heard on the TV news...
...last Friday evening:
In Sydney, for rent:
an enclosed balcony with a bed on it.
$360 per week.
Three hundred and sixty dollars per week!!
Boggles the mind doesn't it?
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This article in yesterday's paper caught my eye. Looks like mould to me. But. Forget the sensational headline for a minute and focus on the can. Notice how it's a little blackened around the bottom rim? I'm not sure it shows, but it looks like the can has been standing in wet conditions, the wrapper looks a little wrinkled too at top and bottom. Was it like this when it was bought? If yes, why buy it? If no, then how was it stored in the home environment? Use by date. Usually irrelevant, unless the can has been opened. We all know that once a can is opened the contents need to be used immediately, especially baby foods. She mentions somewhere in the story that the contents appeared "a bit runny". This happens when food is given to the baby directly from the can, (or jar) with saliva from the baby's mouth being transferred to the contents, which then begins to break down the molecular structure of the canned food. This isn't immedia...
Accommodation everywhere is ridiculously priced, but someone will be desperate enough to take it.
ReplyDeleteCrazy and getting more so! What is wrong with people! Just don[t try to live in Sydney!!
ReplyDeleteSadly that would be considered cheap in California. But here there would be a bed sitter in a room that is 10 x 10. Costs are $1000/mo. for studio, 1 bdrm is about $1500, 2 bed is about $1800. Grrr.
ReplyDeleteWe have so many homeless here. LA and San Francisco are sanctuary cities.
Frightening isn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt almost impossible to find a place for under $1,000 a month. In my area.
ReplyDeleteAnd someone will take that!
ReplyDeleteRidiculous, isn't it. I would expect an overseas student would take it.
ReplyDeleteThey mention the weekly cost so as not to mention the 1500 a month cost.
ReplyDeleteRenting out a closed veranda and bed reminds me of Sydney after WW2, once migrants were recruited from destroyed countries. Those poor lonely people were desperate then, and must be now.
ReplyDeleteSickening isn't it.
ReplyDeleteI read it like you, and it was also on our news.
Greedy people.
jabblog; but who is desperate enough and can afford that amount?
ReplyDeleteLinda Sue; I have lived in Sydney in the past but would never do so now. Even my own city is getting far too expensive.
Susan Kane; your costs are monthly, so that studio would be $250 per week, larger and cheaper than that $360 balcony. The showed it on the TV, Just room for the bed and maybe a chair, that's it.
Elephant's Child; very frightening. I worry about what the twins and great grandson will face 10-15 years from now.
Dora; $1000 a month is still only $250 a week. Rents here are charged weekly not monthly.
Bob; hopefully someone with no belongings because there isn't room on that balcony for anything but the bed and maybe a chair.
Andrew; that's what I was thinking with parents in the homeland paying the rent while the student studies.
Mike; all rents here are charged weekly, I don't know anywhere except the US that charges monthly.
hels; far too many people are desperate now and you have made me think of those immigration villages like Bonegilla that were built with quonset huts to house the post war immigrants. Why can't the government do something similar for the many, many homeless? I landed in Bonegilla in 1953.
Margaret D; it is sickening and they do it because they know someone will snap it up because of the housing shortage. Our government is failing our people.
I won't even tell you what my grandson and his wife are paying for an efficiency apartment in New York City.
ReplyDeleteGranny Annie; I bet it is hugely expensive, being New York.
DeleteThat is quite the choice! Wow.
ReplyDeleteJenn Jilks; it wouldn't be my choice.
DeleteAnd I thought the housing costs were high over here! I think the balcony "suite" has us beat.
ReplyDeleteMMM; thankfully it isn't listed as a "suite" it cleary states "balcony with bed".
DeleteWhich makes you wonder, who in the world is going to rent that???
DeleteThe same problem here in Greece.
ReplyDeleteIn Thessaloniki and Athens, apartment rental prices are now prohibitive!!
I wonder where they will end up!!
Katerinas Blog; possibly it will end with emoty apartments and everyone sleeping on the streets, which is a horrifying thought.
Delete*empty* not emoty (*~*)
DeleteWe were kinda "clever" and bought this condo in 2011 - by now the price has doubled - how crazy is this????? How are people to afford to live in places other than a village???
ReplyDeleteIris; be glad you bought when you could. the cost of buying and just living have blown out of all proportion since covid. It just doesn't make sense.
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