As a 27 year old Australian, I know how you feel. I will likely never own a house, especially with the Liberal Party actively pushing house prices as high as po

As a 27 year old Australian, I know how you feel. I will likely never own a house, especially with the Liberal Party actively pushing house prices as high as possible. They want us renting forever, so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I'm glad I didn't have a kid last year though. Would've made getting that house a whole lot harder, and I've still got plenty of living and travel and women to do! As for not exactly working for Google... I have a useless IT degree so I know what you mean. Nothing exciting is going on here. There's no real tech industry. CTRL-F the 'who's hiring' thread from earlier - two results for Melbourne, 167 for San Francisco. I'm trying to start my own business because screw working for some accounting firm. As for the Coke... I'm gonna assume you mean the drink, since if it was the drug you'd probably have no trouble with losing weight (and not capitalize it). A few years ago I switched to sugar free softdrink to lose weight. It worked wonders, although I did also count food calories and exercise. But it was a valuable part of losing 30Kg. Going to Coke Zero was the easiest change I made. However, sugar-free soft drink still has acid that rots your teeth, so I've given even that up as of about two weeks ago. And you know what? It was surprisingly easy. I thought it'd be impossible, but after I got the bad news from my dentist I just started drinking water, and it's just... not that hard. I just drink when I'm thirsty and then I don't crave a sweet drink anymore. The caffeine addiction though? Well, I have still had a little coffee... but you can have caffeine pills or tea or plain coffee for that, and not all the sugar. Even sugar WITH coffee is nothing compared to how much is in Coke.