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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    As a commercial capital and also a harbour city, Auckland is very very cheap. Realy, it is!

    Your $1m Central Auckland apartment would cost $3-5m in most commercial capitals. The North Shore is also waaaay to cheap.
    No it isn't. It has exceeded the capacity of the local populace to pay for it. The measure of affordability in housing is not how cheap it is for Johnny Foreigner to buy up investments.
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    Beer should only ever come in real pints and cheese should be ordered by the half pound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    As a commercial capital and also a harbour city, Auckland is very very cheap. Realy, it is!

    Your $1m Central Auckland apartment would cost $3-5m in most commercial capitals. The North Shore is also waaaay to cheap.
    The employment opportunities and wages aren't really comparable. It's a nice enough place but just a big town - not really a comparable to other commercial capitals.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    No it isn't. It has exceeded the capacity of the local populace to pay for it. The measure of affordability in housing is not how cheap it is for Johnny Foreigner to buy up investments.
    And yet 97% of house buyers are local populace.

    The whole xenophobic "Asians are paying too much for our houses" thing is just a tad embarrassing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonbuoy View Post
    The employment opportunities and wages aren't really comparable. It's a nice enough place but just a big town - not really a comparable to other commercial capitals.
    It used to be a nice town until someone had the great idea of cross leasing and packing more into the isthmus and did bugger all about

    transport, and threw the doors open to all and sundry.

    Wages here are pretty low, especially so if your a she'll be right type, who does not like to get off ones arse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Pretty much, yes. At one point income tax default ran at about 90% and the highest number of Porsche Cayenne's per head of population in the world was Athens. Nation of lying tax dodgers with poor taste in cars. You can't tell me they don't deserve punishment.
    Yeah, I remember reading about the scams etc... Yup, bad taste in cars, but no, I don't agree with punish all of them as a solution... coz it fucks the country up even further and puts further generations in the position of paying for debt that they didn't produce. I'm funny that way. Sounds like a right lazy bastard approach to doing anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    Yeah, I remember reading about the scams etc... Yup, bad taste in cars, but no, I don't agree with punish all of them as a solution... coz it fucks the country up even further and puts further generations in the position of paying for debt that they didn't produce. I'm funny that way. Sounds like a right lazy bastard approach to doing anything.
    The right lazy bastards in this case are Greek.

    It was Greeks that failed to pay the taxes their public spending required.

    It was Greeks that lied about that in order to enter the EU

    Greeks that lied about it in order to borrow money to fix the above.

    Who the fuck should repay those farcically imprudent loans?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    The right lazy bastards in this case are Greek.

    It was Greeks that failed to pay the taxes their public spending required.

    It was Greeks that lied about that in order to enter the EU

    Greeks that lied about it in order to borrow money to fix the above.

    Who the fuck should repay those farcically imprudent loans?
    Ignorant fool.

    How does a system get to that state? Sounds like it was every man for himself in a free market .

    It was some Greeks almost 20 years ago that lied.

    It's how Europe works. Richer countries subsidise poorer countries so that they can stay rich. How else do you get ROI when investing in a country that likely isn't going to be able to afford your ROI? It's actually how the entire world works, but you seem comfortable with Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    No it isn't. It has exceeded the capacity of the local populace to pay for it. The measure of affordability in housing is not how cheap it is for Johnny Foreigner to buy up investments.
    It's how the rest of the world works. Old money + Johnny Foreigner + Johnny Highearner are the only ones able to afford the good stuff.

    Joe Public doesn't get a look in and never will again. Get used to it, because it is the way of the world

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    And yet 97% of house buyers are local populace.

    The whole xenophobic "Asians are paying too much for our houses" thing is just a tad embarrassing.
    That's not what I'm saying and you know it
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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowDog View Post
    Get used to it, because it is the way of the world
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    vote akzle, sharpen your pitchforks and stock up on beer and bullets and we can all go a-jew-huntin...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    It used to be a nice town until someone had the great idea of cross leasing and packing more into the isthmus and did bugger all about transport, and threw the doors open to all and sundry.
    Sadly the "Remove the boundaries of Auckland!" call is still forgetting about the traffic infrastructure required.
    Keep the boundaries to the city and require higher buildings in the center.


    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    The whole xenophobic "Asians are paying too much for our houses" thing is just a tad embarrassing.
    Having been to a few house auctions around Auckland, there is a lot of truth to the statement.
    Whether or not they hold NZ Citizenship is another matter entirely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    And yet 97% of house buyers are local populace.

    The whole xenophobic "Asians are paying too much for our houses" thing is just a tad embarrassing.
    Must be a Wellington thing as all the pollies say the same thing.

    DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post

    Having been to a few house auctions around Auckland, there is a lot of truth to the statement.
    Whether or not they hold NZ Citizenship is another matter entirely.
    And generally irrelevant as my observation in the ChCh market is that they're paying with family money from offshore...
    We have a high asian student population here - a very high number of whom have bought houses.
    Whether or not they stay here post graduation, the property is a family investment.

    I'd have thought Mr Ocean would have preferred to have seen the investment in property discouraged in favour of financing local businesses...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    Ignorant fool.

    How does a system get to that state? Sounds like it was every man for himself in a free market .

    It was some Greeks almost 20 years ago that lied.

    It's how Europe works. Richer countries subsidise poorer countries so that they can stay rich. How else do you get ROI when investing in a country that likely isn't going to be able to afford your ROI? It's actually how the entire world works, but you seem comfortable with Europe.

    bwaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa. Go watch the clip that YellowDog posted.

    Meh. Clickbait for losers.

    Simple. People borrow money and don't pay it back.

    It is how the whole world works: Live within your means. The only people bitching about that are those who don't bother.

    Fuckem.
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