r/dataisbeautiful • u/Rauram99 • 4d ago

OC [OC] Housing prices and salaries - Three immigration levels (2023-2024)

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Notes:

I only included countries with >0.830 HDI >5 Millions population.

Net migration rates are a cumulative average for the last 5-10 years.

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u/Tropink 4d ago

Lack of land is an insane thing to say, Australia has to have one of the lowest population densities. I’m not Australian but my best guess is the extreme house regulations and zoning laws that plague the Anglosphere.

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u/TheBigPhallus 4d ago

A lot of land actually isn't that arable. And for example Sydney is surrounded by mountains, national parks and flood plains, so Sydney is actually quite limited with space.

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u/Tropink 4d ago

You don’t need to build housing on arable land, you can import food, especially when you’re as rich as Australia is, and you can always just build new cities.

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u/azzers214 4d ago

You're arguing with him but this is more or less what I meant by lack of land. American cities have a similar phenomenon where "lack of land people actually want" doesn't mean lack of land.