OP I’m not Australian but having been here from the UK for the last 13 years I couldn’t agree with you more . People do seem absolutely obsessed with property here to the point that if you are still renting at an older age like we are ( 50’s and 60 ) you are definitely seen as having failed in life. If you don’t have that poorly built , extremely expensive house with a back yard in the suburbs by the time you are 30 then there’s no hope for you and you somehow deserve every bad thing that life throws at you from then onwards 😏. It’s definitely got worse even in the time I’ve been here . My 30 year old son got made redundant recently and there has definitely been the idea from certain people that he should use the money to save towards a deposit on a house . He’s happily living in a share house and has booked a trip to Borneo , Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand and good on him I reckon . He has no responsibilities and I feel that there has to be more to life than just working for the " Australian dream" of life in the suburbs. I personally am a bit over living in Australia at the moment and would rather go back and live in the UK or other part of Europe if I could but it’s not possible at the moment.