must be selling for a LOT of money in order to pay those prices.

Ken
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Mardak on February 02, 2010, 11:33:20 pm
Come on down, this is the home of the brave , the free and lots of honey. It depends where you want to live around Australia as to how much you want to pay. They are still in the process of getting mains electricity and running water hooked up to homes in Queensland though. The rest of the nation is pretty much connected to those type of services already. :evil:
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: mick on February 03, 2010, 03:19:56 am
House prices are INSANE here.

Its mainly supply and demand. We are importing people at ten times the new house build rate. Our Government has relaxed foreign ownership regulations. Now the Chinese are buying everything in sight for their kids to live in when studying here.

Every minute of every day, the newspaper, TV, radio are full of stories of how you better buy now. It creates a frenzy. People are borrowing 400,000 to buy a house that cost 200,000 a year ago. The media quotes median prices, people think this is the average price. People dont realise that borrowing 400k costs a million over a 25 year loan.

The rise in sales has led to a shortage of rental properties, that drives the price up even further. People are going to get hit hard in 10 years when we go through what you have.

In Perth and Queensland, huge mining industry salaries, up to 200k a year for tradesmen, has got out of control. These areas were the lowest for house prices before the mining boom. Now they are the most expensive. People who have lived in a town all their lives are now forced out to caravan parks as the miners move in. Also these miners etc have so much money they buy a few houses and create an even bigger shortage.

Its all gone crazy the last 5 years. Take me a year to explain it properly.

Boom and bust, its going to get ugly when the bust comes.

A generation ago, people bought a modest house, had ONE car if a car at all, used second hand furniture etc. Now people want what they see on TV and wont pay back what they owe in their lifetime. Its all artificially inflated.

The Government introduced a first home buyers grant that got up to about 20 grand. This just put 20 grand on the price of a new home.

As I have said before, we have become a nation of idiots.

Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Pete on February 03, 2010, 06:23:01 am
Why in the heck are homes so much in Australia??  I was looking at some home prices and couldn't believe it!!!  Any city I chose was like San Francisco prices.  Heck, a tiny home in Perth went for over a million US dollars.  Crazy.

How do you guys afford it?  Honey must be selling for a LOT of money in order to pay those prices.

Ken

Those home are actually sold here for a few hundreds dollars, but we re programmed the internet to show them 100000 times the value to deter people from wanting to move here - we love the space! :-D
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Lone on February 03, 2010, 07:50:20 am
Greed.  Some people want to buy more than one house.  It baffles me because you can only be in one place at the one time.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: c10250 on February 03, 2010, 10:24:03 am
Look what 500K gets you where I live!

http://www.homefinder.com/IL/Dundee/48166733d_14n829_Lac_Du_Beatrice (http://www.homefinder.com/IL/Dundee/48166733d_14n829_Lac_Du_Beatrice)


Here's what 300K gets you.

http://www.homefinder.com/IL/Sleepy_Hollow/52025674d_1283_Locust_Dr (http://www.homefinder.com/IL/Sleepy_Hollow/52025674d_1283_Locust_Dr)


YOU GUYS ARE NUTS!!!
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Pete on February 03, 2010, 09:22:47 pm

YOU GUYS ARE NUTS!!!

OI!  :)

You have 320m people and we have 20m, we have gun laws and you seem to have none, you are bankrupt and we are not, you have cheaper real estate and we do not, you still execute people and we do not, you have varoa and we do not...its awesome here and awesome aint free!  :-D
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 03, 2010, 09:37:44 pm
hmmmm

think i'll keep my guns and executions  :-D

the debt i could do without.....it'll take a couple more elections before we can begin to fix that mess.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: iddee on February 03, 2010, 10:32:38 pm
It has been removed. I guess the word facetious is beyond the vocabulary of some.

