Payday
The only good day of the entire month, apart from if you get home and Claudia Schiffer is standing butt naked with a beer in her hand waiting to do your every bidding. That would be a good day too.
But for those of us who aren't David Copperfield, we work for a salary. And today's the day it's available in my bank account.
What a puny amount though. Modern life is so damned expensive. I look at the property market for example: A basic entry level house works out at around R1.5 million. Damn that's a lot of money. 10 years ago, if you had a million bucks, you were the talk of the nation. Now you're seen as middle class if you have a million bucks.
And you know who I believe is to blame? BMW. They make these real normal cars, then put them on the market at unbelievable prices. So Toyota, Mazda and all the others thought they'd do the same. So cars became more expensive than houses. This carried on for about 5 years, then the property agents said : "This ain't right!", and they put up property prices to the same relationship it had before, summing like house price = luxury car price + 150% or summing.
Then the new M5 came out. Expensive car. Expensive Car + 150% = FARKING expensive house.
Anyway, so my townhouse works out at R410,000, + fark know how much interest. After a 20 year bond, I would have paid the bank back R1.28 million. Now boys and girls, that is a lot of money. BUT, if the cars go up in price, so do the houses. BM's new car that wants to rival Ferrarri will prolly be around R1.2m as well, so my townhouse might be worth like R2m in 5 years. Hehehe....
Okay, I know this is a conspiracy. My point is that most people can't buy a house anymore. We're exploited, beaten halfway to death, and kicked while we're down. It's no wonder that the African countries have no economy. Because most of the population are barely making enough money to fill up their car's fuel tanks.
And you DON'T want to get me started on the fuel price...
Well, I'm off to the airport to meet Taryn's dad there. He's up in Jozi for a business meeting, and brought her car's license renewal along, plus a new cage for the bird.
Random though of the day: Second place is the first place loser.
