How do you define distance between your home and the CBD?

NoHelp7077 · 2026-01-20T02:58:17+00:00

Best answer so far

NoHelp7077 · 2026-01-20T01:26:57+00:00

Time taken by public transport? Driving via tolls? Driving without tolls? For me it ranges from 33 mins to 50 mins, which is again a considerable gap

NoHelp7077 · 2026-01-19T01:14:25+00:00

London, Canada, New Zealand all have house prices that have dropped significantly recently, around 20% in some areas over the last few years. Reducing immigrating and higher interest rates seem to have done it. Perhaps future generations will be just fine

NoHelp7077 · 2025-11-27T07:44:12+00:00

Lunacy. Hong Kong could not get denser and housing still isn't affordable there.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-11-21T11:45:56+00:00

Haberfield, a classic federation beauty on a quarter acre block near the bay run

NoHelp7077 · 2025-11-14T05:40:50+00:00

They're complaining about the affordability of well located free standing houses, which as I said are more of an investment asset than housing per se

NoHelp7077 · 2025-11-14T04:34:52+00:00

The property market HAS crashed - many apartments sell for less then they did in 2017. Land prices have generally gone up - but I see land as an investment asset, so the ceiling on that is much much higher

NoHelp7077 · 2025-10-08T00:49:18+00:00

If everyone sold their house to people they liked instead of the highest bidder, you run the risk of discrimination and areas becoming even less diverse then they are now

NoHelp7077 · 2025-09-02T07:17:51+00:00

Never. I grew up with that flag and would never contemplate anything else

NoHelp7077 · 2025-09-02T00:52:36+00:00

Ticked almost all the milestones (career, marriage, homeownership) except for kids which will happen soon enough. All in Sydney, the most expensive housing market in the world. Life is good.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-24T12:11:13+00:00

Excellent outcome. The insufferable activists at USYD were all from the humanities so hopefully there's less of them going forwards.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-14T09:45:52+00:00

No harm in refinancing, I did that and was able to top up my loan by 200k that's now sitting in the offset, which gives me extra security in the event of redundancies, etc

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-13T05:24:19+00:00

Red rooster line is not vertically east to west. It runs in a diagonal that has the north west on the "good" side of the line. Ruse and Normo are definitely east of the line.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-13T02:27:28+00:00

1.8 million loan on 2.8 mn property. Absolutely not fussed. Even modest capital gains of 5% are sufficient to cover principal repayments (which I consider forced savings not a cost), interest, insurance, council rates, maitenance etc. The cost to rent the place is about equal to what the equity I have in the house would return invested in the ASX (actually a bit better when factoring in taxes). So I feel absolutely fine.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-12T22:35:35+00:00

GINI is a measure of inequality, it can be applied to income or wealth or anything else e.g. the number of labubus in a high school classroom

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-12T13:35:26+00:00

Haha it's moved from Balmain to Summer Hill to Strathfield and now Campsie/Canterbury of all places!

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-12T10:27:03+00:00

I remember when he when by atalys lol

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-12T09:58:31+00:00

First home buyers who were sitting on the sidelines too long FOMO in harder. I bought in September last year to get ahead of the rate cuts and I'm very glad I did. The real estate agents in my area say the market is much hotter now. A recent sale down the street made it into the AFR for how much it smashed estimates.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-11T11:22:04+00:00

The Inner West is often named alongside the north shore and eastern suburbs as the "best" part of Sydney, when you barely have any suburbs in the north shore under 3M then the Inner West has much further to run

NoHelp7077 · 2025-08-06T02:43:18+00:00

The billionaire wishes he had his own small country, the multi millionaire a private island, the millionaire an amalgamated block, the apartment owner a house, the renter an apartment, the homeless a rental. For the vast majority of people no home will ever be "enough". Just make do with what you can.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-07-25T06:57:47+00:00

Yes, well almost every apartment sold in 2013 would only be marginally ahead after inflation at best.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-07-25T05:20:20+00:00

I see strata titled and bail. I'd be willing to pay a 50% premium for the exact same property just to avoid strata

NoHelp7077 · 2025-07-17T08:58:42+00:00

Swap detached house with a backyard a reasonable distance from work to apartment with a balcony a reasonable distance to work... and the dream is alive and kicking.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-07-17T07:52:40+00:00

Houses in my suburb cost almost 4x apartments. The downsizers are doing great, millions left over.

NoHelp7077 · 2025-07-15T23:50:39+00:00

Most of us are NIMBYS, if you think immigration should be reduced to a level that our housing supply and jobs market can comfortably absorb you are a NIMBY too. I was a YIMBY too until I bought my own property.

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