Comments on: Australian House Prices: What $500,000 Buys

By: Paul Thewlis

Paul Thewlis — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:58:48 +0000

Interesting snapshot of houses across Australia, I guess we can forget how lucky we are!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:21:29 +0000

Dear Christine, you really need to love this country and let you self be owned by the land otherwise there is no place here for you , why dont you just go to america if we are so terrible and stop giving Australia such a negitive outlook. Any negitivitity affiliated with this country is specifically due to downers like you!!!!! I dont want you and I am sure the majority of Australians dont either! Go some where where you will be happy with other like minded downers!!
All my love Tony

By: Mike M

Mike M — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:53:00 +0000

Yeah & i will read you piece..trying to get my self down there……

By: teal1066

teal1066 — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:53:51 +0000

only one word is coming in mind that is wow..byron bay beach houses are really fantastic..

By: Annie ( Property Websites ) Wagner

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By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:39:10 +0000

Christine,

Be thankful you don’t share a border with Mexico.
The population of America has doubled in the last 40 years. 100% of that growth has been from immigrants and the children thereof. Most illegally from Mexico.

Studies have shown that while our economy has grown, it has not benefited the stock population, at all. The only gains have been to Wall Street and the immigrants themselves.

The stock population has seen a steady decline in wages and the standard of living. Here in Los Angeles, the schools are bankrupt, hospitals are closing, traffic is a nightmare, water is in short supply, etc.

Don’t let this happen to Australia. I’m probably too old now, to ever visit OZ, but I always wanted to.

Aloha, Carlos.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:39:10 +0000

Christine,

Be thankful you don’t share a border with Mexico.
The population of America has doubled in the last 40 years. 100% of that growth has been from immigrants and the children thereof. Most illegally from Mexico.

Studies have shown that while our economy has grown, it has not benefited the stock population, at all. The only gains have been to Wall Street and the immigrants themselves.

The stock population has seen a steady decline in wages and the standard of living. Here in Los Angeles, the schools are bankrupt, hospitals are closing, traffic is a nightmare, water is in short supply, etc.

Don’t let this happen to Australia. I’m probably too old now, to ever visit OZ, but I always wanted to.

Aloha, Carlos.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:27:05 +0000

Still a better deal than So. California.

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:34:15 +0000

Dear Christine,

Don’t be so hard on yourself. Just pay a little attention to what’s going on over here in the US lately, it’s not any better. This hypnotized population is in love with our newest arrival, (Barack Obama) who has threatened our population with more socialization, redistrbution of wealth and Federalization of our banks, businesses than we’ve ever seen before.

Both our countries have broken away from the tyranny of total British rule and now we all face the same fate again.

I love Australia and your people and do respect my many friends who come from places like Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney and beyond.

If I could ‘jump the fence’ like the Mexicans do I would.
Love your country and don’t give in to liberals who would have you kiss their ring.

Hail to Kath and Kim.

Rich

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:37:11 +0000

Lloyd Middleton … You would be unhappy in a tent here in Australia, the bogans and dudes in utes would just throw empty beer cans at you and attempt to destroy your peace and quiet and your peace of mind. We ARE America. Thanks to TV. And Videos. And MTV. And Movies. Our language has changed, we write words like specialized instead of specialised. We say cookies instead of biscuits. We say fries instead of chips.
Our people have changed and for all the bogans who say they don’t want anyone emigrating here, well why don’t you just leave because it’s the white Australians who have made this country undesirable and the immigrants are the people who have brought flavour and colour and culture and manners to this country. A country which white Australians have treated appallingly and not shown any respect to its native people or its environment or its elders and the general population have become rude, fast, uncouth, uncaring and boring in a Stepford kind of way.

So, you’d best stay in America because it ain’t all beer and skittles here mate.

Signed … an increasingly disillusioned Australian who was a teenager in the 70′s and is now a bewildered forty-something in 2008.

We’ll come to you

Yes I realise I am in the wrong forum for this. Getting back on track. We do have a physically beautiful country, fantastic old farmhouses, gorgeous country, quaint and unusual animals but the reality of its people are different to what you see in movies and TV and ads.