tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918672081160600879.post6709245671971675956..comments2023-09-20T03:00:42.550-07:00Comments on wheeler's Corner NZ: Paying the price for government stupidityWheeler's Corner NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18151905311166293297noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918672081160600879.post-87731082221544869812017-07-18T05:40:37.010-07:002017-07-18T05:40:37.010-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13681982930771141422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918672081160600879.post-18347365424941299892017-07-14T02:32:03.501-07:002017-07-14T02:32:03.501-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886583331445625242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918672081160600879.post-1519406804392611152017-04-21T10:29:23.760-07:002017-04-21T10:29:23.760-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886583331445625242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-918672081160600879.post-36816354628479830492016-05-21T23:05:26.387-07:002016-05-21T23:05:26.387-07:00I bought a former state house in 1984 that was bui...I bought a former state house in 1984 that was built in 1942 so about 4 years older than myself. I'd returned to NZ in 1979 to less that a hundred dollars in my bank account and with a baby. We lived in my Mother's flat for 3 and a half years and then moved into a Housing NZ home for a year. I'd worked part-time from August 1980 and was lucky enough that the Post Office Savings Bank was running a First Home savings account so saved with that. All my tax refunds went straight to this so by April 1984 I had sufficient to put a deposit on my house. I did not qualify for a Housing NZ loan as they didn't believe that I earned enough to buy a home. I was probably one of the last people to qualify for claiming on the mortgage repayments.<br /><br />I do not see how anyone can buy a house now in similar circumstances and it would be beyond me now to do so with the current astronomical house prices and unfortunately to even pay the rent is a nightmare now. It is definitely remote from the NZ that I grew up in.<br /><br />My son did a science degree at Massey University but after graduation returned to London where he was born. He paid back all his student loan as with student allowance and a small job at Video Ezy he only borrowed the money for the fees. This money was paid back from his job in London and then he saved up to put himself through a changeover degree to law and a Masters in law. He has now been teaching English law for Eastern Europe since September 2008 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. He is also, doing a Ph. D with the London School of Oriental and African Studies and financing himself but I doubt he will return to NZ with his partner and son. Again, it seems he has achieved something that may be next to impossible now.<br /><br />Young people are not so inclined to return to NZ.<br /><br />Anne OAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111813686738138479noreply@blogger.com