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Re:22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage (2022) by _fizz_buzz_ on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:38AM (#37974504)
I don’t quite get why Australia is so expensive. It’s basically all empty land (bigger than the EU and the population of the Netherlands). Shouldn’t it be dirt cheap?
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Re:22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage (2022) by literalAardvark on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:54AM (#37974582)
The bits that aren't a desert and people want to live in are actually fairly populated.
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Re:22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage (2022) by kjkjadksj on Sunday October 22, 2023 @10:07AM (#37975509)
Honestly the big stark difference between Australia and the US seems to be immigration. There might be a fundamental lack of a labor pool that might have been building out comparable infrastructure and housing supply that we see in similarly geographic sized US.
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