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Post by tactile on Jan 4, 2023 6:18:14 GMT 10
That's absolutely what terrifies me for my kids and the main driver of why we're trying to buy a decent sized rural property rather than just a standard suburban house. Sure, we can grow more food on more land and be more self-sufficient and that's definitely a part of the reason we want to do it. But I have an existential dread that my kids won't ever be able to afford to buy their own homes. What happens when there's no rentals of decent price available and they don't have anywhere to go? Well they come home to mum and dad of course. We plan to have a decently sized house and not downgrade until our kids have bought their own homes and are relatively secure. That way if ever needed they and their families will have somewhere to go. You want to save your kids Stealth? Get them the best education you can...if they go into a profession where their skills can be learnt in a year or two they are a target. Basic jobs and trades are going to get rolled over within their lifetime.
"What happens when there's no rentals of decent price available and they don't have anywhere to go?" That's your job...get them above the crowd...get their earning power above "decent", then you/they don't have to worry about it. Plenty of rentals around above "decent price", same with buying if they chose to go that route.
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Post by spinifex on Jan 4, 2023 7:06:55 GMT 10
The foreign investment theme is a strong driver of prices here in SA too. Here it is Indian money chasing assets.
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Post by tactile on Jan 4, 2023 7:13:22 GMT 10
Canada has recently clamped down on the same thing - foreigners parking cash in property. So many holes in the legislation though...
This will probably start happening here. Take a look around Melbourne at night, half the properties lights aren't on, heaps of empty properties. Not your average property though...doubt it will effect the housing market that much. How many people are going to want to pay $4000-$5000 a month in rent?
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 4, 2023 7:56:57 GMT 10
"It would be nice to have the space to invite all of our direct family to stay with us if SHTF but the reality is that we have to be responsible for our spawnlings first and foremost. "
That's exactly what we have done. 4 out of 5 kids living here in their own accommodations, 5th one knows hes welcome WTSHTF, but doesn't believe it will soon.
Invited mum and step dad, but they are to set in their ways. Also invited other sister and family, but they don't think anythings wrong and are enjoying the lifestyle by the beach down south. Their death is on their own heads.
"because the land that we do buy will only be able to support so many."
Bought over 100 acres for just that reason, but, only family and close friends will be allowed, Mr general public will be turned away, with force if needed.
Don't follow me, I do stupid things.
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Post by tactile on Jan 4, 2023 9:31:47 GMT 10
Don't follow me, I do stupid things. ...Ummmmm...
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 4, 2023 11:30:28 GMT 10
My tagline generator sometimes comes out with odd sayings !! "Get them the best education you can"
I started as an Electrical Apprentice, but was offered a trainee-ship after my first year, which I accepted. I had the best of both worlds, a trade and degree qualifications. I then went on to get endorsements, a 500,000 volt switching ticket, renewable installer accreditation, automotive electrician and so on. As a tradie, the sky is literally the limit.
I am a qualified Electrical Engineer, with vast experience in heavy industry, sawmills, and almost all types of machine shop equipment. But, I chose to work as a humble electrician. Why ? Because that's where the money was, and still is. Engineers are everywhere, but try and find a sparky that can diagnose a faulty drive, and not a modern one with VSD and computer control that you just plug your laptop into and press a few buttons. No no, real gear, with contactors and relays and discreet timers etc. It takes a different skill set to trouble shoot this older gear, and there's still a lot of it around, especially in the bush, bush sawmills especially. Ive seem equipment that dates to the 1920's still in service. Ive had to retire due to memory issues, but I still have people ringing me asking, even begging, for help in fixing an old piece of gear. And being offered whatever it takes, just to look at something, then more to fix it. Finding spares is always an issue, but the gear was designed to be repaired easily, so even having to make a set of contacts from a piece of copper bar isn't hard. I suppose I'm saying not to ignore the value of a trade of some kind, rather than perusing a UNI qualifications. In a increasingly older world, you may end up earning more money than someone with a degree, and you can always do one by correspondence or remote learning. Most UNI's offer free or very low cost degrees, and the Govt will chip in as well. Practical days mean a twice a year trip to the UNI, but most will subsidize the costs and all that I know of have on campus accommodation for cheap or free for enrolled students. I suspect that post fall, the only type of machinery still left in working condition, will be the old style, and, along with the amount of it still in use, especially in rural areas, if your future plans are to relocate to the country, then a Tradie is the way to go. Local councils are crying out for sparkies to maintain the water treatment and sewage plants, not to mention their offices, rental housings etc. Those that know how to service this old gear are now retiring, and that's opening an opportunity for them that's wants to make a career of service available. Move to a country town, set up a Electrical Business from home, and that's not even considering the explosion of solar that's about to happen.
