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The absolute state of housing in Australia at the minute - rent a caravan in a driveway in a semi-rural locality, only $200/week! (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 years ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] tourist@community.destinovate.com 1 points 2 years ago

For only $800 a month, you can be homeless if you work hard enough!

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago

I mean, you could just not rent it.

[–] OrganicLife@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am I poor or desperate enough to think that 800/mth is on the high end of reasonable?

Although paying rent every week like they do in Australia is crazy to me still.

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is Brisbane this bad? Have heard of syd, melb and cbr being like this but somehow assumed things were netter up north.

[–] Nottalottapies@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly it is. I regularly go into Brisbane and have seen the amount of folks sleeping rough at least triple in the list couple of years.

[–] OmanMkII@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah it is, most rooms are 200+ in the inner suburbs, 3 bedrooms are easily 6-800/wk. I was somewhat depressed by the number of people bombarding me with offers when we had a spare room to fill.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't think listing is meant as somewhere to live (I hope) I think it's meant for someone to rent to go on a roadtrip/camping with

Edit: I missed the long term part at the bottom :(

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too. Drop 200 bucks and take out the family to the sea for a nice camping trip

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Seeing how the rent is on a weekly basis I think so too.

Seeing as you're from another instance I'm guessing you're not from Australia, and came across this thread on /All?

Weekly rent is, for some weird reason, the norm here. I know most of the world does it monthly, and frankly I think that makes more sense. But it's not how we do things in Aus.