University degrees cost as much as a house (1 Viewer)

[dora_18]

I'm not saying everyone lives in sydney, but a lot of people would like to. Anyway thats not the point, even outside of sydney, take the town of albury! 600km away from Sydney...try and find something decent <400K
I mean sure you could buy a 1 room shack...if thats what people mean by "buying a decent property"

 

[withoutaface]

He didnt say the house had to be in Sydney, Sydney is afterall one of the top 10 most expensive cities to buy a house in. Plenty of decent properties exist if you want to live outside of the capital cities.

It said average mortgage, since the bulk of australia's population resides in capital cities, the average would be closer to the cost of a house in such cities than anything else, etc.

 

[Xayma]

I'm not saying everyone lives in sydney, but a lot of people would like to. Anyway thats not the point, even outside of sydney, take the town of albury! 600km away from Sydney...try and find something decent <400K
I mean sure you could buy a 1 room shack...if thats what people mean by "buying a decent property"

Depends on how you define decent. Something built in the 1990's with four bedrooms, ducted air conditioning, two bathrooms maybe not. But the house I grew up in would not fetch 400k and it is a decent property. If you are looking around the Norris Park, towards the centre of albury or some of the richer estates of Thurgoona then you will obviously have problems.

 

[dora_18]

Depends on how you define decent. Something built in the 1990's with four bedrooms, ducted air conditioning, two bathrooms maybe not. But the house I grew up in would not fetch 400k and it is a decent property. If you are looking around the Norris Park, towards the centre of albury or some of the richer estates of Thurgoona then you will obviously have problems.

Well Im not familiar with the albury regions,I've only been there once, but like you say it depends on what the individual classifies as decent, for me-i find the 4bedrooms ducted air con pretty standard, others may not. Then again, property these days all depends on land, you can build a mansion in the middle of nowhere for 500K, but in sydney you can buy a 1bedroom app. for 1.5M just because it overlooks the harbour bridge.

 

[Generator]

but like you say it depends on what the individual classifies as decent, for me-i find the 4bedrooms ducted air con pretty standard, others may not.

With standards such as that it's little wonder that the country is almost choking on its levels of personal debt.

 

[dora_18]

Well thats my standard and im not in any pesonal debt-sorry! So i guess that criteria doesn't really apply to me.

 

[Xayma]

Well Im not familiar with the albury regions,I've only been there once, but like you say it depends on what the individual classifies as decent, for me-i find the 4bedrooms ducted air con pretty standard, others may not. Then again, property these days all depends on land, you can build a mansion in the middle of nowhere for 500K, but in sydney you can buy a 1bedroom app. for 1.5M just because it overlooks the harbour bridge.

Well how many houses of that standard have you bought.

Suprisingly people can live without a huge plasma tv, a backyard pool and with two bedrooms until they have multiple kids (and even then for a fair few years before they want large amounts of privacy).

 

[Xayma]

Thanks for the advice, but i doubt ill be trading my waterfront sydney home for albury...

Your property? Why do I doubt an 18 year old owns that.

 

[dora_18]

Your property? Why do I doubt an 18 year old owns that.

oh yes my bad! -my parents house...let me rephrase:
I doubt they'll be trading their property for albury.

and we'll let the fact that i live there slide....

 

[Xayma]

I love this individual?

EDIT: Hunters's hill?

Well you know next they will be complaining about having to share with family.

 

[dora_18]

Thats pretty harsh you know...
someone accused me of living in albury just because i was making an economic comparison with property prices, and then i clarified that i wasn't living there. And suddenly you get accused of living god-knows-where just becuase you said you live along some beach...i apologize if there was snobbiness implied in what i wrote!!!god....

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

hmmm 238K... i think u can 'shop' around and get a better deal
esp for medical degrees...
cos i recall it varies by like up to 60K between unis...

I met a couple of bond medics its a pretty sweet deal time-wise but its bloody expensive .. and the course is very self-directed considering u paid $200+ K for it

NSW and Vic unis still seem to charge the most.. Tas and WA arent so expensive.. with possibly better courses..

 

[Generator]

Thats pretty harsh you know...
someone accused me of living in albury just because i was making an economic comparison with property prices, and then i clarified that i wasn't living there. And suddenly you get accused of living god-knows-where just becuase you said you live along some beach...i apologize if there was snobbiness implied in what i wrote!!!god....

Dora, I suggest that you go back and read what Xayma said - at no stage did he imply that you lived in Albury, he was merely using it as a regional example.

Oh, and don't you think that it's kind of harsh to say that someone 'accused' you of living in Albury?

 

[dora_18]

omg people !! enough already..

2 PM's later and a note from the moderator!!jeeeez

i get it! yes im awful awful awful and i have misconceptions about everything that was written??


Generator i didnt say Xayma accused me..i was referring to this

You wouldn't have a problem buying a propery under 400k in the city of Albury that is decent even by your standards. There are modern, 4 bedroom, airconditioned properties available for under 400k. I even found you a 4 bedroom house with ducted air con $225k - about the price of the average mortgage

i mean sarcastic much!!!not to mention insulting...

Oh, and don't you think that it's kind of harsh to say that someone 'accused' you of living in Albury?

i realise that was harshly written when i posted it...

so to rephrase..well not so much rephrase as clarify,i didnt mean for that to sound so harsh. I dont think that albury is a bad place to live in, in fact i have friends there and its awesome, not necessarily a place where i would reside in but its not like i condemn people for living there. I was just making a comparison between house prices because of land value

 

[Generator]

dora, once again, read what was posted - I said someone, not Xayma.

 

[dora_18]

omg enough already, give it a rest.

move on.

 

[sam04u]

Lol, It's worth it. The university degrees.