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I'm not arguing that there aren't affordable properties - because there are - or that there aren't people with an entitlement mentality - because there certainly are. There's a middle ground: acknowledging that it is harder to buy a home than it used to be, but that expectations have also...

Actually, that pretty much describes the street where I live. Our estate was built in 1970-2. Our neighbours recently sold their 3 x 1 house for $480K. That is not 1 x average single earner wages.

One can hardly say that things haven't changed. Up until around 1970, a family home was typically around 1 year's average wages for a single earner. Now it's more like 4 years' average household income for 1.5-2 earners.