I'm an Australian born and bred 1963 , I left Australia 2023., cost of living, lack of required infrastructure, social downhill spiral, and a clown government.
Born in Hungary 1963. Been here since 1986. I always thought that this country was the best in the world. The last decade or so, my mind started to create some question marks. "The covid dictature, politicians acting from ego, parties spend more time to criticise their opponents than doing their actual jobs, "clown government" the impending cashless system etc...". "Social downhill spiral" is happening everywhere in the West since from the 70's, but being exponential we are very close to the final chapter. Now my big question is : Where the hell did you move to that is better than this?
Yes, cost of living is higher than before. so are most other major cities. Apartment/unit prices in Sydney and further out prices are are still affordable. Alex is wrong. .
@robertolang9684 If you have big money doesn't matter where you are. In Central America you can live in paradise from 2grand a months. In Australia from that money you have to decide if you want to pay rent or if you want to eat something.
I am French and am an Australian too, i would never go back to France, we have terrible policies in Oz but France has been a socialist nightmare even longer. This woman went from Sydney to a rural part of France. Try cheap rent in Paris LOL! Plus the migrant crisis in France is even worse there. Crime is sky higher. Knife attacks are so common they just don’t get reported unless someone is beheaded! I also lived in the UK and now in small towns like Newmarket near my city of Cambridge where i lived years ago now had roaming gangs of “youths” in the streets! I don’t know where in the world you can go anymore, the whole globalist one world order stuff has tentacles in all our institutions and government s!
Sorry. You are not French “and Australian too”. You might be a citizen of both countries but that doesn’t make you Australian. If it came down into it you’d pick the country of your birth over the any other country. The first time you leave home is the hardest. Every other time you leave after that is easier. That’s the plain truth for almost every single migrant.
Greed Greedy real estate agents Greedy homeowners Greedy politicians Greedy land owners Greedy businesses All who blame high standard of living to justify their greed It's really that simple!!
So the big corporations think we are leaving but if you know anything about Australians we will stand strong against foreign influence. Just leave us Aussies alone.🇦🇺
What amazes me is why do melburnians continue to work labor? you have high crimes and if I were a Victorian I would be envious of Sydney who has upgrades in their roads and infrastructures including a new airport all thanks to Liberal state government
Ridiculously high immigration, hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by the Albanese government has done this to the country. WEF policies are also to blame, designed to dismantle middle class Australians.
Spare us the bleeding heart Sky News liberal sob stories. You're preferred pollies spent 10 years doing nothing , zero infrastructure investment , & pandering to their fossil fuel donors & gods. The current shadow treasurer can't do arithmetic , & now , with a mere 27 million population , we'll suddenly be able to Nuclear Power Oz within 15 years. Get real brother.
What are you talking about, it has nothing to do with Albanese alone, the crisis started at least 10-15 years ago or even earlier, it’s all bad-bad management for the past 30 years at least. A country with our resources should lead the world but we do the best to mismanage everything, starting first with dismantling our railways system that were transporting people to and from work in big cities and agricultural goods to the cities and ports, fast and cheap . Why did we do that? Because the Americans did it. Why did they do it? To sell their cars because they produced too many…🙄 Once we did that idiocy, most of our small townships that were flourishing, died becoming ghost towns , people living in them couldn’t commute weekly to work fast and cheap, so they moved to the big cities making employment scarce, raising the price of petrol and the real estate prices, while the small localities once flourishing and growing went bankrupt, everyone in them is unemployed, doctors don’t want to go there, they have no economy, they live at the same standard of living like so many African communities, it’s not even funny anymore. Do you know that Nigeria when it comes to the Internet it’s the 6th in the world for speed and affordability and we are number 65 in the world for speed and affordability of internet? How is that helping in today’s world?! It’s a bad joke. We are the best at mimicking the Americans in everything and look how great their situation is - we’ll go down with them although we didn’t need to… It was our stupid mismanagement and mimicking them to the last detail, pronouns and big arses included.
speaking as somebody who was born and grew up in australia, it doesnt matter how hard i work from now until i fall into the grave, i will never be able to own my own place here and will only ever end up paying off some rich investors property's while i remain in poverty. if i had the money to leave i would
I'm blown away with the amount of people coming to Australia. Life is ordinary unless you're hyper rich! And the cause? Housing of course. A normal job DOES NOT allow someone to house themselves!
@@williamcrossan9333 Compared to the the horrid weather, petty crime & violence and general unhappiness in the UK, the level of dystopian level control in China combined with the nationalistic stupidity and their declining economy and the horrible levels of third worldliness in India..,,,Australia really is the lucky county as no one is at risk of a knock on their door at 3am if they say something against the Dear Leader for Life or happens to not be born in the right caste or is at risk of a petty crime and a lack of sunshine. But if you grew up in the 60's and 70's and lived in Australia in the 80's, left (as I did) and come back occasionally, it's easy to see how Australia has lost some of "lucky". You can see it in the road rage, in the preoccupation with meaningless material things, the obsession with real estate profits/gains......people in Australia have lost the plot and live stressed out lives and miss out on what is really important. Norway discovered oil and instead of the politicians selling out to corporations (for donations to ensure perpetual election victories and a seat on the board when the they retire) they decided to set up a fund for all Norwegian citizens...while Australia allows international corporations to control and profit from Australian resources and all Australia gets is the income tax from the dozer drivers who work for these mining companies and these international mining companies pay ridiculously low tax rates. If Australia was smart they would process the raw materials in Australia (just like China, Korea, Japan and other places do). If labor is short then hire skilled workers for a 2 or 3 year contract. ...but no, let's just import another half a million to prop up the economy and kick the real problems and the hard solutions down the road.
Australia is not what it used to be. So much greed and less opportunities to grow. Australia has also lost its identity and is hard to know where you belong.
That's how Empires died out. Bureaucracy upon bureaucracy upon bureaucracy. Every year thousands of new rules made by brain dead bureaucrats who try to justify their importance in the office.
Some of them are silly and don't resolve anything In the club my 14 y/old granddaughter can't help me to carry lemon lime & bitter to our table, because children are not allowed to the bar In Europe kids play on the playgrounds with little pubs surrounding the playground. Kids can help to carry their drinks. So much more pleasant and natural for families.
The problem in Australia is government corruption and mismanagement through ignorance (and corruption). An other problem is that a lot of people still think they are part of the (defunct) British empire. We should stay away from problems that don't concern us but look after ourselves. We should strive to regain the international respect we used to have. Copulating with gangsters hasn't helped our situation.
Having been born and raised in Australia, I never felt at home here. I am moving to Europe (non-EU country) to be with my wife asap. Australia is the new 3rd world Fascist country....just look around. Look at Canada and Australia isn't too far behind
@RickBlaine Exactly. It’s about tyranny, not attraction. I’d just like to be somewhere relatively safe and free enough to do things like work without having to sign up for all sorts of OTT “regulatory” garbage. And BTW I’m not a man 🤔
Labor party immigrated 1 million people to enter Australia in the 12 months. Unless these immigrants were all millionaires, I don't know how they can afford to stay in Australia if Australians can't. Labor always wants to import people, whether by boat or by plane. What they need to do is promote Australians having children. You can grow the country instead of importing, If you grow the people, the infrastructure can grow with them. If you import people, you need all the housing, food, goods and services NOW. Labor can't manage anything, just destroy. And they've only been in charge for 3 years.
If u remember, it was the business lobby that caused the influx of immigrants. They were complaining about worker shortages. People seem to forget that. What it demonstrates is the power of the business lobby and governments will do anything to ameliorate them.
Yes, Liberal makes money and labor uses it all up and lets all the boat people in. Yet the australians voted in Labor after all the Liberals did for australia. Look at victoria under labor state government it has violent sudanese gangs. and way behind sydney in terms of infrastructure. Sydneys advancement is thanks to liberal state government who went on a much needed infrastructure spritz giving us new schools, hospitals and tunnels to shorten driving distances.Australia is great place to live provided that you are wealthy to begin with. If you want to start a businesses go to a developing country. Australia you have to be number one or two, you can't be a mediocre business and hope to survive. Its not a place for people wanting to build businesses.
Its the great western liberl demcracy Ponzi Scheme. They say they tax you for all the services you get and your state pensions, but in fact they spend all that money just too get elected. They tax the new comers to fund your future, so not only do they steal from the previous generation of working class, they also steal from the new arrivals. The public are so slow to catch on. Western democracy is well and truly broken, and wont get fixed until people wake up and stop allowing politcial parties too pull the wool over their eyes. In a democracy the people get the governments they deserve. Thats the only shitty thing about democrcy, placing power in the hands of the ignorant. The voters. Go get yourself an education on politics and economics, and there is a very good chance you'll become an anarchist, against all present day government in the west.
@@oscarduck123 yes a mess. Healthcare going backwards, politicians corrupt, multinationals exploiting the country yet don't pay tax, fascism, drug addiction and mental health problems everywhere, a culture of extreme corporate greed unleashing a cost of living crisis and homelessness and I can go on and on. I've probably travelled more than you.
It costs a fortune to live. Rents are too high. Wages are not keeping up with inflation. Truly sad. Houses are out of reach to own. I gave up and am now living in thailand.
I moved to the Philippines for the same reason. One MONTH rent for a 2 brm apartment is the same as one WEEK rent for a room in a sharehouse in Brisbane, Australia.
@@MUSIC4TRUTH.... It was terrible. Got treated like a prisoner when I came back during lockdowns and had to pay for it as a result. How does $3000 justify staying in quarantine at a hotel when you had nothing to do with the virus? I'll never forgive Aus for that.
I was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia and saw my State ruined and destroyed by Labour and Greens government. I am 42 years old ND seen Melbourne be destroyed, especially by in the last 11 years by Daniel Andrews and his socialist government.
I am an Australian and lived in Australia for the first 45 years, then started to live in Thailand. I was on a good income, from working offshore, and had no close family etc, so started to live in Thailand, mainly due to cost of living and ease of lifestyle in Thailand. Australia is a GREAT country for weather and locations to live, but it’s getting to be a disaster with costs of living there and the politicians are totally incompetent corrupt fools. The demographics have changed dramatically in the last 25 years, with people that have used human trafficking and coming from economic and social hell holes of countries and they are bringing their bad personal qualities to Australia and the extreme violent crime and drug use is rampant. During the covid period, Australia was a disaster to be locked into. The politicians made up some terrible laws, and the Nazi police used their FULL FORCE to extreme levels to control the people, it was known as “Aus Jail Ya”…… Fuq that…..
Okay if it doesn't work for you you are free to leave..... Go find somewhere else that suits your capacity but Don't bad mouth Australia . For the majority it just fine.😂
I know exactly why. In 1975, the CIA and MI6 delivered a coup d'etat in Australia and endedthe freedom and prosperity that reigned from 1948 to 1976. We all had full time jobs, annual paid holidays, and paid sick leave. Everybody could afford to own a home and car. The US destroyed all this and now half of Australians live in poverty. That is why I am leaving this country.
Too conspiratorial and therefore unlikely. I am sick of conspiracy theories that make you drink their Kool Aid. It's sheer greediness and lack of compassion for the population by politicians and bankers (read wankers) in our own time. Nothing to do with national governments 50 years ago. Ordinary houses need not cost millions in Sydney or elsewhere. There is a slowdown of housing construction too, which seems counter-productive. So the government, in both political sides is to blame for being in the pockets of wankers.
@@MrBucksutube Pauline Hanson is opposed to democracy, supports Israel, and never responds to One Nation Party members, even when they have information ON needs. She is currently highly financed and resourced, which is good in the short term but means she is fatally compromised long term. Just another hierarchist. Worse, if she formed a single party with Bob Katter and Clive Palmer, we would defeat the duopoly in Queensland, which would break the back of corruption in Austraia. She refuses to do it. Being a big frog in a little puddle is way more important to her than the survival of Australians. Sad, but there it is. That is why far-sighted Aussies are leaving in their thousands.. This country will be left with the likes of Ken Wilson (below)... troglodytes.
We need people to leave. The toxic Australian culture of treating shelter as speculative investment rather than a human right will ensure this country will never be a "livable" country. And no, the government should not be releasing land indiscrimately to build more houses; we need land to produce food and other resources, not for greedy Australians to speculate on. And foreigners make up a very small proportion of property investors so don't try to blame them. Sadly, the only time rent reverted to fair value was over the lockdown years when people who have no business here left and we were not overpopulated. Property is for people to invest in who don't actually have the brains to invest in alternative endeavours that actually produces something of value for society and the world.
