A Dream Like Mine

indefensible:

nickdouglas:

Just some floor space stats

The absurdly large size of new Australian houses is one of the key contributors to the housing affordability crisis. Australia, despite being huge, is the most urbanised population in the world. Our governments continue to release more and more land for new suburbs, and we allow houses to be built on that land that accommodate hardly anybody.

Demand is out-stripping supply and creating hollowed-out suburbs, where the very workers who enable a suburb to exist (bakers, nurses, police, fire-women, etc) cannot afford to live near the area they service.

Australians need to start getting used to higher density living, and governments need to start creating incentives for developers to build higher-density dwellings.

Arizona is much the same way. Lots of open space. People coming in from California an elsewhere that housing is more expensive, driving up the cost of housing overall. Or at least, driving ir up until the real estate collapse a couple of years ago. My ex could go on and on about it. On and on and on and on and on, I tell you….

We rented a 2400+ sq foot “MacMansion” for a year. It was beautiful, but just too big. There are higher cooling costs, cleaning costs, and I’m sure other costs I’m not thinking of at the moment. Plus, it was far enough from the bedroom to the home office that when I was going to bed, but she was staying up, it was too much of  a hike to go say good night sometimes. Just one more tiny step in the slow decline of our marriage.

But, yeah, real estate something something.