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thinred — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:13:38 MST

Hey, Luke good luck tomorrow -or in a few hours I suppose

thinred

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SirGecko — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:31:30 MST

Well isn't the ACT really regulated and planned in the way it is allowed to grow? I believe I read that somewhere, may have been in the Bryson book. (In a Sunburned Country)

SirGecko

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marcus_ivo — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:21:34 MST

Wow I had no idea land was so hard to get in the ACT. In Tasmania property is cheap as and land is everywhere!

Good luck chief!

marcus_ivo

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Leighroy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:26:46 MST

Yeah, there's not much habitable land in Australia apart from the East Coast unless you really like the desert so this works out pretty well, it's as fair as you can get and it prevents the rich bastards from owning the whole country by whomping the lower-middle class in auctions, which would screw up our economy even more (doing the opposite of the U.S. at the moment, where most everything is overpriced anyway). We do sell houses normally of course, I know we do here in Queensland where houses and land are aplenty.

Mucho Luck to you Luke.

Leighroy

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juliopalio — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:45:29 MST

@KnightRider:

Last I checked the empty space is all desert.

Good luck Luke.

juliopalio

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Dudemeister — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:35 MST

Good luck man. Hope you win. :x

Dudemeister

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yashichi8bit — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:15:45 MST

Good luck Luke

yashichi8bit

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GregoriusH — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:36 MST

@brandonf:

A lot of that empty space can hardly support human life.

GregoriusH

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Achenar — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:04:41 MST

@SchoolBusDriver: Australia in general? Not so much. If you put your hands together side-by-side, though, and think of that as Australia, the ACT is about the size of your thumbnail, if not smaller (you might have really big thumbs)

Good luck, Luke - or, alternately, I know of a land auction going on a /bit/ further north next weekend you might like to try. ;) It's very affordable, and all that. >.>

@magically_delicious: I dunno, we more-or-less annihilated 95% of a race, if I remember my statistics correctly. Admittedly a lot of that was with segregation, alcohol, and disease, but we did our fair share of slaughter as well.

Achenar

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Slacker — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:37:05 MST

Good luck with that Luke, I think Canberra is a really cool place to live. Hopefully you get to build a house there.

Slacker

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toneroni — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:24:11 MST

goodluck! and congrats on looking to buy a house!

toneroni

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NeverSage — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:22:57 MST

@1gunners4: Haha! I lol'd

Good Luck Luke!

NeverSage

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brandonf — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:14:12 MST

@Deadeyereborn: Mommar's comment is germane to a couple of comments preceding his in this thread. Sorry, you might want to go police something else.

brandonf

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1gunners4 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:00:14 MST

Ya know, it's a good thing that Australia doesn't have this immense empty space in the middle, or else that story would just seem ludicrous.

1gunners4

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Turkina — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:13:38 MST

@Deadeyereborn: I had to read that story in high school, along with The Jungle.

Turkina

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KnightRider — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:08:27 MST

Last I checked, Australia was mostly empty... It's not like it's Tokyo... where such demand?

KnightRider

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mnml10387 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:02:05 MST

good luck!!!

mnml10387

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Deadeyereborn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:57:26 MST

@Turkina: That story is messed up. Seriously.

Deadeyereborn

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TOCATL — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:30:45 MST

it reminds me the way here in mexico all the guys that turn 18 go to the military service office at their local town (in mexico all men over 18 is mandatory to go to their military service papers) and they set up a lottery and the guys that get a black ball they dont do nothing (i got a black ball) and the unlucky ones that get white ball they report to the nearest military HQ to march and do stuff that is very tiring by the way...

TOCATL

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PGGB — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:25:06 MST

good luck man! buying a house is crazy grown up and stressful, i can't imagine combining that with a game of chance.

it's frigging life bingo man!

PGGB

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Turkina — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:22:43 MST

They could prevent this all by picking one (un)lucky person at the end of the drawing to get stoned...
The Lottery
See how many people scramble for empty land after that!

Turkina

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MagWheels — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:04:59 MST

Good luck, Luke!

Maybe you should buy some lottery tickets, too, and hedge your bets.