I remember having a strong aversion to mum and dad investors since a teenager. I never knew how it all worked or why I didn't like them, but I sensed an injustice somehow. I think what I sensed was, a person who is below mid by all measures has somehow built up this wealth without doing anything to actually earn it, and on top of that, they are really smug about it, it just seemed unnatural to me.
Actually most of the investors of Australian properties are in China , Australians are the next and immigration is pushing housing prices up. Why ? Not enough housing or proper infrastructure in place to accommodate them, then there is the tax bracket creep. Every election the politicians promise to fix it, but once in office forget about it, thus it’s the middle class that get hammered with paying higher taxes than they should be , all this and other factors create a perfect storm of people unable to afford to live
Yeah! Fail to see the point of selling fertile farmland to build houses for profit alone! So eventually with unchecked immigration we might have somewhere to live but no food to eat. I never understood that. Building blocks of high-rise pigeon houses and then selling them to foreigners is no solution either. Just like in Thailand , no land for sale to foreigners. Full stop! I notices that our PM has invested in Real-estate and also brought in 1.5 mil migrants. How much profit?
People need to adapt by forming small, close-knit communities with communal living arrangements, where people grow their own food and rely on each other for sustenance, instead of having to rely on overpriced groceries from coles and woolies. People need to get comfortable with the idea of shared accommodation instead of spending their entire lives slaving away to pay off a house that costs over half a million dollars.
The middle class was wiped out when Keating was in power.lnterest rates went up to 22% which sent a lot of people bankrupt.The beautiful Australia which l grew up in is no more.Fabulous memories of those times in the 50s and 60s.70s.Too hard now for upcoming generations. So Sad.
TAX IS NUMBER ONE KILLER. Then fines, from parking and cameras, food, rent, electricity, gas water, insurance etc, fck its driving me crazy with this bills
Culture is a big issue in Australia. It does not have much to offer in that department and Australians are not the most culturally savvy people. The government has a big presence in every aspect of your life and the country is suffering from over regulation.
The government does not have a "big presence" in your life in Australia and i suspect youve never been to Australia. Actual Australians are constant complaining that the government is not doing more stuff for them. The reality for anyone that knows is the opposite Australia needs more government intervention and would benefit from less unacculturalated short term immigrants looking to bludge.
@@redsword1659 Oh, you bet that I’m living here close to 15 years now. What I said is my honest observation. Australia is over regulated and almost all Australians believe in that. You have forgotten Covid days and the Gestapo style policing!? Do you have much knowledge about the health system and the extent to which TGA is involved in regulating health-related products in this country? You want to close your eyes to vaping made illegal but smoking is widely permitted? There are tons more to mention here but overall some stuff in Australia makes no sense whatsoever.
The population is fragmented and lonely poor country. People whim are in benefits live most comfortable. I'm left few times and am trying to leave for good. Australia is not a place to build life. It is not a modern society
Not surprising as governments of both persuasion have allowed very wealthy foreigners to buy huge quantities of property and out bid Australians. These foreigners are from countries where Australians are not allowed to buy property so one has to wonder the treachery of Austarlian politicians.
As an Aboriginal Australian I look at things so diffently.I will never leave my land .I still work fulltime at 62 and although times are hard I don't live outside my means.I have connection to my land.Guess thats the difference between those who have connection to the land and those who don't.
True enough, many here are aspirational, entitled classes who think very small, they have been programmed to compete this colonial capitalist, materialist idea of success they must have, they do not value simple beauty of nature, existence and connection in this ancient land will never be enough.
@@leeannehudson7314 that’s an interesting perspective..i wonder if the reason people leave is because of feeling less connection with the land they’re living in..
@cicerodiello1 I'm not aboriginal either, but this is the point. Most people lack connection to land. How many times do we see trees bulldozed away, houses being sprayed with poison to kill spiders and insects, non native lawn planted, and animals being relocated to smaller cooridoor habitats. Australia is truly unique, but unfortunately, the majority of people just don't value Australia for what it really is, but rather on a cosmetic and capitalistic relationship.
Im from Australia 🇦🇺 I do FIFO (fly in fly out) 3 weeks on 1 week off. I live in Thailand. I have a 100% better life in Thailand I don't know how people survive in Australia.
Fleeing Australia is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The whole world is about to loose its marbles thanks to the ruling elite so where may one escape to. There is One though that will not reject anyone who comes to Him. ❤
@@wayneboss9943 Yeahhh good one. Feel good do it yourself, women included, walk around bunnings in short shorts getting looks from the men and women. Enough entertainment and attention for the day.
Sydney is the second most litigations country in the world and we have surveillance camera every few traffic light must me number 4 in the world most surveillance nanny state
The only investment now in Australia is real estate and therefore there is no interest in investing in anything else and therefore interest in keeping housing and land prices low. That really is for most part the country’s wealth. Once the market crashes there isn’t much else. Maybe the drug and black market will do well. Real estate is mostly the only capital in Australia and politicians won’t change it because they all have their money invested in real estate.
Exactly. Our politicians are criminals who are making huge profits from flooding our country with migrants. As well as ensuring said migrants VOTE FOR THEM.
Yep, for the past 35 years there has been one game in Australia and it's called Monopoly...you either played it and profited from real estate gains or didn't and became a poor, perpetual renter.
@andrewmacdonald4833: I agree with you 100%. I came to Austrlia back in 1989 from Hungary, and it was a very diferent country than it is now! 35 years has since been passed, and I still love this country so much! But it is not "my" Australia anymore, it has really changed! Maybe Im getting old, Im 54 now! What I see is that the whole world getting worse, sadly!
@@friedrichkass1644 people don't know that australia does not have pensions just government hand outs alms , you work most of your life in Australia leave no pension , the worst country in western world is like dog shit and cow shit which one is more acceptable ?
it's become a bit oppressive, as in the amount of government in everything you want to do!, licence to do this, licence to do that, fine for this, fine for that.. it's in your face now.
Agreed. It is suffocating. You cannot go anywhere outdoors without there being a sign or a fence/chains keeping you out. Rules for this, laws for that is pathetic. There was more freedoms in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
@sophiepooks2174 well I'll give you a perfect example. 50 years ago you could buy fireworks down the local milk bar or Coles. Need a licence now. To run your own ethernet cable you technically need a licence, although this one isn't enforced to be fair. You can't do a beer snake at the cricket anymore without being kicked out. There used to be more leniency with speeding. Like you had to be over by say 15 km/h to be caught. Now cameras here will book you for literally 2 or 3km/h over in Victoria. So many of our freedoms have been curtailed because of a few idiots unfortunately and I'm getting fed up with it.
I would leave Australia if I had some money to. I bet the number of Australians stuck and trapped barely surviving and no savings, who wish they could leave for a better life is at least a million.
@@pommiebears I think I would investigate living in Thailand or Vietnam. But in Australia I can’t even see the hope in even saving enough money to contemplate it.
@@KANGABOYofficial I keep hearing about some beautiful, cheap and very safe Central American countries. The problem is that you have to have money because you will never be able to compete with the cheap local labour force in the job market. But then again it is the same thing in Asia. And don't even think about Western Europe!!! Generally speaking the whole West is like Titanic a few miles away from that iceberg except that this time they know about it and instead of avoiding it, corrupt politicians heading straight towards it with full throttle.
We left Australia 3 years ago, thank God. Im on the aged pension and I’m a renter, Australia? Not a fat chance in hell. Now we live in Thailand with a rent payment that is 28% of my pension payment. I can live and live well but not go on crazy spending. Ironically Thailand reminds me of Australia 60 years ago. So we are very happy to be here and give gratitude daily for our situation
@@thaibulldog6800 hi I am told that you can't get age pension if you live outside Australia?? But you r getting it that's really good . I am also interested to move out ..
OHHH Bulldog! Retired Melbournite. I'd be right back there with you riding in a "tuk tuk" if I could somehow skim around and sort out the separate ambitions of the loved ones!!
I left Melbourne 3 years ago for Poland and haven’t looked back. Victoria is a mess thanks to dandrews. And as we saw during COVID Australia is not working as one country. Unaffordable ridiculous inflation and high crime, the perfect storm for me to not look back
I’m from NZ and have lived here in Ozzie for 13 years. The wages here are enormous and all the cost of living is minimal compared to NZ. All my friends in NZ earn a fraction of what you get here in OZ and their cost of living is similar or even more. I had an appendicitis early this year and also was very sick the previous year. I waited very little time when I got to the hospital. This video is crap. Ozzie’s just don’t realise how incredible they have it.
Leaving Australia?...yeah to another state. Australia is still the lucky country. If you're lazy you won't make it here. Yes mate you're right, this video is crap.
I’m an ex kiwi of 45years. NZ was expensive then. Small population w limited resources to pay for infrastructure doesn’t help. Yes from a kiwi perspective but not from a global perspective. Way cheaper living in other parts of the world
Mate I love this video, im in my late 20s and your points are all the things I have been saying for years and everybody around me says I overthink or that i'm worried for nothing. Now here it is.
@@JV8391 hi mate yeah originally from Croatia, been here 55 years Australia is home am retired now here. I've got mates who left and went back. Apparently there's alot of empty houses you can move in rent free some with furniture, they have migrant problems too and it's hard when there isn't much work, can't buy food unless you grow your own, no Centrelink or gov handouts like here, empty houses due to the war in the 90s and young people fleeing to Germany UK Ireland for opportunities. Lookup Kamba on UA-cam he did a comparison on living in Croatia food prices in euros, it's around the same imo. You could live easy if you have some sort of stream like self managed super or a income stream, the rents are nothing at all like here. This is what I'm hearing
Mate, i agree with ya. Im born and raised here too. Since covid happened it change my perspective here. Oz isnt the same infact its a shithole now. Everyone is just afraid to make a move and accept the fact that Oz isnt a place worth living. Governments are liberal sell-outs, greedy and unfair, Cost of living, Wreckless immigration, Housing crisis, Brainwashing people through media especially social media etc the list goes on. Theres better places to live we only got one shot at life. Pretty much this video confirms these points
Yeah unfortunately those around us are not always supportive, and in fact can be the opposite whether they mean to or not. Follow your own beliefs/intuition, if you wait for others to agree you will never end up doing what you really want to do. I don't understand how people can not worry about what is going on?
Its not just the cost of living and the price of housing. I've worked and had my projects stolen and the boss takes the glory (and bonuses). There is widespread corruption in many industries. For example, in Analytical testing, they have either not done testing and reported "nothing detected" (technically correct) or used expired standards and in some cases no internal standards. I've seen lots of "guest workers" ruthlessly exploited with many promises only to have them lie and not honour anything. The government knows and does nothing.
It never used to be like this - We have to take some blame - how many people know who they are voting for?. They don’t know there name,who they are or what they stand for, no wonder we have a bunch of looses, that couldn’t get a job if their life depended on it.rr
you must be living in a cave if you say little India, come and see the train station in tarneit, Melbourne at 8:20 am on weekdays. it's literally Mumbai extension
I visited Kuala Lumpur and impressed by how modern this city is. It has a modern infrastructure and efficient public transportation. It’s a food and shopping heaven. Much cheaper to travel to the rest of the world. Seriously considering retiring there where my savings would last for longer. Here in Australia, if you’re not already in the housing market, you’re trapped in a vicious cycle of working and only just getting by.
Hi, I am a Malaysian in Ausie and been here for the past 6 years. My visa is expiring, and I have to leave next month as I don't want to keep renewing my visa. I felt so sad and not ready to leave. I saw your comment, now I don't feel so bad after all. Thank you.
@@JohannesNielsen Sure it's far left if your a Neo-Nazi, all our major parties are to the right of centre and have more or less the same Neo-liberal economic policies.
Melbourne had the hardest most dictatorial lockdowns ever. My wife was coerced to inject experimental drugs without providing any long term safety data. She was sacked.
i'm trying to leave for the last 10 years , every time i take the plane australian nazi police arrest me , i'm waiting now to be rescued by Russia like ozzie cossack
Why do inexperienced people always talk about "passive income from property"? These days, with so many rules, regulations and difficult tenants and useless letting agents, being a landlord is hardly a "passive" role. Its a royal pain in the ass!!!! When aspiring capitalists start to realise this, then who knows, maybe the cost of getting your own home, and in turn the cost of living will begin to decline.
@@rufanuf1 like any book, follow Bruce lee... take what you need and discard the rest. I didn't take that from the book, I took the lesson to buy small, sell, buy bigger.... take advantage of capitals gains....
