I'm one of the lucky millennials who could buy a home and start a family. Albeit in a rural area outside of a country town 3 hours from a capital city. There are major trade off's career, healthcare and services wise, but I am very fortunate.
And still the major parties offer us nothing.
I'd rather tafe be free, there not be a nuclear reactor built at lithgow, and get an urgent care clinic built at Bathurst of course. But once again both parties forget about the largest voting demographic and pander to boomers. And the greens these days (though they do get my vote) can't negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag and can't seem to get anything done other than oppose everything that's not 100% what they want.
I think gen y and z don't riot because we're exhausted. Burnt out. And don't think anyone would listen anyway.
Maybe it's about time we did. Not that we'll have time to when we're working second jobs with massive commutes.
Rural living is an excellent option (but yes a compromise in many ways) so long as the jobs exist.
If we tried to make working from home a right (where sensible), people would be able to choose regional areas, reinvigorate smaller towns, and own homes.
Why are we so desperately clinging to the broken-down status quo?
I’d be curious to know how many votes Dutton lost in QLD when he said he would live in Sydney rather than Canberra if he won the election. Queenslanders are pretty parochial. I reckon they would have accepted him living in Canberra - that’s part of the job. But living in Sydney? Surely some Queenslanders would’ve sen that as a betrayal.
This right here. You really captured our sentiment, the futility and frustration. What’s nice though, you also made my ‘simmering anger’ about the situation boil over and reminded me that “yes; I can be fucking mad and yell, and yes I want to own a home without selling a kidney”.
Fucking spot on and brilliantly written.
I'm one of the lucky millennials who could buy a home and start a family. Albeit in a rural area outside of a country town 3 hours from a capital city. There are major trade off's career, healthcare and services wise, but I am very fortunate.
And still the major parties offer us nothing.
I'd rather tafe be free, there not be a nuclear reactor built at lithgow, and get an urgent care clinic built at Bathurst of course. But once again both parties forget about the largest voting demographic and pander to boomers. And the greens these days (though they do get my vote) can't negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag and can't seem to get anything done other than oppose everything that's not 100% what they want.
I think gen y and z don't riot because we're exhausted. Burnt out. And don't think anyone would listen anyway.
Maybe it's about time we did. Not that we'll have time to when we're working second jobs with massive commutes.
Thank God for avocado toast.
YUP. Hard agree with all of this.
Rural living is an excellent option (but yes a compromise in many ways) so long as the jobs exist.
If we tried to make working from home a right (where sensible), people would be able to choose regional areas, reinvigorate smaller towns, and own homes.
Why are we so desperately clinging to the broken-down status quo?
Another incredible piece from our car poet. Car poet, carpet - see what I did there?
Brilliantly put as always Steph x Dom
THANK YOU!!
I’d be curious to know how many votes Dutton lost in QLD when he said he would live in Sydney rather than Canberra if he won the election. Queenslanders are pretty parochial. I reckon they would have accepted him living in Canberra - that’s part of the job. But living in Sydney? Surely some Queenslanders would’ve sen that as a betrayal.
This right here. You really captured our sentiment, the futility and frustration. What’s nice though, you also made my ‘simmering anger’ about the situation boil over and reminded me that “yes; I can be fucking mad and yell, and yes I want to own a home without selling a kidney”.