Yeah except the average house price in Australia is about $950,000...

I wonder if we're going to hit a whole other disaster before we get a nuclear winter. Either we'll develop something far more destructive or we put ourselves in a mess by mistake.

In the Universe, we call it a great filter because the likelihood is that no advanced civilisation managed to develop beyond that point for whatever mysterious reason (war, disease, etc which becomes inevitably destructive). Are we approaching that filter?