I've always been told to save 10% of the cost of the house for a deposit before getting a home loan. I've had a look at those 'no deposit' places and Drhoz and I would never get enough for the kind of house we need (4 bedroom with a yard). We figure we might as well hang out for a good house rather than 'settle' as we're going to be in that house till the day we die, most likely. At current prices, we're going to need at least $40,000. I'm crossing my crossables for a housing crash sometime soon.
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I've had Eastern States take the piss out of me for WA things (our shopping hours mainly).
And if you want to hear the mother of all 'the Eastern Staters are against us' theory nuts, talk to my Dad. He gets pissed that WA supposedly brings in a lot of money, but doesn't get much back from the government.
When ever there was a competition on TV, for example, he'd get himself worked up over the lack of WA winners, as most of them would always come from NSW and Vic. Never mind that those two states have most of the population in the country and statistically there should be more winners from there.
There has been a bit of a kerfulal with the reality TV show now - with the first Big Brother there were a lot of people over hear that reckon that Sarah 'bunny ears' woman was robbed because her fan base was in Perth and missed out on voting time because the voting line hours were created with the east coast in mind and therefore shut 3 hours early in WA. And I kept getting Australian Idol spoilers on ninemsn.com.au because they wouldn't take the time difference in when posting results...
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I've had Eastern States take the piss out of me for WA things (our shopping hours mainly).
And if you want to hear the mother of all 'the Eastern Staters are against us' theory nuts, talk to my Dad. He gets pissed that WA supposedly brings in a lot of money, but doesn't get much back from the government.
When ever there was a competition on TV, for example, he'd get himself worked up over the lack of WA winners, as most of them would always come from NSW and Vic. Never mind that those two states have most of the population in the country and statistically there should be more winners from there.
There has been a bit of a kerfulal with the reality TV show now - with the first Big Brother there were a lot of people over hear that reckon that Sarah 'bunny ears' woman was robbed because her fan base was in Perth and missed out on voting time because the voting line hours were created with the east coast in mind and therefore shut 3 hours early in WA. And I kept getting Australian Idol spoilers on ninemsn.com.au because they wouldn't take the time difference in when posting results...