Seth Walsh
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Can't stop thinking about that SBS segment. This 37-year-old woman has no full-time job, pays $700 a week in rent — that's over $36,000 a year — and says she's 'happy renting forever' because she doesn't want to be 'locked down.' She claims she has no income, yet she's got savings, buys heaps of coffees, energy drinks and protein bars after run club every day, and just hops on a plane to another country whenever she feels like it.
Then she says she 'wouldn't even know how to go about getting a mortgage' and that 'someone in a bank must take care of it.' Mate, that's not how any of this works. She doesn't mention borrowing power once. She's 37, not 23 — how has this been sustainable for years? The contradictions are wild: no income but unlimited spending, massive fixed costs but acts like it's all chill, 'no assets' but somehow never runs out of cash.
This isn't a story about young people struggling, she's nearly 40. It feels like pure rage bait designed to make boomers think 'see, they're doing fine, why should we help?' Either she's got family money she's not mentioning or the whole thing's heavily edited for clicks. Either way, the math does not add up and it's pissing me right off.