{"id":950,"date":"2016-01-29T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T08:15:43","slug":"mind-affordability-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/mind-affordability-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind The Affordability Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come and get taken for a ride on the big city rental markets. This service goes from the city to Whoop Whoop. First stop Exorbitant, then Expensive, Overpriced, and all stations to Whoop Whoop. Please keep your aspirations inside the carriage at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Although drawn from share-house data, these maps from Flatmates.com.au clearly show the high price of proximity in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/NSW\/Sydney\">Sydney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/QLD\/Brisbane\">Brisbane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/VIC\/Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Sydney, a room in an inner city share house can quickly climb to $350\/week. Finding anywhere under $200 will mean a lengthy daily commute though. Factor in $48.20 for train fares and ten 50 minute train rides to work each week, and the difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/NSW\/Sydney-Western-suburbs\/City-of-Fairfield\/Fairfield-(NSW)\">Fairfield<\/a> ($198) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/NSW\/Sydney\/City\/City-of-Sydney\/Sydney\">Sydney<\/a> ($326) comes down to $16\/day rent, or nearly 2 hours each day squeezed in the train<\/p>\n<table dir=\"ltr\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"136\" \/>\n<col width=\"117\" \/>\n<col width=\"168\" \/>\n<col width=\"121\" \/>\n<col width=\"72\" \/>\n<col width=\"112\" \/>\n<col width=\"142\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Rent a room in&quot;]\"><strong>Rent a room in<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Work in&quot;]\"><strong>Work in<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Room Rent \/ Week&quot;]\"><strong>Room Rent \/ Week<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Train  \/ Week&quot;]\"><strong>Train \/ Week<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Total&quot;]\"><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Train Time&quot;]\"><strong>Train Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Travel premium&quot;]\"><strong>Travel premium<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;City&quot;]\">City<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;City&quot;]\">City<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$326&quot;]\">$326<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$0&quot;]\">$0<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$326&quot;]\">$326<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;0 hrs\/week&quot;]\">0 hrs\/week<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;Ashfield&quot;]\">Ashfield<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;City&quot;]\">City<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$198&quot;]\">$198<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$48.20&quot;]\">$48.20<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$246.20&quot;]\">$246.20<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;8.3 hrs\/week&quot;]\">8.3 hrs\/week<\/td>\n<td data-sheets-value=\"[null,2,&quot;$9.60 \/ hr&quot;]\">$9.60 \/ hr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flatmates-res.cloudinary.com\/t_blog\/v1447644464\/kss7q4v0uywloc09wmgp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-951\" alt=\"Sydney_Rent_Train\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sydney_Rent_Train.jpg\" width=\"990\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sydney_Rent_Train.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sydney_Rent_Train-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Room rates in Melbourne are certainly more affordable than in Sydney, with the most desirable suburbs still under $300. Melbourne&#8217;s market doesn&#8217;t drop as sharply though, with a wide selection of suburbs in the $250-$200 range.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flatmates-res.cloudinary.com\/t_blog\/v1448346341\/cuyrra8zpptfhdg7aee0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-952\" alt=\"Melbourne Rent Train Map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-29-at-12.54.14-pm-1024x960.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-29-at-12.54.14-pm-1024x960.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-29-at-12.54.14-pm-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-29-at-12.54.14-pm.png 1192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brisbane is a little more affordable again, but maintains the trend of being around twice as expensive in the inner city as the suburban fringes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flatmates-res.cloudinary.com\/t_blog\/v1449564830\/dqshflfmichx5co234qm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-953\" alt=\"Brisbane Train Rent Map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bris_train_rent-866x1024.jpg\" width=\"866\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bris_train_rent-866x1024.jpg 866w, https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bris_train_rent-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bris_train_rent.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\">Microburbs<\/a>, all of our convenience reports give commute times to local work centres to help you get to really know an area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and get taken for a ride on the big city rental markets. This service goes from the city to Whoop Whoop. First stop Exorbitant, then Expensive, Overpriced, and all stations to Whoop Whoop. Please keep your aspirations inside the carriage at all times. Although drawn from share-house data, these maps from Flatmates.com.au clearly show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mind The Affordability Gap - Microburbs Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microburbs.com.au\/blog\/mind-affordability-gap\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mind The Affordability Gap - Microburbs Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Come and get taken for a ride on the big city rental markets. 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