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Old 22-09-2017, 04:21 PM   #331
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Hang on I'll check.
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No. Doesn't milk come out of a box?
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Old 22-09-2017, 04:41 PM   #334
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It is nice in theory to live in the country, but most of my experience is the jobs are still in the big cities. Central coast for example. Nice cheap living but people still have to commute. Same in the Southern Highlands. Ask the people in Goulburn, a nice country town, where they all work?
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It is nice in theory to live in the country, but most of my experience is the jobs are still in the big cities. Central coast for example. Nice cheap living but people still have to commute. Same in the Southern Highlands. Ask the people in Goulburn, a nice country town, where they all work?
Never thought of the Central Coast as being in the country but your right most people are chasing the big city bucks. You can't have it both ways.
Guess I'm no different as I work between Melbourne and the Qld border but still mostly on country estates. I commute once then stay onsite till the job is done.
In reality, I probably spend 3 months out of the year living at home. The way we like it.
Gunning's another example.. Canberra commuters.
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Or a cow in the back yard
Manufacturing and livestock?!

In the city everything is manufactured in China and keeping live stock is banned.

We are civilised in the city.
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And what the hell do you do if you run out of milk at 2.00am??!!
1. UHT in the pantry

2. Who's drinking milk at 2am?!?
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1. UHT is NOT milk

2. I have it in my cup of tea while I'm getting ready for work.
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Manufacturing and livestock?!

In the city everything is manufactured in China and keeping live stock is banned.

We are civilised in the city.
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1. UHT is NOT milk

2. I have it in my cup of tea while I'm getting ready for work.
Someone's fussy! - and drinking a very milky tea

What are your thoughts on powdered milk? Aldi sell a mad powdered skim milk, you can eat it by the spoonful & feel your mouth close up tight like a cat's... umm... *
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What are your thoughts on powdered milk? Aldi sell a mad powdered skim milk, you can eat it by the spoonful & feel your mouth close up tight like a cat's... umm... *
Only woolworths lite white for me. I only work 38 hours per week, it's all I can afford.
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I missed out on an overtime shift today, looks like I'm having my coffee* black this week

* International Roast instant decaf
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I read somewhere recently that for every cup of coffee you buy from a cafe it adds another 16 minutes onto your mortgage.
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Is that why you keep coming to visit me at work and drinking my coffee?

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xb high horse says otherwise

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hes busy

off drinking coffee and lazing around the beach

cos other people are lazy
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Only woolworths lite white for me. I only work 38 hours per week, it's all I can afford.
I bought smashed avo once in 2012 now I can't afford a house anymore :(
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I bought smashed avo once in 2012 now I can't afford a house anymore :(
I struggled for my baked beans on toast yesterday. I made it even harder by having cheese with it. Living the high life is not achievable.....
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I'll make you a good one for nothing, help keep that nasty bubble from going kaboom.
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I read somewhere recently that for every cup of coffee you buy from a cafe it adds another 16 minutes onto your mortgage.
I just had a thought. If no one buys a coffee then don't the people in coffee shops not have a job then have an even harder time trying to even afford accommodation let alone buy a house? The consumer economy is pretty complicated. If everyone was a thinker and there are no people to do the labour then how does anything get done? We can't all be in finance. My job involves both thinking and getting it done. Some people relegate themselves to being told what to do, and others get into positions to tell people what to do. I'm buying the boys coffees tomorrow when I rock up to work. It's probably going to put an hour onto my mortgage but it will be motorvation for the boys.
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I struggled for my baked beans on toast yesterday. I made it even harder by having cheese with it. Living the high life is not achievable.....
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This thread is a funny read, love how people not willing to put in the hard yards complain about sour grapes.

We all have the same opportunities, yet some chose to go on overseas holidays, or **** it against the wall at the local pub, or are too lazy to put in the long hours.

When I was in my 20's and early 30's I was working 70-80 hrs a week every week, I bought investment properties, drove a 25 year old car into the ground and pumped money into two mortgages owning my first property outright in my late 20's early 30's.

