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I know of a surveyor who went to wa straight of out uni. Sitting on around $80k. To her and her peers it's solid dough, to me it's 3 years wasted on top of the 4-5 years total of uni-masters. But at least you have a life at uni. Who wants a house in WA anyway?

So my work car now is a corolla, 2010 or something auto with a whopping bb 337,000kms on ...

And I must give it credit..it gets whored out and cops a beating, smashed around bumpy gravel tracks in the dark and its still solid....and it goes reasonably well too...much better than that manual Hyundai gets I had that was also 1.6lt but always felt like it needed more power

Downpoints...cupholder is broken, tho still holds a takeaway latté...needs new shocks

So my work car now is a corolla, 2010 or something auto with a whopping bb 337,000kms on ...

85,000km/year... dayam... I'm always more impressed when small cars last a long time, instead of the usual 400,000+ falcon

Downpoints...cupholder is broken, tho still holds a takeaway latté...needs new shocks

So it holds a Latte for a while... and then throws it at you with disgust whenever you hit a bump.

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