And don't think that sparkies are the only trades needed out here, try and get a mechanic to service your car, or a painter to do some painting, a chippie to put up a wall, or a fitter/boilermaker to weld up a crack in a harvester, none around. There's money and a career to be made.
Alright you young whippersnappers, are you game to try ? In the end, gravity wins.
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Post by spatial on Jan 4, 2023 13:58:02 GMT 10
Fourth option Spinifex, which is already happening here and in NZ. Wealthy foreigners keep the housing prices inflated. Most of the purchasers where I work are Chinese. Suits the federal grubbyment’s agenda to use immigration to fuel population growth, and suits the State grubbyment’s plan to keep prices inflated to sustain elevated sales tax revenue. Capital flight from China to Aus is causing 3 bedroom dumps to sell for multi million dollars. Our kids or grandkids have no hope, that’s why my 4yo grandson already has his own place in Canberra, being paid off by a tenant. Yeah, back in the 1990's it, was Japan buying everything out and we will soon be speaking Japanese. They went under too much debt, China is now in the same boat and will soon also be under and Aus assets will be sold. The potential for war between China and Taiwan is on the boil and very realistic probability, that it starts in 2023.. National Security Advisor: W@R Is Coming!
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 4, 2023 14:17:23 GMT 10
Thank goodness Ive already done my Military service, and are too old anyway to be called up.
The interesting part of that is that I can sill be called back into service as a specialist trainer.
For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers.
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Post by bug on Jan 6, 2023 9:33:12 GMT 10
A potential massive blowback for the CCP is that if they attack Taiwan to hide an economic meltdown, and the attack fails with a resultant collapse of the nation, there's a ready to go government in the Republic of China to step in and replace them.
With the most likely scenario being the CCP taking the small coastal islands in Kinmen, and a standoff against the main Taiwan island, it would be a catastrophe for them.
Most seem to misunderstand how incredibly difficult a CCP invasion of Taiwan would be. Taiwan is wealthy, well armed and prepeared. It has international support. The CCP has no friends and a bunch of countries who would just love to see the CCP lose so that they can get their local piece of land/ocean back from the CCP.
The CCP values stability (cue: remaining in power) above all else. Any risk to this cannot be tolerated by them. For this reason alone, an invasion is unlikely in the near future, though the continuing campaign of bullying and bluster is unlikely to end any time soon.
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Post by frostbite on Jan 6, 2023 9:44:32 GMT 10
The Australian grubbyment expects to be at war with China within 10 years. They are ramping up with a massive recruitment drive, some major new weapon systems, longer runways to take stealth bombers, more seabed sonar listening devices and a push to be more self sufficient in technology and industry. And that's just the things they tell the public about.
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 6, 2023 16:04:40 GMT 10
Maybe China is looking at the tussle between Russia and the west and having 2nd thoughts.......
There is no such thing as light. Light is just the absence of dark.
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Post by bushdoc2 on Jan 6, 2023 21:24:44 GMT 10
Maybe China is looking at the tussle between Russia and the west and having 2nd thoughts....... There is no such thing as light. Light is just the absence of dark. Eastern Russia is like northern Oz: sparsely populated, full of resources, and largely infiltrated by chinese 'civillians'.