Now in my late 40's I reap the rewards, only having to work 2-3 days a week, and spending my days going fishing, taking one of my cars for a drive. It annoys me no end when people tell me how 'lucky' I am to have three show cars, drive a nice 4x4 and live in a large house on acreage with a huge shed.
Im gonna have to disagree with you here to a certain extent and I will try to explain why.
Im 27, I have been working FIFO on a couple of the biggest industrial projects in the country for the past 3-4 years. 10-12 hour days on a 4 weeks on 1 week off roster. I consider myself to be extremely lucky. I have many mates who would kill to get a shot to do the big hours and make the good money, hell I've even tried to get them jobs but its not always that easy. It is easy however to just brush them off as lazy cause 38h week is all they can get.
I bought my first house at the end of last year in Newcastle, 605k (low-mid range). I was lucky enough to be able to save a 20% deposit in just a couple of years. I don't have a missus or kids and I rent two rooms out to friends just to make things easier.
If house prices were 3x average wage like they were way back when id just about own the thing by now.

Im doing a similar thing to you working the best years of my life away, making big sacrifices to get ahead but thats where our similarities end. I don't sit on my high horse calling my peers lazy or denying the fact that I am extremely lucky to be given the opportunity in the position I'm in right now. Its made even simpler in the fact that I'm not raising or supporting a family at this time. A situation that probably half the people my age have to manage as well. Fact is housing is way more unaffordable now than it was 30 years ago and if you think its not you're kidding yourself. My place is less than a km away from my parents house. They built the house just before I was born in 1990 for 54k, house and land. My dad was a mechanic working a 40h week, mum was working part time and they were raising 3 kids. Times were tough but they managed. Try and do that in todays market. It would be just about impossible.

I have a big circle of friends and I like to be close to my family so moving to the country isn't even a consideration for me and I'm sure I'm not alone. Yes places are more affordable and I could do my work (electrician) just about anywhere but if i was to leave everything I've ever known back home I know I wouldn't be happy with life so whats the point? My family and friends are more important to my happiness than anything else.
Not having a go at you mate, you seem very happy and obviously led a successful life, just saying what worked for you back then won't work for everyone now. Not everyone gets the opportunity to make big bucks and even people who work 2 jobs are still going to struggle in todays market. On a side note I do love the mid north coast, holiday up there a few times a year its a beautiful part of the country.

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I live in the country and it blows, its not even that cheap to buy out here either

I had an automotive workshop in a town with 8000 people and 7 other automotive workshops as competitors.

These days I work in Melbourne, do less and get paid more and I don't have to drive 25km to get a decent breakfast and coffee in the next town on a Friday!
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I live in the country and it blows

I had an automotive workshop in a town with 8000 people and 7 other automotive workshops as competitors.

These days I work in Melbourne, do less and get paid more and I don't have to drive 25km to get a decent breakfast and coffee in the next town on a Friday!
Yeah but at least you got slabs and slabs of beer at the end of the year and all your rivals got were cans of pea and ham soup and herpes.


Hahaha don't laugh some people spend quite a bit of money going out and having coffee - granted it's cheaper than smokes,booze and take-away food.

Coffee is the 2nd biggest (or was) traded commodity - those small shops and coffee trucks that make a good coffee generate a lot more money that would surprise most, and from just coffee alone.

You blokes are the worst, always derailing the thread, I never do that.
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Hahaha don't laugh some people spend quite a bit of money going out and having coffee - granted it's cheaper than smokes,booze and take-away food.

Coffee is the 2nd biggest (or was) traded commodity - those small shops and coffee trucks that make a good coffee generate a lot more money that would surprise most, and from just coffee alone.

You blokes are the worst, always derailing the thread, I never do that.
Melbourne has a mad 'street food' scene, there is this Souvlaki van out in Airport West on Matthews Avenue that has lines out the front at all hours they're open and its good stuff, its all cooked on hot coals.

Even bloody Sunbury has a kebab van these days and it attracts everyone like moths to a light at midnight

If I was going to go back to being self employed it'd be an attempt at a coffee van/food truck combo thing, imagine Franco's Pizza/Pasta/Coffee or something
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Well hasn't this thread had quite a bit of traffic lately. I have finally moved into my place after getting new carpet and paint and it has been pure bliss.

So glad to be off that train looking for a place
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