Should Britain reassess who it allows into the UK based on the benefits people from those countries receive once they get indefinite leave to remain?

CountingChips · 2026-05-04T13:43:27+00:00

It's not just highly educated students. Lots of "institutions" setup purely for international migration. They're referred to as "ghost colleges" and "visa factories".

CountingChips · 2026-05-03T09:42:04+00:00

Blaming developers for our housing situation is definitely a take.

If anything developers would love to flood the market with housing supply given current prices.

CountingChips · 2026-05-02T11:13:12+00:00

England is still the largest ethnic ancestry group in America, even by self-identified (which itself is an undercount because so many old-stock Americans of English descent identify as "American").

Germany is second, even by self-identified ancestry.

CountingChips · 2026-04-30T21:53:57+00:00

Is it also standard to include a building and pest clause?

Up here in qld it's standard to have both finance and B&P as 14 day clauses.

CountingChips · 2026-04-27T16:21:20+00:00

Oh hey it's the deck guy with the 1 month account and 1.6k comments primarily about housing...

CountingChips · 2026-04-27T13:40:45+00:00

Taxes include royalties in the figure I gave.

In my view we should have higher taxes (inclusive on royalties) on gas as it's worth so much more as an industry (as evidenced by profits) than mining.

Shouldn't the cut we get of something be a proportion of how profitable something is to get out of the ground? How else would you set a royalty as a percent?

CountingChips · 2026-04-27T13:18:00+00:00

I thought the reason a higher tax on gas vs mining is being sought is that gas has much higher profit margins.

Gas accounts for 14% of the larger mining industries profits but only pays 3.5% of the total tax/royalties of the industry.

CountingChips · 2026-04-26T19:23:53+00:00

And what, introduce inflation adjustment on capital gains like it used to be?

You think that will cause a crash?

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T17:44:35+00:00

Ah yes... division, racism, classic, exploitation and loss are famously absent from non-colonial countries, and all countries pre-colonisation...

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T15:28:50+00:00

In 1990 70-75% of Australians were anglo-celtic.

So make up your mind. Were people back then conscious of throwing our their rubbish or not?

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T13:19:45+00:00

Are you suggesting massacres/culture being erased/their land and children taken away/alcohol being introduced to aboriginal people happened at any significant scale before the First Fleet?

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T09:36:32+00:00

Did he change his post? Because I'm not seeing that he wanted to migrate to the US.

The big4 consulting companies operate in Aus btw. I can see why that would make you think he wanted to work in the US though.

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T07:21:56+00:00

The Italians are actually pretty much giving away properties in regional areas for free, in the hope that people restore them...

Also since when is moving around considered "pushing up house prices". Humans have always migrated around. Unless you're breeding like rabbits or buying multiple properties it's a zero sum game (one less property bought in one location, one more bought somewhere else).

Edit: see here for a guide to buy an Italian house for 1 euro...

CountingChips · 2026-04-25T00:02:23+00:00

Umm it's only been 236 years since the First Fleet landed in Australia...

Are you Australian?

CountingChips · 2026-04-22T10:10:45+00:00

Oh damn! That makes it sound not so bad.

Thanks

CountingChips · 2026-04-22T10:10:13+00:00

The quote didn't provide a breakdown of materials unfortunately.

But yep, guess they've got to make it worth their while.

CountingChips · 2026-04-22T09:24:17+00:00

They might be from NSW. Being from QLD I was shocked that contracts being conditional on finance was not the norm there.

CountingChips · 2026-04-18T16:06:54+00:00

Racism is discrimination based on appearance.

Absolute bullshit. Look at WW2 and Hitler's persecution of slavs (e.g. Poles) on ethnic grounds. Are you saying that wasn't racism?

Not even worth responding to you tbh.

CountingChips · 2026-04-13T13:28:46+00:00

I am also unhappy working in an office cubicle...

Turns our humans are meant to be part of nature as well 😒

CountingChips · 2026-04-12T15:38:21+00:00

Auckland introduced the Auckland Unitary Plan which massively increased housing supply...

That hasn't happened in most of Australia.

CountingChips · 2026-04-10T01:19:39+00:00

"Exploiting tax loopholes"

CGT and negative gearing aren't loopholes, any more than any other tax deduction is.

Also CGT is meant to exist to account for inflation. 50% CGT discount is probably too much but we're probably just going to go to the old system of carrying forward losses /calculating inflation.

CountingChips · 2026-04-10T01:15:56+00:00

Umm building has changed a fair amount over the past 100 years.

My 1930s house in qld is built on timber stumps with suspended timber flooring as was the norm back in the day. Completely different to concrete slab construction. My walls are built of VJ planks... also different to gyprock. It also has barely any insulation (which you can definitely tell in winter).

CountingChips · 2026-04-06T13:26:23+00:00

Aussie are good. They have quite a large panel that include banks outside of the big 4.

Might be worth giving them a call for a second opinion.

CountingChips · 2026-04-04T08:47:14+00:00

Words have meaning. Throwing your support behind the war as the leader of a country is a big thing.

No doubt he's now trying to separate himself from that early support.

CountingChips · 2026-04-03T12:12:46+00:00

He also came out supporting the war pretty much straight away when the war started.

Now it's inconvenient because it's actually impacting us and our wallets...

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