User talk:Jigjog

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Immigration
Hi Jigjog. You're certainly giving us something to think about. I suspect we have rather different built-in biases. Would I be right to guess you're from Sydney or Melbourne, and at the stage in life where you are acutely aware of affordability of houses for first home-buyers? My own situation is that we've paid off our first house, having taken out our mortgage about 15 years ago, when interest rates were 14.5% p.a. I hope we can salvage something out of your edits, and encourage you to explore other areas of Wikipedia that may be less controversial, as well. Cheers, Scott Davis Talk 03:23, 13 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Scott, I rent, and have not yet bought a house, so I gueess you are right about that, although I actually live in a regional city, and I can assure you that rents and house prices have increased outside Sydney and Melbourne. However, my concern about the issue of housing affordability is not personally-based.  I have a concern about issues of social justice and the plight of people on low incomes.  Jigjog 01:05, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough. Of course, affordability is a function of income and interest rates, as well as price. Price is driven by supply and demand, but these have much more subtle influences, and location is a big one for real estate. Do you think the skilled immigrant category are competing with first homebuyers born here? One of your references pointed out that family immgrants usually live with their sponsor, so don't impact (directly) the demand for housing. --Scott Davis Talk 13:57, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Australia
The commonly accepted statistic is 300,000. Your comment that it is "rubbish" has no backing up. The "only" is to indicate that the population has grown significantly in the last 220 years. Please do not remove sentences that are relevant and correct. Jigjog 01:16, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The population statistic (350,000) was already in the article, and in a more relevant position too. Why not say "the population has grown significantly in the last 220 years?"  In part, though, that increase is not so much an actual growth as a trend towards more self-identification in censuses, surveys and the like, as well as more comprehensive surveying.  Slac  speak up!  02:52, 18 August 2005 (UTC)