John would live somewhere and would be making payments somehow. For the last 21 years, I have been living off the taxpayer with welfare getting paid to me. Two-thirds of my income is from work. I get paid about half the amount of welfare that other people usually get, if they are not income means-tested. I really would not know what the rent prices are like for people.

Back in my childhood, my father was the sole income earner. Mum had to stay home and raise her three children. By the time my brother started pre-school, Mum re-entered the workforce. This helped pay off the mortgage faster. We were borderline in poverty when Dad was the sole income earner. We were well into middle income earning family by the time I was in my teens. Then Dad got promoted in his blue-collar job. Mum went to a 6-figure paying income job. The mortgage being paid off meant that Mum and Dad could save money. And when I finally decided to get a job in my late teens, I had my own spending money and some financial independence.

I live in a house that I will probably inherit from my relatives. So, I do not know the reality of buying a home.

Hang on .... how come you've not been able to get a full time job for 21 years? Aren't you around 40 yrs old anyway?

I personally do not know of anyone (offline) who has been unemployed for 21 years.

Good luck with relying on an inheritance for owning a home. You might find that the house in question will be required to be sold off to cover the cost of an aged care facility. Of course this is only if the current owner needs an aged care facility.

John would live somewhere and would be making payments somehow. For the last 21 years, I have been living off the taxpayer with welfare getting paid to me. Two-thirds of my income is from work. I get paid about half the amount of welfare that other people usually get, if they are not income means-tested. I really would not know what the rent prices are like for people.

Back in my childhood, my father was the sole income earner. Mum had to stay home and raise her three children. By the time my brother started pre-school, Mum re-entered the workforce. This helped pay off the mortgage faster. We were borderline in poverty when Dad was the sole income earner. We were well into middle income earning family by the time I was in my teens. Then Dad got promoted in his blue-collar job. Mum went to a 6-figure paying income job. The mortgage being paid off meant that Mum and Dad could save money. And when I finally decided to get a job in my late teens, I had my own spending money and some financial independence.

I live in a house that I will probably inherit from my relatives. So, I do not know the reality of buying a home.

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2022 at 1:56pm:


Hang on - didn't you tell me a month back (on OzPol) that you supposedly turned back a bank loan in the 1990's of around 5 million dollars with no security?  And I told you that was total BS?

John Smith wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2022 at 4:38pm:


Well, I must admit that for the previous 6 months (ending in February this year) I was averaging $100 a week in booze and colas per week. Added to the fact that I earn about $400 per week from work and get about $300 per fortnight from Centrelink, even wasting money on booze (and the usual hangover cure from eating a junk food meal), I can still afford to spend $200 per fortnight on groceries and rent. Yes, my rent is cheap. But you should be able to afford rent and food in cities, too, earning $50,000 a year. Are you spending more than $300 a week on rent?