I couldn't agree with you more Roger. People have been bleating and whinging how hard it is to buy a house since time immemorial.
Purely by chance I was sifting through my old high school box of goodies yesterday and came across this 1982 article in the Wanganui Herald in which they quote the Taranaki Herald (before it became the Daily News I suppose).
In 1982 I was 16 back in the good old carless days oil shock era.... yes I'm 48 now, yes I had to pay my way through uni when I put myself through in the early nineties (including course costs), yes my student loan attracted interest, and that's right, double digit interest rates on my mortgage at the time, and no mobile phones.. not even cordless phones.... I don't even think remote garage door openers existed.
Good grief, listening to the news one would think Labours 'epiphany' about a housing crisis was today's big new issue.
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