Comment by wing-_-nuts

I used to have a lot of financial anxiety when I was younger. These days I thought I was pretty well set but the increase in prices for everything has been kind of a wake up call, especially housing! Kind of shocking when SFH's in my southern suburb went from costing ~ 400k in 2017 to ~ 800k now. What blows me away is that it appears to have no bearing to what people can actually afford? I make multiples of the local median household income and even I'm starting to worry about affordability if I ever needed more space.