The Great Aussie Dream - Buying a Home (Post WW2)

Episode from the 1999 TV series Our Century, presented by Ray Martin. Home ownership has always been a big part of many Australians dream.

[@nadiapurser4734]

1989 - cost to buy a home was 2 x your yearly income. 1999 - 3 x your yearly income. 2019 - 10 x your yearly income! 2049 - 50 x your yearly income? The new Australian dream... wait for your inheritance before you can own a house!

[@samkaur4098]

How true.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

#nerdsawaken

[@nicknamenick9448]

Not in Australia only

[@nineteen8486]

yep and all designed on purpose to extract ever last breath and dollar out of you........courtesy of the Rothschilds

[@gladiammgtow4092]

GLAD I AM MGTOW 0 seconds ago No Chinese money laundering to push up prices. Drugs prostitition etc etc

[@HandyAndyTechTips]

Long gone are the days when commercial TV produced interesting and informative programs like this. Now it's all reality show garbage ☹

[@yurilemming4130]

i met the character Jim in the early 60s in Sydney, threw many tantrums when I desired a bedhead with inbuilt radio, our house in Clayton cost £2500, Oakleigh building society provided finance over 30years which my parents dutifully paid until it became loose change payments as the payments were a fixed amount. We got tv in 1958 an Astor set with turntable builtin, 220 guineas quite a large amount then, Astor were made in Huntingdale Vic & I did work there for a while too.

[@libertasetveritas]

In NZ its called the Kiwi dream, in US the American dream and in Aus, the Aussie dream. There is nothing typical about it, everyone wants to own their own peice of real estate once they start working.. WORLDWIDE.

[@WorksOnMyComputer]

In Tasmania its called the Tasmanian dream. Nothing in Tasmania is called Australian thank you.

[@Ruby20111000]

Such a relaxed life. No tv, no computers..

[@sebastianthomson87]

Not to mention making good old home movies for people to reflect back on when they were young.

[@petermaxwell2965]

I knew industry was corrupt, but not as bad as it is !!

[@gonzothegreat1420]

The Scott Morrison's and Bill Shortens of today need to watch and pay attention we've lost so much in the last 20 years or so and they call it progress . God help my kids and grand kids !!!

[@TheMichaelseymour]

Gonzo ,,,check out this song about it :SONG : "The Great Australian Dream " kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvbfaeolt16irc

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

they are all mentally ill and dangerous . the water supplies have bin laden with flouride. kerry chant is the reincarnation of irma .

[@gladiammgtow4092]

GLAD I AM MGTOW 0 seconds ago No Chinese money laundering to push up prices.

[@michaelcalder9089]

Absolutely! Rather see semi detached houses and townhomes than the hi rise towers destroying amenity and quality of life. The Hongkonginization of our suburbs 😮

[@dvoalex]

6:20 - "average Australian house cost us one day's pay a week", can you imagine it in 2019?

[@nicknamenick9448]

Wow

[@gladiammgtow4092]

No Chinese money laundering to push up prices.

[@hosey8574]

Australia will never be the same 😢

[@leanneblake4248]

Terraces were replaced by ugly Units everywhere. Not the nice ones that were all Owner Occupied, with just 8 units in a Block. Now Concrete Jungles. Unit blocks with 250, 400 Units in a Block Disgusting. What is worst , where I live in The Sutherland Shire. Prices start at $1.977-000 for a two bedroom Unit Cheers thank for Sharing . I am 45 & I remember Milk being Delivered. Haha.

[@sebastianthomson87]

I miss the good old days of bottled milk.

[@huuu9809]

Yeah imagine leaving your money on the door step for the milkman these days, lol!

[@chriswatson1698]

We have a higher living standard than other overpopulated countries. We could have maintained that higher living standard, but our governments have given away our heritage to foreigners to inflate GDP figures and create the ILLUSION of greater wealth.

[@dubravkopogorilic6232]

no more milk and honey ITS RICE AND SOY NOW

[@gregwooldridge8864]

Glad I brought a home when I first started to earn good income. Before housing prices went stupid and unaffordable.

[@roadtrainfan_from_Germany]

14:05 "Wally" from Crocodile Dundee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Meillon

[@apd8339]

good show.

[@Prieze868]

Very nostalgic our way of life in Australia pre war after or 60s different fuel to these days after the 90s

[@apd8339]

good episode

[@NoirL.A.]

i'm american so mite not be the best judge of such thangs but it sounds to me like once upon a time australian accents sounded far more british than they do now. they've always been similar but definitely moreso back then.

[@43scout74]

this shit hits different in 2020

[@43scout74]

update: 2022 aged like milk...

[@jasongarland8437]

tHIS DREAM IS GOING FAST - tHANKS TO GREED !

[@janebaker4912]

By the baby-boomers

[@geoffreyclifton4506]

@@janebaker4912 woodgie woodgie

[@janebaker4912]

@@geoffreyclifton4506 what? Some old man thing?

