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While I agree housing situation keeps getting worse year by year, I do wonder if we need to consider that historical comparison like these have become increasin
by cal_dent 1y ago
While I agree housing situation keeps getting worse year by year, I do wonder if we need to consider that historical comparison like these have become increasingly meaningless?
It's certainly not a good thing but part of the second order effects of the broad economic change is that household income alone has long stopped being a useful driver/source of house prices - interest rates, second order effect of boomer wealth through bank of mum & dad, more 2 person full time working households, global migratory movement have all changed the dynamic so much that it feels very apple and pears now.
There's also a point around averages being meaningless from a relativity perspective too. Australia is expensive but as someone who moved from London to non-sydney australia, I do sometimes find it amusing that what is deemed expensive here would get you a shoebox in London v 500+ m2 land house here.
- tanseydavid 1y ago>> need to consider that historical comparison like these have become increasingly meaningless? How so?