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I tend to side with Kiashu @ 50 on this. Whilst I agree with the underlying augrment that there are bigger issues to address such as housing affordability and tax reform, much of the problem with housing affordability is that low income earners expect these McMansion's as their first home. So as the bottom end of the market strives for more, is it unsurprising that the entire market gets lifted?I suppose the question for me is whether this demand is being driven by fashion (a la Affluenza style) or is it supply side driven (i.e. easier (viz more cost effective because they don't have to retool, etc) for builders to rehash these crappy designs then build something suited to the local market? For example, up here in tropical North Queensland, we're building the same crappy McMansion's as you're getting in the southern states. So, in a location where traditionally we'd have cooling verandas, etc, we have block houses with no eaves and a black colorbond roof!!! Little surprise then that they need a 1 Billion BTU's of AirCon to make them liveable.So, what's driving this insanity? Is it the southern influx demanding what they're familiar with or is it simply builders rehashing a proven formula because they know it'll make them more money?Oh, and I haven't seen anyone trying to argue for or against the other claim made by Hamilton RE:pending time with friends and family, getting involved in the local community, and developing our skills and creativity. which I think was the point made by Kiashu.As for evidence of affluenza? Well, all I can speak from is our own experience where, for years, we battled immense pressure to avoid the clutches of the likes of Storm Financial who assured us a wonderful life and easy money. We watched enviously as associates made immense paper gains ; yet something didn't add up (and with some glib satisfaction as most of these are now effectively broke). Similarly, we debated how much of our inflated equity we should risk on other ventures. Thankfully, we managed to keep ourselves at a realistic level (i.e. tried to ignore the boom component). However, you need to understand the pressure brought upon us from all angles. From colleagues. From banks. From family. From ourselves. It was incredibly difficult to fight off the look, you too can be rolling in gold dust mentality.So, whilst some of this can be attributed to cheaper things , many were simply driven by greed. The hype from Storm never cut it with me their catch cry seemed to be we can all be millionaires and anything that espouses that money literally does grow on trees immediately turns on my BS meter. Yet thousands believed it. Why else would retirees risk their entire life savings on a high capital growth (i.e. high risk) investment strategy? It's not as if they weren't comfortable some of them were risking millions of their own capital (existing housing equity + superannuation). So it really annoys me that they want us (and the banks) to bale them out of their own stupidity!

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Fair point Myriad. Here's a post I nearly crsseod. Let me know what you think:Since Adrian hasn't been game to put up any behaviour changing' proposals of your own, I have one for you that will cut your carbon footprint by 50% overnight: move to Manhattan.Seriously, by some estimates New York City residents have a carbon footprint that's about 25% of the average American, which is to say about half that of the average Australian. Only 25% of Manhattan households have cars. The dwellings are tiny, so people have far less stuff by default. The city is fed by the virtually inexhaustible fresh water rainfall of the Catskill mountains, and is so well-filtered by the aquifer bedrock it needs virtually no treatment to be potable. The tap water is so good, and there's almost none of the ridiculous trade in bottled water that goes on here. People get everything they need within a few short blocks of where they live, or folks deliver it to them on bicycles.So, New Yorkers live in relative opulence, in a great world city, with year-round heating and cooling in most homes, with pizza delivery at any hour, unlimited high-speed broadband via cable to the home, easy access to some of the world's best museums, theaters and sporting grounds, and every manner of entertainment and leisure known to the modern world all for half the carbon footprint of anywhere else.Australians could all meet our 2020 carbon targets if we just built a New York City somewhere on our east coast and moved there. But somehow I think that lifestyle is insufficiently dour and far, far too comfortable, to be acceptable to the Affluenza brigade. Certainly it's too good to allow the Chinese or Indians to have it. And perhaps not everybody wants to live in New York City. But hey, Adrian, there's a planet to save, so quit complaining and get over there!

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