"Facetious - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster ...
2 : meant to be humorous or funny : not serious <a facetious remark> "
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: c10250 on February 04, 2010, 08:55:18 am
This post was not meant to start a pissing contest between AU and the US.  I was just trying to figure out why real estate is so high in AU.  None the less, I'll keep my low prices, executions, and guns though.  Oh, and by the way, with real estate prices that high, someone's going to pay the piper some day and it's gonna hurt!

Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Scadsobees on February 04, 2010, 09:28:19 am
When it comes to high home prices, we've seen what the piper charges.  Just ask anybody that bought a house on the west coast of CA in the last few years.  Looks about like what's happening in Perth.

If I lived there I'd be renting...
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: beemaster on February 04, 2010, 02:26:26 pm
This post was not meant to start a pissing contest between AU and the US.


EXACTLY... When did this become "My Country is better than yours" post - please knock it off. Thank you all.

All countries should have pride in their homeland, and POPULATION has no place in figuring a country's worth or status. Be proud about your country without sticking out your tongues and spitting "Nanny nanny foo foo" in the other members faces.

Geoff, reading your post - the only think I thought was: welcome to Capitalism in 2010 you have all the problems we go through, minus that we call surcharging of anything a TAX, not a GRANT - a grant shouldn't be a "burden of the backs of the public" surely the conservative of the forum QUAKE at calling them a grant, no matter how cleverly worded, I think even the lefty's here would throw-up in their mouths a little.

Any way, we all have great countries, count your blessings and thank your God for that and carry on - TY.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 04, 2010, 04:14:17 pm
i didn't think we were having a pissing contest.  thought we were having a little fun.  perhaps some are more sensitive than i..........
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Pete on February 05, 2010, 12:22:26 am
awwww...i thought the emoticons indicated emotion and the smilies indicated we were joking?

I agree with kathyp (well i have to, she has guns!)  8-)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 05, 2010, 01:55:01 am
what's a poms? 

got the email before the revision  :evil:

you can PM me the answer if you want to stay out of trouble
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Pete on February 05, 2010, 02:02:49 am
Pom is like Australians=Aussie, Americans=Yanks, British=Poms

Its an affectionate term... :)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: philinacoma on February 05, 2010, 09:34:17 am
 ;)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 05, 2010, 06:55:18 pm
Pom is like Australians=Aussie, Americans=Yanks, British=Poms

Its an affectionate term... :)

affectionate? hmmm! just the same as having cork on your hat!  :lol:
Re: property prices, try shoving 60m people into a country the size of NY state and you end up with (admittedly up market) houses costing $50million. This is not a pissing contest, just a sad reflection of where the world is going! There is a child dying every minute in Africa for lack of medicine. Off thread, I'm sorry.
cider :( 
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Geoff on February 05, 2010, 07:50:30 pm
          OK  We will get fair dinkum with a question CA10250. In relation to the the house in the thread to whom does the Tax Amount: of $11,971.40 go to.
         Unless you were in the position to pay cash for the deal one would be busy peeing into the wind to pay approximately $210.00 tax on the house per week plus capital and interest payments.
          One would expect to get free gas, water, electricity, telephone and council services for a tax of that amount. Maybe I have the wrong skew on that figure , however this is not a criticism but a question.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 05, 2010, 08:28:13 pm
This post was not meant to start a pissing contest between AU and the US.


EXACTLY... When did this become "My Country is better than yours" post - please knock it off. Thank you all.



Any way, we all have great countries, count your blessings and thank your God for that and carry on - TY.

Now that's irony. :)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 05, 2010, 08:32:36 pm
This post was not meant to start a pissing contest between AU and the US.


EXACTLY... When did this become "My Country is better than yours" post - please knock it off. Thank you all.

Now that's irony
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 05, 2010, 08:35:19 pm
hmmmm

think i'll keep my guns and executions  :-D

the debt i could do without.....it'll take a couple more elections before we can begin to fix that mess.
Kath
Executions are a laugh?
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: iddee on February 05, 2010, 09:41:05 pm
>>>>Executions are a laugh?<<<<

Not to a taxpayer here. They cost way too much.

