There are mornings when, like Linus van Pelt, I just want to pull a blanket over my head and not look at the world. There's the orange Nero fiddling while the old world order is falling apart; there is China to our north flexing its muscles; and there's the European non-Union hosting another talk-fest while the new Stalin lobs drones into Poland with no response from NATO.
And here in Australia our self-serving politicians, in the absence of any population policy, bring in half a million migrants a year to compete for our dwindling resources in housing and infrastructure, to say nothing of water in the world's driest continent. And anyone questioning it is a fascist.
Speaking of which, Albo's insane first homebuyer's 5% deposit scheme has thrown fuel on the already blazing real estate market. Properties in the price range covered by this deposit scheme - up to $1.5 million in Sydney; less elsewhere - are suddenly all SOLD or UNDER OFFER. I had a bit of a look around on realestate.com.au last night in the places that I would like to relocate to if "Riverbend" ever sells, and where there used to be pages and pages of unsold listings, it's now SOLD and SOLD and UNDER OFFER from top to bottom. The fear of missing out has gripped the market, and those who only yesterday complained about prices being too high, are now hoping that property prices will keep on rising above their 5% equity.
As I wrote, 'if "Riverbend" ever sells', because those who are still young enough to maintain this beautiful acreage by the river haven't got the money, and those who have got the money are too old to maintain it. I need to sell up before the constant need to repair and maintain kills me, and I have changed my advertisement from a price of "$3,100,000 to $3,200,000" - which is still a bargain! - to "EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST" and added the byline "Selling practically at land value!" - see here.