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Australian tax law is incredibly geared towards home ownership, and the culture of owning your home is very, very strong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dream.

Personally, most of the people in my age cohort (mid 20s) who've bought homes, have bought in areas considerably further away from the city than they were raised.

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I think this is an expectation thing. We grew up in houses that our parents owned in their 40-50's, after building their careers and wealth. Yet we expect to buy them in our 20s. That doesn't align with where my parents were in their 20s.

Your parents were in their 40-50s when you were born? That's certainly not the norm.

Average age of the mother at birth in Australia (which doesn't sound unusal to me, but it's Australia specifically being discussed) is ~30:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/health/average-age-o...

And GP said 'grew up in' not 'born into', so average mother ~40 at 10 years old and ~50 at 20.

So yes, average Australian baby has a 40-50yo mother while 'growing up', especially for the purposes of house expectations which I'd have thought would more likely be formed over adolescent than younger years.

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