By What Age Should Someone Own/Have Bought a House?

A house doesnt appreciate its actually the land value that does.

But if you block of land and put a ten storey hotel on it, and rent it out, like in monopoly, the more you can squeeze onto that land the more rent money you'll get hence NYC skyscrapers and towers. People are then literally buying air space.

SUVs we call them 'silly useless vehicles'

in nz we have small japanese cars not big road blockers. Our roads arent that wide.

Why do single mums have SUVs again? To run over their kids in the driveway? This unfortunately has happened a LOT and you cant see from a big vehicle behind you your little toddler who cant even climb into the car without a step and an extra car seat on top of the seats already in there.

I love my 2016 BWW X5 diesel. Best vehicle I ever bought. 30 mpg city, 50 hwy.
Can haul my bike and fishing gear easily. High tow capacity and bombproof tranny and engine.
The thing has almost 200K and runs and looks fantastic. Everything works perfectly.

Compact cars have severe limitations. Good for commuting and groceries that's about it.

I have an X4 and CANNOT WAIT TO TRADE IT.

I have a 1999 Mercedes Benz 500 convertible after my dad. He only got to put down 600 miles in it before he passed. I think I have driven maybe like 3,000 miles in 23 years in that car. It’s like it’s brand new.

That’s a KEEPER!!

so funny when you see bike racks on a CAR

Im like are you to lazy to REALLY bike anywhere but just want to show everyone you bike by driving somewhere to bicycle.

But I dont say that out loud I just think it.

Fishing gear belongs in a boat though. Why are you driving somewhere to fish?

I supoose the heart has its reasons. Lots of guys are car idolators.

Bring a bike on vacation, to go biking while you are there. But it would be a real pain to try to carry a wife, three kids and all their luggage on a bike to the vacation spot.

And yeah, we drive somewhere to fish a lot. You don't need a boat to fish. At least not around here. Where do YOU live that a boat is a requirement?

Lots of ponds and private lakes around here to fish in. And the game warden has no jurisdiction.

there are no ponds in the suburbs they have all been flattened and filled out to put houses on.
If you want a pond you have to buy a plastic one and get it dug and put in. Also all swimming pools need fences and gates to stop toddlers drowning.
Even natural waterholes have been filled in by concrete because of drownings.

Here because pakeha took over the land and introuduced foreign fish and dirtied the rivers with questionable farming practices, artificial fertilisers and runoff from that, nobody can fish from the rivers...and there are no frogs anymore. Frogs indicate healthy ecosystem of freshwater they cant survive in an industrial wasteland, which is wherever humans live. Cos they all want roads and dams, electricity etc.

Humans also put their rubbish dumps near the forest or in between towns. Living a city lifestyle produces so much waste and rubbish. But then country life style isnt much better. So much toxic farming practices that the farmers still havent given up. Smallholders are being squeezed out, and only those hipster lifestyler farmers who rely on the city can run their hobby farms with the cash they got from their profits doing other things. They actually dont make a real living cos they cant from their land.

I fond it ironic that humans cut down trees to build houses with the wood/timber that only last so long before the big bad wolf or a cyclone blows or a fire burns it up to bits. Because there are no trees protecting it anyway. They were all cut down to make the houses.

Most of the exotic trees planted for timber have to be treated chemically because their timber is too soft to withstand any amount of moisture, hence leaky home problems. Many houses are being built without eaves, and the skimping of materials just diminishes their life after a few years.

If you ARE going to build a home, be a wise little pig and build one out of bricks. On rock, not sand.

With eaves. And proper flashing. Its going to cost you though.

There isnt enough land or housing supply to keep up with demand...unfortunately. In certain areas, its too expensive to live there you need to live in the next town and commute.

when you are retired THEN you can afford a home and dont have to go out to work for it lol
Save money.

That may be true where YOU live....it isn't here.

We don't defecate where we eat and live. Once upon a time, a long time ago we in the USA did....and we didn't like it....so laws were passed and now you can't.

We protect wetlands (AKA swamps and marshes) and if possible restore them. We replant land stripped of its topsoil and fix it. Callaway Gardens are a prime example of what we have done. Sewage and garbage are minimized when financially feasible and recycled. Some of the biggest success stories in the USA is taking literally garbage and turning it into products that people demand.

Figure it out....

well USA is much larger geographically and isnt prone to earthquakes (except in california) or volcanoes (except hawaii) but it does have hurricanes and cyclones.

It also has a big river but I heard the mississipi was very polluted and some of the lakes werre poisoned, and people steal water from the Colorado. Nobody really wants to live in the swamp/delta area but it seems people still colonise Florida anyway which is mostly underwater lol

There was a huge dustbowl created in the mid west thanks to absentee landowners. The prairie was industrialised and the buffalo made near extinct. The USA has its own problems, and has a huge homeless population, we hear about it and see it all the time.

Their roads are good though, a lot of older routes and towns have been abandoned when they didnt work out. The rich get richer in america if they can swing it so they live tax free though.

I would agree yes they do turn garbage into things people demand...like trash tv?

Its become a little more environmentally aware but there are still heaps of climate change deniers in the US and Pacific garbage patch deniers. Its all their rubbish dumped innthe pacific ocean from all the things bought from cheaper countries. You buy it, you throw it away seems to be the thing for these ages.