With the new land tax in Victoria, CGT, the Vic govt war on Gas which would lead to tearing out my 6 burner gas top twin electric oven, the Gas central heating and there is some talk about windows? Mandatory wired in smoke alarms, full electrical system check, gas system check on top of general maintenance plus those who purchased properties as investments as opposed to me renting out the house while quite literally being on the other side of the nation. The literal fleeing of landlords is putting more rental stress on to those renting while house prices are crashing my estimate 230k gone so far on my property. What about my tenant? Say sorry mate not sure what you are going to do with your contents but here is a tent from Annaconda hope you can find a nice place to pitch it. Yeah fuck Victoria i'm off overseas with no intention of coming back.
Exactly right. I lost thousands as a landlord when the WA govt stopped evictions. Tenants then stopped paying rent even if they had jobs and Centrelink support. At the end of the eviction ban they all did 'a runner' owing me thousands it was impossible to collect. Who knows where they went?
Im suprized that Australia is facing similar issue we are facing here in Canada. We Canadian have misinformation that Australia is better than Canada. But its myth.
@@sumotony One thing you should consider though.... I was recently hospitalised in the last couple of years and the rate of Asian doctors I've seen was like 75%. Aussies don't like to study or work as hard. The Australian medical system would be disastrous without them. Even so is abysmal.
@@taltosalmos7067Australia could try and train their own as once they did many years ago to high standards, instead of opening the flood gates to those poorly trained in other countries. This deliberate cost cutting exercise of governments of all persuasions has dumbed down medicine, hospital standards of patient care and introduced Medicine by Politics. Life now appears cheap to those exposed to the new reality.
@@robertmartin8436 there are some idiotic comments on this feed but you top the list. We have ome of the best health care systems in the world and highest survival rates but don't you let facts get in the way
There is too many people in Australia we are overpopulated. The country has become unaffordable, chaotic and unfriendly at least in parts. Im not against any group of people being here but yhe yime has come where those of us that are here suffer as the population grows. It is time for a guest worker scheme, not a path to citizenship. Pay them the same with the same benefits and once your contract is done they return to their home country. The continual destruction of yhe environment for more housing and industry. How often do you see a proposed project halt as there are koalas for example. A bit later those koalas are scrambling for their life and they crap on about climate change. After the covid scam im surprised anyone wants to come here. Please rethink if you want to move here its not what it was.
we arent overpopulated at all we are hyper focused on certain areas that gives off the impression of overpopulation most houses are empty and being artificially held back off the market to bring up prices australia simply shouldnt be struggling with any of the big problems we are having right now its actually ridiculous.
@@kp-legacy-5477 this ⬆️⬆️⬆️. Not even close to being overpopulated. We have a similar land surface area to USA. Aus population is approx 25 million. USA is approx 350 million. We are hoper focused on business in coastal areas, which has now caused Sydney to have the 2nd most expensive real estate In the world behind Hong Kong. The rest of the country is following suit. We have terrible policy makers, no creative thought and no productivity or pro activity behind entrepreneurial activities. Australia has gone to shit, I hope it can recover.
I’m sorry but people who live on Australian salaries in France don’t get to complain about their lives in Australia and rave on about how cheap life in France is. French salaries are very low! Often times many times lower. If you’re a doctor or an engineer 40k euros a year is often typical. In Australia you could be on 150-250k. These people are taking advantage of another country and ruining it for the locals by pushing up demand, bragging about it in the process.
@@frankwhite3154 Yeah, that is right. In Sydney or Canberra this would be what you'd make as a professional. Could be an engineer, doctor, or lawyer, marketing director, or government senior manager (not even exec). In other places in Australia the wages are significantly lower, along with lower cost of living.
@@frankwhite3154 depends on the type of engineer and where they live/work. An electrical engineer is making minimum 150k. But I can tell you that a friend of mine in France is an engineer working for a massive international company and told me he was earning 35,000 € a year. He lives in a 40m2 studio in an old building. These Australians that just constantly complain about not being able to afford a 5 bedroom house are morons. My wife and I moved back from France and live in a 80m2 apartment and are perfectly happy. The real problem is that we are becoming a country of spoiled brats. For god’s sake this isn’t Afghanistan or North Korea. Seeking improvement is good, endless winging about the tiniest of problems is pathetic.
@@infiniteloopcounter9444 No chance. Engineers including Electrical are on around 100k give or take 20k. And the pay discrepancy between the states is less that 5%(statistical fact), That''s all states bar SA and NT. Some rare positions may bring ing coffers of cash but that's an exception and doesn't make the rule. Besides, FIFO engineers are making more that's the guys in Sydney but that's because you're paying for it with a lifestyle adjustment.
@@frankwhite3154that’s interesting. I was told by someone working for the defense force that they would always leave because they could easily make over 150k working for private companies. Also, the information online regarding salaries is extremely misleading in Australia I find. Still even 100k is a lot more than what they are earning in France. France has its own system with their own strengths and weaknesses, but it isn’t this magically easy place to live. Most people I knew there rented crap apartments where you can hear your neighbors walking above you, lived paycheck to paycheck, were completely unable to change class, but at least had fairly stable lives. I’d say stability is probably the main advantage of living in a country like France. Not necessarily all that much opportunity though unless you come from French wealth or have connections IMO.
Many overseas people regard Australians as rich because of their incomes. But what they ignore is the high cost of living in Australia. Average price of a house in Sydney is above $1 million. Brisbane is now the second highest for house prices, even above Melbourne.
Better answer is less immigrants = less housing requirements, which will eventually lead to l fewer rent price n housing price, but it will hamper the economy of australia. Sinse most of the lower class job are done by them which actually helps country grow. And the income that immigrant brings in is the third largest income sourse of australia. Agriculture and mining being top two.
I moved from Melbourne to Thailand 4 months ago, I wanted to stop working but if I did so I couldn't afford to live in Australia. I live for around 25% of what I needed in Melbourne. I still have my property in Melbourne but this is really only to leave to my 2 children as they have no chance of owning a property otherwise. Hopefully I will never have to go back.
I live in Perth in the last few years house prices has doubled, I cannot afford to rent or buy a house now! I have been forced to buy a house in boddington 2 hours from Perth, it’s rediculous I’m forced out of town and seek new work due to this embarrassing government management
Ha Ha, voting does not change anything. No matter how many people vote, for whoever, it's the system that counts the votes, that rules. All that matters is that the people believe they live in a democracy, not whether they are or not.
There are some very unpleasant facts that are going to make life in Australia less and less attractive. Number one among them is the serious issue of having enough drinking water. With warmer and drier winters, there is less and less rainfall so traditional water storage such as dams, are becoming less and less effective. We are yet to have a major city run out of drinking water but water restrictions are now in place every summer and it is only going to get worse. Australia has no real manufacturing industries, we are a mine and a farm and not much else. Our sucessive stupid governments do not properly tax overseas corporations that come here to ship our resources overseas for processing which we then buy back as finished goods at many time the price we sold them for. Australia as a 'lucky country' no longer existes.
And farming is not so much, all agriculture is about 15% of the economy, that includes fisheries, we are essentially a mine, a mine, a mine, mostly open cut.
@@esmechin2696 That is a ridiculous statement, can you discern countries on a map, then look at Dubai and look at Australia, can you see any differences.
The cost of living in Australia is astronomical. A couple of tourists said to me that Australia was more expensive than New York. We have the worst, most divisive, incompetent and self-serving politicians imaginable. The Australian quality of life is in decline.
The labor party at work. Thanks for mentioning the cost of medical. It's true you can get free emergency. Queensland is the only state that has free ambulance - I've heard being clogged up by self inflicted drunks and druggies on the weekends. Doctors charge well above the Medicare rebate rate, and does not cover any costs of seeing a specialist, several hundred dollars for a 10 minute consultation which you've waited half a year for. Private health is also exorbitant, and Queenslanders fees are supplementing the cost of the other states. I could go on, but we are actually turning into America.
@@jacob-de4zi Sophia Antipolice is close by which is the silicon-valley of the French Riviera. You can work there hybrid which means 50% from home and 50% in the office. Monaco offers a lot of IT jobs too, so do Nice and Marseilles.
Private villa , 2 very large bedrooms,, pool, large 8x6M lounge kitchen with a house maid $450 Au a week, where? Sanur Bali. You'd have to be a Teapot to live in Oz
@@Peekaboo-Kitty Nice to know hopefully your funds last as long as possible. I’ve got to wait over another 10years and will be in Vietnam. Just heard on 2GB the rental crisis and that the average person needs to work 20years for a deposit on a house deposit in capital cities. I think more young people will seek adventure and cheap prices overseas!
I lived even cheaper than that. Brand new one bed all Western, 120 channels, internet (At least 5 times faster than in OZ!) Electricity and water. 20 minutes from the international airport, (one hour flight to Hong King}. All up $A300 a month.
Problems with Australia: - Laws are too relaxed on drugs/criminals. People are constantly living in fear of either getting robbed or hurt. The police aren't given the power to do their job effectively as there will always be people fighting for the rights of the criminals and not the everyday working people. - Too many drugged-out/homeless people. They are everywhere, even in the CBD. - Taking in way more immigrants that the system could handle, which also brings in third world criminals who are laughing at the country's first world "justice" system. - Standard of living is in decline due to high costs living. Those days where 1 income earner could care for the whole family are long gone. - Gender quotas in the government sectors are driving qualified people away, mostly woke and clueless people are running the show. - Like the UK/US/Canada, a lot of people here are fighting for the wellbeing of other countries but not their own fellow countrymen.
Strange that such a developed country with so much land without proper planning on housing supply. This is crazy mate. Very sad. Need competent politicians.😮
I see a lot of my under 30 year old cousins are still at home and are stuck on low wages or working multiple jobs. Most are living for today and seem resigned to the idea that they will never own a home. I don't blame them for spending money on going out and enjoying life because they don't think they have a future.
This isn't anything new... young ambitious Australians have always dreamed of living and working abroad, especially in North America and Europe/UK ever since I can remember 50 something years ago. Its a rite of passage for especially young anglo Australians to live and work overseas and they don't consider their life has been lived unless they've done this.
Yeah, but in the old days they all came back, the seventies were golden, freedom, great standard of living, all utilities,housing, affordable and so on. Not so anymore.
Yeah! Fail to see the point of selling fertile farmland to build houses for profit alone! So eventually with unchecked immigration we might have somewhere to live but no food to eat. I never understood that. Building blocks of high-rise pigeon houses and then selling them to foreigners is no solution either. Just like in Thailand , no land for sale to foreigners. Full stop! I notices that our PM has invested in Real-estate and also brought in 1.5 mil migrants. How much profit?
The biggest property investor in parliament is Peter Dutton have a look at what he's got. Part of reason things are so expensive is the LNP sold off everything government owned to their big donors who are price gauging Australians to the point of ridiculous for power water toll roads the list goes on and on. Labors bad but when it comes to corruption knowone beats the LNP state and federal hands down the history speaks for itself.
The problem is our govt for decades neglected keeping up with demand for housing bringing more foreigners here,goods have to be shipped here that costs more due to distance, Australia needs to produce more goods here.
Australia is the most boring country in the world. Australia is also very isolated and the isolation is one of the many things that sucks about Australia.
@@davidm4677 Yes internet here in Australia is so slow. Even Kenya a third world African country has better faster internet than Australia. It's embarrassing. Australia is so backward and Australia is so far behind.
@@johnm84 Yes im angry can't even play video games, with such small population Aus should have best internet in the world. Where i live by cost i can't even make a phone call no reception 2 most important things in world of today is mobile phone and internet and Aus fails at both .When I'm gone get car soon I'm going to Canberra parliament house make a stand I just can't live like this anymore!
I got out, moved to Cambodia. I feel it's a more free existence by far! Australia was taken over by the U.S industry of War when they took down Gough Whitlam in 1975 in a soft coup supported by the UK. Why? Because Whitlam had beaten Nixon to China (their next intended victim) He also talked closing Pine Gap, pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam, talked peace accord in the Pacific and an 'independent Australia', they couldn't have that! The level of influence over our media is scary as hell. If you live in Oz, know this!
I guess I'm an interstate migrant. Back to Queensland after 10 hard years in Canberra. Sunshine Coast. However council rates are obscene given I live in a tiny studio. Not freezing for 8 months in Canberra is nice though 🤗
Leaving for Japan this year, my salary will drop by just under 20% but my cost of living will drop by more than 60%. In fact it will cost me 2 weeks of my current apartments rent for my total monthly living 😂 Bye Australia, taking all my money and investments out.
Im Australian, this was a good country until the government started farming, manufacturing out to china. We dont make cars anymore. Too much immigration is crippling the health system, and there's no housing. My friend just sold her little average house for 500,000 😮 That house wasn't worth more than $350.000 . it's crazy. The government is all the same party now, regardless of what they say. African crime gangs running Melbourne. Way more crime. Our diggers would be rolling in their graves! they gave up their lives for this! Instead of people fighting each other, we should be fighting the government. Nothing was ever settled around the table with a cup of tea. I live in perth. People are living in their cars. West Australian government were given millions of dollars to build public housing, and they didn't do it. I see people sleeping in sleeping bags under the overhang of shops.
