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My backstory for anyone interested - when I started supporting more density so more inner city neighbourhoods would be buzzy and interesting like Kings Cross - a detached house in middle Sydney was $350k.
Im an urbanist (aka yimby) but it has to be part of a coordinated approach of supply AND demand measures to result in housing affordability. I became interested in urbanism because I wanted lively neighbourhoods, not because I thought density alone would sufficiently reduce cost
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Let's design a pedestrian crossing where half leads into a fence.
Easy fix is just moving the painted stop line back 10 metres up Elizabeth St if the engineers at @TransportforNSW had a brain cell to conjure up between them
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While school children and pedestrians get killed by dangerous drivers every week, the @nswpolice are going after the big offenders
Trying to access sent pictures in messenger for important information someone sent me a few weeks ago. The app crashes everytime I try to load media/files. Fucking hell... Apps need to stop with the new features and sort out the current ones!
Hey @Meta, I just want Facebook Messenger not to be a buggy piece of shit esp failing to send media
Meta: ... Have some AI functions noone wants or asked for
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Its going to be so ironic if first home buyer lending surges amidst collapsed property prices and all the people talking up what an awful thing the current property market and home lending circumstances are will need to eat their words.
It happened in NZ.
Currently listening to property podcasts for a laugh, and as a potential FHB waiting to jump in. Someone needs to tell Spotify they belong under the 'Comedy' category.
"Noone has a crystal ball to know when the bottom of the market is, you should buy now!!" Puhlease!!! 🤣🤣
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I support the strike action given the garbage conditions and lack of bus priority to maintain on time running.
Also, 3000 extra services... yet an hour gap in service through the former most densely populated suburb in Australia..... Just trash.
Bus services across Sydney’s CBD are getting a big boost. Transport Minister John Graham says 3,000 more trips will take place each week, with services becoming more frequent and running later.
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Fingers crossed this is what Sydney is on track for.
The left (among others) has been very successful in gaslighting the public the absolute lie that rent increases are caused by interest rates rises rather than the actual cause: low vacancy rates because of mass immigration.
"it's great house prices are going down but now it's harder to get approved for a mortgage of the same size". Why do you think prices are going down ffs. My generation is dumb as fuck.
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Maybe unpopular opinion but, in my experience, Kiwis in my top 3 most arrogant nationalities after Israeli and Swiss. Though that may be a case of NZs biggest wankers move to Sydney.
Australia just has more bogus Government and non-market sector jobs compared to NZ that better mask the economic basket cases both countries actually are. *cough NDIS.
it's my experience as a new zealander who lived in australia for a while, it's more of a "nz is the best country in the world, but neoliberal austerity policies have made it a hard place to build a future" kind of sentiment, which is actually really sad
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I feel it's probably important to note this does not include pacific Islander kiwis who are prob the nicest people you've ever met in your life. Sorry whitey kiwis!
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It's almost as if the government doesn't actually give a shit about the road toll
Urge ✅ Enforce? 🤷🙈
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Ahhh yes the gold first episode of the latest season of South Park about getting kids off ebikes and back inside on their phones. And then concluding in just banning all ebikes.
Why accommodate when you can just ban/restrict something with the potential to be amazing?
