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A Brisbane radio host has struck a nerve with young Aussies after posting a brutally relatable parody about the realities of home ownership in 2025 – and it’s gone gangbusters online.
Matty Acton, from Stav, Abby & Matt, donned a blind wig and floaty summer dress to play the role of a hopeful first-home buyer in his skit titled “When interest rates decide how much social life you have!”, which was posted to his professional facebook page.
In the clip, Acton’s character is buzzing with excitement:
“The house is gorgeous, we have to buy it. To own our own home would be such a dream come true. Imagine all of our beautiful stuff down here. It’d be so much better financially. We could finally stop wasting our money on rent.”
But within seconds, the dream curdles into a nightmare.
Cut to Acton – now dressed more casually with a brown wig and looking utterly defeated – as he delivers the kind of line every mortgage-strapped Aussie knows too well: “There’s $3.85 left in our account, which means another night of chicken noodles and you putting a box dye in my hair because I’ll never afford to go to the hairdresser again.”
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Matty Acton is know for his funny social media posts – often sharing relatable content via social media.
When life is tough, sometime all you can do it skit about it. Source: Facebook
Chicken noodles for dinner? We’ve all been there. Source: Facebook
The parody has already clocked more than 800,000 views on facebook and a flood of “same!” comments.
“It was the same when we bought our first home 26yrs ago we lived on sausages and bread ,” one person commented.
Another wrote: “Don’t forget drawing from the home loan to fix everything!”
A third commented, “Oh yes, that’s me announcing how little money is left after bills.”
While the video is getting laughs, the stats behind it aren’t so funny.
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New data from Buyersagent.com.au shows the cost of simply living in a home has skyrocketed.
Back in 1964, housing chewed up just 12.6 per cent of household spending. Today, it’s more than 24 per cent – a 91 per cent jump.
That means the average Aussie family now shells out $28,417 a year on essentials like rates, water and power – almost double the $14,857 households were forking out in the ’60s.
So while Acton’s parody has people laughing, for a lot of Aussies, it feels a little too close to home.
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