Tinder profiles reveal desperate reality of trying to buy a home as survey shows housing is the number one concern for Kiwis, ranked above Covid
“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” Jane Austen wrote in 1813, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Lose the gender binary, swap the fortune for half of a mortgage deposit and you have a maxim for our times.
Two-hundred years later, young New Zealanders are still seeking partners to improve their otherwise-stagnant economic prospects, and as the country’s housing crisis worsens, more prospective first-time buyers are appealing to Tinder for a union that might assist them in acquiring a house.
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