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30-05-2013, 09:59 AM | #61 | ||
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The same.
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31-05-2013, 06:29 PM | #62 | |||
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I actually make $24.40 an hour. Am raising 2 kids, house, two cars, wife is studying. Things are tight, but we are living. Go back two years when we were living in Japan (10 years, my wife is Japanese) and the cost of living was much lower, almost half of what we pay here for better amenities, and services. Fuel was expensive at about $1.50p/l but I had 5 attendants jumping all over my car to clean windscreen, inflate tires, check oil.. Why did we come back to Australia you ask? It was were I was born, and I wanted my kids to experience it.. The problem with this country is that more is never enough. People want more just because, and governments and companies charge likewise. So in a business sense, why build a car for less, and pay someone less when their standard of living is less, than pay someone more, when they feel they are entitled to more? It just means we pay more in the end when we purchase it! |
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31-05-2013, 06:43 PM | #63 | |||
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As for owning a house. then maybe people that have $500,000 mortgages when they cant afford them need to look at their own lifestyle. Not ask for more money because they want a bigger house? Just sayin... I would like a million dollar house, but have to settle for something a little more modest. I live within my means. And maybe I will get one, one day. However, am I to say that that is not "right" because it is not given to me because "I" feel that I deserve it? I spent 15 year living in the US and Japan, and I say what I say, because I can compare the difference. I have people asking me all the time how I could afford to live in Japan. And I have to laugh, because the so called experts who tell you how expensive it is are the ones that have never been there. Seen something on TV, or had a stop over, stayed in the heart of Tokyo, and experienced the pleasure of paying exorbitant prices by business's that rely on the tourist trade.. The honest truth is that the average Japanese family make a meager income and live according to it.. The smart ones like me don'y buy a house in the middle of a crowded city, but live in the country where they have open fields, mountains, large and spacious housing for a lower price. I used to have a 40 minute commute, but I always had a Television / Navigation system that kept me entertained! Try getting that in a base model vehicle made in Australia? |
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31-05-2013, 06:51 PM | #64 | ||
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So "Niche" they are about 21st on the sales list...
Lets prop up an industry and keep car prices high, because we have about 7 people who will buy one and then spend the next 5 years on message boards complaining about them... |
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31-05-2013, 07:01 PM | #65 | ||||
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also, have a look around the world at all the other car making nations, and you will notice every one of them gets supported by their respective govt's. once manufacturing dies in australia, watch the price of cars rise, not fall. |
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31-05-2013, 07:10 PM | #66 | ||||
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Now don't get me started about the government.......... |
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