maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yep … it’s total bullshit. Talking to foreigners, migrants, tourists etc will sober you up on this. They’ll tell you how they’ve never been as cold as they are in Aus, despite coming from Northern Europe or Canada, and that our houses are made of cardboard.
Then we have a landlord based housing system and a totally inflated market just to ramp up the absurdity.
It doesn’t help that any trade related work is both bullshit expensive, and terrible quality.
Go ahead and try and get a price on installing insulation. It’ll be infinite dollars and the blokes that turn up (in a dual cab Ranger) to do the job will be in and out in 15 minutes having done the barest possible minimum and leaving you to deal with all the issues they’ve created by half-arsing it.
Yep. Been dealing with tradie problems just like this the past few months. Was sometimes shocked at what they’d leave behind for me to clean up.
Checks weather in Australia…
Checks weather for January in Virginia…
I’m going to press X to doubt.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Massive gap under the front door? No worries mate chuck a door snake in front of it.
Seriously I think you’re absolutely right it’s one of those things everyone is so used to we don’t even realise how bad it is compared to other places.
maegul@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Yea … and apart from obviously dilapidated or traditional housing … just about no one else is just powering through the cold like we do. Which is weird, because we love our homes and houses (apparently).
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 months ago
My back door has a weirdly elevated door frame so I can’t even chuck a door snake on it. It has to be a giant rolled up beach towel and still doesn’t work