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Girls certainly mature faster... epsecially at 18.

As I said, the best way is to liquidate your assets and transfer them to Dubai where will challenges are thrown out the window.

Most wills are challenged, not because they can be challenged but because there are flaws in them and are often unclear.

It's easy to avoid. You would know probably a year or two ahead if your relationship was about to irrevocably break down. You would've liquidated your assets by then and redomicled overnight in California or Shanghai. If you couldn't get around to doing it it's because: - You're not tough...

You sure make a lot of assumptions about people in other socio-economic classes. It's less often than the masses, but it happens. But rich people who rent mansions (ie A$10m+ properties) who use their money to generate yield from commercial and residential real estate around the world...

It's probably smarter to buy good assets with good growth and reasonable yields, and then renting in mansions at 1% yield (eg $2000/week would get you a $10m house), rather than buying a $10m house with no investments and paying $300k interest on a $6m loan.

That's a silly comparison. Would I rather live in a 60sqm dog box in Mid-Levels in Hong Kong or a 400sqm fringe suburb house in any Australian major metropolitan? Of course I'd choose the first one. Could sell my 60sqm dog box and buy probably 30 of these fringe houses on a good day. If...

The benefit of building infrastructure in established areas is hard to measure because the flow-on effect could be much greater in the long run. What's the benefit to society of building a train station to lead to Melbourne University, parts of RMIT, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Melbourne...

Nothing wrong with developing outer suburbs. But when you do so without planning properly, and no one wants to move to these new estates you've developed, you've just wated a lot of money on infrastructure servicing these areas.

Yes but young people 20 years ago don't travel to France and Spain for a week to drink red wine and eat blue cheese.

It's the pronoun before the lie.

These aren't liveability rankings. If they were Paris wouldn't be up there. Nor would HK or London.

Various lists done by study groups on global cities indices. Usually compiled by different organistions in different countries, but the theme is consistent. The EIU "most liveable cities" list would have Adelaide near the top actually.

Well Sydney is usually a few rankings below it but still in the top 10. You either group Paris with the top 4, or you group it with the bottom 5. I don't think Paris is in the leagues of NYC/London/HK/Tokyo so naturally put it with the bottom 5. If you were to break it up, Sydney would be...

Not sure how you even compare Adelaide with a city that is consistently ranked in the top 10 global cities in the world (after the likes of NYC/Tokyo/London/Hong Kong and on par with Singapore/Shanghai/Seoul/LA/Paris)...

When the market is weak as they have been in 2011 and 2012 in Sydney, people stay away because prices are low and may fall further. :eek: When prices jump and boom as they do now, people try to get in to the market because they're worried about missing the bandwagon...