Lucinda Hartley

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Australian Finance Podcast · Why buying your first home feels impossible (and what to do instead) with Lucinda Hartley · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

And then I would think about, you know, your home, your home and your neighborhood as being an extension of one another.

And by that, I mean, you know, if we look at how, I guess we've lived in Australia, particularly over the past 40 or 50 years, houses have got bigger and bigger as we've started to include more and more of the activities within the house.

So we need more bedrooms.

We need one per child.

It's not okay to share anymore.

Many of us grew up sharing rooms.

I'm not suggesting you should have your kids share rooms, but, you know, culturally sometimes it's worth questioning why do we think that's okay or not okay.

You know, we used to go to the playground, now we need to have play equipment in the backyard.

We used to go out to the cafe, now we need a barista grade coffee machine inside.

Now, again, none of these are wrong choices, but if you need to own all of those things, it's quite expensive and then you're going to need a home that is either further away or costs more.

you could share all of those things in the neighborhood.

So you might live in an apartment, but if it was in the right location, you could go to the cafe every day.

You could walk to a co-working space.

You could be opposite a park and, and, you know, outsource your lawn mowing and your outdoor activities to the local park.

So location matters, but

Yeah.

So when we're thinking about lifestyle, it's not just thinking about, you know, you as an individual, but what's in the neighborhood that you could share and borrow.

And that might mean you need to own less and your house could, you could choose a different type of home.

Yeah, I remember when my first son was born, we lived in an apartment that fit into about two car parking spaces.

It was tiny by all stretches of the imagination and no one could imagine that we could possibly have a child in such a place.

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