Feeling the pinch? Cost of living

[china]

This is getting beyond ridiculous.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/wall...just-scraping-by/story-e6frfm1i-1227056569113

 

[BayView]

This is getting beyond ridiculous.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/wall...just-scraping-by/story-e6frfm1i-1227056569113

I guess if you worked in the Wall st fishbowl...$400k would put you on the struggle st wage?

 

[2FAST4U]

I guess if you worked in the Wall st fishbowl...$400k would put you on the struggle st wage?

It's all relative

Imagine these people trying to survive on Centrelink payments of $255 a week.

 

[Melbournian]

I guess if you worked in the Wall st fishbowl...$400k would put you on the struggle st wage?

if you lived in new york, the properties there are crazy as in price wise.

if you ever watched million dollar listing new york (tv series) you realize apartments over there go like 1+ milion for 120+sqm apartment and there are stuff going for like 22 million. It is a whole different market out there. If you compare New york to detroit, there are totally different. People there bid for apartments for like 5-10million like what ppl would do say toorak houses in melbourne.

Cost of living in the big apple doesn't come cheap too.

 

[coastal]

if you lived in new york, the properties there are crazy as in price wise.

if you ever watched million dollar listing new york (tv series) you realize apartments over there go like 1+ milion for 120+sqm apartment and there are stuff going for like 22 million. It is a whole different market out there. If you compare New york to detroit, there are totally different. People there bid for apartments for like 5-10million like what ppl would do say toorak houses in melbourne.

Cost of living in the big apple doesn't come cheap too.

Best show ever

 

[Aaron_C]

It's all relative

Imagine these people trying to survive on Centrelink payments of $255 a week.

You don't live and work in New York to be a bum. There is just so much stuff to spend money on over there, so money talks. Hence the proliferation of investment bankers making 7 figure bonuses etc.

 

[china]

if you ever watched million dollar listing new york (tv series) you realize apartments over there go like 1+ milion for 120+sqm apartment and there are stuff going for like 22 million. .

Sounds like Sydney real estate.

 

[coastal]

Sounds like Sydney real estate.

New york realestate is just next level

 

[Melbournian]

Sounds like Sydney real estate.

go watch the series - i dun think it is like sydney - it is in a market of its own.

 

[kamchatsky]

This is getting beyond ridiculous.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/wall...just-scraping-by/story-e6frfm1i-1227056569113

1.2 million dollar for a house in Chicago must be a super mansion. The median price for 4 bedder is about $410K.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/chicago-Illinois/market-trends/

I've live there before and there are a lot of nice and comfortable houses in good suburbs you can buy for $300-400K with decent backyards. It is crazy to use $1.2M home as an example.

 

[BayView]

Got our rates notice the other day;

"Fire Levy" was over $700.

Does this mean we are funding the Black Saturday victims who decided to have no insurance?

 

[Melbournian]

1.2 million dollar for a house in Chicago must be a super mansion. The median price for 4 bedder is about $410K.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/chicago-Illinois/market-trends/

I've live there before and there are a lot of nice and comfortable houses in good suburbs you can buy for $300-400K with decent backyards. It is crazy to use $1.2M home as an example.

yeah even michael jordan's previous home had a price downgrade.

 

[leann]

Well it's obvious they have been brought up with their bums wiped and never experienced hardship in any form. They need to travel, they need to get out of their comfort zone and experience reality, they need to learn how to budget.