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Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] notgold@aussie.zone -4 points 2 weeks ago

Shiny new iPhone i think he wrote ๐Ÿ˜‰ It's something I've noticed too. People buy the shiny phones, then the head phones, then the screen, the laptop, the glasses, the cloth; spending thousands of dollars in the process. Multiply that each year, as many do, and there is no savings. Nothing growing at all in their accounts. That growth long term can put a deposit on an apartment or a outer suburb house.

Smart kids get jobs in the field that give them free phones and sometimes cars. Bonus points if its a unionised position.

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