[@sebastianthomson87]

By Big Banks and Large Coorporations who benefit more than the average person. So much for Home Ownership.

[@TheMichaelseymour]

jason ,,,,its GONE ! SONG : "The Great Australian Dream " kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvbfaeolt16irc

[@lesleypaterson1463]

3 years ago we bought a house in regional nsw for $347000, we just sold it and some will be used to put my mother into care and whats left will just buy a block of land. I've got to wait until Dad dies to put a house on it. I've earnt 3 times my parent's wages and home ownership has been far harder. My Grandparents managed, my parent's managed but in the last 15 years we've gone backwards. Somebody screwed our property markets big time, I can mention foreign ownership and money laundering which has bumped up all prices and the post covid white flight it's even worse.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I like the idea of installing power lines underground. They're hideous to look at, and I would think they'd be dangerous.

[@AridersLifeYT]

heaps of aussie estates have underground power

[@Handbagqueen23]

Does anyone know what the song is that’s sung in the closing credits and who sings it?

[@lynettekomidar2819]

During the Depression they foreclosed on these homes as returned soldiers couldn't pay the mortgage.

[@velocityjet1884]

NOT IN 2019 LOL DREAM GONE OUT THE WINDOW

[@AdamFordGhostships]

Errr ... this film is NOT about buying a home in the 1900s. The earliest reference is to 1940. It appears to be about buying a home in post-war twentieth century Australia. But whatever.

[@WorksOnMyComputer]

I'm pretty sure WW2 started and ended in the 1900's and post war Australia was in the 1900's too. Otherwise I have been living a lie when it comes to my birthday.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Yeah, I remember the pan, or dunnycan, man in the 60’s

[@TheMichaelseymour]

SONG : "The Great Australian Dream " kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvbfaeolt16irc

[@amm019]

14:06 Walter Wiley from Crocodile Dundee!?

[@CruzyMopar]

it was the great new zealand dream too

[@26TptCoy]

11:13 Terry McDermott

[@gladiammgtow4092]

No Chinese money laundering to push up prices.

[@fromjarrod]

Sticks and bricks to feel secure........you have got to be joking

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

You reckon renting better? Gotta be shittin me jads. At least after 30 years, moving no longer an issue. And yer kids have something when yer go.

[@bronniefahey2681]

The sardines at 7:56

[@dubravkopogorilic6232]

now a BIG BIG 12 INCH banana republic

[@zeusmojo9301]

Now its all about nothing else but pay the mortgage.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Killing oneself to live. Dumb.

[@knowthatitisnearevenatthed9413]

keep on dreaming you have to be asleep to believe it

[@QuarterlifeCry6]

bloody oath!

[@leoceh6073]

Yer work hard and some day your ex wife will get it when you seperate 🤣🤣🤣

[@jonglewongle3438]

Yep. What the media is loathe to tell you. My brother got half the proceeds from her compulsory stipulation to sell the house off. They are still not officially divorced so he's still getting pinged on half of all his income. The friggin' goose. He's lost his parents' house, lost the family house, pursuing some rinky dink version of the conservative lifestyle, the Sunday barbie crap, the P and C crap, the cultural crap he picked up in private school, incrementally chucked out all our keepsakes and mementos without telling us, replaced it all with Mark Taylor and Colin funky Miller cricket books like as if they were his Sunday buddies. I was nominally part owner of that place myself, even lived there for a time back in the day, but he acceded to it, and he pursued pretentious maaterialistic crap with it, then eventually blundered it away.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Helen Reddy revved up the girls on the idea they were the new heads of the house. Interesting, my income was ‘our money’; but hers was HERS. Wouldn’t have thunk it. Been single for 30 plus years now.

[@Golden-dog88]

the great Aussie dream in 2024 is to get enough money to rent a place let alone buy it

[@jonglewongle3438]

I inherited the house I am living in. 100 % equity in my own home. Not a unit on someone else's plan which the naive immediate family would have opted for. I had the brains to stipulate " house " on own block. Cost $ 97,000 and is a broken, decrepit peice of crap, asbestos, of course, [ what else ], all of which the naive goose immediate family never checked out correctly, everything fitting broken in it from day one, unlive-able by bourgeois standards, but I don't mind, because I just like not sharing a roof with anyone. Take all my junk out of it and clean it up, and it is still not rightfully and justifiably worth ten grand. Its just simply unretrievably decrepit. No telling the bourgeois goose immediate family. They still insist its appreciated to 400 grand.

[@zoranstarcevic7529]

america is the place to own a house 450,000 au vrs 200,000 usa same house difference

[@WorksOnMyComputer]

And you get to work at Walmart for less then a kid gets here for pocket money. No thanks.

[@rebeccale6765]

PhImsex

[@lynettekomidar2819]

Asbestos

[@SydneyDrums]

Not a black person in site. 2022 - sold at inflated prices to Chinese. Practice your Mandarin.

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

it was good back then, yes...