澳富豪建议年轻人别吃牛油果,省钱买房
澳洲富豪蒂姆•古纳日前表示,年轻人买不起房不是由于万年不涨的工资,也不是因为高耸入云的房价,而是他们自己的消费习惯造成的。如果他们不吃牛油果吐司,不喝高级咖啡,把外出就餐的钱省下来,就可以买下自己的住房。原来买房这么简单?只要不吃牛油果就好了?网友们显然对这一建议并不买账。 Can’t afford to buy your own home? Silly you! Owning a property is actually as simple as giving up avocado toast and fancy coffee. Haven't you heard? That’s according to Australian millionaire Tim Gurner, a luxury property developer in Melbourne, who has antagonised young people everywhere by suggesting their housing woes are caused by millennials' spending habits, rather than a combination of stagnant wages and spiralling house prices in many cities. “When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” he said in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia. “We’re at a point now where the expectations of younger people are very, very high.” He continued: “We are coming into a new reality where … a lot of people won’t own a house in their lifetime. That is just the reality.” Tim Gurner believes our housing crisis will be resolved when young Aussies inherit the 'incredible wealth' from the Baby Boomers. #60Mins When asked if he believes young people will never own their own homes: “Absolutely, when you’re spending $40 a day on smashed avocados and coffees and not working. Of course.” He then went on to suggest young people aren't working hard enough by offering his own story as a point of comparison. “When I had my first business when I was 19, I was in the gym at 6am in the morning, and I finished at 10.30 at night, and I did it seven days a week, and I did it until I could afford my first home. There was no discussions around, could I go out for breakfast, could I go out for dinner. I just worked.” Unsurprisingly, Gurner’s comments went down like a lead balloon on social media. The average UK house price is £234,795, or in millionaire speak, 39,132 lots of yummy avocado toast at £6 a pop. Help balance my budget! I need to buy a house :( Alright, I did the math. If I stopped eating avocado toast every day, I would be able to afford a bad house in Los Angeles in 642 years. Confession: I bought a house & ate avocado toast. Don't take financial advice from some boomer groomer who can't figure out how to do both Gurner isn't the first person to suggest young people's avocado toast habit was ruining their chance of buying a home. Writing in The Australian Magazine last year, columnist Bernard Salt said young "hipsters" were spending too much money dining out. “I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this?" he wrote. "Shouldn't they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house." |