My brother told me 25 years ago you work till you drop dead and cannot retire as the system keeps you working and your salary is barely enough to get through, so you in a continuous working system. They rely on foreign people and give a measly salary to keep them in the system and pay taxes.Way too expensive here and cheaper to live overseas, so much land and houses are way too expensive and if you got money in the bank they bump up your retirement age so you working past 70yrs.
@@sylviam6535 yes its madness I work in supermarket retail for example Milka Chocolate imported all the way from Germany are cheaper than Australian Cadbury Chocolates made in Australia Unbelievable
@@Tibor860 - It’s the same with some Italian cheese. I believe that export subsidies sometimes distort prices, but Australia is also very expensive in general.
$1700 car insurance. $1500 house insurance. $2000 land tax. $3000 land rates and water. $900 gas and electricity bills. "Each" for one quarter. 25% income tax. 10% gst. Its become a disgrace.
It could be worse. Here's what I'm paying every year, in Canada, Toronto area. $2200 car insurance $800 house insurance $5400 property tax $160 waste and water $1200 gas $1100 electricity bill $800 Internet 5% GST ( Federal) + 8% PST(Provincial) 20.05% - 53.53% income tax (Federal + Provincial) based on the tax bracket. I'm at 35% marginal tax rate.
Totally agree Aus is getting expensive but Ah. I was just there Nice, Burgundy, Monaco, Paris, South France doesn't matter. It all costs ridiculously high compared to aus mate. Idk about rent but everyday items is just as high. Bread milk eggs all over 4 or 5 euros each. A beer runs you 8 euros that's about 15 dollars AUD. The only thing that was equivalent was their fast food which cost pretty close to aus. What you talking about my dude...
The biggest problem with Australia is the cost of housing, No matter if you buy or rent its outrageous. Australia is so expensive that everyone works all the time ,Food ,clothes ,cars everything is expensive. All this eats into your quality of life , Family time , friends time and quality of life . There is a lot more to life then owning a house and yet Australians spend their whole life working to only achieve that .. life has much much more to offer. I was born in Australia and i have also lived overseas. Overseas wins hands down in many ways when you weigh up the cost of Australia, The isolation, The lack of culture , it does not have the social communities like you find in other parts of the world.
I’m based in Brisbane. Over the last 3 years in big tech (10 years in total) I’ve had a 1% increase, followed by 0% and then finally laid off. I’m on month two of being unemployed and will likely need to reduce my expected salary. I don’t understand how people are meant to live when costs are rising rapidly and corporates are doing everything they can to reduce salaries. The government is allowing too many skilled IT professionals into the country and does nothing about local work being outsourced to India. The government does not care about its citizens. I thought finding a job would be a walk in the park after being in big tech for so long. It could not be further from the truth. It must be an absolute nightmare for people with less experience.
The problem is easy ....greed......I personally know people who have accumulated enough to live ten lifetimes and they're still striving for more......noone seems to realise when many jump on board this gravy train, they are also creating poverty and unaffordability......this in turn creates further negative symptoms such as increased crime and drug use.....it's clear why the saying "the lucky country" has disappeared
I left Aus 3 years ago for a couple of reasons, but mainly because my work opportunities are so much greater in Europe. There's a glass ceiling in Aus with a strong boys club gatekeeping the senior positions in the tech sector and a very small market to build your own business unless you're strongly embedded in this boys club. The second lesser reason is that I lived in Melb for the pandemic and I was shocked and saddened to see our societies true colours shine, certain fundamental truths I thiught we all believed in dissapeared so easily (right to protest, freedom of speech and assembly, body/medical autonomy, free press etc.) - by the way, i listened to all the rules and got the shots, it's not my point but seeing a democracy throw away those values so readily made me feel disconnected from my community
@@mknights33 I was asking because I am also planning to move Abroad. I currently stay in India. So, I wanted to know the current status of Europe, Germany & the Netherlands specifically. In news, we tend to hear a lot of negatives regarding Europe So I was thinking to move to Australia. Can you tell me a bit about the state of Europe. How is it going ? Is it better than Australia in terms of settling down. Like the cost of living, expenses, the health structure etc. Thanks in advance. :)
Australia is finished and will be like Fiji a poor country with huge socio-economic problems. It's looking for cheap underskill labour. It was never an independent advanced economy
My wife and I both 5th generation aussies are planning to leave our country very shortly, immigration tax theft corruption in both major political parties large government lack of consultation with the public before making social decisions woke ideolgy support just some of the reasons for this, this is not the australia we both grew up in and has become a worldwide joke. The Albanese government has been the worst government that I can remember, and Iv voted labor my whole life.
I also voted Labor my whole life right up until the last election, after studying the goings on in the US and recognising the same behaviours in the left over here and realising it has always been so, I am disgusted with myself for being so blind, the left is not what I want for my children or grandchildren they are Marxists who have not yet learned that communism does not work and there is not one example in history that it did, it always leads to a tyrannical state, this has nothing to do with God and to suggest he is handing out punishment shows your lack of knowledge of God and a mindset in line with Marxism, good luck my friend you will need it
All the Australians who have left Australia, where have you moved to..? I moved to Dubai.
Slovenia
@@pkmuhammedhisan japan
@@pkmuhammedhisan Slovakia
Slovakia
Thailand
I'm an Australian born and bred 1963 , I left Australia 2023., cost of living, lack of required infrastructure, social downhill spiral, and a clown government.
Born in Hungary 1963. Been here since 1986. I always thought that this country was the best in the world. The last decade or so, my mind started to create some question marks.
"The covid dictature, politicians acting from ego, parties spend more time to criticise their opponents than doing their actual jobs, "clown government" the impending cashless system etc...".
"Social downhill spiral" is happening everywhere in the West since from the 70's, but being exponential we are very close to the final chapter.
Now my big question is : Where the hell did you move to that is better than this?
Where did you move ? Just curious what place you consider better .
Yes, cost of living is higher than before. so are most other major cities. Apartment/unit prices in Sydney and further out prices are are still affordable. Alex is wrong. .
Sounds identical to here in Canada 🇨🇦
@robertolang9684 If you have big money doesn't matter where you are.
In Central America you can live in paradise from 2grand a months. In Australia from that money you have to decide if you want to pay rent or if you want to eat something.
Nice to see more people waking up. Australia has become a nation of economic slaves.
And economic migrants.
MONEY SLAVES
Welcome to the Plantation.
@alecia725 so true , I didn't think the Australian dream was to over work yourself to death 💀
So the Chinese would love for us to flee but we will not. We Australians will stand strong against foreign influence. Go away other people
I am French and am an Australian too, i would never go back to France, we have terrible policies in Oz but France has been a socialist nightmare even longer. This woman went from Sydney to a rural part of France. Try cheap rent in Paris LOL! Plus the migrant crisis in France is even worse there. Crime is sky higher. Knife attacks are so common they just don’t get reported unless someone is beheaded! I also lived in the UK and now in small towns like Newmarket near my city of Cambridge where i lived years ago now had roaming gangs of “youths” in the streets! I don’t know where in the world you can go anymore, the whole globalist one world order stuff has tentacles in all our institutions and government s!
I suggest go to Eastern Europe like Czech Republic, Slovakia or Hungary, no immigrants from 3rd world, property much cheaper and close to everything.
@@jeanvonbarberode2377 and close to WW3 front, unfortunately
VANUATU
Sorry. You are not French “and Australian too”. You might be a citizen of both countries but that doesn’t make you Australian.
If it came down into it you’d pick the country of your birth over the any other country.
The first time you leave home is the hardest. Every other time you leave after that is easier. That’s the plain truth for almost every single migrant.
@@mburek9909 Pedantic much?
Greed
Greedy real estate agents
Greedy homeowners
Greedy politicians
Greedy land owners
Greedy businesses
All who blame high standard of living to justify their greed
It's really that simple!!
Too right Mate 🙏👍🐬❤️🦘🐬🇦🇺
@@KymLasharn
Greedy corrupt government...
Greedy Traditional land owners too, imo
You are right, but the greed pandemic is global! 😢
They have taken away God from Australia 🇦🇺 🙏 🙌 ❤️
Our government with their revolving doors with multi nationals companies has sold us all out 😢
Yes and on top we are over governed and over regulated into stupidity
Just look at Senator Jackie Lambie! When you realise she is representative of the average politician. It’s easy to see why people are leaving.
yes, totally
So the big corporations think we are leaving but if you know anything about Australians we will stand strong against foreign influence. Just leave us Aussies alone.🇦🇺
Same things in Canada you are not alone. 500,000 Canadians left canada 😢
I left Melbourne / Australia several years ago. daniel andrew’s fked up Victoria beyond repair !
Agreed 🇦🇺 Victorian 😥
What amazes me is why do melburnians continue to work labor? you have high crimes and if I were a Victorian I would be envious of Sydney who has upgrades in their roads and infrastructures including a new airport all thanks to Liberal state government
@@esmechin2696 Because 60% of them are Indian and Chinese and Labor lets them bring all their family and friends and half their bloody country over
Thanks.
Well stated,spot on
Ridiculously high immigration, hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by the Albanese government has done this to the country. WEF policies are also to blame, designed to dismantle middle class Australians.
They are working as a force across all borders against our cities and civilians. They want to turn us into ant colonies.
Spare us the bleeding heart Sky News liberal sob stories. You're preferred pollies spent 10 years doing nothing , zero infrastructure investment , & pandering to their fossil fuel donors & gods. The current shadow treasurer can't do arithmetic , & now , with a mere 27 million population , we'll suddenly be able to Nuclear Power Oz within 15 years. Get real brother.
What are you talking about, it has nothing to do with Albanese alone, the crisis started at least 10-15 years ago or even earlier, it’s all bad-bad management for the past 30 years at least.
A country with our resources should lead the world but we do the best to mismanage everything, starting first with dismantling our railways system that were transporting people to and from work in big cities and agricultural goods to the cities and ports, fast and cheap .
Why did we do that?
Because the Americans did it.
Why did they do it?
To sell their cars because they produced too many…🙄
Once we did that idiocy, most of our small townships that were flourishing, died becoming ghost towns , people living in them couldn’t commute weekly to work fast and cheap, so they moved to the big cities making employment scarce, raising the price of petrol and the real estate prices, while the small localities once flourishing and growing went bankrupt, everyone in them is unemployed, doctors don’t want to go there, they have no economy, they live at the same standard of living like so many African communities, it’s not even funny anymore.
Do you know that Nigeria when it comes to the Internet it’s the 6th in the world for speed and affordability and we are number 65 in the world for speed and affordability of internet?
How is that helping in today’s world?!
It’s a bad joke.
We are the best at mimicking the Americans in everything and look how great their situation is - we’ll go down with them although we didn’t need to…
It was our stupid mismanagement and mimicking them to the last detail, pronouns and big arses included.
@@DeannaSt it started with keating then howard give squandered the mining boom pork barrelling and feeding the wealthy
It is WEF, WHO and alike, no government bodies fictati
speaking as somebody who was born and grew up in australia, it doesnt matter how hard i work from now until i fall into the grave, i will never be able to own my own place here and will only ever end up paying off some rich investors property's while i remain in poverty. if i had the money to leave i would
You mean along the coast line or a major city?
Thank you for paying my mortgage, expensive bicycles, guitars and holidays.
@@Vvewa Regional area'a aren't cheap anymore either. Plus no work and limited medical. It's not just the coastline or capital cities.
What a crock. Maybe try to save instead of vaping/smoking, going to pubs clubs and the footy.
@petergibson7287 it's in really poor taste to float that you are benefitting of the poverty and lack of others
I'm blown away with the amount of people coming to Australia. Life is ordinary unless you're hyper rich!
And the cause? Housing of course. A normal job DOES NOT allow someone to house themselves!
They are sold the dream of what Australia once was, that's why they come
That's still better than 99% of what is out there in the world
@@MarcoCholo-iz9js Yeah I get the impression things must be pretty rotten out there, for so many to want to come here.
@@williamcrossan9333 Compared to the the horrid weather, petty crime & violence and general unhappiness in the UK, the level of dystopian level control in China combined with the nationalistic stupidity and their declining economy and the horrible levels of third worldliness in India..,,,Australia really is the lucky county as no one is at risk of a knock on their door at 3am if they say something against the Dear Leader for Life or happens to not be born in the right caste or is at risk of a petty crime and a lack of sunshine.