Not to the victim's family. They take way too long to finalize.

If they were carried out quickly and cheaply, then yes, we could laugh as the world was relieved of another monster.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 05, 2010, 10:10:18 pm
both the cost and the delay are due to the endless appeals.  both problems are easily remedied.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 12:57:36 pm
both the cost and the delay are due to the endless appeals.  both problems are easily remedied.
How?
No appeal?
Next day, bullet in the back of head re: China? the state could then recoup some of the trial cost by selling off body parts!
Not that long ago we had a guy jailed for rape, sent down for life, years later DNA proved he was innocent, do you still have the DP for rape? How would you feel in this guys place? but then again you would have no feelings, you would not be here! It  is easy to pontificate about how good executions are, even laugh about them until you are the innocent who is wrongly convicted then it is too late. Have a nice day. :(
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 06, 2010, 01:16:41 pm
oh stop hyperventilating.  instead of asking me if we have the death penalty for rape, why don't you do your own research? 

you are a good lesson for anyone who wonders what the basis of liberalism is: it is emotion over facts. 
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 01:21:31 pm
oh stop hyperventilating.  instead of asking me if we have the death penalty for rape, why don't you do your own research?  

you are a good lesson for anyone who wonders what the basis of liberalism is: it is emotion over facts.  

Must have struck a cord, or even a nerve. :)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: beemaster on February 06, 2010, 01:47:21 pm
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Must have struck a cord. :)

How Ironic, as you would say.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 06, 2010, 02:24:10 pm
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Must have struck a cord.

you may have.  i know i have several.  one reacts when people make assumptions without facts.  another goes off when when someone assumes to know my thoughts without any statements or actions on my part to back up that assumption.

and really, there is no reason not to do your own study.  you have access to info sitting in front of you.  i don't expect that we all will draw the same conclusions from what we learn, only that we take the time to learn before we shoot off.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: iddee on February 06, 2010, 02:56:48 pm
>>>>Not that long ago we had a guy jailed for rape, sent down for life, years later DNA proved he was innocent, <<<<

No, you are wrong there. We have had several cases like that. It did not prove his innocence. It just proved that there was someone else there when the crime was committed. Thus removing the evidence that he did it alone. Without further evidence that there were more than one, he was set free.

PS. One such case here, he was back in jail for a new rape charge within a year.

Real innocent.......NOT!!
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 04:12:40 pm
oh stop hyperventilating.  instead of asking me if we have the death penalty for rape, why don't you do your own research?  

you are a good lesson for anyone who wonders what the basis of liberalism is: it is emotion over facts.  

Ms Pearce
You are falling off the edge again, I don't think I'll go down the route of name calling, sticks and stones etc, I can do if you want? I thought these forums were for discussions by people who will take the trouble to talk to each other. After all what did Winston say about 'Jaw Jaw' I could go on about backwoods, redneck pistol packing neo-cons, but I did not. Please have some respect for other peoples views. Believe it or not I understand where you are comming from, we are the product of different cultures and would probably not agree on lots of things (hopefully on bees!) but I would defend your right to say it etc etc.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 04:22:20 pm
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Must have struck a cord. :)

How Ironic, as you would say.
I thought Americans didn't do Irony! John Cleese got it wrong after all. :)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 04:38:02 pm
>>>>Not that long ago we had a guy jailed for rape, sent down for life, years later DNA proved he was innocent, <<<<

No, you are wrong there. We have had several cases like that. It did not prove his innocence. It just proved that there was someone else there when the crime was committed. Thus removing the evidence that he did it alone. Without further evidence that there were more than one, he was set free.

PS. One such case here, he was back in jail for a new rape charge within a year.

