Domesticity, and its accompanying architectural fantasy, have driven urban development since the mid-19th century and most intensely since the 1950s.
It's the dream that allows us to imagine our most intimate familial relationships, those between ourselves, our partner and our children inside a particular architectural form. It's almost always a single family dwelling, on a fenced block, separated from its neighbours with little collective amenity beyond sewage, roads and electricity. There's a back yard, sometimes a dog — we see it on Backyard Blitz and other renovation shows. It comes to us from Grand Designs as much from New Idea. The American version has a picket fence and pitched roof like a child's drawing. Our version is more likely to be a Federation semi, a Queenslander or a contemporary design as part of a land and house package on the edge of one of our capital cities.
But for Gen Y it appears that things have shifted. Research released last week entitled ''Why We Buy'', published by RAMS Home Loans and the market research firm, IPSOS, has shown that despite the increase in the value of residential property, young Australians still want to own their own home. But now, they are just as happy living in and buying apartments as they are houses.
You really are a dick. Gen Y are our best chance of creating a society where real advancement is made. Flipping houses? No, the drive to contribute and effect positive change trumps that....
You really are a dick. Gen Y are our best chance of creating a society where real advancement is made. Flipping houses? No, the drive to contribute and effect positive change trumps that....
Apartments might in some cases be suitable for some single/couples - but they're from ideal for families.
However, I think there are major issues with many apartments in this country which makes them a sub-optimal choice even for non-families. Specifically, the sound insulation is crap. When I lived in an apartment I remember being able to hear whenever the upstairs neighbours had a pee, or put music on (and they weren't even loud people!!). And from what I've seen my experience was hardly atypical. Never again....
Apartments might in some cases be suitable for some single/couples - but they're from ideal for families.
However, I think there are major issues with many apartments in this country which makes them a sub-optimal choice even for non-families. Specifically, the sound insulation is crap. When I lived in an apartment I remember being able to hear whenever the upstairs neighbours had a pee, or put music on (and they weren't even loud people!!). And from what I've seen my experience was hardly atypical. Never again....
My experience too. Modern Australian apartments are poorly built in general. Whack em up as quick and cheaply as possible and flog em off for half a mill.
Gen y are a product of the previous generation... Want to blame someone for problems we have right now ? Try looking at the failed parents of gen y...
Useless self indulgent turds, and yes just like their parents.
However, Gen Y marks the point when the chronic deficiency in the character of our population manifests itself so profoundly that the symptoms of this ill are reflected in every aspect of our society.
Useless self indulgent turds, and yes just like their parents.
However, Gen Y marks the point when the chronic deficiency in the character of our population manifests itself so profoundly that the symptoms of this ill are reflected in every aspect of our society.
WW1
WW2
Wholesale slaughter of indegenous populations across the globe in the name of empire expansion by Brittan, Spain, Portugal and others hundreds of years ago.
If you don't think there was a chronic deficiency in the character of our population before Gen Y were born then you are blind to the lessons of history.
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