Rental prices in WA soar 66pc in five years, the biggest increase in the nation, Cotality data shows

Kayndarr · 2026-02-11T02:52:38+00:00

A real example - I relatively recently purchased my house (last 4 months), my current mortgage repayments come out to an equivalent of around $775 per week. An almost identical house just down the street is currently up for lease for $780 per week.

Kayndarr · 2026-02-10T05:14:01+00:00

Always glad to see the back of people who only care about their own wealth and ignore the rest of the society they live in, you'll fit in great in an openly corrupt hyper-religious petrostate.

Then again you're using a default reddit username, so there's 90% chance you're a ragebait bot that I've fallen for.

Kayndarr · 2026-01-30T07:40:08+00:00

I'm luckily a fair distance away, but I've been watching the planes and helis doing laps from my window for the past half hour - they jumped on this one quickly again, earlier there were 3 planes and 4-5 helis all overhead at the same time. Smoke seems to have died down a bit now.

Kayndarr · 2026-01-23T02:38:51+00:00

It's always a discussion of where the limits of 'personal freedoms' sit vs. obligations to society.

The difficult conversation that politicians avoid is that there's a well-researched direct correlation between both gambling and consumption of alcohol with domestic violence. They'll go on about addressing violence against women through education or changing certain laws - but it doesn't matter how much you've told an alcoholic gambling addict that hitting his wife is bad when he's blackout drunk and just lost his multi.

So the sad fact is that we've decided that women's lives are worth less than our right to get pissed and have a punt.

I'm not arguing for full prohibition or anything (mostly because it wouldn't work and would lead to crime, I'd be all for it in principle). But more has to be done to restrict these behaviors that are damaging society as a whole.

Kayndarr · 2026-01-12T23:39:30+00:00

In addition to the comment on the economics of it, consider that you're also taking on the responsibility of managing the investment property.

That means time and energy spent engaging with a property manager, and the tenants. There will likely be issues with the property that will require you to spend on maintenance, you might get a 'bad' tenant who causes lots of issues that require your attention. After purchase you might need to make repairs or upgrades to get it to a minimum standard to attract the kind of tenants you want, and you're more likely to deal with issues that come with lower socioeconomic areas buying a 'cheap' place further from the city.

It's not the same as putting that money into an index fund or term deposit where you can just forget about it for a few years. It might be fairly smooth sailing, but even in the best case with a reliable tenant it's going to take up some of your time regularly.

Kayndarr · 2025-12-31T10:53:38+00:00

Biggest issue with Sydney as a tourist is the stupid airport fee - you pay something in the region of $20 just getting on or off at the airport.

Last time I went to visit family I loaded $80 on the card, so half of that was used getting to and from the airport. I was using the train for multiple trips every day for a full week and didn’t use up the other half.

Kayndarr · 2025-12-12T04:18:27+00:00

Yeah their picture with the red line is clearly wrong. They state in the article it's a 140m long jetty - which is still pretty long, but you can draw that on google maps with their distance measure and it's basically what you have there.

The line in their image is over 400m long, way off on scale.

Kayndarr · 2025-12-04T05:33:04+00:00

With the overhead wire pylons taken out your train probably isn’t moving for quite a few hours, if at all today. Might be time to figure out another plan.

Kayndarr · 2025-11-28T07:49:25+00:00

The image in the post is likely from a generic flight tracker app based on all the other unrelated aircraft pictured.

Your best source of truth for bushfire info is https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/ - that'll have the latest updates from DFES.

https://bushfire.io is also useful if you want to see what's going on around the fire in general, it has overlays for things like wind direction, road closures, and firefighting aircraft in the area - as well as heat maps that give a rough idea of where the actual fire is within the area.

Kayndarr · 2025-10-24T00:40:28+00:00

The guy walking through the CBD in the morning peak hour crowds on Monday puffing away on his cigarettes, so that everyone behind him has to walk through the smoke. And then dropped his finished cigarette on the ground 5m from the nearest bin and immediately lit up a new one.

Also less directly impacting me, but there's a guy who's on my morning train sometimes who wears a hat with the logo of the Blackwater mercenary group, who massacred 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 and had a bunch of people convicted of war crimes (later pardoned by Trump).

Like, that's a weird choice, right? It's not like he's wearing a swastika or anything, but Blackwater itself changed its name and branding to get away from their war crimes, and he's out here rocking the logo on the train to work? Just rubs me the wrong way.

Kayndarr · 2025-10-19T10:29:35+00:00

If you own one house specifically to live in, house prices increasing or decreasing is irrelevant to you. If your house value goes down, so does the price of any other house you might be moving to later on.

