Subj : Re: New to this
To   : StormTrooper
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 11:50 am

On 20 Apr 2025 at 07:30p, StormTrooper pondered and said...
 
 St>  bo> Oddly, the economy used to serve us much better, so its not really a
 St>  bo> testament to this policies success.  I was better off 20 years ago wh
 St>  bo> I was just a Technical Office than now, when I'm in a more senior
 St>  bo> position.
 St> 
 St> I'd have to somewhat agree, I to was personally in a better position,
 St> it'd be more than 20 years ago. Only paid 97k for my first home, and
 St> funding it wasn't a nightmare in itself.  No way I could manage that
 St> now, on those same types of jobs.  The problems we see more obviously
 St> now were still there... property was already on a wild trajectory it was
 St> just coming off a way lower base so it wasn't quite so obvious and the
 St> inflation it dragged with it hadn't bled across the whole economy yet.
 St> 

I couldn't imagine house prices so low! I do remember as a kid they were about $120+ for a decent home.  But as prices starts to rise rapidly, the base of what was "expensive" moved up and up.  Notice how everyone always things the housing affordability crisis started last year?  It's like the standard of affordability gets reset all the time.

 St>  bo> There is a fee of about that much if you want Permanent Residency.  N
 St>  bo> sure about the initial VISA.
 St> 
 St> Is that what it is.. never needed to look into it.  Only got odd
 St> references from a few guys I used to work with.  One place I worked had
 St> new guys almost every week... plenty of guys with Quals from OS they
 St> couldn't use because they weren't recognised here.

I'd be skeptical of OS Quals as well.

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