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Ah, OK, I get you. I'd have to say I had zero foresight. I loved looking at houses, but never thought I'd ever get one. I did get a small loan from my parents to help, but it was only when I sat down, did the sums & worked it out that I could afford it, that I took action. As for...

The crappy house rises in line with everything else in the same suburb. I bought that crappy house for $56k and sold it much later for $156k. The new owners demolished it & built a nice large brick house instead. And I know that's still ancient history, but I'll compare it to something...

Wrong! I was on below average wage, a woman (when banks didn't want to lend to women), and bought the only thing that I could afford. My mantra was that rent money was dead money. I'd rather buy something crappy & it be mine, than to rent, and have nothing to show for it.

Have YOU ever had an outside dunny or a leaking roof. It's not like these things were everywhere, you know. They WEREN'T THE MEDIAN PRICE HOUSE of the time. We couldn't afford that. SO WE BOUGHT WHAT WE COULD AFFORD. The crappiest house in the crappiest suburbs. And this point alone is...

I know one that definitely appears to be from things that have been said.

Commonwealth Bank, I presume? I also worked for the same bank, but not so young. I did a year at TAFE to learn shorthand typing, then worked at a Solicitor's for a year. Wage was $96 per week. Then the Bank as a stenographer, but I never once used that skill there. Again, the wait for 8...

Come on! You mean you didn't whinge for the next (insert weeks/months/years here) that housing was too expensive. That you couldn't live in the trendy suburbs or buy the large, well appointed homes? I mean, housing was cheap back then. It was easy back then. All the BB bought their houses &...