But if you grew up in the 60's and 70's and lived in Australia in the 80's, left (as I did) and come back occasionally, it's easy to see how Australia has lost some of "lucky". You can see it in the road rage, in the preoccupation with meaningless material things, the obsession with real estate profits/gains......people in Australia have lost the plot and live stressed out lives and miss out on what is really important.
Norway discovered oil and instead of the politicians selling out to corporations (for donations to ensure perpetual election victories and a seat on the board when the they retire) they decided to set up a fund for all Norwegian citizens...while Australia allows international corporations to control and profit from Australian resources and all Australia gets is the income tax from the dozer drivers who work for these mining companies and these international mining companies pay ridiculously low tax rates. If Australia was smart they would process the raw materials in Australia (just like China, Korea, Japan and other places do). If labor is short then hire skilled workers for a 2 or 3 year contract. ...but no, let's just import another half a million to prop up the economy and kick the real problems and the hard solutions down the road.
@@GreenIslandWoodworkshorrid weather? It rains more in Sydney than London.
Australia is not what it used to be. So much greed and less opportunities to grow. Australia has also lost its identity and is hard to know where you belong.
MASS Immigration is ridiculous, it doesn't feel like the Australia I knew years ago.
Australia has always been tribal, bogan Aussies are a tribe whatever are you on about?
This place is a Dystopia. Rules upon rules upon rules…
That's how Empires died out. Bureaucracy upon bureaucracy upon bureaucracy. Every year thousands of new rules made by brain dead bureaucrats who try to justify their importance in the office.
so true..like every Aussie a wannabe policeman
Yep, Oz is now Oz. The ultimate nanny state filled with free range convicts.
Some of them are silly and don't resolve anything
In the club my 14 y/old granddaughter can't help me to carry lemon lime & bitter to our table, because children are not allowed to the bar
In Europe kids play on the playgrounds with little pubs surrounding the playground. Kids can help to carry their drinks. So much more pleasant and natural for families.
Nice to see others with same thoughts.. warm felling within the awake
The problem in Australia is government corruption and mismanagement through ignorance (and corruption). An other problem is that a lot of people still think they are part of the (defunct) British empire. We should stay away from problems that don't concern us but look after ourselves. We should strive to regain the international respect we used to have. Copulating with gangsters hasn't helped our situation.
Well.. Australia is in Americas pocket. And your best business partner is China. The future ain’t exactly smooth is it?
First accurate comment.😥😥
We rely on our alliances for protection, we dont have the military capability to hold this place unfortunately.
And we are a part of the British Commonwealth, just as a matter of fact.
@@K.J.H_who doesn’t give 2 stuffs about us.
Having been born and raised in Australia, I never felt at home here. I am moving to Europe (non-EU country) to be with my wife asap. Australia is the new 3rd world Fascist country....just look around. Look at Canada and Australia isn't too far behind
Agreed 100% Considering SE Asia.
😂 bye bye 👋
@@cloudmountaindog8537 The phrase, if a white man cant get a white woman, he'll settle for an asian, comes to mind lol
@@erniesulovic4734 Apples and oranges. Different Very different.
@RickBlaine Exactly. It’s about tyranny, not attraction. I’d just like to be somewhere relatively safe and free enough to do things like work without having to sign up for all sorts of OTT “regulatory” garbage. And BTW I’m not a man 🤔
Labor party immigrated 1 million people to enter Australia in the 12 months. Unless these immigrants were all millionaires, I don't know how they can afford to stay in Australia if Australians can't. Labor always wants to import people, whether by boat or by plane. What they need to do is promote Australians having children. You can grow the country instead of importing, If you grow the people, the infrastructure can grow with them. If you import people, you need all the housing, food, goods and services NOW. Labor can't manage anything, just destroy. And they've only been in charge for 3 years.
If only they could afford to have those kids.
If u remember, it was the business lobby that caused the influx of immigrants. They were complaining about worker shortages. People seem to forget that. What it demonstrates is the power of the business lobby and governments will do anything to ameliorate them.
Yes, Liberal makes money and labor uses it all up and lets all the boat people in. Yet the australians voted in Labor after all the Liberals did for australia. Look at victoria under labor state government it has violent sudanese gangs. and way behind sydney in terms of infrastructure. Sydneys advancement is thanks to liberal state government who went on a much needed infrastructure spritz giving us new schools, hospitals and tunnels to shorten driving distances.Australia is great place to live provided that you are wealthy to begin with. If you want to start a businesses go to a developing country. Australia you have to be number one or two, you can't be a mediocre business and hope to survive. Its not a place for people wanting to build businesses.
I hear you. There is no identity for Australians.
They are cashed up skilled Indians mostly.
*Australians:* "The housing crisis of cost of living is out of control!"
*Government:* "Lets bring in 1 million more people."
It’s for the economic data
Its the great western liberl demcracy Ponzi Scheme. They say they tax you for all the services you get and your state pensions, but in fact they spend all that money just too get elected. They tax the new comers to fund your future, so not only do they steal from the previous generation of working class, they also steal from the new arrivals. The public are so slow to catch on. Western democracy is well and truly broken, and wont get fixed until people wake up and stop allowing politcial parties too pull the wool over their eyes. In a democracy the people get the governments they deserve. Thats the only shitty thing about democrcy, placing power in the hands of the ignorant. The voters. Go get yourself an education on politics and economics, and there is a very good chance you'll become an anarchist, against all present day government in the west.
@@Dreamer10888 Leftwing governments import voters, and also do it for the lack of population increase as a result of their own fiscal policy.
New budget just addressed cutting immigration!
@@keeda1223 Bringing it back to normal*
People are leaving because Australia is a mess with no hope in sight.
Bahaha...a mess? Compared to where? Have you ever travelled anywhere else?
Relax no one is leaving Australia
@@oscarduck123 yes a mess. Healthcare going backwards, politicians corrupt, multinationals exploiting the country yet don't pay tax, fascism, drug addiction and mental health problems everywhere, a culture of extreme corporate greed unleashing a cost of living crisis and homelessness and I can go on and on.
I've probably travelled more than you.
@user-km2ko9xk1y Since the rubbish of 2020, many have left. It seems SE Asia, Mexico and some parts of Europe have been most popular.
comedian ?
It costs a fortune to live. Rents are too high. Wages are not keeping up with inflation. Truly sad. Houses are out of reach to own. I gave up and am now living in thailand.
You love ladyboys and children
I moved to the Philippines for the same reason.
One MONTH rent for a 2 brm apartment is the same as one WEEK rent for a room in a sharehouse in Brisbane, Australia.
@@RoyBennett-dz2cqNot a bad comment coming from a ladyboy 😂
@@RoyBennett-dz2cq you forgot child ladyboys
i'm tryng to leave to philippines with my children , no way i wanna leave them in a nazi country
I was quite shocked at the way Aussies were treated during the lock downs, and even more shockef at how Aussies put up with it.
@@MUSIC4TRUTH.... It was terrible. Got treated like a prisoner when I came back during lockdowns and had to pay for it as a result. How does $3000 justify staying in quarantine at a hotel when you had nothing to do with the virus? I'll never forgive Aus for that.
Why?? The states that abided by the rules had a lot less deaths. I watched many american friends lose numerous friends.
@@MUSIC4TRUTH.... It started as a penal colony and it still is in so many ways!
@@MathVdb I like what Dame Edna said, yes many Ozzies are descended from convicts, but then many are descended from the guards.
@@MUSIC4TRUTH.... Good 1! 😊
I live in Melbourne but have seen it turn to crap over my lifetime
Have to agree the congestion units apartment city. Still they call it livable there must be alot worse cities then
I was born in Melbourne Victoria Australia and saw my State ruined and destroyed by Labour and Greens government. I am 42 years old ND seen Melbourne be destroyed, especially by in the last 11 years by Daniel Andrews and his socialist government.
Steady increase in costs over time seem to have accelerated after covid. In Melb the infrastructure appears to be lagging population growth
It’s gone down hill certain suburbs you drive through you’d think your overseas
I am an Australian and lived in Australia for the first 45 years, then started to live in Thailand. I was on a good income, from working offshore, and had no close family etc, so started to live in Thailand, mainly due to cost of living and ease of lifestyle in Thailand. Australia is a GREAT country for weather and locations to live, but it’s getting to be a disaster with costs of living there and the politicians are totally incompetent corrupt fools. The demographics have changed dramatically in the last 25 years, with people that have used human trafficking and coming from economic and social hell holes of countries and they are bringing their bad personal qualities to Australia and the extreme violent crime and drug use is rampant. During the covid period, Australia was a disaster to be locked into. The politicians made up some terrible laws, and the Nazi police used their FULL FORCE to extreme levels to control the people, it was known as “Aus Jail Ya”…… Fuq that…..
How the government acted in Australia was an eye opener
Those who couldn’t see it were brain dead
Guess what? Australia never stopped being a penal colony.
Okay if it doesn't work for you you are free to leave..... Go find somewhere else that suits your capacity but Don't bad mouth Australia . For the majority it just fine.😂
Yes our pollies are corupt and so are Thai Pollies ...i also live part time in Thailand ...and as you should no how corupt the govt is ...
Let's be honest, they were not the nazi police, they were the Australian police.
After COVID, and the structure of how evil the mental health system is operating.. is disgusting.
I know exactly why. In 1975, the CIA and MI6 delivered a coup d'etat in Australia and endedthe freedom and prosperity that reigned from 1948 to 1976. We all had full time jobs, annual paid holidays, and paid sick leave. Everybody could afford to own a home and car. The US destroyed all this and now half of Australians live in poverty. That is why I am leaving this country.
And of course I'm sure you have some actual evidence that you're now going to present to back up your claim about the CIA and MI6.
worlds second highest worth per capita ...... pauline voter ?
He's leaving. Who cares?
Too conspiratorial and therefore unlikely. I am sick of conspiracy theories that make you drink their Kool Aid. It's sheer greediness and lack of compassion for the population by politicians and bankers (read wankers) in our own time. Nothing to do with national governments 50 years ago. Ordinary houses need not cost millions in Sydney or elsewhere. There is a slowdown of housing construction too, which seems counter-productive. So the government, in both political sides is to blame for being in the pockets of wankers.
@@MrBucksutube Pauline Hanson is opposed to democracy, supports Israel, and never responds to One Nation Party members, even when they have information ON needs. She is currently highly financed and resourced, which is good in the short term but means she is fatally compromised long term. Just another hierarchist. Worse, if she formed a single party with Bob Katter and Clive Palmer, we would defeat the duopoly in Queensland, which would break the back of corruption in Austraia. She refuses to do it. Being a big frog in a little puddle is way more important to her than the survival of Australians. Sad, but there it is. That is why far-sighted Aussies are leaving in their thousands.. This country will be left with the likes of Ken Wilson (below)... troglodytes.
We need people to leave. The toxic Australian culture of treating shelter as speculative investment rather than a human right will ensure this country will never be a "livable" country. And no, the government should not be releasing land indiscrimately to build more houses; we need land to produce food and other resources, not for greedy Australians to speculate on. And foreigners make up a very small proportion of property investors so don't try to blame them. Sadly, the only time rent reverted to fair value was over the lockdown years when people who have no business here left and we were not overpopulated. Property is for people to invest in who don't actually have the brains to invest in alternative endeavours that actually produces something of value for society and the world.
I remember having a strong aversion to mum and dad investors since a teenager. I never knew how it all worked or why I didn't like them, but I sensed an injustice somehow. I think what I sensed was, a person who is below mid by all measures has somehow built up this wealth without doing anything to actually earn it, and on top of that, they are really smug about it, it just seemed unnatural to me.
Actually most of the investors of Australian properties are in China , Australians are the next and immigration is pushing housing prices up.
Why ? Not enough housing or proper infrastructure in place to accommodate them, then there is the tax bracket creep.
Every election the politicians promise to fix it, but once in office forget about it, thus it’s the middle class that get hammered with paying higher taxes than they should be , all this and other factors create a perfect storm of people unable to afford to live
Yeah! Fail to see the point of selling fertile farmland to build houses for profit alone! So eventually with unchecked immigration we might have somewhere to live but no food to eat. I never understood that. Building blocks of high-rise pigeon houses and then selling them to foreigners is no solution either. Just like in Thailand , no land for sale to foreigners. Full stop! I notices that our PM has invested in Real-estate and also brought in 1.5 mil migrants. How much profit?
People need to adapt by forming small, close-knit communities with communal living arrangements, where people grow their own food and rely on each other for sustenance, instead of having to rely on overpriced groceries from coles and woolies. People need to get comfortable with the idea of shared accommodation instead of spending their entire lives slaving away to pay off a house that costs over half a million dollars.