MagWheels

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FranUnFine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:52:16 MST

Dub dub dub dubdudub dub
Vivaaaaa, vivaaaaaaaa, Australian Capital Territoryyyyy!
Dub dub dub dubdudub dub

/Elvis

FranUnFine

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Atrocity — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:51:51 MST

mmm lottery for land, sounds like fun to me. good luck man

Atrocity

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Witzbold — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:46:44 MST

Good luck my friend!

Witzbold

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freshyill — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:36:42 MST

Is there a reference to Mr. Burns' Casino here?

freshyill

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SchoolBusDriver — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:24:40 MST

Wow ... wait since when was Australia short on land for homes? You guys havn't adopted mass suburb construction like we have in Canada? We got empty homes all over place here but builders keep building em ....

SchoolBusDriver

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brennan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:17:59 MST

slip a couple hundreds under the table...

brennan

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magically_delicious — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:15:32 MST

@SirGecko: I doubt you killed anywhere near as many as we did =)

Yes, the Convicts who settled 'Queensland' were a rather merry bunch!

magically_delicious

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firaga01 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:07:47 MST

What a stupid, stupid system. Would you rather hope in vain for a possible piece of land, or would you put your money where your mouth is and spend money on the limited resource? I know where I'd stand...

firaga01

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SirGecko — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:06:57 MST

@Mommar: They do use auctions in parts of Australia at least...

Canberra is just crazy.

SirGecko

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Deadeyereborn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:06:30 MST

@Mommar: Yeah I dont think we were discussing politics in this thread. Kinda like you're looking for an arguement here or just looking for an opportunity to bash america. If you dont have something to add to the thread please dont post.

Deadeyereborn

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SirGecko — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:05:11 MST

@magically_delicious: You know Americans don't have a monopoly on that whole killing native peoples thing right? The Australians did quite a bit of it too. (it actually happened pretty much anywhere where colonization took place)

Anyway, are all land dealings in Australia this crazy? It seems like no one just buys land, there is either that crazy lotto or an auction or something. When I was in Sydney I noticed that there were always articles in the paper about how to do well at auction in the real estate section.

SirGecko

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mtvernon — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:04:38 MST

Best of luck! Exciting stuff.

mtvernon

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Seiven — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:59:55 MST

Woot lucky # ME!!!

Seiven

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Mommar — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:59:07 MST

If it were done auction style the richest people around the world would immediately outbid anybody with a normal job and create an artificially inflated real estate market... which is exactly why the US is fucked now.

Mommar

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Setzer IIDX — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:55:39 MST

@pandorasbox: As opposed to auctions? ._.

Setzer IIDX

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MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:54:20 MST

Good luck, Luke!

MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs

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pandorasbox — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:51:27 MST

sounds similar to a system used just several years ago here in AZ. Real Estate was in such demand, drawings were held to see who got the right to purchase homes in new developments.

pandorasbox

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Duoae — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:50:52 MST

Good luck, Luke. Reminds me of that film (Far and Away?) when people were rushing to lay a claim on a piece of land. I think your version of the process is more humane.

Duoae

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tkshredder — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:47:58 MST

Your life depends on chosen balls. Best of luck to you and your girl!

tkshredder

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KE — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:47:22 MST

@magically_delicious:

And don't forget the rulers to "divide" the new land.

"Isn't Texas a big ...eh...spacey? - Na, we texans like it that way!"

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Kj719 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:46:32 MST

Good luck! I hope to be able to build a house in the future. It's a lot of work, but knowing that you live in a place that is one of a kind and not some cookie cutter house is well worth it, at least in my eyes.

Kj719

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Lstormy10 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:46:19 MST

Good luck with your balls!

Lstormy10

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magically_delicious — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:44:39 MST

Just the solution to territorial desputes - balls!

We americans used the same thing during the conquest/genocide/enslavement of the native americans, except we loaded those balls into muskets and... well, you know the rest !

magically_delicious

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Deadeyereborn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:44:13 MST

Good luck! What happens if you dont win? Will we have "Lukes homeless hobo updates" from now on?

Deadeyereborn