Real innocent.......NOT!!
Surely the principle is, if you make a mistake there is no going back! We have given pardons to people we hung. Hell of a lot of good it did them! the victims will probably not get any justice either, the trail has long gone cold. It's a human life your talking about, not shooting a deer in the backwoods. :(
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 06, 2010, 05:02:14 pm
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I could go on about backwoods, redneck pistol packing neo-cons, but I did not. Please have some respect for other peoples views. Believe it or not I understand where you comming from, we are the product of different cultures and would probably not agree on lots of things (hopefully on bees!) but I would defend your right to say it etc etc.


i have no idea what you are talking about....unless you think my identifying you as a liberal is name calling.  i would not take exception to any of your labels except neo-con.  that, i am not.

one more thing here, since you brought it up.  being a "product of" _____ is not an excuse for being uninformed in an argument.  as much as i would disagree with many of the choices you all have made, i would not attempt to engage in a conversation about them without an attempt at understanding them. 

you ask for courtesy in conversation.  i would suggest that attacking us with out being informed is pretty discourteous.

you were right about one thing, this conversation belongs in the coffee house.  if one of the mods wants to move it down there, i'd be happy to continue.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 05:13:06 pm
Why in the heck are homes so much in Australia??  I was looking at some home prices and couldn't believe it!!!  Any city I chose was like San Francisco prices.  Heck, a tiny home in Perth went for over a million US dollars.  Crazy.

How do you guys afford it?  Honey must be selling for a LOT of money in order to pay those prices.

Ken

Those home are actually sold here for a few hundreds dollars, but we re programmed the internet to show them 100000 times the value to deter people from wanting to move here - we love the space! :-D

Pete
Don't advertise it! The Chinese are just over the horizon coverting all that space!!! :) We have a TV programme here about families moving to Oz, certainly looks a beautiful country. A long way to go for a holiday, otherwise I would be there! always fancied the Gold Coast and the Reef.
Regards
cider
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 06, 2010, 05:50:26 pm
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you ask for courtesy in conversation.  i would suggest that attacking us with out being informed is pretty discourteous.

you were right about one thing, this conversation belongs in the coffee house.  if one of the mods wants to move it down there, i'd be happy to continue.

The whole point of my post was once you have executed someone there is no going back! If you convict someone for what ever crime ensure the punishment fits the crime. darned by his own words I hear you cry! Make convicts do hard labour, if they won't, they don't eat, their choice. If you made a mistake and they are innocent they can sue, but money is not much use in a grave. The thing that got me uptight was the grin at the end of the post, a bit of a bummer really.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 06, 2010, 06:27:53 pm
oh gee.  sorry i made you up tight.

let me see if i can fix that.

every time they execute one of these SOBs i do the happy dance.  i wish i could do it more often!  the average length of time spent on death row is over 8 years. most spend more than 10 years.  those executed more quickly are usually executed because they refuse to appeal, and once the automatic appeals are done, they are also.

most of those on death row are repeat felons,  many with violent criminal records.  there are not many state capitol crimes.  most are  aggravated murder.  not all states have the death penalty.  the federal government does, but doesn't use it much.

have people been executed in error?  sure.  is it less likely to happen now with better technology?  yes.  can we change errors of the past?  no.  if we have accidentally executed a felon who didn't commit this capitol crime do i care?  not much except that it would mean we left another scum ball on the street.

if you are still unclear on my position, please feel free to PM me  :-D
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: iddee on February 06, 2010, 07:06:20 pm
If I rob, rape, and kill 4 people, it is wrong to convict me only of a 5th person that I didn't kill. So 10 years later, let me out and pay me a few million in compensation, so I can buy my way out when I do kill the 5th one myself. Yeah, that's the way it should be done.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: beemaster on February 06, 2010, 09:26:38 pm
cidersabuzzin says:

You are falling off the edge again, I don't think I'll go down the route of name calling, sticks and stones etc, I can do if you want? I thought these forums were for discussions by people who will take the trouble to talk to each other.

Beemaster Replies:

I strongly suggest you don't try the sticks and stone method here, and NO YOU CAN'T go down the road of name calling. I further suggest you calm your wording now. This forum we attempt to always keep the peace, and will gladly do so if it means the banning of any member who wants to start or stir crap. In this post, I see that person being you, and it might be a good idea to end your input in this post if it continues down the same road.