The middle class was wiped out when Keating was in power.lnterest rates went up to 22% which sent a lot of people bankrupt.The beautiful Australia which l grew up in is no more.Fabulous memories of those times in the 50s and 60s.70s.Too hard now for upcoming generations. So Sad.
TAX IS NUMBER ONE KILLER. Then fines, from parking and cameras, food, rent, electricity, gas water, insurance etc, fck its driving me crazy with this bills
@@MindRefreshments I feel you🥲it's sickening
I move to Melbourne when I was 35. In my first year there, I was fined more in one year than all of my adult years living elsewhere put together.
you forgot council bills, it's increased from around $300 to $520 quarterly for suburb dwellers
@@sangazoIt’s not council rates, water rates, gas and electricity prices, car registration, insurance premiums.
@@petert330 yes right. Govt even increased speeding fines
Culture is a big issue in Australia. It does not have much to offer in that department and Australians are not the most culturally savvy people. The government has a big presence in every aspect of your life and the country is suffering from over regulation.
The government does not have a "big presence" in your life in Australia and i suspect youve never been to Australia. Actual Australians are constant complaining that the government is not doing more stuff for them. The reality for anyone that knows is the opposite Australia needs more government intervention and would benefit from less unacculturalated short term immigrants looking to bludge.
@@redsword1659 Oh, you bet that I’m living here close to 15 years now. What I said is my honest observation. Australia is over regulated and almost all Australians believe in that. You have forgotten Covid days and the Gestapo style policing!? Do you have much knowledge about the health system and the extent to which TGA is involved in regulating health-related products in this country? You want to close your eyes to vaping made illegal but smoking is widely permitted? There are tons more to mention here but overall some stuff in Australia makes no sense whatsoever.
The population is fragmented and lonely poor country. People whim are in benefits live most comfortable. I'm left few times and am trying to leave for good. Australia is not a place to build life. It is not a modern society
@@JulAlxAUyou’re a 100% right - however, most Aussies simply don’t know any better and will disagree with you …which proves your point.
@@redsword1659 look everybody, I found a Labor voter
Australia is not the lucky country anymore!!!!
The whole world is a mess.
I feel pretty lucky in Australia!
We were never asked.
I think it still is relatively. I think if I'd have stayed in the UK 25 years ago. Oh boy!
Now who wants to be the one in a million person.
Not surprising as governments of both persuasion have allowed very wealthy foreigners to buy huge quantities of property and out bid Australians. These foreigners are from countries where Australians are not allowed to buy property so one has to wonder the treachery of Austarlian politicians.
As an Aboriginal Australian I look at things so diffently.I will never leave my land .I still work fulltime at 62 and although times are hard I don't live outside my means.I have connection to my land.Guess thats the difference between those who have connection to the land and those who don't.
@@leeannehudson7314 Beautifully said.
True enough, many here are aspirational, entitled classes who think very small, they have been programmed to compete this colonial capitalist, materialist idea of success they must have, they do not value simple beauty of nature, existence and connection in this ancient land will never be enough.
@@leeannehudson7314 that’s an interesting perspective..i wonder if the reason people leave is because of feeling less connection with the land they’re living in..
I want to be as polite as possible here. I am Australian born and have a deep connection to the land. It’s in my blood. I am not Aboriginal.
@cicerodiello1 I'm not aboriginal either, but this is the point. Most people lack connection to land. How many times do we see trees bulldozed away, houses being sprayed with poison to kill spiders and insects, non native lawn planted, and animals being relocated to smaller cooridoor habitats. Australia is truly unique, but unfortunately, the majority of people just don't value Australia for what it really is, but rather on a cosmetic and capitalistic relationship.
Im from Australia 🇦🇺
I do FIFO (fly in fly out)
3 weeks on 1 week off.
I live in Thailand.
I have a 100% better life in Thailand
I don't know how people survive in Australia.
You must be living like a king in Thailand
@@zdravkomomci7570 I'm living pretty good yeah Thanks 👍
But Thailand now that cheap anymore
Yes that is a good alternative
Yeah, it's a good life...if you have no family or friends to care about.
Thailand is the go!!😊😊😊😊😊
Fleeing Australia is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The whole world is about to loose its marbles thanks to the ruling elite so where may one escape to. There is One though that will not reject anyone who comes to Him. ❤
You are so right, Same everywhere and all by design.
Amen!☺
We are in transit here A mansion is being prepared where I am going
Amen and I love Australia 🇦🇺 Be thankful. The grass always looks greener on the other side but might not be.
If Trump wins the new world order goes into the shredder
In Australia people work just for paying off bills
With zero nightlife or entertainment...just stay home man thats ok. Go to chemist warehouse abd Mcdonalds for entertainment
@@TalkingPoint773 don't forget bunnings
@@wayneboss9943 Yeahhh good one. Feel good do it yourself, women included, walk around bunnings in short shorts getting looks from the men and women. Enough entertainment and attention for the day.
@@TalkingPoint773
Sounds like the current model of crapitalism in every western country.
The amount of laws is insane. You can't breath in australia without the police knocking on your door.
Sydney is the second most litigations country in the world and we have surveillance camera every few traffic light must me number 4 in the world most surveillance nanny state
Yep not a crim but aus is the nanny state of the world lol
Never knocked on mine maybe its just you.
@@esmechin2696 protection from terrorist 😮
i'm on bail for a year , waiting to be jailed for chasing away drug addicts and dealers ha ha ha such a lucky country ozie ozie oi oi oi
The only investment now in Australia is real estate and therefore there is no interest in investing in anything else and therefore interest in keeping housing and land prices low. That really is for most part the country’s wealth. Once the market crashes there isn’t much else. Maybe the drug and black market will do well. Real estate is mostly the only capital in Australia and politicians won’t change it because they all have their money invested in real estate.
Exactly. Our politicians are criminals who are making huge profits from flooding our country with migrants. As well as ensuring said migrants VOTE FOR THEM.
I guess you haven't heard that we have natural resources 😂
Yep, for the past 35 years there has been one game in Australia and it's called Monopoly...you either played it and profited from real estate gains or didn't and became a poor, perpetual renter.
The Australia I knew 20 odd years ago no longer exists...
It happens every 20 years or so, seems like its just life 😅
@andrewmacdonald4833: I agree with you 100%. I came to Austrlia back in 1989 from Hungary, and it was a very diferent country than it is now! 35 years has since been passed, and I still love this country so much! But it is not "my" Australia anymore, it has really changed! Maybe Im getting old, Im 54 now! What I see is that the whole world getting worse, sadly!
@@friedrichkass1644 people don't know that australia does not have pensions just government hand outs alms , you work most of your life in Australia leave no pension , the worst country in western world is like dog shit and cow shit which one is more acceptable ?
it's become a bit oppressive, as in the amount of government in everything you want to do!, licence to do this, licence to do that, fine for this, fine for that.. it's in your face now.
Agreed. It is suffocating. You cannot go anywhere outdoors without there being a sign or a fence/chains keeping you out. Rules for this, laws for that is pathetic. There was more freedoms in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Yep need a licence to fart here these days
It’s always been like that. It’s the cost of living/housing that has gotten worse recently.
Could you elaborate on that? You have always needed a license for most things here, how is this a new thing?
@sophiepooks2174 well I'll give you a perfect example. 50 years ago you could buy fireworks down the local milk bar or Coles. Need a licence now. To run your own ethernet cable you technically need a licence, although this one isn't enforced to be fair. You can't do a beer snake at the cricket anymore without being kicked out. There used to be more leniency with speeding. Like you had to be over by say 15 km/h to be caught. Now cameras here will book you for literally 2 or 3km/h over in Victoria. So many of our freedoms have been curtailed because of a few idiots unfortunately and I'm getting fed up with it.
I would leave Australia if I had some money to. I bet the number of Australians stuck and trapped barely surviving and no savings, who wish they could leave for a better life is at least a million.
Most Australians could afford to leave, they aren’t.
You’d go where, exactly? Yes, it ain’t the utopia it used to be, but it’s FAR better than most other countries.
I would look at South East Asia.
@@pommiebears I think I would investigate living in Thailand or Vietnam. But in Australia I can’t even see the hope in even saving enough money to contemplate it.
@@KANGABOYofficial I keep hearing about some beautiful, cheap and very safe Central American countries. The problem is that you have to have money because you will never be able to compete with the cheap local labour force in the job market. But then again it is the same thing in Asia. And don't even think about Western Europe!!! Generally speaking the whole West is like Titanic a few miles away from that iceberg except that this time they know about it and instead of avoiding it, corrupt politicians heading straight towards it with full throttle.
We left Australia 3 years ago, thank God. Im on the aged pension and I’m a renter, Australia? Not a fat chance in hell. Now we live in Thailand with a rent payment that is 28% of my pension payment. I can live and live well but not go on crazy spending. Ironically Thailand reminds me of Australia 60 years ago. So we are very happy to be here and give gratitude daily for our situation
@@thaibulldog6800 hi I am told that you can't get age pension if you live outside Australia??
But you r getting it that's really good . I am also interested to move out ..
@@thaibulldog6800 good idea of living in Thailand but how do you manage the long term visa?
OHHH Bulldog! Retired Melbournite. I'd be right back there with you riding in a "tuk tuk" if I could somehow skim around and sort out the separate ambitions of the loved ones!!
I left Melbourne 3 years ago for Poland and haven’t looked back. Victoria is a mess thanks to dandrews. And as we saw during COVID Australia is not working as one country. Unaffordable ridiculous inflation and high crime, the perfect storm for me to not look back
I’m from NZ and have lived here in Ozzie for 13 years. The wages here are enormous and all the cost of living is minimal compared to NZ. All my friends in NZ earn a fraction of what you get here in OZ and their cost of living is similar or even more.
I had an appendicitis early this year and also was very sick the previous year. I waited very little time when I got to the hospital. This video is crap. Ozzie’s just don’t realise how incredible they have it.
I'm from NZ too, been here 5 years, doing pretty well!
Leaving Australia?...yeah to another state. Australia is still the lucky country. If you're lazy you won't make it here. Yes mate you're right, this video is crap.
@@chessman483 agree
It really depends on which part of Aus you are talking about too, Sydney and Melbourne are very expensive to live, but Cairns is much more affordable.
I’m an ex kiwi of 45years. NZ was expensive then. Small population w limited resources to pay for infrastructure doesn’t help. Yes from a kiwi perspective but not from a global perspective. Way cheaper living in other parts of the world
Mate I love this video, im in my late 20s and your points are all the things I have been saying for years and everybody around me says I overthink or that i'm worried for nothing. Now here it is.
Your not alone
@@zdravkomomci7570 Thanks Zdravko, by the way , are you also a balkan person? If so then life up there doesn't look like total shit anymore does it?
@@JV8391 hi mate yeah originally from Croatia, been here 55 years Australia is home am retired now here. I've got mates who left and went back. Apparently there's alot of empty houses you can move in rent free some with furniture, they have migrant problems too and it's hard when there isn't much work, can't buy food unless you grow your own, no Centrelink or gov handouts like here, empty houses due to the war in the 90s and young people fleeing to Germany UK Ireland for opportunities. Lookup Kamba on UA-cam he did a comparison on living in Croatia food prices in euros, it's around the same imo. You could live easy if you have some sort of stream like self managed super or a income stream, the rents are nothing at all like here. This is what I'm hearing
Mate, i agree with ya. Im born and raised here too. Since covid happened it change my perspective here. Oz isnt the same infact its a shithole now. Everyone is just afraid to make a move and accept the fact that Oz isnt a place worth living. Governments are liberal sell-outs, greedy and unfair, Cost of living, Wreckless immigration, Housing crisis, Brainwashing people through media especially social media etc the list goes on. Theres better places to live we only got one shot at life. Pretty much this video confirms these points
Yeah unfortunately those around us are not always supportive, and in fact can be the opposite whether they mean to or not. Follow your own beliefs/intuition, if you wait for others to agree you will never end up doing what you really want to do. I don't understand how people can not worry about what is going on?
Its not just the cost of living and the price of housing. I've worked and had my projects stolen and the boss takes the glory (and bonuses). There is widespread corruption in many industries. For example, in Analytical testing, they have either not done testing and reported "nothing detected" (technically correct) or used expired standards and in some cases no internal standards. I've seen lots of "guest workers" ruthlessly exploited with many promises only to have them lie and not honour anything. The government knows and does nothing.
