Australia’s reputation for a laid-back lifestyle is being overshadowed by the cost of living and housing crisis. Homeownership has become almost unattainable, and rents in cities like Melbourne and Sydney have soared, making financial stability harder to achieve. While Taiwan also faces housing aff…

So why aren’t massive housing projects being erected? What’s stopping them? Is Australia running out of land? And why is this happening all over the west? Why is there so much housing shortage, and everyone blaming immigration for it? Could they just not build more houses, or higher density houses? …

Citizens are not paying that much. His four year undergrad cost less than A$22k as we paid the HECS upfront and got a discount for doing so. Even my lads JD Law on full fee paying tuition was A$40k a year. So yeah A$120K tuition for the JD law. Does not include books or other things required for t…

How is it you dont know the answer to your own question? You already posted about life in Australia before even though you have never lived there. [image] Life advice thread Open Forum I did some research on this. EU doesn’t really care as long as you weren’t deported fr…

[image] Andrew0409: I think the major reason I would not want to live in Australia is the distance from other countries. Yeah maybe a one hour plus international flight to closest country, three hours to Bali.

[image] afterspivak: I wonder if this is like the pension reform that Tsai enacted in her first term—doing something that wil Why what did she do?

[image] ppp: Why what did she do? If you are interested in this topic, please read this thread: [image] Pension reform! Taiwan Politics Oh, yeah. She went there. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/taiwan/national/national-news/2016/12/31/488136/President-outlines.…

Is this another Australian nationalism thread? That you want me to butt out of? I only want to know why the heck are western countries letting housing prices go out of control while doing little to nothing (apart from rent control) to address it? Japan’s housing price isn’t out of control, and they…

[image] afterspivak: In Taipei City, I received an announcement from the owner of my apartment complex (the whole building) that our electricity rate, if / when we renew our rental agreements, is going up 24.3% Is the apartment building for sale? How much in your estimation it would be sold f…

[image] afterspivak: In Taipei City, I received an announcement from the owner of my apartment complex (the whole building) that our electricity rate, if / when we renew our rental agreements, is going up 24.3%. :neutral_face: Do not pay a fixed rate to the landlord. It’s a massive ripoff.