Being driven from your own home

I know this is going to sound like the same complaining everyone is doing, but let's have a look at something from a simple perspective. I know that back home (in New Zealand, about 30 years ago) you could buy a house on one partners income whilst raising a family. Nowadays you have to be incredibly well off to do that exact same thing.

It's appalling isn't it. That educated, normal people, who work hard and want to have a family have to consider leaving their home town just because they can't afford to buy a house there. What's more, they are not even poor. They have worked a long time and have what used to be enough to buy quite a large house.

It makes me sick to my stomach, not just because this is happening to my cousin and her new family, but because if she can't make it in Auckland, how the hell am I supposed to? And more importantly, how are the poor even surviving there? And how do we expect them to dig themselves out of such a horrible situation? 

If the government made sure the wealth of New Zealand was dispersed properly (through fair taxes on the rich and poor so that the middle class could widen and grow) then this might not be such a problem. How many of those rich own more than one house? More than 3 cars? And whose name are their property and assets in? And yes, they may not be cheating the system, but they are abusing it for profit and let's face it, that's just abusing your fellow countryman, and yes they do realise this, they just feel entitled to live privileged lives because their family "earned" it. 

You tell me that Joe from the building yard working 12 hour days just so his family can afford food and shelter isn't working as hard as you. You tell him that, you say that to his face. You go and buy him dinner at a fancy restaurant and see him rock up in old dirty clothes with bandages all over his huge burly hands, hands that work so hard that it's difficult to get the dirt off them, and watch his eyes widen at how delicious and healthy the food is. Just because you might be more educated does not entitle you to a privileged life. You all make me sick. You may be a minority, but you hold more wealth than many families put together. Good families that now suffer the effects of poverty. The cycle will keep going until you break it, not them. They don't have the time to break the cycle of poverty, they are too busy trying to survive.