It never used to be like this - We have to take some blame - how many people know who they are voting for?. They don’t know there name,who they are or what they stand for, no wonder we have a bunch of looses, that couldn’t get a job if their life depended on it.rr
Humans problem NOT Australian problem
Voting is rigged
Becoming Little India
It's all ready is.
@@alereon how true
Overrun it’s a joke
you must be living in a cave if you say little India, come and see the train station in tarneit, Melbourne at 8:20 am on weekdays. it's literally Mumbai extension
I visited Kuala Lumpur and impressed by how modern this city is. It has a modern infrastructure and efficient public transportation. It’s a food and shopping heaven. Much cheaper to travel to the rest of the world. Seriously considering retiring there where my savings would last for longer. Here in Australia, if you’re not already in the housing market, you’re trapped in a vicious cycle of working and only just getting by.
Hi, I am a Malaysian in Ausie and been here for the past 6 years. My visa is expiring, and I have to leave next month as I don't want to keep renewing my visa. I felt so sad and not ready to leave. I saw your comment, now I don't feel so bad after all. Thank you.
Here's a clue, the same reason people are leaving Canada.
The far Left leaning Government
@@JohannesNielsen Sure it's far left if your a Neo-Nazi, all our major parties are to the right of centre and have more or less the same Neo-liberal economic policies.
Indians
@@alereon yup
Aboriginal power
Melbourne had the hardest most dictatorial lockdowns ever. My wife was coerced to inject experimental drugs without providing any long term safety data. She was sacked.
Australia isn't just Sydney and Melbourne, that's a mistake people make.
Without a car Sydney and Melbourne ARE Australia
Shhh.....
@@sumotony Not true
Housing prices in Adelaide and Perth are no better. House prices have doubled in the last 3 years.
All major cities are unaffordable
As a middle aged Australian I want to leave . My young adult son doesn’t have a future. No young people do here.
i'm trying to leave for the last 10 years , every time i take the plane australian nazi police arrest me , i'm waiting now to be rescued by Russia like ozzie cossack
Try Serbia. Many australians came here 😊
@@rachelbyrne8464 young people have no future everywhere
Why do inexperienced people always talk about "passive income from property"? These days, with so many rules, regulations and difficult tenants and useless letting agents, being a landlord is hardly a "passive" role. Its a royal pain in the ass!!!! When aspiring capitalists start to realise this, then who knows, maybe the cost of getting your own home, and in turn the cost of living will begin to decline.
Got it from rich dad poor dad... that's they extent of their financial understanding 😅
@@ConstructionHoney Good book, but yeah times have certainly chnaged since it was written.
@@rufanuf1 like any book, follow Bruce lee... take what you need and discard the rest. I didn't take that from the book, I took the lesson to buy small, sell, buy bigger.... take advantage of capitals gains....
With the new land tax in Victoria, CGT, the Vic govt war on Gas which would lead to tearing out my 6 burner gas top twin electric oven, the Gas central heating and there is some talk about windows? Mandatory wired in smoke alarms, full electrical system check, gas system check on top of general maintenance plus those who purchased properties as investments as opposed to me renting out the house while quite literally being on the other side of the nation. The literal fleeing of landlords is putting more rental stress on to those renting while house prices are crashing my estimate 230k gone so far on my property. What about my tenant? Say sorry mate not sure what you are going to do with your contents but here is a tent from Annaconda hope you can find a nice place to pitch it. Yeah fuck Victoria i'm off overseas with no intention of coming back.
Exactly right. I lost thousands as a landlord when the WA govt stopped evictions. Tenants then stopped paying rent even if they had jobs and Centrelink support. At the end of the eviction ban they all did 'a runner' owing me thousands it was impossible to collect. Who knows where they went?
Im suprized that Australia is facing similar issue we are facing here in Canada. We Canadian have misinformation that Australia is better than Canada. But its myth.
Australia and Canada are near identical.
@@Beensash correct. Though i don't think we are quite as bad as cANADA .... yet
Ummmm. You understand what net migration is right?
500000 more people came here than left in the last 12 months.
plus another 500,000 university students were imported to take non-existant jobs leaving even more Australian unemployed
@@sumotony strange story when unemployment rates are at close to record lows.
@@sumotony One thing you should consider though.... I was recently hospitalised in the last couple of years and the rate of Asian doctors I've seen was like 75%. Aussies don't like to study or work as hard. The Australian medical system would be disastrous without them. Even so is abysmal.
@@taltosalmos7067Australia could try and train their own as once they did many years ago to high standards, instead of opening the flood gates to those poorly trained in other countries. This deliberate cost cutting exercise of governments of all persuasions has dumbed down medicine, hospital standards of patient care and introduced Medicine by Politics. Life now appears cheap to those exposed to the new reality.
@@robertmartin8436 there are some idiotic comments on this feed but you top the list. We have ome of the best health care systems in the world and highest survival rates but don't you let facts get in the way
You did not even mention what a police state Auss has become !
There is too many people in Australia we are overpopulated.
The country has become unaffordable, chaotic and unfriendly at least in parts.
Im not against any group of people being here but yhe yime has come where those of us that are here suffer as the population grows.
It is time for a guest worker scheme, not a path to citizenship. Pay them the same with the same benefits and once your contract is done they return to their home country.
The continual destruction of yhe environment for more housing and industry. How often do you see a proposed project halt as there are koalas for example. A bit later those koalas are scrambling for their life and they crap on about climate change.
After the covid scam im surprised anyone wants to come here.
Please rethink if you want to move here its not what it was.
It never was any good
we arent overpopulated at all
we are hyper focused on certain areas that gives off the impression of overpopulation
most houses are empty and being artificially held back off the market to bring up prices
australia simply shouldnt be struggling with any of the big problems we are having right now its actually ridiculous.
@@kp-legacy-5477 where are the empty houses. None in WA or Sa
@@jw-vx8im What makes you think, you can see them.
@@kp-legacy-5477 this ⬆️⬆️⬆️.
Not even close to being overpopulated. We have a similar land surface area to USA. Aus population is approx 25 million. USA is approx 350 million.
We are hoper focused on business in coastal areas, which has now caused Sydney to have the 2nd most expensive real estate In the world behind Hong Kong. The rest of the country is following suit.
We have terrible policy makers, no creative thought and no productivity or pro activity behind entrepreneurial activities.
Australia has gone to shit, I hope it can recover.
I came to Australia from portugal when i was 12 years old im 50 now i cannot see myself living anywhere else, love Australia ❤️
Your one of the ones that made it, kudo's to you, enjoy.
Ripped off at every turn. The cities and now regions are becoming unaffordable.
Their think-tanks have worked it all out whats in one hand today is all gone tomorrow with interest on top, a fair go is no more
I’m sorry but people who live on Australian salaries in France don’t get to complain about their lives in Australia and rave on about how cheap life in France is. French salaries are very low! Often times many times lower. If you’re a doctor or an engineer 40k euros a year is often typical. In Australia you could be on 150-250k. These people are taking advantage of another country and ruining it for the locals by pushing up demand, bragging about it in the process.
No engineer is making 150k-250k mate
@@frankwhite3154 Yeah, that is right. In Sydney or Canberra this would be what you'd make as a professional. Could be an engineer, doctor, or lawyer, marketing director, or government senior manager (not even exec). In other places in Australia the wages are significantly lower, along with lower cost of living.
@@frankwhite3154 depends on the type of engineer and where they live/work. An electrical engineer is making minimum 150k. But I can tell you that a friend of mine in France is an engineer working for a massive international company and told me he was earning 35,000 € a year. He lives in a 40m2 studio in an old building. These Australians that just constantly complain about not being able to afford a 5 bedroom house are morons. My wife and I moved back from France and live in a 80m2 apartment and are perfectly happy. The real problem is that we are becoming a country of spoiled brats. For god’s sake this isn’t Afghanistan or North Korea. Seeking improvement is good, endless winging about the tiniest of problems is pathetic.
@@infiniteloopcounter9444 No chance. Engineers including Electrical are on around 100k give or take 20k. And the pay discrepancy between the states is less that 5%(statistical fact), That''s all states bar SA and NT. Some rare positions may bring ing coffers of cash but that's an exception and doesn't make the rule. Besides, FIFO engineers are making more that's the guys in Sydney but that's because you're paying for it with a lifestyle adjustment.
@@frankwhite3154that’s interesting. I was told by someone working for the defense force that they would always leave because they could easily make over 150k working for private companies. Also, the information online regarding salaries is extremely misleading in Australia I find. Still even 100k is a lot more than what they are earning in France. France has its own system with their own strengths and weaknesses, but it isn’t this magically easy place to live. Most people I knew there rented crap apartments where you can hear your neighbors walking above you, lived paycheck to paycheck, were completely unable to change class, but at least had fairly stable lives. I’d say stability is probably the main advantage of living in a country like France. Not necessarily all that much opportunity though unless you come from French wealth or have connections IMO.
WEF are pulling certain strings?
Many overseas people regard Australians as rich because of their incomes. But what they ignore is the high cost of living in Australia. Average price of a house in Sydney is above $1 million. Brisbane is now the second highest for house prices, even above Melbourne.
Exactly. These fools don't realise that Aus is one of the highest taxed nations worldwide. The average Australian is cash poor
The housing crisis is easy to solve. There needs to be a law that only citizens can own residential property.
Better answer is less immigrants = less housing requirements, which will eventually lead to l fewer rent price n housing price, but it will hamper the economy of australia. Sinse most of the lower class job are done by them which actually helps country grow. And the income that immigrant brings in is the third largest income sourse of australia. Agriculture and mining being top two.
@@vrl9037 skilled migrants wouldn't go to Oz then because you'd have to wait for 5 years to become a citizen
I moved from Melbourne to Thailand 4 months ago, I wanted to stop working but if I did so I couldn't afford to live in Australia. I live for around 25% of what I needed in Melbourne. I still have my property in Melbourne but this is really only to leave to my 2 children as they have no chance of owning a property otherwise. Hopefully I will never have to go back.
I'm born and bred Aussie but the corrupt government has sold us out and life is very tough financially and worse for privacy.
Rip Australia
I live in Perth in the last few years house prices has doubled, I cannot afford to rent or buy a house now! I have been forced to buy a house in boddington 2 hours from Perth, it’s rediculous I’m forced out of town and seek new work due to this embarrassing government management
I feel sorry for that
People from Sydney and Melbourne move to Brisbane, then vote for the same policies that destroyed their cities.
Ha Ha, voting does not change anything. No matter how many people vote, for whoever, it's the system that counts the votes, that rules. All that matters is that the people believe they live in a democracy, not whether they are or not.
58yrs living here and now i am moving out to Italy, I've had enough of the lies and freedomless in Australia ..
There are some very unpleasant facts that are going to make life in Australia less and less attractive. Number one among them is the serious issue of having enough drinking water. With warmer and drier winters, there is less and less rainfall so traditional water storage such as dams, are becoming less and less effective. We are yet to have a major city run out of drinking water but water restrictions are now in place every summer and it is only going to get worse. Australia has no real manufacturing industries, we are a mine and a farm and not much else. Our sucessive stupid governments do not properly tax overseas corporations that come here to ship our resources overseas for processing which we then buy back as finished goods at many time the price we sold them for. Australia as a 'lucky country' no longer existes.
Unfortunately the biggest customer for our farming and mining products now rather buy them from other countries, and we all know WHY.
That is a ridiculous argument, Dubai gets their water from the sea. So can australia
And farming is not so much, all agriculture is about 15% of the economy, that includes fisheries, we are essentially a mine, a mine, a mine, mostly open cut.
@@esmechin2696 That is a ridiculous statement, can you discern countries on a map, then look at Dubai and look at Australia, can you see any differences.
The cost of living in Australia is astronomical. A couple of tourists said to me that Australia was more expensive than New York.
We have the worst, most divisive, incompetent and self-serving politicians imaginable. The Australian quality of life is in decline.
The labor party at work. Thanks for mentioning the cost of medical. It's true you can get free emergency. Queensland is the only state that has free ambulance - I've heard being clogged up by self inflicted drunks and druggies on the weekends. Doctors charge well above the Medicare rebate rate, and does not cover any costs of seeing a specialist, several hundred dollars for a 10 minute consultation which you've waited half a year for. Private health is also exorbitant, and Queenslanders fees are supplementing the cost of the other states. I could go on, but we are actually turning into America.
Not only Queensland, Tasmania has free emergency ambulance also
I just give up on the country the sooner I can get out the better
off you go then.
@@terrykirby-fahey7363 already have best decision ever have fun with your crippled economy
Australia has gone down the toilet 🚽
I left Australia in 2006 and live in Antibes in the French Riviera. It's truly a paradise on earth. Never looked back.
Would you do that if you couldn't work remotely?
