Thousands of Indonesian Students become Singaporean Citizen. Is it a brain drain ??

[john madden]

But the vaue is in the land, not a structure that is not fit for habitation. I don't know Australia but other countries have plenty of them. My brother has one in the US. The house is so bad that an insurace company won't even insure it and it's litterly not sound enough for someone to actually live in. The structure is worthless but the land on the other hand... He has been watching the area develop and has enough land for at least 3 houses to be built. What little he put in the property 20 years ago will pay off well for him one day.

And in Australia that's another factor contributing to house price increases. The supply of land on which to build is so tight that it inflates the market.

 

[harryopal1]

While much of Australia is desert to semi desert there are still enormous areas of land that could help resolve this land shortage problem. There are train line systems out of most of the large Australian cities and towns. In the national interest the government might reclaim land either side of rail lines for a distance of say two miles either side and make this land available for housing and urban sprawl with enough room to ensure there is planning for park lands and recreational areas. An improved transport system could provide a ready means of movement as the natural tendency would be for development to spread out from the cities and large town areas.

Australia has tended to nibble at problems and always seeking the cheapest remedy. Perhaps we might ask the Saudi Arabians to do it for us.

 

[HappyMan]

It's indeed concerning and at least from my experience I would tend to believe it. During the pandemic (even before it already but the pandemic multiplied it) many people became more like what these articles describe. The youth or even younger people grew up in these times and naturally it will have a big influence on them.
Then again, Iam not surprised about it. They still think they are liberal and tolerant, but in reality only to what deserves to be in their liberal and tolerant world view. Actually being less liberal and tolerant is the new liberal. Or call it selective tolerance or whatever.

Sure, Indonesia always had its fair share of problems, but I would say the older generations were indeed more tolerant.

Maybe it's a matter of place, but I don't believe the older generation in Bandung are necessarily more tolerant. I teach those kids and I meet those adults. The adults don't take kindly to people saying bad things about or being unfair to people they consider to be "like them" and the kids don't either. What has changed is that the kids consider a whole lot more people to be "like them".

"No, you can't call gay people faggots or fat people tubs of lard or stereotype Arabs because those people are all like me." That seems like a reasonable type of intolerance to me. That is the type of intolerance we have all welcomed and respected as "standing up for oneself" in the past. People just get pissed off when they find out "others" have snuck into the circle they thought was exclusive to themselves. That has always been the same as well. ”Uppity ****" wants to pretend he is a white man." "Xxxx want to get married like normal people..."

I'm not trying to take pot shots at you guys or put words in your mouth. That's just the version of this debate I've been listening to since I was a kid growing up in the illiberal American South. Tolerating intolerance is self-defeating unless you happen to agree with the intolerant people in question.

I also happen to hate buzzwords that just make noise without any particular substance or make idiocy sound virtuous (e.g. "my/his/her/their truth"). But, that's really a different topic than tolerating intolerance. If people don't want to live here because they feel they aren't accepted or have to censor themselves to avoid conflicts with the intolerant, that might just be a loss for this country. I assume that was the point of the second post of the tread...