Keep your crap out of this forum, your wording isn't that cleaver and your points aren't very logical, so aim a little lower unless you do some homework - you may want to stay out of community forums and stick with beekeeping if you tell someone you are willing to fight a war of wars or sticks ad stones. I suggest you read the forum rules.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Mardak on February 07, 2010, 03:59:32 am
Dear Beemaster,

you have a great site and I hope we all abide by the rules that have been published as it makes the experience very positive and enlightening for people suc as myself new to the of apiary and bees.

Well done and keep up the good work.  :-D
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: mick on February 07, 2010, 05:03:53 am
Geeze it is grouse to see someone else getting a kicking instead of me.

Very patient the ole beemaster is. At least I post with a bit of wit and thought.

Gawn Boss, tell im it aint a Democracy here!

I feel safe speaking for all of us down here. "We have thick skins, a lot of our humour is based on what we call "Pisz taking" You can throw all you like and we will chuckle and throw back".

We know all about the US, the media and Hollywood ensures that, you know jack about us, thats why WE give such honest blatant opinions. Its out duty to give you the dirt as well as the good. Right or wrong, honesty is the best policy.

Speaking of throwbacks, we need some Taswegians on here. If the ever get electricity that is.

Tomorrow is Superbowl and in the excitement of new job, I bloody forgot to put in for the day off.

This means that it will be the most exciting 4 hour "game" ever.  Lucky there is a TV in the smoko room. Come 2.30 I might have lunch and catch the last half hour.

IMO your control of the population is out of control.  In ten years time, no US citizen will be without a criminal record. Its all about fear, consumption and control.

Apart from the well known social documentary known as Buds Woods, err I mean Deliverance, we also get the extremely well balanced show called COPS.

6 flatfoots pulling at every extremity, a dog on your leg and two tasers and a .45 slug in youre arse and you are resisting.

Down here, do that to a 75 year old one legged female with one eye and a walking frame, its called a million dollar payout.

Capital Punishment in the US has a history of wealth against poverty. Used to be the same here, thats why we gave it the khyber.

DNA evidence was recently banned by our coppers here as " The methods, means, processing, algoryhthms/logarthisms what you call em etc were fpound to be flawed.

The computer was making mistakes.

Oh really?

Hi Mr. Bud. ;)

Gawd, 1445 posts of dribble, makes me older than Columbus.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: cidersabuzzin on February 07, 2010, 06:19:48 am
cidersabuzzin says:

You are falling off the edge again, I don't think I'll go down the route of name calling, sticks and stones etc, I can do if you want? I thought these forums were for discussions by people who will take the trouble to talk to each other.

Beemaster Replies:

I strongly suggest you don't try the sticks and stone method here, and NO YOU CAN'T go down the road of name calling. I further suggest you calm your wording now. This forum we attempt to always keep the peace, and will gladly do so if it means the banning of any member who wants to start or stir crap. In this post, I see that person being you, and it might be a good idea to end your input in this post if it continues down the same road.

Keep your crap out of this forum, your wording isn't that cleaver and your points aren't very logical, so aim a little lower unless you do some homework - you may want to stay out of community forums and stick with beekeeping if you tell someone you are willing to fight a war of wars or sticks ad stones. I suggest you read the forum rules.

Dear Beemaster
I have and never had any intention of name calling. I was saying I would defend to the death kathyp's right to say what she has.As you well know it was a quote. But I agree a slap on the wrist was warranted. :oops:
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Geoff on February 07, 2010, 06:34:41 am
  A lot of people have got on the wrong train here. Is the subject not Aussie Real Estate Prices. I posted a question on the original subject :-


OK  We will get fair dinkum with a question CA10250. In relation to the the house in the thread to whom does the Tax Amount: of $11,971.40 go to.
         Unless you were in the position to pay cash for the deal one would be busy peeing into the wind to pay approximately $210.00 tax on the house per week plus capital and interest payments.
          One would expect to get free gas, water, electricity, telephone and council services for a tax of that amount. Maybe I have the wrong skew on that figure , however this is not a criticism but a question.


