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Terrible place NZ, highly overrated
The people are really unfriendly, it's crowded, the climate is shite.
V unfertile soils.
Hardly any high ground to escape the rising sea levels.
Great coffee though, and the occasional good wine.
The Caribbean is a much better place to tough out the arrival of the horsemen....
I'd go there.
/sarcasm
(anyone who wants to come on down and help build some kind of functional public transport would be very welcome though)
I was with you on the sarcasm bit until you got to the coffee. I fell in love with a "flat white" and nobody in the US even knows what it is.
Hi Debbie,
Not all of that post was ironic..
I think you may have stumbled on a bit of the truth. The "though" should have helped you out...
Currently trying to get down to two flat whites a day...
Maybe with a bit more warming we'll be able to grow our own coffee. The nearest of any note is about 1500 miles away at the moment.(Queensland)
I still wonder if it would be worth planting some mango trees. Would my grandchildren be thanking me long after I've gone?
Hmmm,
cheers.
How is the supersizing of Aukland going. It was announced during my visit--the NZ Herald published my letter in opposition to it. I think the driving force behind the move was to facilitate the construction of "super" highways--colossal stupidity.
Hi Debbie,
Thanks for replying.
From my slightly cynical point of view, the current government is doing whatever it can to remove all traces of resilience prior to the issue of peak oil and other savory issues becoming household knowledge.
The current government is starting to show glimpses of the kind of behavior that got the last national government voted out for 9 years. Yes there seems to be a lot of emphasis on roads, and not a lot on creating a functioning, inclusive and equitable society.
Lots of really good community based education programs are getting the chop this year as an example.
There is however a lot of really good people rallying to the cause, and because we're effectively 20 years behind the rest of the "developed world" some of the issues we have are not irretrievable. The fishing is pretty good within sight of the CBD for example.
To compound things the community is a bit behind the very meager bits of sustainability based policy as well. Yesterday a friend and I planted a good crop of winter beans, spring onions, leeks and carrots in a garden, especially made for the local community about six months ago in a beautiful park and completely unused since. Surrounded by infill housing with no garden space. Its got about 120m2 of beautiful raised beds, piped water, glorious soil, concreted paths and no one from the surrounding houses has planted anything. It must of cost a fortune to build. We hope our plantings will inspire some of the local householders to plant some stuff and look after it. About 20 mins on the bike away, but couldn't resist the idea to plant something.
My feeling is that like a lot of cities the world, it will turn out to be quite a shock when the general populace realise how badly designed they really are.
Cheers,
Ben.