@@jacob-de4zi Sophia Antipolice is close by which is the silicon-valley of the French Riviera. You can work there hybrid which means 50% from home and 50% in the office. Monaco offers a lot of IT jobs too, so do Nice and Marseilles.
Private villa , 2 very large bedrooms,, pool, large 8x6M lounge kitchen with a house maid
$450 Au a week, where? Sanur Bali. You'd have to be a Teapot to live in Oz
How do you make your money? Online?
@@Peekaboo-Kitty Nice to know hopefully your funds last as long as possible. I’ve got to wait over another 10years and will be in Vietnam. Just heard on 2GB the rental crisis and that the average person needs to work 20years for a deposit on a house deposit in capital cities. I think more young people will seek adventure and cheap prices overseas!
Teapot 😂
@@bradhienzachary probably drugs he just doesnt wanna say it lmao
I lived even cheaper than that. Brand new one bed all Western, 120 channels, internet (At least 5 times faster than in OZ!) Electricity and water. 20 minutes from the international airport, (one hour flight to Hong King}. All up $A300 a month.
Problems with Australia:
- Laws are too relaxed on drugs/criminals. People are constantly living in fear of either getting robbed or hurt. The police aren't given the power to do their job effectively as there will always be people fighting for the rights of the criminals and not the everyday working people.
- Too many drugged-out/homeless people. They are everywhere, even in the CBD.
- Taking in way more immigrants that the system could handle, which also brings in third world criminals who are laughing at the country's first world "justice" system.
- Standard of living is in decline due to high costs living. Those days where 1 income earner could care for the whole family are long gone.
- Gender quotas in the government sectors are driving qualified people away, mostly woke and clueless people are running the show.
- Like the UK/US/Canada, a lot of people here are fighting for the wellbeing of other countries but not their own fellow countrymen.
Yes everything you said is right and spot on. Australia is a hole and I hate it here in Australia and I want to leave and go live in another country.
What is woke?
@@SleepyDonaldTooOld gender quotas, feminism and lgbt movements.
COST OF HOUSING AND RENTS ALSO THE COST OF LIVING .HOUSING IS BEYOND THE REACH OF ORDINARY PEOPLE AND FAMILIES.
Strange that such a developed country with so much land without proper planning on housing supply. This is crazy mate. Very sad. Need competent politicians.😮
I see a lot of my under 30 year old cousins are still at home and are stuck on low wages or working multiple jobs. Most are living for today and seem resigned to the idea that they will never own a home. I don't blame them for spending money on going out and enjoying life because they don't think they have a future.
Exactly
There is no future-Sarrah conner
This isn't anything new... young ambitious Australians have always dreamed of living and working abroad, especially in North America and Europe/UK ever since I can remember 50 something years ago. Its a rite of passage for especially young anglo Australians to live and work overseas and they don't consider their life has been lived unless they've done this.
Yeah, but in the old days they all came back, the seventies were golden, freedom, great standard of living, all utilities,housing, affordable and so on. Not so anymore.
Yeah! Fail to see the point of selling fertile farmland to build houses for profit alone! So eventually with unchecked immigration we might have somewhere to live but no food to eat. I never understood that. Building blocks of high-rise pigeon houses and then selling them to foreigners is no solution either. Just like in Thailand , no land for sale to foreigners. Full stop! I notices that our PM has invested in Real-estate and also brought in 1.5 mil migrants. How much profit?
The biggest property investor in parliament is Peter Dutton have a look at what he's got. Part of reason things are so expensive is the LNP sold off everything government owned to their big donors who are price gauging Australians to the point of ridiculous for power water toll roads the list goes on and on. Labors bad but when it comes to corruption knowone beats the LNP state and federal hands down the history speaks for itself.
The problem is our govt for decades neglected keeping up with demand for housing bringing more foreigners here,goods have to be shipped here that costs more due to distance, Australia needs to produce more goods here.
Highest cost of living and taxing
Rent and house prices are crazy
Both Sydney and Melbourne are now shitty places due to overwhelming migration into them
100% agree with you. Boring and very expensive place with a rising crime rate.
Australia is the most boring country in the world. Australia is also very isolated and the isolation is one of the many things that sucks about Australia.
@@johnm84 Not to mention the worst internet in developed world.
@@davidm4677 Yes internet here in Australia is so slow. Even Kenya a third world African country has better faster internet than Australia. It's embarrassing. Australia is so backward and Australia is so far behind.
@@johnm84 Yes im angry can't even play video games, with such small population Aus should have best internet in the world. Where i live by cost i can't even make a phone call no reception 2 most important things in world of today is mobile phone and internet and Aus fails at both .When I'm gone get car soon I'm going to Canberra parliament house make a stand I just can't live like this anymore!
I don't think it's boring at all, but it's too expensive.
I got out, moved to Cambodia. I feel it's a more free existence by far! Australia was taken over by the U.S industry of War when they took down Gough Whitlam in 1975 in a soft coup supported by the UK. Why? Because Whitlam had beaten Nixon to China (their next intended victim) He also talked closing Pine Gap, pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam, talked peace accord in the Pacific and an 'independent Australia', they couldn't have that! The level of influence over our media is scary as hell. If you live in Oz, know this!
The idea sounds good-how do you get a long-term visa in Cambodia?
I guess I'm an interstate migrant. Back to Queensland after 10 hard years in Canberra. Sunshine Coast. However council rates are obscene given I live in a tiny studio. Not freezing for 8 months in Canberra is nice though 🤗
Leaving for Japan this year, my salary will drop by just under 20% but my cost of living will drop by more than 60%. In fact it will cost me 2 weeks of my current apartments rent for my total monthly living 😂 Bye Australia, taking all my money and investments out.
I used to live in Japan. Power to you.
New Zealand as well. People live for paying rent and mortgage. Nothing left. Town House popping up everywhere. No backyard.
As a Australian i can tell you straight up. Cost. Too expensive. No money gains to be made
Im Australian, this was a good country until the government started farming, manufacturing out to china. We dont make cars anymore. Too much immigration is crippling the health system, and there's no housing. My friend just sold her little average house for 500,000 😮
That house wasn't worth more than $350.000 . it's crazy. The government is all the same party now, regardless of what they say. African crime gangs running Melbourne. Way more crime. Our diggers would be rolling in their graves! they gave up their lives for this! Instead of people fighting each other, we should be fighting the government. Nothing was ever settled around the table with a cup of tea. I live in perth. People are living in their cars. West Australian government were given millions of dollars to build public housing, and they didn't do it. I see people sleeping in sleeping bags under the overhang of shops.
Even in Canada🇨🇦 the cost of living is extremely high.
Vote Labour / Greens out of government!!
@scottclark1634 it's these 2 Labor and greens that have now destroyed Australia, absolutely are destroying Australia
LNP are way worse, Hanson and Palmer jokes.
My brother told me 25 years ago you work till you drop dead and cannot retire as the system keeps you working and your salary is barely enough to get through, so you in a continuous working system.
They rely on foreign people and give a measly salary to keep them in the system and pay taxes.Way too expensive here and cheaper to live overseas, so much land and houses are way too expensive and if you got money in the bank they bump up your retirement age so you working past 70yrs.
Why are Australian resources cheaper in other countries. Especially when you have to put the price of transport on top?
Biscuits made in Thailand cost $5 in Mebourne and less than 50c in Bangkok
The greed of Australian companies
I found tea Australian tree oil in the US for half the price of Australia.
@@sylviam6535 yes its madness I work in supermarket retail for example Milka Chocolate imported all the way from Germany are cheaper than Australian Cadbury Chocolates made in Australia
Unbelievable
@@Tibor860 - It’s the same with some Italian cheese. I believe that export subsidies sometimes distort prices, but Australia is also very expensive in general.
$1700 car insurance. $1500 house insurance.
$2000 land tax.
$3000 land rates and water.
$900 gas and electricity bills. "Each" for one quarter.
25% income tax.
10% gst.
Its become a disgrace.
It could be worse.
Here's what I'm paying every year, in Canada, Toronto area.
$2200 car insurance
$800 house insurance
$5400 property tax
$160 waste and water
$1200 gas
$1100 electricity bill
$800 Internet
5% GST ( Federal) + 8% PST(Provincial)
20.05% - 53.53% income tax (Federal + Provincial) based on the tax bracket. I'm at 35% marginal tax rate.
Leaving Aus asap. To crazy for us now. Prices are crazy and no future here.
Totally agree Aus is getting expensive but Ah. I was just there Nice, Burgundy, Monaco, Paris, South France doesn't matter. It all costs ridiculously high compared to aus mate. Idk about rent but everyday items is just as high. Bread milk eggs all over 4 or 5 euros each. A beer runs you 8 euros that's about 15 dollars AUD. The only thing that was equivalent was their fast food which cost pretty close to aus. What you talking about my dude...
What are you smoking mate!! A beer costs 8 Euro's ($15) Better start taking your meds.
The biggest problem with Australia is the cost of housing, No matter if you buy or rent its outrageous. Australia is so expensive that everyone works all the time ,Food ,clothes ,cars everything is expensive.
All this eats into your quality of life , Family time , friends time and quality of life . There is a lot more to life then owning a house and yet Australians spend their whole life working to only achieve that .. life has much much more to offer.
I was born in Australia and i have also lived overseas. Overseas wins hands down in many ways when you weigh up the cost of Australia, The isolation, The lack of culture , it does not have the social communities like you find in other parts of the world.
it does not have the social communitiesx2
I’m based in Brisbane. Over the last 3 years in big tech (10 years in total) I’ve had a 1% increase, followed by 0% and then finally laid off. I’m on month two of being unemployed and will likely need to reduce my expected salary. I don’t understand how people are meant to live when costs are rising rapidly and corporates are doing everything they can to reduce salaries.
The government is allowing too many skilled IT professionals into the country and does nothing about local work being outsourced to India. The government does not care about its citizens.
I thought finding a job would be a walk in the park after being in big tech for so long. It could not be further from the truth. It must be an absolute nightmare for people with less experience.
The problem is easy ....greed......I personally know people who have accumulated enough to live ten lifetimes and they're still striving for more......noone seems to realise when many jump on board this gravy train, they are also creating poverty and unaffordability......this in turn creates further negative symptoms such as increased crime and drug use.....it's clear why the saying "the lucky country" has disappeared
I left Aus 3 years ago for a couple of reasons, but mainly because my work opportunities are so much greater in Europe.
There's a glass ceiling in Aus with a strong boys club gatekeeping the senior positions in the tech sector and a very small market to build your own business unless you're strongly embedded in this boys club.
The second lesser reason is that I lived in Melb for the pandemic and I was shocked and saddened to see our societies true colours shine, certain fundamental truths I thiught we all believed in dissapeared so easily (right to protest, freedom of speech and assembly, body/medical autonomy, free press etc.) - by the way, i listened to all the rules and got the shots, it's not my point but seeing a democracy throw away those values so readily made me feel disconnected from my community
Where do you stay in Europe ?
@@shrknj28 Germany and Finland so far, going to settle in Netherlands :)
@@mknights33 I was asking because I am also planning to move Abroad. I currently stay in India. So, I wanted to know the current status of Europe, Germany & the Netherlands specifically. In news, we tend to hear a lot of negatives regarding Europe
So I was thinking to move to Australia.
Can you tell me a bit about the state of Europe. How is it going ? Is it better than Australia in terms of settling down. Like the cost of living, expenses, the health structure etc.
Thanks in advance. :)
How about a video on where we see Australia in 10-20-30 years? Would it make us uncomfortable? Why?
Australia is finished and will be like Fiji a poor country with huge socio-economic problems. It's looking for cheap underskill labour. It was never an independent advanced economy
Australia will soon be invaded and taken over by China. Australia will soon be under Chinese rule.
My wife and I both 5th generation aussies are planning to leave our country very shortly, immigration tax theft corruption in both major political parties large government lack of consultation with the public before making social decisions woke ideolgy support just some of the reasons for this, this is not the australia we both grew up in and has become a worldwide joke. The Albanese government has been the worst government that I can remember, and Iv voted labor my whole life.
make sure to renounce too
@@lifeisgood2542 renounce what
Iv voted labor my whole life----> The god is punishing you then.
I also voted Labor my whole life right up until the last election, after studying the goings on in the US and recognising the same behaviours in the left over here and realising it has always been so, I am disgusted with myself for being so blind, the left is not what I want for my children or grandchildren they are Marxists who have not yet learned that communism does not work and there is not one example in history that it did, it always leads to a tyrannical state, this has nothing to do with God and to suggest he is handing out punishment shows your lack of knowledge of God and a mindset in line with Marxism, good luck my friend you will need it