Jason Leong
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first heard Aug 2021
last heard 29 Jun
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So the shape of what a family might look like and the shape of what it would take to raise a family is changing rapidly as we speak, actually.
Yes.
What was really eye-watering is looking at New Zealand where I think it is the third, it's ranked the third globally in the quality of early childhood education.
However, it is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child where on average 37% of one's income
goes into childcare.
So when we think about the cost of living and the cost of, I guess, housing, in Australia alone, it's gone up by 1.8 times in the last five years.
In New Zealand, it's creeping up there.
But to not know that, to say a third of your income is going to be
And when we used to think it was okay to have a 30-year income spent on housing, but that's becoming more of a distant dream now because rents and mortgages are just getting more expensive.
It's a real consideration for people wanting to have children to actually take a beat and do that forecasting and do that planning ahead.
Yeah.
And beyond that, well, we know fuel prices are skyrocketing.
That's super topical right now.
And we're very lucky at Pockersmith that most of us, well, half the company lives in Dunedin, which is a very small city of like 140,000 people.
And it's a seven-minute drive from my house to the office.
And we don't take that for granted at all when we think about the multi-hour commutes that people have and the skyrocketing.
I mean, I was at the pump just on the way to the airport.
And the limit for payment to fill the tank is $150.
That just didn't fill my tank anymore.
They're going to have to up that.
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