johngoddard on Nostr: I WANTED TO BUILD A HOUSE So I saved up for ten years and bought a vacant block of ...
I WANTED TO BUILD A HOUSE
So I saved up for ten years and bought a vacant block of land.
Then paid $50,000 in stamp duty.
And another $28,000 in mortgage repayments whilst waiting to get planning approval.
For some reasons it took council 18 months to decide whether to let me build a house on the land that I owned.
Which is in a residential zone, by the way.
At first they said my fence was too green.
Then my windows were too low.
Then we needed to do a bushfire survey.
Then I had to get an ecology report.
Then I had to redesign the whole thing because they wouldn’t let me pull a tree down.
They promised the redesign would get approved.
But then they said I needed to consult with the local aboriginal tribe.
So I did that, and the aboriginals said my land was on sacred ground.
So now I’m not allowed to build there at all.
And I have to pay the aboriginals rent, plus a Sacred Site Maintenance Levy.
I try to sell the land, but nobody will buy it.
Interest rates double and I can’t afford to hold the land.
I skip a meal, and then another.
The aboriginals put my rent up.
Council puts my rates up.
I get charged a Vacancy Levy because I’ve failed to build a house on the land.
My job fires me because having too many white men working there is ‘bad for optics’.
Now I’m homeless and I have to camp on my vacant land.
But apparently this is illegal and the council fines me.
Sleeping outside makes me sick so I go to hospital.
The doctor says I need urgent treatment.
I can’t afford the treatment, and my Medicare Levy doesn’t cover it for some reason.
They offer me a Euthanasia Care Package as an alternative.
And I feel grateful to live in a first world nation with multiple health care options.
As they’re providing me with treatment, I wonder if the remining equity in my land will be enough to cover my Death Tax.
Published at
2023-06-05 23:24:48Event JSON
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