When Russia gets weakened by war with Ukraine, China will offer to swap, or just take, lots of "It used to be ours anyway" Russian land and gas/oil, etc.
Russia and China were skirmishing in the 70s over the Adamsky Islands.
Standing joke in Russia at the time: "Optimists study English. Pessimists study Chinese. Realists learn to use a Kalashnikov."
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Post by tactile on Jan 7, 2023 21:05:40 GMT 10
My understanding is that Russia has told China there will be no conventional response to a Chinese invasion in the east, they will just go nuclear as soon as they see movement over their border.
Harsh...
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Post by bug on Jan 7, 2023 22:48:52 GMT 10
The CCP's standard method of claiming someone else's territory is to use the greatest extent that any Chinese (not Mongol) nation state or warlord has held and say they have justification for 'reunification'. By that method the area between Ussuriysk and Vladivostok is all included.
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 8, 2023 7:45:55 GMT 10
My understanding is that Russia has told China there will be no conventional response to a Chinese invasion in the east, they will just go nuclear as soon as they see movement over their border. Harsh... (China) You have been warned..............
Our eyes are affected by dark. Too much dark makes it difficult for us to see things.
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Post by Joey on Jan 8, 2023 9:57:16 GMT 10
The Australian grubbyment expects to be at war with China within 10 years. They are ramping up with a massive recruitment drive, some major new weapon systems, longer runways to take stealth bombers, more seabed sonar listening devices and a push to be more self sufficient in technology and industry. And that's just the things they tell the public about. Sadly, we are hitting roadblocks on that. The US armed services committee has just announced that they want to pull the aussie order for the nuclear submarines we have with them because "we can't stop the production for the US own submarine fleet" and are even talking about the whole AUKUS agreement being "non-constitutional" Added to that, our shiny new Boxer APCs that are replacing the ASLAVs have the main 30mm machine gun that can only use 1 particular bullet that is IP owned and made in Switzerland and owned by the Swiss government and is subject to Swiss export controls and is subject to the Swiss neutrality laws. So the Swiss government can withhold supplies of the bullet if they don't agree on where the bullet will be used, and China has huge economic ties with the Swiss government so they have lots of strings to pull. That and each bullet costs Au$1500 EACH ! Defence procurement doing their top notch job again of instead of taking something tried and tested off the shelf, they need to tweak it so that we are the only country in the world using a customised version of that item, thus making it even more expensive and untested and prone to failure.
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Post by tactile on Jan 8, 2023 12:07:15 GMT 10
I was reading about that the other day too...I wouldn't be surprised if the US pulls out of supplying their subs directly but because the UK is so busted arse we'll probably end up with old, creaky tech from them! As on the Swiss ammo front - they wont supply ammo to Ukraine for the Gepard which they have been using against Russian drones in key areas...but they are running out of the super special ammo they use. Germany is supposed to be running around to try and make it themselves.
I'm wondering if it's just about the money here - the Swiss are wondering who is gonna pay them to make this expensive ammo?
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Post by malewithatail on Jan 8, 2023 13:01:10 GMT 10
Ammo pricing is they key to home defense as well.
I sold my 303/270 as ammo was getting too expensive to enjoy it and get proficient in its use, even with reloading my spent brass.
Indeed, in a totally closed dark-filled room we cannot see at all. Even cats cannot see in total darkness.
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Post by spatial on Jan 10, 2023 9:53:22 GMT 10
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Post by ausprep130 on Jan 10, 2023 13:23:05 GMT 10
Here's a prediction, perhaps not implemented in 2023 but with some ground work certainly done that year: The Aus federal government will develop a new mileage tax system that will replace fuel excise. This will be sold as a method to get EV's to pay their share towards road infrastructure and maintenance, but will be on a sliding scale that punishes drivers who travel lots of km, with exemptions for truckies, taxis, emergency services etc. They will use this tax to encourage people not to travel outside their allocated zones. It's already in place in Vic. (I note you mention Federal government)
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