AS/Foreigners Should Be Allowed to Purchase Property
I understand your point DQ, but i still dont think its fair....
i would estimate 50% of the apartments in my building (Millenium towers) are owned by Indonesians. Its just like little Jakarta here. EVERY girl on the reception desk is Indonesian.
The building was being sold off the plans just after the Chinese Indonesian problems in 98, and HUNDREDS came here and bought an apartment. Usually their children live in the apprtment whist they study and get their PR. Most Australians cannot afford to buy here, so the poor still suffer!
Im too honest to marry an indonesian girl just to buy property - and as my friends who did so in BKK and the Philipines will tell you, they own nothing and the girl (and her entire extended family) own everything. To do a deal like that is plain stupid. In every case I know of the poor guy (usually not too bright) loses his supperannuation and life savings, ending up divorced and broke back in Sydney. The girls family move into the house and have a good laugh.
The argument of protecting the "poor people" doesnt hold either. I cannot buy property in Japan. The Japanese are`certainly not poor, property prices are at least on a par with Sydney. They simply dont wante Bules owning property because they are racist.
Im a simple man,I am not bright, but it seems to me that Asian countries can discriminate agianst me, but by golly if Australia discriminates against an Asian all hell breaks out.
i would estimate 50% of the apartments in my building (Millenium towers) are owned by Indonesians. Its just like little Jakarta here. EVERY girl on the reception desk is Indonesian.
The building was being sold off the plans just after the Chinese Indonesian problems in 98, and HUNDREDS came here and bought an apartment. Usually their children live in the apprtment whist they study and get their PR. Most Australians cannot afford to buy here, so the poor still suffer!
Im too honest to marry an indonesian girl just to buy property - and as my friends who did so in BKK and the Philipines will tell you, they own nothing and the girl (and her entire extended family) own everything. To do a deal like that is plain stupid. In every case I know of the poor guy (usually not too bright) loses his supperannuation and life savings, ending up divorced and broke back in Sydney. The girls family move into the house and have a good laugh.
The argument of protecting the "poor people" doesnt hold either. I cannot buy property in Japan. The Japanese are`certainly not poor, property prices are at least on a par with Sydney. They simply dont wante Bules owning property because they are racist.
Im a simple man,I am not bright, but it seems to me that Asian countries can discriminate agianst me, but by golly if Australia discriminates against an Asian all hell breaks out.