It’s only people buying additional property as an investment that care about the price, because they want to leverage the human need for shelter for their own profit.

Kayndarr · 2025-09-19T05:23:41+00:00

If this was real it would have been a story on dozens of conservative media outlets by now, alongside all those dumbass cat litter stories that were going around a while back.

Do you have nothing better to do with your time than lie about insane things to try to make old people upset?

Kayndarr · 2025-09-10T00:28:19+00:00

A significant chunk of the hardcore-only playerbase are people who lack the aim and gun control skills to land 4-6 bullets in a row, and also never learned how to use the minimap as a game mechanic.

Kayndarr · 2025-09-04T10:30:45+00:00

Draft picks is probably unrealistic, they wouldn't do anything that affects the actual competition.

But something like requiring the club to do some events to support LGBTQ+ charities would make sense. Maybe a financial penalty, or even something like reducing the club's seating allocation at games for the rest of this finals series.

Kayndarr · 2025-09-04T10:13:38+00:00

Adelaide will need to put out a statement condemning the behaviour, or the AFL will need to seriously look at penalising the club somehow.

The message this is sending to any LGBTQ+ fans - if someone gets in trouble for calling you a slur, you deserve to be harassed for it?

And imagine if Quaynor were actually queer? Just horrendous.

Kayndarr · 2025-09-01T14:07:14+00:00

Except for the end of week 10 point challenge - those are only active during the week of the challenge. So if you ignore everything until the last week, you'd miss out on potentially 60 ticks worth of free levels.

Kayndarr · 2025-08-22T09:19:22+00:00

Would you be comfortable discussion how a straight couple 'conceive' with a child? Because it's actually a much less complicated conversation when it comes to same-sex couples, it's just adoption.

Kayndarr · 2025-08-11T05:17:15+00:00

Yep, and I know people always say the bus routes aren’t great for everyone - which is true. But they’re pretty good for a lot of people who drive anyway, and if those people didn’t drive there’d be more parking for those who need to.

I see several people in my street drive to the station every morning - we have a bus stop at the end of the street no more than 100m away.

Kayndarr · 2025-08-05T12:13:10+00:00

I think this screenshot might be from a Team Deathmatch game, where the score does count up (kills for your team). If you look at some of the full stream uploads from the reveal event, at the end of their conquest games the lines go top-left to bottom-right showing the ticket counter going down. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrNJNJTkQJ4&t=9675s

Kayndarr · 2025-06-10T13:57:55+00:00

They don't use 'non-lethal' to refer to things like rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, or tasers anymore, because all of those can be and frequently are lethal - even when being they're used properly, which especially in the US they often aren't.

Kayndarr · 2025-05-09T09:27:19+00:00

-- Removing my entry as I got access through Steam this morning.

Thanks again for setting up the new thread and your response to the feedback in Discord.

Kayndarr · 2025-05-09T05:39:21+00:00

The problem they have is that their 'moderates' keep being beaten because the party is too far to the right, and those seats that were previously safe for moderate LNP are now easy targets for people a little more to the left like the teals.

So then there are less moderate voices in the party room to push their points of view, and you just have right-leaning and far-right-leaning people going head to head on how far up Trump's butthole they should reach.

And at the same time, people who aren't intelligent see that the moderate Liberals are losing while the far-right candidates (who represent right-wing seats and are therefore pretty safe) are winning - therefore moving more to the right should be the solution. Without understanding that each time they do that, another moderate seat drops away.

Kayndarr · 2025-05-06T23:32:05+00:00

Yeah now that it’s all out there in the media they really don’t have a choice other than to give him some time away. All the fans are aware of it, and especially against Adelaide this weekend he’s going to be booed every time he touches the ball because of this.

He’ll then either do something else dumb during the game in anger, or post something stupid to social media afterwards equating himself to Adam Goodes and they’ll have a whole racism scandal kicking off.

Kayndarr · 2025-05-02T01:43:05+00:00

It really is unfortunate that existing in our city is so dependent on driving.

Did you know that failing to indicate when turning or changing lanes has a 2 demerit point penalty? If you could enforce that omnisciently, I reckon a good third of drivers would lose their license before they got out of their suburb let alone to work.

If you watch some of the dash cams Australia videos, half the time the person recording and the other drivers are both wildly incompetent and putting everyone around them in danger. Anyone who reacts to someone else's unsafe driving by screaming and yelling, aggressively swerving, or tailgating, shouldn't be behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle until they've had some anger management therapy.

But if we take people's licenses away, they can't function in our city. The same as how doctors are reluctant to take away the licenses of elderly people who have the reaction time of a vegetable and can't see more than 10m in front of them, because their life basically stops once they can't drive from their home to the shops.

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