  Could somebody please get off the political train and get this one back on the right track ?
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Kathyp on February 07, 2010, 12:05:05 pm
sorry geoff.  i jumped off the train when it slowed on that last curve.  carry on!
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: iddee on February 07, 2010, 01:15:56 pm
Two homes in the same county in NC. It just depends on what you want.

http://www.homesandland.com/Real_Estate/NC/City/St_Pauls/ListingId/14514512.html (http://www.homesandland.com/Real_Estate/NC/City/St_Pauls/ListingId/14514512.html)

http://www.homesandland.com/Real_Estate/NC/City/Parkton/ListingId/14249368.html (http://www.homesandland.com/Real_Estate/NC/City/Parkton/ListingId/14249368.html)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Pete on February 07, 2010, 07:25:27 pm
Jeepers, spend the week out bush and come back to find the Poms and Yanks are going hard at it...if only we had a Kiwi here i could have done bar joke. "a kiwi, a yank, a pom and a horse walk into a bar, the barman says to the horse, why the long face ?  "  :shock:

Sorry if i hurt any horses feelings in the telling of this joke, i know how sensitives horses can be  :-D

Mickv, Tasmanian State Census reveals interesting fact: Population: 40,000. Surnames: 12
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: philinacoma on February 07, 2010, 11:18:35 pm
Hey Pete, If you take out variation of spelling of surnames, you'll find the the number of surnames drops considerably.  :evil:
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: mick on February 08, 2010, 02:05:00 am
Take out the Smiths, and all you have left is tourists.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: philinacoma on February 08, 2010, 02:41:53 am
Hmm in that count of 40,000.... are you counting heads or bodies? :-D
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: c10250 on February 12, 2010, 02:31:56 pm
 a lot of people have got on the wrong train here. Is the subject not Aussie Real Estate Prices. I posted a question on the original subject :-


OK  We will get fair dinkum with a question CA10250. In relation to the the house in the thread to whom does the Tax Amount: of $11,971.40 go to.
         Unless you were in the position to pay cash for the deal one would be busy peeing into the wind to pay approximately $210.00 tax on the house per week plus capital and interest payments.
          One would expect to get free gas, water, electricity, telephone and council services for a tax of that amount. Maybe I have the wrong skew on that figure , however this is not a criticism but a question.


  Could somebody please get off the political train and get this one back on the right track ?

In the State of Illinois, most of that goes to pay for the school system.  We have free school until College. 
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Mardak on February 13, 2010, 03:54:01 am
In Victoria we have "free" schooling up to University level. The government in Victoria just lumps parents with "voluntary" levies and one off costs. Makes you wonder what income tax pays for? Buildings are in dire need of repairs but we are "shining" according to the state and federal government spin in brochures and the media. We have a name and shame web site put together by the Federal government. Simlar to league tables of England.
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: dave33let on February 17, 2010, 11:40:52 pm
Oi, enough with the Tasmanian bashing! I've had a gutsfull of being labelled a backwards, luddite buffoon just because of where I live.
My sisterwife feels the same way! :)
Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: philinacoma on February 18, 2010, 02:36:33 am
Hi Dave, Welcome!

That was just a bit of bait to see if anyone from Tassie was watching.  ;) I think we need to work on SA next I don't remember seeing anyone from there....

I have no problem with Tassie or the people there. I have been there on holiday and loved it. Where abouts in T are you?

Your state has been under represented on this forum. Good to see someone from down there.

Phil
PS: Say hello to your sister-wife-cousin's left head for me! :evil:

Title: Re: question about Aussie Real Estate Prices
Post by: Col Collyer on February 18, 2010, 04:50:03 pm

 As Kamahl would say..... You are very un-kind
   For those non Aussies, Google Kamahl